It has happened to me and it has probably happened to you. It is sudden and quick, leaving you as unexpectedly as it came. While the experience is clear and detailed it is often difficult to recapture. After feeling it, you usually find yourself saying, “ Wow, I just had the strangest deja-vu.” Through research I have become knowledgeable of interesting facts and causes behind deja vu. Because it is still a puzzling ongoing phenomenon, I hope to give you (my audience) a better understanding of the deja-vu experience. In the next few minutes, we will take a closer look at different facts of deja vu and 3 probable causes of this strange feeling: the brains memory, the influence of DNA, and the possibility of Reincarnation. Let’s begin by observing some facts about dj vu. According to Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary, “Dj vu is the illusion of remembering scenes and events when experienced for the first time.” Emile Boriac, who had a strong interest in the psychic phenomenon, first introduced the term in the late 1800’s. He believed dj vu was something influenced by one’s past. Studies today show that as much as 70% of the population has experienced some form of dj vu. A higher number of incidents occur in people between the ages of 15 and 25. Drug users and psychiatric patients are also more likely to have the dj vu sensation. Benjamin Wolman, author of Handbook of Parapsychology, stated, “dj vu experiences are more frequent among younger than older persons and that more women than men reported having dj vu.” Moving right along to the causes of dj vu. The first, and perhaps most common believed cause of dj vu is from the brain and its memory. A mismatching in the brain can cause it to confuse the present with the past. If you look at the memory as a hologram, only bits of sensory information are needed for the brain to produce entire 3 dimensional images. When the br...
