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Deja vu and Quantum Mechanics

My dreams of deja vu are distinctly different from my regular dreams. In my regular dreams, I dream in color, often there is a distinct story line that forms the night's series of dreams. I will awake exhausted from a night's worth of dreaming. The deja vu dreams are different, however. These dreams are also in color, but seem to fade from color to black and white back to color. A haze also often covers the dream, like looking through a lens to another world.

Months from the night I have a deja vu dream, I will experience the dream in real-time. The strange thing is, when I experience deja vu, I immediately recall the dream sequence from the depths of memory. Thus when I experience deja vu, I see it in a sort of split screen: one of reality, and the other a meta-reality of the dream world. It is at the same time unsettling and highly exciting. This split screen also produces more deja vu, thus perpetuating the episode of deja vu.

I have deja vu a lot. Many of my friends have it too, as does my brother. One night at studio, someone started talking about deja vu, and how she had dreamed this some time before. The room erupted in affirmation: it seemed that about one in three experienced deja vu repeatedly. The reason for the high ratio of my friends also experiencing deja vu eluded me for quite some time. Then it became apparent why: those who experienced the most deja vu also remembered their dreams, and more importantly dreamed in color. These same students also were more spatially aware and generally had more vivid imaginations.

Interestingly enough, this group also crossed the right/left brain dichotomy with those of right and left-brain determinacy following the breakdown of right/left handed people.

Now, I am no expert at the human mind, or the patterns of sleep and dreams. But the explanation of why so many of us must go beyond that of those who are spatially attuned or "dreamers". I admit I spend a lot of my day inside my head, dreaming about life while I experience it. But when I dream, and then that dream comes true, the boundaries of logic must be toppled down. Some have suggested deja vu is the world resetting itself, or the world aligning with itself. I have home to believe that at night, and with the right frame of mind, you can touch the limits of space-time. When the mass of gray matter that exists in your head is able to completely focus on one task, the "gateway" to parallel universes are opened.

The Human Brain is made of bundles of neurons - nerves. These nerves are small, linear strands that fire electrical pulses throughout the body. Electricity is the result of Electromotive Force - an imbalance of electrons that causes those electrons to move from a high [excited] state to a ground [rest] state. Literally millions of electrons are moving about the body, every second. Electrons are so miniscule that to think of them as an object is a fallacy. Some scientists believe that when an experiment is conducted testing for electrons, the electrons that they see and record are actually electrons that the scientists created by the simple act of just looking for them.

The electron does not operate on the basis of Newtonian Physics, but in another realm. The world around us is controlled by Newtonian Physics. The billiard ball, Galileo's falling bodies, and the macro- world of determinacy. Newton explains the effect of gravity very well, but not cause of it. As you move down in scale, Newtonian Physics cannot adequately explain why every particle in the universe knows exactly what every other particle in the universe is doing, instantaneously.

The world of Quantum Mechanics explains such phenomena and exists on the atomic and subatomic level. Quantum Mechanics is the indeterminate, micro- world that is directly influenced by the macro- world, yet is totally independent [still with me?].

The ability of the brain to process information at a great rate has been documented before. It is important to remember that Quantum Mechanics deals with statistics and probability of groups and cannot sufficiently [and accurately] verify individual units. This is due [partly] to Heisenburg's Uncertainty Principle, which states that you cannot verify a particle's location and vector [speed and direction] without making the other variable inexact. So in effect, the hypothesis is that when you dream, you see a probable future [or probable past - time is not linear as we humans think it is] and the probability of this event happening are dependent on our current location [in life] and our vector [actions, responses, etc.] in conjunction with the relative degree of detail/specificity of that situation in conjunction with the "tampering" effect of our own imagination. So in effect, our dreams are probabilities of the future/past, which we could experience depending on the choices we make, and our current life's position.

If I dream of a particular situation, say, marriage to a specific woman, exact number of kids, car, etc. this future/past event probably will not come true, because of its exact specificity in stiu. On the other hand, if I dream of entering a room and seeing a group of people talking and then stopping to turn to look at me, this future/past event has a higher probability of occurring. The reason is because the specificity is lower, and the participants are unrecognizable, less "Specific Recognition Events" [think grocery/laundry list] are required for this future/past event to manifest itself.

Is it to crazy to think that the human brain can tap into another dimension or universe and see a possible future? A skeptic would look at the last paragraph and explain it away in a puff of logic, that those who claim to experience deja vu are just fitting vague shadows of dreams to reality. Humans are great at pattern matching and recognition, often creating patterns and comprehension where there is none. Yet, with everyone I talk to, their events of deja vu are so specific in detail, and so stark, that they should not be flicked off with the skeptics' hand.

