Could the experience of 'deja vu' be our window into a parallel universe?

I have read that deja vu is really just a current experience skipping your short-term memory and immediately embedding itself in your long-term memory. In doing so, you reach the conclusion that this has happened in the past. Silly brains :)

Haha, I've often wondered the same thing in a fictitious sense (as in, wouldn't it be cool if...). The brain fart explanation is basically that you see something but before you consciously notice it you record it as a memory. Then when it does make it into your conscious mind, your brain remembers seeing it "before" - the memory being in place before the original conscious experience. Weird, but the way the brain works it's almost surprising it doesn't happen to us more often.

Personally I still like the "glitch in the matrix" explanation. :) The other day I saw a dove hovering in place motionless but for flapping its wings. I was waiting at an intersection for a light change. Right after the light changed the bird froze up and dropped out of the air like a rock. My first reaction was, "damn glitchy game".

The other day, a question came up. What one current item would you take with you if you had a time machine that could transport you into the past? Well, I never got around to writing a reply at the time. What I would take along is the day's newspaper, say a big fat Sunday edition. And as I walked along in say 1956 Chicago (my place and time), I would leave pages here and there, on store counters, park benches, desks and study carrels in schools and libraries,ads, news movie reviews, all showing life in 2010 to these, shall we say, benighted denizens of my past. So what about the deja vu thing? Well, let's say one only went a week into the past with a newspaper, and had strewn it about. Someone reading about Tom Vilsack or the president and damage control a couple weeks ago, then later living through that particular piece of news - it would probably be judged a deja vu experience whereas, in fact, it would be a visit from a time traveler.

yeah that happens to me a lot, yesterday I showed my friend a trailer of a video game, and somehow, when he said "hey its that an Audi?" I felt like I had heard that before, like it already happened, it was really weird, and yes I think that there is a parallel universe, and I think that when you go to sleep, you visit that universe and you experience things that could happen in your universe at any given time. That's why when you get a deja vu, u were like "wait this happened already" because it did, in another universe.

Interesting question but first we must conclude if a parallel universe exists in a first place. Then this question should be considered. Let's not jump ahead of ourselves. I don't believe that the existence of deja vu, as we know it, is proof of a multiverse alone.

Funny you should say because a year or so ago I had a vision of a scene in an anime movie. Then a few weeks ago knew EXACTLY what was going to happen step by step in that scene even the right colors in the scene etc. and I had NEVER seen that movie or scene before.

It scared me quite a bit actually! :/

Are you kidding me? They're mini-seizures. I have very strong instances of Deja Vu, only to have a full on seizure moments later. Dreams are similar in the fact that they are at times random brain activity. But if our dreams were teleportations to parallel universes, that would leave lucid dreams unexplained. In layman's terms, a seizure would be a violent electrical storm inside your brain where Deja Vu would be light rain and thunder, and a dream would be peaceful or mild weather of some sort.

I had quite a few happen to me. Especially lately at work. It could just be that we know the people we deal with on a day to day basis so well, that we anticipate their replies ahead, and they come to no surprise to us, even though were unaware that this is happening.

I had quite a few happen to me. Especially lately at work. It could just be that we know the people we deal with on a day to day basis so well, that we anticipate their replies ahead, and they come to no surprise to us, even though were unaware that this is happening.

Deja Vu is simply a misfire in your mind that says "You've Experienced This Before!" whether you actually have or not. Nothing mystical about it.

Nice concept, though.