You Are About to Have a Brain Glitch
One of the many reasons I stopped watching the DC series Flash is that I couldn’t keep up with the overlapping multiverses — different dimensions and universes were usually overlapping; I couldn’t keep up with present day Barry 3000 eons lost in another dimension while an evil one from the future comes home and try to destroy the world. Oh, that’s not what happened? Now, you get my frustration. I may never be able to understand quantum physics but I dig Déjà vu.
Welcome to the sixth episode of One Thing You Don’t Have to Know. Can you imagine we’re at Episode 6 already? Does this read feel familiar?
Recently, my friend and I were at a pharmacy getting some stuff and I felt like I was reliving that moment with her, that store and those things we were getting but I know I hadn’t been to this specific pharmacy, especially with my friend. It was impossible yet memories were being stirred. I felt nostalgic like I had lived in that moment before. Déjà vu originated from the French and it means ‘already seen’. It is a familiar feeling with something, some place, someone or a particular moment.
According to my little fun research, you are likely to experience Déjà vu in your early years, say 15 to 25; once you cross that threshold, this overwhelming feeling of having been present at a time decreases. There are different belief systems held toward this rare concept. Science hasn’t come to a conclusion (you can always trust science to leave a lot of things inconclusive) but they have ‘concluded’ it’s part of the memory process. Did you know that there are different parts of the brain that hold present, past and future memories?
Déjà vu is also a neurological symptom and some researchers have termed it a brain glitch because it’s our little brain trying to make sense of all the information, perception and senses from the past and present all at once.
So next time your buddy’s eyes are filled with light and they are going on and on about them experiencing a Déjà vu, you may want to tell them that ‘there’s a technical issue up in their brain’.
