What is déjà vu?

What is déjà vu?

Does it sometimes seem to you that the situation you are in has happened to you before? The place is familiar, the chain of events seems familiar to you. Probably everyone has experienced this strange phenomenon, which is referred to as déjà vu, often also called a disturbance of memories. What is it caused by? You will find the answer by reading further parts of the article.

Deja vu is a situation that every person has to deal with. Some people experience it more often, others less often. However, few people know what a disorder of memories really is and why such a condition appears in a person's life. It often causes mixed feelings, and we take a moment to embrace what has just happened. Sometimes we start to recall what we did last time so that we can somehow connect the facts. However, after a few moments of pondering, we realize that such an identical situation had no right to ever happen to us. That's what déjà vu is. The term means as much as "already seen". The characteristics of this phenomenon are the suddenness of the occurrence, the feelings accompanying the event are brief, lasting only a few seconds, the impossibility of associating when we experienced the same situation, déjà vu involves a place, specific people and situations as a whole rather than a single element.

Unfortunately, the phenomenon of disturbed memories is still shrouded in considerable mystery even for scientists. The appearance of déjà vu can be the cause of diseases, for example, migraine auras or accompany epileptic seizures. Sometimes we may have the conviction that something has already happened in our lives just because an element is familiar to us from another situation. For example, if the chairs in a restaurant are very similar to those of our aunt, we may experience déjà vu even if we are in that place for the first time in our lives.

It may be interesting to note that déjà vu can be experienced by people who are blind. The abilities of the other senses are so strong that a certain sound can trigger the feeling of déjà vu. This phenomenon is most often experienced by young, overtired and stressed people, as well as travelers. Some people are convinced that the disturbance of memories can be strongly linked to reincarnation, but this is a matter of personal consideration for each of us.
About the causes of the appearance of the déjà vu phenomenon, unfortunately, we still know very little. Scientists are constantly studying this condition and trying to find the reason for experiencing it. This phenomenon was already considered in the time of Socrates and Plato, so it is not something that has appeared in our time. The fact that it takes so long to identify the reasons for experiencing this phenomenon seems a bit disturbing, but at the same time fascinating.