Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Deja Vu: A Magical Phenomenon?

What is it?

-Deja Vu: the phenomenon where one feels like something that one is experiencing currently previously occurred in the past.

-Very common for people suffering from Epilepsy.

-About 60% of people claim to have experienced deja vu at least one time in their lives.

Magical Explanations versus Scientific Explanations.

What is Déjà Vu?! - YouTube

-We never actually experience the things that give us the phenomenon of deja vu

-We "remember" things that never actually happened

-We have the same exact experience "again"

-Scientific explanations include: Dual Processing (having two very similar experiences that are not quite the same, but regardless give you deja vu), Retrieving Past Memories, Overall Familiarity.

-However, there is not a definitive scientific answer for why we experience deja vu, there are only theories

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