Life, as such, is an open book which keeps pages with a new color every day with its lovely morning and beautiful evening. Sometimes it also happens that suddenly a page encounters you one fine morning bringing an amazing shock to you – leaving you speechless -and you say -Damn, this has already happened to me!.. How come? You think how can this happen?
Actually this happens with everyone. There not so often but ones in a blue moon appears a moment in life which makes us feel that whatever is in front of us or happening – has already happened somewhere before. Though, you do not remember where this has happened to you, where you have come across this scene which is right here present before your naked eyes.. but you somewhere within you, start exploring its previous presence..trying to freshening your memory.
When people are asked about this, approximately eighty percent of the people agree to it. They say that -Yes, this has happened to them too. People experience déjà vu, but they are unable to explain why it happened. No one seems to have a valid and confirming explanation over why it happens.
Sometimes when you go somewhere for the first time, suddenly you start feeling that you have been here before. You start feeling a strong feeling that this has happened to me before. This is a phenomenon known as déjà vu in the world. Deja Vu makes its presence feel but never allows any one to go within it to see what exactly is this.
Deja Vu originally is a French word. In French language, Déjà Vu means ‘already seen’. This word was used for the first time in 1876 by French philosopher Emile Boirac. He used this word in a letter written to someone. According to a media report, eighty percent of people experience déjà vu in life.
There is one more special thing about déjà vu that it is felt for a very short time but leaves a very deep emotion.
May be Memory Theory
What could be the science behind this, why does one experience déjà vu- there could be many theories behind this. Dr. Oha Sushmita is a neuropsychiatrist, says that Memory Theory is possible behind this. According to her, Déjà Vu occurs when today’s event or scene is similar to an experience that has happened before but has been forgotten.
In other words, there are some similarities between today’s event or scene and the experiences that have happened before. This makes it seem that today’s event has happened before. Déjà vu could be our brain’s attempt to believe and understand these similarities.
This is a strong feeling
When scientists recreated déjà vu in the laboratory, they also experienced that it is a very strong feeling. According to them, it is very difficult to find out how this experience is developing. For this, scientists conducted an experiment to recreate déjà vu in the laboratory. Some participants were invited. Scientist Anne Cleary and her team took the help of Virtual Reality (VR) in this.
Dis create the experience of Déjà Vu
In this experiment, to make the participants experience déjà vu, an environment was created that matched their experiences, and these were experiences that they did not remember completely. This experiment was called the Gestalt familiarity hypothesis.
Was a scientific experiment
In this experiment, Cleary and his team decorated furniture and other items at a location as per the participants’ experiences to create the feeling of déjà vu. Then the participants were asked to navigate the recreated scene.
As a result, the team found that after seeing this, the participants experienced déjà vu. This means that when a person sees objects related to the past but is unable to remember them, he experiences déjà vu.
Old memory connection
Actually, this also explains that sometimes the entire picture looks exactly the same due to the presence of some old memory items in the environment of a new place.
Or Matrix Theory?
Different theories have also been developed to explain déjà vu. The most popular and interesting theory among these is known as the Matrix Theory. It is also often called the ‘Glitch in the Matrix Theory’. You can also call it a simulation. Some experts believe that the universe we live in is not real. We live in a universe that seems to be connected to a computer and this world, water, trees, sea, creatures, everything is a computer program within it. When there is a glitch in this program, that is, when there is a problem, then we experience déjà vu.
The Matrix Theory was seen in the Hollywood film ‘The Matrix’ released in the year 1999.
