What Is Déjà Vu?

Dr. Michio Kaku explains one theory behind déjà vu and asks, "Is it ever possible on any scale to perhaps flip between different universes?"

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[cjpatz]

Funny. I swear I've seen this before.

[yankee2013]

@cjpatz Funny. I swear your comment is similar to the other highest comment.

[DeadRose190]

@2ndhanseimen i have experienced daja vu,.i think it's not just the part of our memories related to the past with same situation or some shorts of dream.sometimes it happens out of nowhere even if u haven't experienced before, it's hard to figure out how and why it happens ,.it's a mystery u can even experience a deja vu before a actual thing happenes,.

[rendilkraesin]

You'll notice he doesn't address what happens when 2 very similar (or similarly vibrating) universes begin to vibrate/modulate in phase and couple/coalesce with each other, leaving myriad details slightly displaced until the whole frame of reference becomes apparently unified. There are always going to be minor discrepencies that are generally forgotten or explained away as insignificant or misremembered, but can also be a source of surprisingly familiar/unfamiliar sensations/facts/events.

[xKekuza]

Fringe and deja vu go hand and hand, how intresting.

[ollicerocks]

glitch in the matrix?

[frozensilent]

I've always thought it was possibly a glitch between your short and long term memory, like a confusion in your brain between what is happening now and what has happened in the past. Any time we experience déjá vu it is a past-tense experience as in "I knew that was going to happen" instead of "I know what is going to happen next" so this leads me to think that your brain is processing incoming information as if it were recalling it.

[qcenaman]

@Dekationz huh? wtf lol

[qcenaman]

@bartofilms yeah and that came with saomething else, i saw somewhere, that if the image from one of your eyes has a delay in relation to the other eye, the "double" hit of same visual information, makes it "process it" twice, so we feel we already seen it,, coz in fact we did, just a few microseconds ago :P

[bartofilms]

A long time ago, wasn't there a common theory that deja vu' was caused by either lobe of brain processing signals faster than the other lobe? It made a lot of sense to me at the time.

[bwc3821]

You should've mindfucked us by playing this clip twice.

[Dekationz]

@c1rcu1tn3rd A common theory thought by one in a state of worrying or unhealthiness, I suggest having a great breakfast and a great fresh salad with fruits without any dressing or anything extra beside the natural food itself. Nutrition is of extreme importance and you will find your thoughts will be far clearer afterwards. You're right about time, it is definitely relative.