{"id":6890,"date":"2017-08-08T23:45:10","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T23:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.god-helmet.com\/wp\/?page_id=6890"},"modified":"2022-07-28T16:54:06","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T16:54:06","slug":"6890-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.god-helmet.com\/wp\/dejavu.htm","title":{"rendered":"D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu:  Spiritual Meaning and Scientific Explanation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span class=\"st\" data-hveid=\"82\" data-ved=\"0ahUKEwjjtO35v4LXAhUkslQKHXheAbkQ4EUIUjAC\"><em><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu: <\/span><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><b><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><b>Here and Now, There and Then.<br \/>\n<\/b><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><b>The experience of D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu in scientific and spiritual terms.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><strong>Todd Murphy<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.god-helmet.com\/wp\/\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Visit Our Home Page<\/span>.<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">D\u00e9j\u00e0 <\/span>vu<\/strong> has meaning, both in science and in our spiritual lives<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu refers to those odd and usually rare moments when the present feels like the past. It&#8217;s a hard experience to interpret. Some people try to remember dreams that might have been like the present. Others think that the D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu moments are past life memories. Both notions are impossible to prove, disprove, or (until recently), investigate. The belief that its about past lives is a matter of faith. The idea that it has to do with dreams is less so &#8211; only a few people claim to recall past lives, but almost everybody remembers some of their dreams. Some can recall lots of them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><h6 align=\"CENTER\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.god-helmet.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/neuro_th_masthead.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.god-helmet.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/neuro_th_masthead.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.god-helmet.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/neuro_th_masthead-300x63.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><span style=\"font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\"><b><span style=\"color: black;\"><br \/>\nSpirituality &amp; <\/span><span style=\"color: gray;\"><span style=\"color: #525252;\">The Brain<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #000000;\">(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.god-helmet.com\/wp\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Home Page<\/span><\/a>)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/h6>\n<table class=\" alignleft\" style=\"width: 89px; 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Most altered states are a fertile ground for confabulations (&#8220;embroidered&#8221; or false memories). It&#8217;s easier to create a false memory during a moment of D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu, than it would be normally. In fact, during moments of D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu, the mind has unusually direct access to long-term memories, and the brain processes that allow us to create and retrieve them, but it&#8217;s also more likely to create a false memory.\u00a0 As it happens, people who have d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu often are also<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/23507236\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">prone to false memories<\/a> <\/span>(link opens in a new window).<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><h4 style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0692957650\/\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0692957650\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border-width: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-left: 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.god-helmet.com\/wp\/pete_cover_shot4.jpg\" alt=\"Book: Deja Vu and other spiritual gifts.\" width=\"122\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a><strong>New Book:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0692957650\/\">D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu &amp; Other Spiritual Gifts<\/a> <span style=\"font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10px;\">(Click to see on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0692957650\/\">Amazon.com)<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\">By Neuroscientist Todd Murphy<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0692957650\/\">D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu is a spiritual gift,<\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">and there are others waiting\u00a0 for you in the same place &#8211; your brain and mind.\u00a0 If you have D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu often, then you probably also have other gifts, like sensing presences when you&#8217;re alone, or tingling in your hands.\u00a0 It also gives simple instructions about how to open your psychic &#8220;sight&#8221;, go deeper into prayer, learn to heal by laying on hands, and other skills that use your spiritual gifts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0692957650\/\">Available on Amazon.co<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0692957650\/\">m<\/a><\/p>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>I won&#8217;t say<\/strong> that D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu <em>doesn&#8217;t<\/em> come from past lives or dreams.\u00a0 But we want to understand what it is, and how we can respond when it happens. If we explain it as reflections of past lives or dreams, we can never know if we&#8217;re right or not.