You do not remember when exactly were in this room or when there was a similar situation, but you were clearly feeling like you were here already and you saw it. Familiar? The people call this a state: "The soul here was once", and in psychology, it is called just the effect of deja vu.
He is a mental state, during which a person has a feeling that she already felt like that, was in such a situation. But the feeling has no connection with any particular moment of the past. It refers, first of all, to the past.
The phenomenon of deja vu
For the first time, this sensation was described by the psychologist Bouarak in his book The Future of the Mental Sciences. He not only used the term for the first time, but also found the opposite - "zhamevyu." The latter describes a feeling in which the individual, being in his usual environment, can not remember that he has ever been here.
The phenomenon of sensation, like "it used to be once", is very common. Psychological studies show that about 90% of mentally healthy people at least once in their lives, but have experienced similar, while, sick with epilepsy, this feeling is visited much more often.
But the most interesting thing about this is that the deja vu sensation has not yet been artificially provoked by any researcher. It is for this reason that scientific work in this direction is difficult.
Attack of deja vu
The impression of this sensation can be so strong that in the memory of a person these memories will be preserved for many years. But not a single person has been able to reconstruct details about the event, which, according to him, he seemed to have once experienced.
It is important to know that a deja vu attack is characterized by depersonalization, that is, the real life in an instant seems unclear. Personality is subjected to derealization. That is, she denies her own reality.
One of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century, Bergson, called deja vu as a remembrance of real life. He was of the opinion that when someone experiences deja vu, his perception of real time splits. And part of this reality is transferred to a past life.
Why does deja vu
One of the reasons that explains why déjà vu appears is that the human brain is able to code time. This process is better represented as encoding, performed simultaneously encoding both past and present, but with one sensation. This feeling describes the state of a person who believes that he once experienced such a thing.
This is explained by the fact that deja vu is characterized by a separation from real time. It is worth noting that at the moment this condition is being studied not only in the West, but also in Russia. So, Andrey Kurgan in one of his works is engaged in the study of the time structure. He comes to the conclusion that deja vu arises from the fact that there is a layering of two situations on each other. That is what
The mound does not exclude a version relating to the consciousness of the ancestors of each person, which means that deja vu is information from the consciousness of primitive tribes.
If you sometimes feel deja vu, do not be afraid of it. Until this condition is studied not 100%, but it calms the fact that it is experienced and healthy people.