Studies indicate that a large percentage of people have a feeling or experience of having done something, or having already been some where, that they have never been to in their life before. Sometimes only rarely, sometimes more frequently with others. Sometimes as a mere passing feeling, and sometimes as an overwhelming intense feeling or experience. Sometimes so real that what might seem dream like crosses the line into semi reality for a short time. Sometimes to the point where you can truly feel that you were repeating the experience… sights, sounds, smells, and sometimes even taste. Usually associated or triggered by sight, the presence of being someplace new, but you know that you have been there before. Then the other senses kick in, sounds, smells and emotional feelings. They say most people experience this in some degree, sometime in their life… some rarely, and some more frequent.
Being someplace that you have never been to before, going into a room, or around a corner, and it’s like a dream like state of being that overcomes you… and you positively know without any doubt, that you have been there before. You know what’s around the next corner, or in the next room, and remember specific details about the place, or what happened there. Having a slight but overwhelming mental vision of what once was, in another time. Sometimes in remembrance of a great battle… you can smell the gunpowder in the air, and feel despair over the loss of lives. Sometimes more reserved, where you simply know things about this place, that you couldn’t have known. Sometimes a bit scary, but mostly with a sense of knowing or belonging to something in a different time.
Sometimes it happens with people. An overwhelming feeling that you absolutely know with all your being that you know this person… a son, daughter, wife, sister, or brother… someone that you were emotionally close to… but not in the constraints of current reality… somehow in a different time. Logically you can’t approach a total stranger and express your thoughts or feelings… that’s when they come to lock you up, right. But what if you did… and the other person had the same déjà vu feeling of knowing you, having been emotionally close to them. Wouldn’t that be like turning something strange into something even more unexplainably strange.
Where in lies the explanation for all of this. Vague recollection of a past life? Random thoughts combining to create and illusionary recollection that wasn’t or isn’t real? Imagination running away with you? But how do you know this place so well, when you know that you have never been there before… yet you know what’s around the corner before you go there. And why after visiting many similar or historic places, where similar things happened, to do have this feeling in this one particular place.
Theories abound. Some think that memories of previous generations, parents, grand parents, and even distant relatives, have carried bits of memory information handed down genetically, and being in the same place they were years before triggers déjà vu… a remembrance of an earlier place or event. Some believe that the human soul or spirit has lived before in an earlier time, and this déjà vu is part of that experience. Science may unlock the mystery someday. All you can really conclude now, is that something is happening, and it real. From those that never have the experience, to those that experience it rarely or occasionally, and even to those that experience it more frequently. Of course, in reality, and being of sound mind and conciseness, the prudent person would not talk of such things. Results could range from friends and family thinking you crazy, to the men in white coats taking you away for evaluation.
No matter what you believe, or don’t believe, déjà vu is something of a mystery that has roots in reality in another place and time. Personally, I don’t have any particular preference to any one theory… kinda open minded to anything. After all, mankind's perception of reality, verses possible theories and conjecture, no doubt only scratches the surface of what is truly possible and real. It’s was once said that mankind's mental ability to not only grasp current reality, plus what he could possibly conceive or imagine, is only a mere fraction of what is truly possible, and probable.
Interesting reading…
The term déjà vu is French and means, literally, "already seen." Those who have experienced the feeling describe it as an overwhelming sense of familiarity with something that shouldn't be familiar at all. Say, for example, you are traveling to England for the first time. You are touring a cathedral, and suddenly it seems as if you have been in that very spot before. Or maybe you are having dinner with a group of friends, discussing some current political topic, and you have the feeling that you've already experienced this very thing -- same friends, same dinner, same topic. The phenomenon is rather complex, and there are many different theories as to why déjà vu happens. Swiss scholar Arthur Funkhouser suggests that there are several "déjà experiences" and asserts that in order to better study the phenomenon, the nuances between the experiences need to be noted. As much as 70 percent of the population reports having experienced some form of déjà vu. Déjà vu was previously associated with temporal-lobe epilepsy. People suffering a seizure of this kind can experience déjà vu during the actual seizure activity or in the moments between convulsions. Since déjà vu occurs in individuals with and without a medical condition, there is much speculation as to how and why this phenomenon happens. Several psychoanalysts attribute déjà vu to simple fantasy or wish fulfillment, while some psychiatrists ascribe it to a mismatching in the brain that causes the brain to mistake the present for the past. Many parapsychologists believe it is related to a past-life experience. Obviously, there is more investigation to be done. What potential secrets are locked in our minds, in our DNA code, and passed down through the generations. What discoveries of the human spirit or soul goes beyond any single moral lifetime. If the soul has an eternal existence, what has it experienced before that only reveals itself as Déjà vu?
Here’s a few occurrences to consider:
Someplace that you have never been,
now decades old and and in ruins,
but you can easily see it when it was new,
and you sense that you were there,
you feel it, you know it,
plus you know exactly what is in the next room…
you know exactly what it looks like,
before you even enter.
A bit spooky, and it should be unsettling,
but it isn’t… and why is that?
You pick up something, left behind years ago…
and know you’ve seen it, or held it before.
What does this really mean?
When you go someplace, like a graveyard,
and know the name on the headstone,
before you even see it.
or you are drawn to a grave, for some unknown reason…
out of the way, on the other side of the cemetery,
a photo of a grave…
and a discovery in the photo back at home…
and there it is…
where you were not planning to go…
so, why were you drawn here?
In another instance…
When the camera takes this photo…
what everyone else sees…
and you see this…
Or you’re in a place,
but see it as a different time or season…
and you’ve never been there before…
or have you?
or simply know you’ve been there before…
looking at the same stone work…
staring, as if were watching it being built,
stone by stone.
In the minds eye, in a different time,
a different place,
what’s real, what’s imagined,
what’s the explanation?
Guess it’s all in what you believe is possible…
plus all that you think is not…
the human mind, 90% unused and untapped…
what are the possibilities?
Knowing that, after all, with mankind's perception of reality, plus all the additional possible theories and conjecture, this no doubt only scratches the surface of what is truly possible and real. It’s was once said that mankind's mental ability to not only grasp current reality, and what he could possibly conceive or imagine, is only a mere fraction of what is truly possible, and probable.
Just something to think about… in the quiet of the day…
or when a feeling ripples over your consciousness and into your reality.
Will you easily dismiss the experiences of others?
or dismiss even your own?
and simply explain them away as not being real?
Belief is a powerful consideration to the human condition.
As in religion, or the supernatural…
How can you believe in something solely on faith,
and not consider the existence of something more?
Déjà vu… A momentary conscious journey into the unknown…
A mental, yet almost physical walk into the unknown…
But perhaps, and likely, there’s something real about it all.