\u00a0 There&#8217;s no way we can verify a past life memory and the brain can falsify memories of dreams with ease. It&#8217;ll become another matter of faith, and some people want to <em>know<\/em>, not just believe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Some of us have precognitive dreams, but most episodes of D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu happen without any sense of its relating to a dream. Precognitive dreams are a different matter altogether. Having the present moment feel like a repeat of something from the past is not the same as having the present validate a previous precognition. I have spoken to some professional psychics about this, and one of them said that he could tell the two apart, but that it took him some time to learn the difference. I asked him what the difference was, and he said that it was an &#8216;energy.&#8217; That&#8217;s not really enough to help understand what the difference was, but enough for us to know that there might be one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><b>How does D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu happen?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">The scientific explanation is that it has to do with memory processes. I&#8217;ll make it as simple as I can here. The basic idea is that there are portions of the brain that are specialized for the past, the present and the future. In general, the frontal lobes are concerned with the future, the temporal lobes are concerned with the past, and the underlying, portions between them (the limbic system) are concerned with the present.\u00a0 When they&#8217;re all doing their normal jobs, in normal states of consciousness, the feeling that &#8216;something is going to happen&#8217; will only come up when we&#8217;re thinking about the future, worrying about it, anticipating it or making plans for it. The sense of the past (like being reminded of something) will only appear when our memories have been triggered in some way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">The structure that overwhelms our consciousness when we are &#8216;in the present&#8217; or &#8216;being here now&#8217; is the amygdala. It assigns an emotional &#8216;tone&#8217; to our perceptions. When you step into the street and see a car speeding towards you, and you instantly freeze in terror and jump out of the way, that terror is the amygdala at work. Present. Here and now. The amygdala also recognizes expressions the expressions on people&#8217;s faces. When we are talking to someone, we can recognize their expressions and change the way we are talking to them just as quickly as we recognize danger. Words can often seem dangerous to the one hearing them. &#8220;we&#8217;re thinking of letting you go.&#8221; &#8220;I&#8217;ve been thinking that our relationship is holding me back.&#8221; Or &#8211;\u00a0 &#8220;You are under arrest.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Phrases like these need instant, appropriate responses, and there is a cognitive (or &#8220;thinking&#8221;) brain part (the <em>hippocampus<\/em>) that&#8217;s specialized to provide them, in the present moment. For example, it participates in maintaining the sense of self, a job it repeats 40 times each second. Every 25 milliseconds.\u00a0 Each instance of the self is able to manifest a new emotional response, but only if circumstances have changed.\u00a0 In fact, the duration of the &#8216;present&#8217; in neurological terms is so short that we don&#8217;t experience it so much as remember it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">The next level could be called &#8216;being around here-just about now.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Short term-memory deals in periods of a few minutes. Its mostly based in the hippocampus. We know this because problems with the hippocampus often lead to severe short-term memory problems. It helps us to stay oriented in time. There have been a few people who have lost all hippocampal functions, and they are unable to remember anything that happened after their brain problems began. Humans are a linguistic species, and an intensely social one. We relate to each other through words. We have conversations. To do this, we have to be able to remember what people say to us. We also have to be to think about it long enough to be able to respond to it. We have to remember what we&#8217;ve just finished doing in order not to have to do it again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">There is a joke I heard while working in a nursing home: Happiness is finding your glasses before you forget what you need them for.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Then there is long-term memory. Its &#8216;seated&#8217; on the surface of the brain, on the bottom of the temporal lobes. The area has been called the <em>parahippocampal<\/em> cortex, and it\u2019s very closely connected to the hippocampus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Ordinarily, there is a fairly seamless integration of the past, present and the future. In simple terms, we experience something in the present, compare it to similar experiences in the past, and decide how we will respond. The time frame can be very brief; even a few milliseconds. Once in a while, though, there can be too much communication between short-term and long-term memories. When this happens, then the present can feel like the past.\u00a0 In many cases, it&#8217;s triggered by an error in feeling that something is familiar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">If perceptions from the present are shunted through the parts of the brain that process memories from the past, those perceptions will feel like they&#8217;re memories, and the person will feel that they are re-living a moment stored in long-term memory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">There is another experience worth mentioning; <em>Jamais<\/em> Vu. It&#8217;s the opposite of D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu. Instead of feeling extra familiar, thing seem totally unfamiliar. In this case there is too little connection between long-term memory and perceptions from the present. When a person is in this state, nothing they experience seems to have anything to do with the past. They might be talking to a person they know well and suddenly the person seems totally unfamiliar. Their sense of knowing the person, and knowing how to relate to them simply vanishes. A room in which they spend a lot of time suddenly becomes totally novel; everything seems new. Details they will have seen a thousand times suddenly become engaging.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Jamais Vu is not so common as D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu, but it can be just as compelling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><b>How do I respond to D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">That depends on whether you enjoy it or not. A few people are just terrified when it happens. Others find it mildly euphoric.