Dreams Become Reality?

Have you ever had déjà vu? It's the weirdest feeling in the world. You're doing something and you realize haven't I been in this exact situation before? You could just be sitting around with a few friends and someone says something and then all of a sudden you feel like this happened before. It's almost as if you had a dream about something happening in real life. I've always wondered what caused déjà vu but I've never had the motivation to actually look. My friend Allison reminded me of it today when she said that she was having that feeling. It's funny how even the littlest things can remind you of something big.

By definition, déjà vu is "the experience of feeling sure that one has witnessed or experienced a new situation previously (an individual feels as though an event has already happened or has happened in the near past), although the exact circumstances of the previous encounter are uncertain" (Wikipedia.org). Although much research has been conducted around the idea of déjà vu, there is no certain cause of it. Scientists believe that it is an anomaly of memory due to the feeling of recollection, although the brain can't actually identify the event's occurence at a specific point in time.

The most common explanation for déjà vu however, is precognition or dreaming. Many people believe that the moments of déjà vu can be explained by having previously dreamed the occurence. Research, however, shows that it is most likely caused by the brain "malfunctioning". I thought it was interesting to find out that nobody actually knows the real cause for déjà vu. Think about it next time you have one of those moments. You'd be surprised by what you think you can remember and what actually happened.