Do you get scared when you are faced with the phenomenon of déjà vu? Quite recently, passing one of the cities of the Moscow region, in which I EXACTLY never been, I suddenly felt that I was in familiar places … And somehow it became unpleasant for me, there was a feeling of insecurity and uncertainty and fear for my memory.
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There is hardly a person who has not experienced this strange sensation at least once. Vague memories, elusive and very short-lived, related to the past, which cannot be associated with any event in your life. What is this - a dream already seen or games of our memory?
The phenomenon of déjà vu is a phenomenon that has been very little studied by modern science, despite the fact that this term was first used at the end of the 19th century by the French psychologist Émile Bouarak. "Déjà vu" from French "already seen". Until some time, they did not even try to reproduce this phenomenon artificially, as an experiment, because scientists did not know why it arises. Recent studies by American scientists have established that a specific area of the brain - the hippocampus - is responsible for the appearance of the déjà vu effect. It is here that specific proteins are found that are responsible for instant pattern recognition. This study even identified the structure of cells in the brain, which contains "a kind of" cast "of the design of any new place we find ourselves." And the question arises - it turns outthat the brain has programmed everything in advance ?!
The phenomenon of déjà vu is referred to as manifestations of false memory - in the work of the brain, or rather, in the work of certain areas of it, a failure occurs, it begins to take the unknown for the known. For false memory, their age peaks are distinguished when the activity of this process is most pronounced - from 16 to 18 and from 35 to 40. The first surge is explained by the emotional severity of adolescence, the ability to react very sharply and dramatically to events, and the lack of life experience. A person turns to a fictitious experience for support, fishing it out of a false memory. The second peak also occurs at the turning point - this is the so-called midlife crisis. But during this period, moments of déjà vu are moments of nostalgia, regret about the past, a desire to go back 20 years. This effect can be called a "trick" of memory,After all, memories may not be real, but assumed, the past is presented as an ideal time when everything was beautiful.
But psychiatrists classify déjà vu as a mental disorder if it manifests itself too often and has the character of hallucinations. By the way, in some diseases of the brain, for example, in epilepsy, the phenomenon of deja vu is observed several times more often than in healthy people. Doctors note that this memory disorder is often observed in people suffering from various memory defects. If deja vu becomes a problem, persecutes a person and interferes with his life, it is better to seek help from doctors.
Another version has parapsychologists: she connects this effect with reincarnation - the transmigration of the soul after the death of the body into another body to infinity. Of course, classical science does not accept such an explanation, because it is at the level of a person's faith, it is impossible to explain multiple facts.
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Somewhere very close to déjà vu is the phenomenon of intuition. Everyone would like to have her. Science considers intuition only as the ability to unconsciously make the right decisions in everyday life, in work, in crucial moments of life. Researchers do not consider intuition of prediction at all, since prediction is again the sphere of activity of parapsychologists. Scientists have investigated and described only professional intuition, a kind of "sixth sense" characteristic of a particular person in the process of research (scientists), diagnosis and treatment (doctors), the right direction of the experiment (investigators) or training (teachers). Professional intuition belongs to the field of decision making, it can be the result of excellent mastery of the profession,and natural predisposition to a certain type of activity. Intuition is rather a characteristic of the personality of a particular person, it is more explainable from the point of view of science than the phenomenon of déjà vu.
By the way, there is a phenomenon directly opposite to déjà vu. This is "jamais vu" - "jamais vu" from French "never seen." A state when a person in a familiar environment feels that he has never been here.
In general, it is clear that déjà vu is a certain memory impairment that is associated with some biochemical changes in the brain. It may not deliver strong unpleasant emotions, causing only a short-term emotional stress. On the contrary, it can haunt a person and interfere with his daily activities. What lies beyond human understanding always scares us. Who knows, perhaps our own body warns us or reminds us of any changes in the brain?
Olga Zorina