\u00a0 I think most people just find it to be a perplexing sensation, neither pleasant nor threatening.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">As with all other altered state experiences, most people who enjoy it think of it as a spiritual moment, and those who don&#8217;t, think about it in psychological terms. I&#8217;ve talked to people who had it often, and found the experience terrifying. There is nothing frightening about D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu in itself, but it can happen that activity from the hippocampus can spill over into the neighboring structure, the amygdala, which is a very emotional structure. If it gets into the one on the right, the emotion is going to be unpleasant, most likely fearful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">If you have D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu appear with fear, you might want to get some help, depending on how strong the feeling is. One of the best places to start is with an epilepsy specialist, especially if you think you might be going crazy. Why not start with a psychologist? Because D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu is often symptomatic of temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), and its misdiagnosed more often than not, usually as schizophrenia, but also as bipolar disorder, and several others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">One reason psychologists get the diagnosis wrong so often is that TLE isn&#8217;t listed in the DSM-IV, the <em>Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Psychological Disorders<\/em>, the psychiatrist&#8217;s handbook<em>.<\/em> It&#8217;s the standard guide to diagnosing psychiatric illness. Because it isn&#8217;t listed, its pathology isn&#8217;t covered, and psychologists miss the mark when dealing with it. TLE also has a much wider range of possible symptoms than other disorders.\u00a0 While most seizures of this type (called <em>complex partial seizures<\/em>) begin in the amygdala, they spread into other structures, and there are quite a number of them. One nearby structure will introduce smells into the experiences, and leave someone a heightened sense of smell. Another will create distortions in spatial perception. Another can leave someone with overactive sweat glands. Another can leave someone wanting to talk or write all the time. Another can make a person prone to brief, intense bursts of anger. Another can make a person&#8217;s sexuality change. The list goes on. There are also a variety of personality changes that can happen. With so many possible symptoms, proper diagnosis can be a problem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">There&#8217;s no need for a diagnosis when D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu feels good, even if it&#8217;s TLE that&#8217;s emotionally positive. In that case, it really can&#8217;t be called a disorder, but people still feel that it somehow calls for a response, and it will &#8216;feel&#8217; like it should be a spiritual one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">For D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu that feels spiritual, I suggest meditation. The kind that emphasizes being present in the here and now. D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu is an alteration in the perception of the present moment. The two best known ones are Zen and vipassana, both Buddhist practices. I&#8217;m not saying that people who have D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu a lot should become Buddhists, only that these two Buddhist practices are well suited for those with frequent D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu experiences. There are times I&#8217;ve thought that Jesus might have been close to these practices when he said to &#8216;be still and know&#8221;. The more often D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu happens, the more likely a person will be able to stop their ongoing mental processes, and just be in the present. D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu is an experience that won&#8217;t go into words very well. When its happening, a person can still speak, but the phenomena that will demand their attention is that sense of the past.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Most commonly, a person having D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu will give their attention to the feeling that &#8216;this is the past!&#8217; If someone wants to use the experience to enhance their spirituality, there are three things they can try.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">1) When D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu happens, you should focus on what&#8217;s happening in the <em>present<\/em>. You can pay attention to your senses, and look at the &#8216;sense&#8217; that perceives that sense of familiarity. If you can get a clear perception of that &#8216;sense&#8217;, you can look there at any time. Especially while practicing meditation. This practice, for those who have D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu often enough to take advantage of it, can chop months off the time it takes to get into meditation deeply.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">2) You should try to disconnect from your sense of the past and try to see the <em>present<\/em> through that same sense.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">3) You can <em>pretend<\/em> that D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu is happening during meditation. With practice, the familiar sensation should eventually appear, and by then, you may be able to stop paying attention to the &#8216;past&#8217; and go into being &#8216;present&#8217;. When this happens, your meditation practice should acquire something new.\u00a0 This one may be hard to do, so let it go if it doesn&#8217;t work for you.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">With time, D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu can become a friend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">END.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/L3hyYZvkALI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7699 alignleft\" style=\"border-width: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.god-helmet.