Friday, December 19, 2008

Déjà vu

Déjà vu, the French word which means 'already seen' is a common experience that we feel in our day- to-day life. What does that mean? Sometimes when an incident happens,we get a feeling that we had gone through the same before-the same incident,the same people,the same conversation,the same expressions- every minute details look same. But why and how we think like that?? how things that that happens now has already been registered in our conscious memory?

About a week ago,when me and my friends were traveling by bus,one of my friends said that the day before that day when her mother was cooking something,my friend took the hot pan in a hurry and her finger was burned. You know what? I had heard and experienced the same incident before .The same girl saying the same thing , doing the same gestures and all. But how? How can one foresee such things?

There have been so many scientific interpretations to explain this phenomenon;but none has been accepted so far. But the common axiom is that this may be due to the registering of an event by our unconscious memory at the instant we experience it and then after some micro seconds only our conscious memory manipulates it and this delay maybe the reason for our recurring thoughts.So from this can we draw a conclusion that it is due to the asynchronous working of our memory? But,I don't think so.,that is yet to be look into.Or is it intertwined with any spiritual matters? It's said that every living thing has the ability to foresee the future;but our weak, heedless mind, busy life schedule, and our ignorance trammels the capability of doing so. These kind of things always tails us. Is it because we're having sixth sense ? or?? Is it that God is revealing the visions of future? Since we're not in a position to visualize the entire future,it's being experienced only in a discrete pattern , without a continuity. That is , only the hints of our near future are foreseen by us?!! or is it because that these things had really happened before? That is not possible; but from certain experiences I've drawn a wild idea that maybe or may not be , this world is repeating itself .No one may agree wi' me; may think that I am kind of crazy ; but I still pertain to my notion that the same thing has happened years or centuries earlier.

There are also some incidents that we dream , that we experience when we are in unconscious state ,occurs . Though most of the dreams that we see are never remembered, sometimes when we pass through the experience it gets recollected . So déjà vu comes from the dreams that we've seen? By evaluating all these , I can see an analogy between the real world( is it actually real?) and the surreptitious facts of the unconscious memory.

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