what causes deja vu? any scientific answers?
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The next time you get deja vu, you know, at that moment you realize you've done this before - try to figure out what will happen next! You can't! But if, as most people think, you've lived the experience before, you should have no problem remembering what is to follow. Here's why you can never remember what will follow. When we experience anything, our brain records it and stores it as a memory. Then that memory is "filed" so that when we recall it, we can determine the sequence of the event, i.e. was this recent, or years ago? When the brain "misfiles' a current event as being something in the past, it recognizes that event and we feel we've experienced it before. But actually, our brain is comparing the current event to itself! That's why we can never follow through with what happens next...because it hasn't happened yet! And that, my friend is deja vu!
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i think its crazy to have deja vu. but i also think that it is one of the amazing things, it has you trippin out
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I experience the same thing I was told by my therapist that the flashes are you subconscious searching for answers.  Are you going through a hard time because that would explain the flashes.
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Batti,\n\nDreams are quite mysterious, though it may be that they're caused by the transfer of your short term memories into your long term memory; it's a sort of scramble of sensory perception, which is what causes them to be quite strange but often quite applicable to your life.  Dreams may also involve the reprocessing of long term memories.\n\nYou may be able to find more information here..\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreams
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The truth is the most prevalent of the deja vu experiences in the bible is this:\n\nWhatsoever you would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. \n\nThis is called the "Golden Rule".  The repetition is the evidence that God is a god of details and sees your need and meets it.
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Deja vu is a normal experience that everybody gets. However frequent and intense Deja vu can occasionally be part of an Epileptic seizure from the Temporal lobe - but dont worry, everybody gets Deja vu.\n\nIt is not a feature of Alzheimers.
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Deja Vu is the illusion of remembering scenes and events when experiencing for the first time.
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Would that be "deja vu" that you mean?\n\nHaven't we already seen this?
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Deja Vu, a feeling that you have done something before. Yes it is creepy, it happens to me on a regular basis.
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Sounds like Déja Vu.\n\nIt has been speculated by some that this results from one side of the brain processing information a split second after the other. Thus, one part of your brain experiences an event, and it is recorded there. Then immediately the other side "experiences" the same thing, and it recognizes it as something that has already happened, because it "remembers" what the other side experienced just previous to this.
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Nobody knows for sure. "During the past two decades, however, a few hardy souls have reopened the scientific study of déjà vu. They hope to nail down a persuasive explanation of the phenomenon, as well as shed light on some fundamental elements of memory and cognition. In the new book The Déjà Vu Experience: Essays in Cognitive Psychology (Psychology Press), Alan S. Brown, a professor of psychology at Southern Methodist University, surveys the fledgling subfield. 'What we can try to do is zero in on it from a variety of different angles,' he says. 'It won't be something like, "Boom! The explanation is there." But we can get gradual clarity through some hard work.'\n\nThe four current theories are \n\n1. dual processing\n2. neurological \n3. actual similarity in memories\n4. double perception\n\nTo get more information on these theories, please read the article linked below.
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Could be something neurological--Go see a doctor, asap!  Best of luck!
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It's called Deja Vu, and is actually a borrowed word brought into English from the French language.\n\nAs far as I know, we're really not sure exactly why it happens.\n\nThere are several theories - 1 states that somehow our consciousness and our brain run momentarily out of sync, which cause our brain to take visual input from an experience but processes it a little later, so that by the time we realize what we've seen our brain has actually already "seen it" (but we're talking at very high processing speeds). \n\nAnother theory states simply that we have been in a similar situation before but have just forgotten, so when we are in it again it seems new to us but somehow just vaguely familiar.\n\nYet other esoterics say that it is actual memories from past lives.\n\nHappy researching!
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Memory blackout can be a result of Dissociative Identity Disorder, but from what you said, it doesn't sound like you have that. Some people believe memory blackouts are the result of traumatic events that are pushed into the unconscious as they are too painful to deal with. Others don't believe that as traumatic memories are the most vividly recalled. Memory loss can be a result of many things, you should talk to your doctor about it.
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Sounds like petit mal epilepsy but I'm no expert. You should get a PET scan of your brain and talk to a neurologist soon.
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Daja vu is when you experience or see something that you have done before. Dajav u is a band. Check out this site and look at the yellow band on the side under Saturday. •\n\nhttp://www.enquirer.com/editions/1998/06/04/loc_frontier04.html
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There are many theories, including dream travel, telepathy, and reincarnation. According to scientific research, it is merely a false memory which is created in the subconscious mind. For example, one may percieve a present scene, but their subconcious will regester it as a past event. It is often linked to schizophrenia and anxiety disorders. However, people with synesthesia, out of body, or near death experiences may frequently experience Deja Vu.