jimmydanger wrote:Naturally I subscribe to science's explanation of deja vu: occasionally images are recorded in the long-term storage area of the brain before they are recognized by the concious brain as happening at the moment. So when that part of the brain finally gets the info it looks at long-term storage, sees the image there and concludes that the event is happening again.
That is not the only explanation science offers though, Jimmy.
Some believe that we live in virtually unlimited numbers of dimensions simultaneously, where, each possible scenario plays out, in parallel worlds. In that scenario, we would feel we had been in a similar situation before, because we had... albeit, in another dimension... another version of our lives, actually lived that experience.
For me though...
I think people experience Deja Vu for the same reasons, some believe in reincarnation and have knowledge of previous lives, that they were never privy to in a modern age.
Scientific experiments on cannibalistic worms have PROVEN that knowledge of previous experiences can be passed on, even by INGESTING them. Cannibalistic worms, having learned how to go through a maze, were then fed to another group of worms which had NO EXPERIENCE yet, going through the same maze. After eating the worms WHO DID go through the maze, the newbie worms, went through the maze in half the time, compared with other newbie worms which were
NOT fed their "experienced" worm brothers for lunch.
If knowledge of previous experiences can be INGESTED and become a part of your own thinking somehow, then how much more easy, would it be, for that knowledge to be passed, AT CONCEPTION, through the transfer of DNA itself? Imagine.... we all pretty much have ancestors going back many thousands of years... even millions of years ultimately.
Over millions of years of experiences, with DNA having been passed down, into a modern generation... there would have been any number of situations, in the past, that matched a "new" one we had today. In some of those moments, for some unknown reason, we are tapping into an ancestor's earlier experience, which then makes this new experience, seem like a memory. As mentioned, this also explains why people would believe in reincarnation... why someone could have very vivid "memories" of a life in 16th century France, describing in detail, under hypnosis, names and dates and places, that are later verified through public records, though this person had NEVER been to France, or had any other direct experiences with such a life.
It would seem to be the best explanation, therefore, that they had really BEEN to France in the 16th century.
But my explanation, fits those experiences, as well as Deja Vu and others, quite handily.
We really "ARE" the sum, of all that has come before us.
