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Deja Vu Again??

I've heard several theories on deja vu. It has been attributed to signals being out of sync, but after that, the explanations vary widely. I haven't meditated on this topic so I have no insider info on it, however, since I experienced a wallop of deja vu, just yesterday, I thought I'd get down some thoughts on it.

We all experience deja vu at some time, but not at the same time, and so, it is not likely to be a harmonized burp in the collective consciousness, UNLESS there would be, say, two or more -awakened- souls in company who caught the effect at the same time. I'm not aware that this has happened. Surely someone would have blown the whistle on it.

A mundane explanation would be akin to brain lag. We experience a moment and then experience it again but only in our mind, ie, we are aware that physical time has marched on but the mental flash is of the moment just completed. So, it could be brain storage malfunction (perhaps due to fatigue, etc), where the captured moment got stuck in transit or had to be retransmitted for some electronic glitch brain-wise. Thus, we see it twice in rapid succession before it successfully gets tucked away in storage.

The tendency is to think that the double-take must be trying to tell us something, especially because it is an infrequent thing and not (as far as I know) reproducible on demand. So far, nothing that I have experienced as deja vu has felt significant. That could just be me.

It could be that the essence of that moment is merely an uncanny copy of a moment from another life or another iteration of ourselves in a parallel existence? In this sense, these existences might link up for a second, through some harmonic resonance, but the next action in either plane would break the resonance and we would continue on our separate ways.

Other possibilities: The doubled moment was seen before in a dream, significant or not, and the recognition of it takes just enough time to make it reverberate, giving us the feedback or deja vu effect? OR, despite the mundane, seemingly inconsequential nature of a deja vu experience, it is a subtle wink, a hint, that we are in the right place at the right time; that we are on our path as we intended and everything is A-OK.

I think I like that one.

05.16.2001

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