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with epilepsy feel the sensation before seizures, of the universe (Kirkpatrick, 4).
while the patients with temporal lobe damage In order to test these theories and their accuracy,
are sure they have seen everything before. They scientists have conducted a lot of research and
refuse to read the news or watch TV (Foer, 3). The experiments on déjà vu. In one of the experiments
neurological explanation for the people who don’t that was done by Alan Brown, a professor in
have any kind of disorder on their temporal lobe is Southern Methodist University, and Elizabeth
a delay in neuronal transmission, or dysfunction of Marsh, a professor in Duke University, they tested
signals coming from the brain. students to prove the accuracy of ‘Dual Processing’
Although scientific theories use brain structure and theory. The experiment lasted for three weeks,
memory failures to solve déjà vu, spiritual people and students were divided according to different
and philosophers deal with these experiences from schools. In the first week, professors showed half
different perspectives. In the 4th century BC, Greek of the students the photographs of the school they
philosopher Plato wrote a series of philosophical don’t go to. In the second week, there was no contact.
conversations, using Socrates’ arguments. Socrates In the third week, students were shown pictures of
proposed the idea that everyone lives two lives, one two schools. At the end, it was learned that 89% of
in the past and one in the present. No learning has the students, who saw the photographs the first
taken place in the current life of ones, and that all week, were certain they visited the school they don’t
the new information is a lesson from the memories go to. 50% of the students have experienced déjà vu
accumulated in past lives. Therefore, the fleeting (Foer, 3). Hence, it has been proven that déjà vu is
memories from the past lives create a sense of not just a hallucination.
familiarity, which is known as déjà vu. From Plato to Consequently, déjà vu is a sense of familiarity, which
Carl Jung, the founder of modern psychology, many occurs rarely and without a warning. Although it
philosophers have tried to clarify the cause of this has been known as a feeling that couldn’t be named
mystery. However, none of them succeeded. Carl for a long time, in the last few decades, approaches
Jung came up with the idea of ‘collective unconscious’, to déjà vu have been separated as scientific
the deepest unconscious that is universal, and theories and spiritual theories. This mysterious
not based on personal experience. In the larger phenomenon has changed from being regarded
subconscious, human beings take part in different as a flawed, supernatural experience to a normal
forms and types. If the way of being in the universe phenomenon that people experience in daily lives.
picks a familiar pattern, the person will feel a familiar With the development of technology, it will become
sensation, as if they have experienced something easier to study the glitches in the brain and memory
before. Moreover, according to pseudoscientific and the neurological aspects of deja vu in the future.
explanations, the possible cause of déjà vu can be
precognition, which is foreknowledge of an event,
extrasensory perception, or glitch in a simulation
created by advanced beings such as aliens (Hurt, 2).
However, spiritual people have a different outlook
on strange phenomena. Déjà vu experiences are Ceyda Türköz
believed to be a message from one’s higher self
rather than a glitch in the simulation. The sensation
not only provides insight and shows the right path to
the faithful, but also deepens one’s understanding

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