Déjà vu

Déjà vu is a French phrase meaning “already seen”, referring to the

puzzling and mysterious feeling of having experienced a specific
set of circumstances before. A woman might walk into a building,
for example, in a foreign country she'd never visited, and sense that
the setting is warmly familiar. Some people attribute déjà vu to
psychic experiences or glimpses of previous lives. Research into
human psychology can offer more naturalistic explanations, but
ultimately the cause and nature of the phenomenon itself still
remains a mystery.

Personally, I believe a possible explanation of why déjà vu

happens is in the way the brain perceives data. The left hemisphere
of the brain, for example, might be subjected to a given set of real
life “data” right before the right hemisphere of the brain fully
perceives this “data”. This leads to a relatively quick feeling of
having already lived through this instant, even though that feeling
was merely nothing but a faulty brain.

By Amro Kafino
20100493