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/deja_vu_thumbnaill-300x169.jpg\" width=\"174\" height=\"98\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.god-helmet.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/deja_vu_thumbnaill-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.god-helmet.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/deja_vu_thumbnaill.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 174px) 100vw, 174px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/L3hyYZvkALI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Watch my video about Deja Vu.<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/L3hyYZvkALI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> <strong>(Opens in a new Window)<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;\">QUESTION<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;\">:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">How do you personally relate D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu to the existence of time?<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;\">ANSWER<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;\">:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">These are provisional opinions only, something like &#8216;working hypotheses&#8217;, but to me, time is a matter of subjective experience which follows as-yet undiscovered algorithms. A year is a long time when you&#8217;re nine years old, and much shorter when you&#8217;re 40.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu and the phenomena of time are completely unrelated, despite the connection we feel between them. Understanding one offers no clues to the other.\u00a0 We may <em>understand<\/em> the physics of time and the time-space continuum, but the sense of the past is a <em>feeling<\/em>, and our feelings don&#8217;t match the laws of physics.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu is &#8216;about&#8217; the past. There is a related phenomenon, precognition, also called &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Future-Memory-P-M-H-Atwater\/dp\/1571746889\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">future memory<\/a>&#8216;, whose existence offers the possibility that D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu and &#8216;future memory&#8217; are at two different ends of a single spectrum. If so, then we have perception in two directions &#8211; past and future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">A skeptical scientist would deny the existence of future memory, and there is no evidence that can prove them wrong. I have yet to experience the phenomena myself, and I have no jobs right now that would change if I held an opinion on the subject, so I prefer not to decide about it now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Time only runs in one direction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">My opinion is that D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu is a neural phenomenon, and not connected to time (&#8220;The time-space continuum&#8221;) itself.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a change in our <em>perception<\/em> of time.\u00a0 Relating it to time itself is a bit like saying that sunlight wavers when it hits water instead of seeing that the water has waves.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">It may or may not reference actual events in the past. The <em>sense<\/em> of the past is enough to create the feeling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">It may also be that there are two mechanisms &#8211; one behind D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu &#8216;to&#8217; actual events, and one that spins out (confabulates) memories to which the D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu seems to refer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">For the mind to create a memory, right in the moment, that matches the present is a small thing next to the entire worlds it can create in dreams, visions, and near-death experiences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">End.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>___________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif;\">References:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">(1) <strong>Bancaud<\/strong>, J., Et Al, &#8220;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/8149215\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anatomical Origins of D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu and vivid &#8216;memories&#8217; in human temporal lobe epilepsy<\/a><\/span>&#8221; <em>Brain<\/em>, (1994) v.117, 71-90<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">(2) <strong>Gloor<\/strong>, Pierre, MD, Ph.D., Et Al, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/7125603\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The Role of the Limbic System in Experiential Phenomena of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy<\/span><\/a>&#8221; <em>Annals of Neurology<\/em> Vol. 12, No.2 August 1982<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">(3) <strong>Persinger<\/strong>, M.A., &#8220;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/3982946\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Geophysical Variables and Behavior: XXII. The Tectonic Strain Continuum of Unusual events<\/a><\/span>&#8221; <em>Perceptual and Motor Skills<\/em> 1985, 60, 59-65<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">(4) <strong>Persinger<\/strong>, M.A. &amp; Lafreniere, &#8220;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/neurosciarchive.byethost12.com\/1977-Persinger-and-Lafreniere-Space-Time-Transients-and-Unusual-Events.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Space-time Transients and Unusual Events<\/a><\/span>&#8221; Nelson-Hall Chicago, 1977<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>Also Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Future-Memory-P-M-H-Atwater-ebook\/dp\/B00BF2SGF8\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1502245465&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=atwater+future+memory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Future Memory&#8221; by PMH Atwater<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; 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font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">HUMAN EVOLUTION:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.god-helmet.com\/wp\/deathanxiety.htm\">Origins of spirituality in Human Evolution<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.god-helmet.com\/religious_mystic_in_evolution.