Reliving the Moment

At one time or another you may have experienced the conscious phenomenon of Déjà vu. You will be going about your daily life when you have a feeling that you have been in the present situation before. It is sometimes unclear but you remember doing or seeing the same thing but it was in the past. Our psychology text book phrases it a "been there" "done that" situation, or reliving a new experience. Some scientists have created theories on why we have these occurrences one of them being an excess of the neurotransmitter dopamine in the temporal lobes and another being small seizures in the temporal lobe cause the memorable feelings. The familiar feeling may also arise because the situation may have been similar to a past one but we do not remember every specific detail as they happened in the earlier time. This may cause us to think we were in the same situation but in reality it is not an exact replica of the experience we had in the past.

I as well as most people have experienced déjà vu at one time or another, and have heard many stories from family and friends regarding this phenomenon. Some people have an eerie feeling when they come across an experience they believed they have already lived through and may try to think back or rationalize where they have experienced this before. While others find it humorous and just jokingly say "Wow déjà vu" then blow it off and continue on like nothing really happened.

Since there is still no reason for why we experience this phenomenon, for me it brings up the questions "Did we really relive an experience?" or "Can our dreams really give us a glimpse of our future?"