Although Tig was in Tennessee for the Bonnaroo Festival, we were able to discuss the idea of Deja Vu. We talked about the left eye vs. right eye, a one-second glitch, and the possibility of psychic powers. David also offered up a theory in case Kyle put a gun to his head.
We referenced these videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0EQ4EpDpuo&feature=related
A few points:
Deja Vu involves all your sense, the double eye or even double ear theory don’t work unless we’re modifying the theory to not be sense based but rather brain based. It is plausible that one side of the brain experiences a delay in perception.
As to Tig’s point that nothing meaningful is ever “Deja Vued” thus ruling out psychic, religious and fringe interpretations of Deja Vu I have two arguments:
#1) Most of life consisting of the mundane and “insignificant” means that statisically there is more mundane things to experience as a deja vu. So if reincarnation, The Matrix, or psychic abilities are in play here, the odds of there being a deja vu experience during a meaningful time in one’s life is low. Which begs the question: “Has anyone deja vued” an important event?”
#2) Who is to say the moment of Deja Vu is not in fact a very significant moment. Sometimes a mundane occurrence can eventually have great impact on one’s life.
Personally, I’m leaning towards the short term/long term memory feedback theory. It seems the most solid.
Along with deja vu there are also the phrases presque vu and jamais vu. The urban dictionary defines presque vu as, “the intense feeling of being at the brink of an epiphany.” Wikipedia defines it as tip of the tongue syndrome or, “a situation in which when one cannot recall a familiar word or name.”
Jamais vu is defined by wikipedia as, “a sense of eeriness and the observer’s impression of seeing the situation for the first time, despite rationally knowing that he or she has been in the situation before.” I define it as when familiar objects or places seem strange and alien.