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What's a Deja Vu? Why does Deja Vu happen? Is a Deja Vu good or bad? Is there a connection between Deja Vu experiences and the multiverse? These questions and more are explored in this paranormal blog.
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Sinister’s Deja Vu
Our coffee behind the name blogs are aimed at drawing attention to the paranormal world’s more infamous terms and telling their respective stories. Deja Vu, along with being a Sinister coffee blend, is a term that draws interest from various professional fields and disciplines to try and give a definitive answer too. Without further deja-do, enjoy some coffee and read the evolution of this fasinating term as best we can tell it.
Defining Deja Vu
Deja Vu is a French word phrase translating to “already seen”. Sights, sounds and smells can all illicit Deja Vu type experiences. We chose Deja Vu as a coffee name because we want to draw from your good, comforting coffee memories and feelings as you drink Deja Vu coffee! As a paranormal term, Deja Vu has more debate around it than arguably any other particular term.
Deja Vu Experiences
Researchers estimate that between 60-80% of human beings experience a type of Deja Vu in their lifetimes. However, studying Deja Vu experiences can be quite difficult because they typically come and go quickly making it hard for people to recall detailed accounts of them. According to WebMD, people between 15-25 tend to experience Deja Vu’s the most. Other theories and researchers link traveling, stress and tiredness to increased feelings of Deja Vu.
Deja Vu In HistorY
The earliest account of a déjà vu-like experience we could find was referenced in an article from the brain blogger called The Phenomenon of Deja Vu. Saint Augustine back in 400 AD, named the experience a “falsae memoriae”. The term déjà vu as we know it today was first used by psychic researcher Emile Boirac in 1876. In Revue Philosophique, he describes it as “le sensation du déjà vu”. Emile Boirac was a psychic researcher which was a thing during the time of Spiritualism(popular roughly between the 1840’s-1950’s). His study focused on psychokinesis, or the ability to move an object with one’s mind. Many of our world’s great scientific thinkers were heavily influenced by spiritualism because it combined principles of science and religion. One of the more interesting aspects of Spiritualism was that the non-visible world was studied through scientific principles.
Although Emile Boirac is credited with naming this term, the greater scientific community accepted the term 20 years later after F.L. Arnaud, a French neurologist proposed to use it in the Societe Medico-Psychologique. A 34 year old who suffered from amnesia after contracting cerebral malaria, had reported having a vague sense of familiarity with everything new he encountered. Arnaud’s interest in studying this type of deja vu left it’s mark on research into deja vu’s in a way that carries on to this day.
Deja Vu’s Many Theories
There are many scientific theories about what causes a deja vu. Because people don’t know when they will occur, a Deja Vu is extremely difficult to research. That fact has prompted scientists to try and replicate Deja Vu experiences in test subjects based on what part of the brain they believe the experience is induced in. The temporal lobe of the brain that stores short term memories has been a focus of neurological research and one of the more researched areas of the brain in relation to Deja Vu’s. However, neurologists have also looked into the frontal lobe and hippocampus as possible epicenters for Deja Vu’s.
Deja Vu and the Sixth Sense
It would be reasonable to account for many reported Deja Vu experiences due to your mind essentially trying to make sense out of the data it receives. But what about Deja Vu’s in which the person recalls experiencing the exact situation before. This goes beyond a familiar sound, smell or visual. It is an exact duplicate event. These particular deja vu experiences raise the question of alternative possibilities related to a sixth sense or extra sensory perception of events.
Top four theories of a deja vu from a spiritual perspective:
1. Past Life Experiences-the concept of cellular memory.
2. Ancestral Lineage Memories triggered by an event
3. Clairvoyant dream about a future event-think Cassandra from Greek Mythology who had a premonition about the fall of Troy.
4. Vibrational Frequency Match to a person or place-the laws of attraction.
Deja Vu and the Multiverse
Perhaps the most interesting theory regarding Deja vu’s, is the multiverse theory. Physicists have looked at the concept that alternate universes exist, and possibly coexist simultaneously. The field of quantum physics was created in an attempt to “reconcile” concepts that classical physics could not. Like the theory that there are parallel universes that coexist but operate independent of one another. Although it isn’t common to entertain the notion that a deja vu is those universes interacting or colliding it also opens up a conversation about the unexplained that we as a paranormal company are most interested in.
Wrap UP
The theories presented in this blog are just some of the theories that exist around deja vu experiences to date. Perhaps the most interesting and noteworthy aspect of deja vu’s are that no one really can explain them, at least with anything besides theories. They are a modern mystery, but a mystery none the less, that scientists and neurologists are spending time trying to figure out. We would like to open up comments for you to share with us any deja vu experiences you have had. We are interested in what you may have to say about this topic that spans the psychic and scientific worlds in interest.
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