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Role of Mystics and mysticism in Human Evolution<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-size: 16px;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.god-helmet.com\/wp\/gaybrain.htm\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">The Gay Male Brain in human evolution<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.god-helmet.com\/evolution_of_god.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The Evolution of Human Belief in God<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.god-helmet.com\/wp\/consciousness.htm\">Consciousness<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0 <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.god-helmet.com\/wp\/rebirth.htm\">Darwinian Reincarnation<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.god-helmet.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/divider_flipped.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">SPIRITUAL<br \/>\nNEUROSCIENCE<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-size: 16px;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.god-helmet.com\/wp\/neurotheology.htm\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Articles on neurotheology, (or &#8211; <em>spirituality and religion meet brain science<\/em>).<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.god-helmet.com\/wp\/enlightenment.htm\">Enlightenment And the Brain<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.god-helmet.com\/wp\/dejavu.htm\">Deja Vu<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.god-helmet.com\/wp\/neuromed.htm\">Meditations from Brain Science<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.god-helmet.com\/wp\/romance.htm\">Romantic Love and the Brain<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.god-helmet.com\/wp\/sp.htm\">The <em>Sensed Presence<\/em><\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.god-helmet.com\/wp\/god.htm\">God in the Brain<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.god-helmet.com\/wp\/anchored_tl_test.htm\">Spiritual Aptitude Test<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0 <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.god-helmet.com\/wp\/earthfee.htm\">Sacred Lands<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.god-helmet.com\/wp\/traits.htm\">The Spiritual Personality<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.god-helmet.com\/wp\/archetypes.htm\">Archetypes<\/a> <\/span><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.god-helmet.com\/wp\/obe.htm\">Out-Of-Body Experiences<\/a>\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">|\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.god-helmet.com\/wp\/visions.htm\">Visions<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.god-helmet.com\/wp\/pollresults.htm\">Odd Experiences &#8211; Online Poll Results<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.god-helmet.com\/podcasts\/index.htm\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif;\">Podcasts on Neurotheology<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.god-helmet.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/divider_flipped.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\">OFF-SITE PAGES<\/span> (OPEN IN NEW WINDOWS).<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/flipboard.com\/@flipboard\/-meditations-effects-may-differ-by-type-\/f-c6f07c80fc%2Fmindful.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Different spiritual practices have different effects on the brain.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.god-helmet.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/divider_flipped.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"> <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.god-helmet.com\/wp\/thaindes.htm\">NDEs in Thailand &#8211; Discussion\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.god-helmet.com\/wp\/bkknde.htm\">Thai NDE Case histories<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-size: 16px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.god-helmet.com\/wp\/rebirth.htm\">Darwinian Reincarnation<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.god-helmet.com\/wp\/scrrensavers\/index.htm\">Near-Death Experience Screensaver (Entering the Light).<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-size: 16px;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.god-helmet.com\/wp\/epilepsy_ndes.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Epilepsy And Near-Death Experiences<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.god-helmet.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/divider_flipped.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">BRAIN STUFF:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.god-helmet.com\/wp\/evaglasses.htm\">Glasses For Enhanced Visual Acuity<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.god-helmet.com\/wp\/ketogenic.htm\">A Diet For Epileptics?<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.god-helmet.com\/wp\/sex_ascs.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Sex &amp; States of Consciousness\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.god-helmet.com\/wp\/hippocrat.htm\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif;\">Hippocrates on Epilepsy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.god-helmet.com\/wp\/terrorism.htm\">The Terrorist Brain<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.god-helmet.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/divider_flipped.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\">OTHER STUFF:<\/span><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-size: 16px;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.god-helmet.com\/wp\/geomag\/index.htm\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif;\">Real-Time Geomagnetic levels<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.god-helmet.com\/wp\/credentials.htm\">Credentials<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-size: 16px;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.god-helmet.com\/wp\/bigbang.htm\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif;\">What Caused The Big Bang?<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.god-helmet.com\/wp\/privacy_policy.htm\">PRIVACY POLICY<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu: Here and Now, There and Then. 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