What is Deja Vu?
June 9, 2022
Deja Vu is viewed in many different ways, there are many different theories but we’ll get into those later. Deja Vu is a moment in your life where you feel like you have lived that same moment before, it feels identical. Which seems unreal because it’s not possible to live in the same moment twice, so what is happening? The feeling of deja vu happens quickly, it’s a short feeling questioning what is happening but then goes away within seconds. The chance of deja vu happening to you is only once a year and can happen when feeling stressed or fatigued. Some people think that deja vu could be a recurring dream, or others think that it could be a memory from a past life. Even if there are many theories on what it could be, they haven’t found the true thing it is yet.
While you are young, it’s more common to experience deja vu compared to being older; that’s because of the amount of activity going on in your brain. As you get older, your brain slows down, so less activity happens. You will mostly experience deja vu from the ages fifteen to twenty-five, this is because of the amount of growth that happens between those years. Some people who are able to remember most of their dreams say that their deja vu resembles a prior dream that they had. Deja vu also tends to appear more during nights or on the weekend, though we don’t know why. There is another chance deja vu can happen from temporal lobe epilepsy, which is a chronic disorder of the nervous system, and can be caused by seizures that are from the temporal lobe part of the brain. They last about one to two minutes. As you have the seizer you can experience the deja vu, and you can also experience it right after having a seizure
Personally I have experienced deja vu many times, and they only last for a short period of time. They come and go at the most random times. Sometimes they happen from just someone saying something or when going to a new place I will sometimes experience. For me when I get deja vu it will happen multiple times in a day but then stop for a long time. I know a few personal people who have had deja vu and all of the experiences are mostly the same.
After talking to a fellow Journalist at Cavelero mid high, Kenzie Mckinnon, she has told me many deja vu experiences she has had. Everyone gets deja vu at different times, and different amounts of times. Mckinnon said “I get deja vu at least once a week”. Which is very uncommon, it is more common to only get it once or twice a year. However everyones brains work differently. “It feels like I’m watching my life not in my eyes.” Mckinnon says after I asked her what she felt during the experience of deja vu. What she said makes complete sense, it’s a feeling that you think that something is happening that you thought you have seen before but you haven’t.
Everyone could have the chance of getting deja vu, however we don’t all get it at the same time, or experience it in the same way. After talking about deja vu with Mckinnon and listening to her perspective, her experiences were different then when I get deja vu. She gets it more frequently compared to me or other people. Throughout learning about deja vu there are many different theories it could be, but it is hard to figure out the truth with a lab work because you don’t know when it comes and goes. Hopefully throughout the years to come we can figure out what it truly is, and what is happening to our brains as deja vu happens.
