Almost everyone's experienced deja vu — that brain-tickling illusion of having previously experienced something that, in reality, is being encountered for the first time. In fact, researchers at Texas A&M estimate that the trippy sensation is experienced by roughly 60 to 80 percent of the population. And yet deja vu remains an unsolved mystery. But there are some pretty good theories out there - some of which you may have heard before… "Talk about deja vu!"
The human brain is a seriously complex piece of biological machinery. It's capable of processing vast amounts of information while simultaneously keeping your heart and lungs functioning, all with no conscious input on your part.
And yet, your brain is not infallible. According to the neuroscience experts over at Texas A&M, one of the prevailing theories about deja vu has to do with shortcuts in neural pathways. It's possible that when you experience something that recalls a fragment of an old memory, your brain interprets the new experience as something it needs to place in long-term memory rather than the short-term memory slot it would normally be placed in.
Then, when your brain accesses the information in long-term memory, it may feel like its accessing an experience from the past, rather than something that's happening in the present. That might be just enough to produce that strange sensation...
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Your brain is taking a shortcut | 0:27
It could be an actual memory | 1:24
Maybe your brain is just confused? | 2:16
Maybe your brain is glitching? | 2:51
Are they false memories? | 3:43
The hologram theory | 4:13
Cross referencing | 5:05
The sign of a young brain | 6:03
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