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Is it a violation of the psyche or a normal phenomenon?
Dejavu is one of the most mysterious and little studied phenomena of the human psyche. Most people at least once in their life faced the fact that, getting into a completely new place, they began to feel a strange sense of confidence that they had been here before. Or, for example, we met people whose faces seemed very familiar. All this has already been, the only question is - when?
The meaning of the word "deja vu" from the French language is translated as "already seen". This is a certain mental state associated with the feeling that you have once been in a similar situation. At the same time, the deja vu effect is not connected with a specific moment from the past, with the already experienced situation, it rather refers to the past tense in general. And this phenomenon, according to numerous studies, is quite common. Modern psychologists believe that the feeling of "already seen" at least once experienced about 95-97% of people.
The reasons for this phenomenon are not exactly established. Some believe that deja vu is a phenomenon caused by processes in those areas of the brain that are responsible for primary perception and memory. According to this theory, information received by a person in individual cases is first remembered and only after that begins to be analyzed. Thanks to this "reverse chain" the brain, comparing the current situation with its copy, which is in memory, comes to a fair conclusion that it already was.
Specialists in physics say that deja vu is a phenomenon associated with the still poorly understood characteristics of time. According to their theory, the present, the past and the future exist simultaneously. However, the consciousness of modern man is able to fully perceive only what is called "here and now." Thus, the brain "loses" part of the perceived information. Official science is not yet able to give a clear idea of exactly how this mechanism works, and for a person this question contains a lot of secrets.
Obviously, there is still no single explanation for what is happening in the mind at the time of deja vu, how the last is born and what are its causes. However, it is quite clear that this phenomenon is not a mental anomaly and does not belong to the category of diseases or abnormalities, and therefore do not worry when facing it. This is just one of the possibilities of the human brain, not yet fully understood by scientists.
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