Ramblings :: Déjà Vu

There's a far simpler explanation for the feeling of deja vu. Sometimes, one side of your brain analyzes the data coming in from your eyes slower than the other. In other words, one brain sees the cat, and a millisecond later your other brain caught up and sees the cat again.

You didn't read my entire post there.Let me repeat it again. Oh, and it's not a theory, it's a fact.You actually have 2 brains, a right brain and a left brain. The data from your right eye goes to your left brain and the data from your left eye goes to your right brain. Sometimes, there's a sort of a hickup in either one of these brains, and what happens is one brain analyzes its set of data a little quicker than the other brain. So, as far as you are concern, you literally see the same event twice, giving you the feeling that you've seen the event before. No, and again you just talked right past me. You literally see the same event twice, but these two times where you see it twice are so close together that you can't consciously say to yourself "ok, this is the first time i've seen this, 1, 2, 3, ok, this is the second time i've seen this..."Remember that during one of these deja vu, your two brains are only out of sync for a fraction of a second. Our conscious mind can only perceive time that is longer than something like half a second, so you can't consciously remember when you first saw the same event and when you saw the event again. You are left with only a feeling, the same kind of feeling that a subliminimal message leaves you with. No, my "theory" can't explain this because I have a feeling you're just going to ignore my post again and talk right past me.