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Originally Posted by Moses
Memories are electrochemical events. They need to be processed into cellular storage in milliseconds. Pretty complicated stuff. Deja vu is extremely common in people with temporal lobe epilepsy and other organic brain disorders. Many epileptics report strong Deja vu right before a seizure. Other conditions associated with Deja vu are fatigue, low blood sugar, etc.
So here is the general idea; you walk into a house for the first time. Your eyes send visual signals through the optic nerve to the storage area of your brain. Your brain processes the visual image incorrectly, storing it in a "long term" memory file rather than a "short term" file. A millisecond later, a new visual image is properly recorded in your short term file. Your brain makes note of the fact that you have already seen this room. Your brain cannot determine if the poorly transcribed visual memory happened yesterday or many years ago. Deja vu.
The exact mechanisms of Deja vu are not well known, but this is a reasonable approximation.
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Yet another reason I switched to Mac
But what about the ability to see or "feel" incidents about to happen?