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Your Brain’s Prank or Something More?

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Have you ever had déjà vu?

I bet you had…

You know — the momentary, sneaky feeling that you have lived through this exact same moment before?

Apparently, it is extremely common — 97% of people have had the experience at least once.

So, I assume you did too.

And where does it come from?

Supposedly, it is a brief (and typically harmless) miscommunication between the part of your brain that recalls memories, and the part of your brain that determines familiarity. Basically, your brain tells you that it is familiar with this event, although it is just trying to file it into the memory bank.

I’ve had plenty of déjà vu in my life, especially during my younger years. As far as I’m concerned, they were never very pleasant — a little creepy if anything — even after I already knew that they happened to a lot of people.

Surreal, really.

And that’s all A-OK… but…