My response is that for the past 300 years, since the time of Newton, the Western World has dismissed the right brain with its marvel and imagination in favor of the logical and meticulous left-brain. This is how objective science came about, and we needed in the face of Religion and those who would blame God or the Devil for the Earth moving and the stars shining. Yet, our intuition is as important as our logic. How much more important and unique if we [as a race] are strictly logical, a cog in a great machine [Newtonian Physics] or an indeterminate force that creates reality as we go [Quantum Mechanics].

I choose the latter.

Comments

Joe says:

About Deja Vu... I ahve had it since I was 5 that I can remember when I was 7 I began to relive that it was something to do with dreams and such but I had it about once a week.. Then as I got older to about 10 I started ahving it only once a month but recently I am 14 and got a 3 degree concussion/sp on the right side of my head and I have been having it 3 to 5 times every day and sometimes it lasts for more than jsut "that second" e.g. I was typeing and whe i saved I saw that "Hey this is the same thing Ive seen this" so I closed the window and then the next window I knew I had seen before and about 3 seconds later all was normal... what the hell do u think about that

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sara says:

about this comment from originalpost " the hypothesis is that when you dream, you see a probable future [or probable past - time is not linear as we humans think it is] and the probability of this event happening are dependent on our current location [in life]"

Well... last night I was dreaming that I was in a little inflatable kids pool with my roomate, and as he got into the pool I had deja vu (in my dream) for quite a few seconds. I am positive it was not a reoccuring dream. It was really deja vu. SO I guess what Im saying is....what are the chances of this since the dream world has unlimited opportunities and no real past or future? thanks

Posted by: sara at July 18, 2005 12:56 AM #

castle says:

I can go for weeks at a time without a deja vu dream, then i will have a whole bunch of them in a short time frame. Im still not sure what they mean, or how they come about, but i've always had them, and i really do like them.

Posted by: castle at January 7, 2006 3:56 PM #

albert says:

THE DÉJÀ VU OF QUANTUM THINKING.
As many other people I have had many deja vu’s. One of them, the biggest and scariest; I still remember it, but at that time I didn’t know what was that as I was still living in A COMMUNIST COUNTRY with limited info on this subject. I was about 12 years old and I was at this summer camp and suddenly I became overwhelming. I could predict everything that would happen that day. Believe me, it wasn’t a dream it was real, it kept going all day. I was predicting it as I was seeing it visually in my mind but a 2-3 seconds a head of the real one. I told other kids and they became afraid because I could really do it. For some reasons I couldn’t see clear as long as this thing continued, in terms of colors. There were colors but kind of monochromic. It was a strange feeling. Also my movements were kind of slow. Accidentally I cut myself that day and the scar still in my foot after so many years. That’s how I know that it wasn’t a dream. Since then I have had many others but not to that extend. The beauty of it is that, now, after 20 years this summer I can remember it like it happened today, visually I mean.

To my understanding; deja vu is not what scientist are trying to explain; that it is just a miscalculations in your brain, or change of state from your left side of your brain to your right…etc
I do believe that it has something to do with your past life, don’t take me wrong, I am not talking about recornation, I am talking about info past down from generations to generations.

Let me give you an example: I meet somebody knowing for sure that I have never met and suddenly I have this deja vu of knowing him/her. I may joke that I met him/her in the past life. Well it may be that my grandpa and her grandma met somewhere and I don’t know, hit it off. Some how my grandpa’s brain decides to keep that info somewhere while the grandma’s brain didn’t. Well it was past down to me thru my father and now somehow it was unlocked. Because, in someway, maybe, brains communicate with each other. That’s how sometimes we feel the presence of other people, not visually.

This article it is the only article that I found on line that comes close to my theory: THE DÉJÀ VU OF QUANTUM THINKING.

Posted by: albert at April 15, 2006 3:03 PM #

Aaron Duffy says:

Okay.... I've had a dejavu experience three times that I can remember so far. I constanly dream in color but dejavu is in black and white every time. Everytime I have died in my dejavu "dreams" And in real life when the events started occuring word for word my vision turned black and white and I knew I was about to die. all three times I was almost killed, but because I had seen what would happen I was able to stay alive by changing just little parts of it. this is really starting to scare me and I am starting to question the validaty of life as we percieve it. Theses "dreams" were so precise and exact and so detailed, and absolutely everything except my death happened all three times precicely as it happened in the "visions" that there is no way it could be coincidence. If there is somone that thinks they could help me please get in touch with me ~Aaron~

Posted by: Aaron Duffy at May 12, 2006 11:29 AM #

ConservativeGreen says:

This is a great blog entry. I have experienced very powerful deja vu all my life. I would would dream in colour of events that would happen. I would remember the dream initially becuase it felt so strange. i.e. the characters, events, places were usually unknown to me. Often I would find out that the spaces as they existed in my dreams would not in real life until a year or two of being in that space. i.e. they had not been built yet, or I had never been to this place. The sequence of events would be something like this.

Strange dream, usually a feeling of 'event'
Wake in the morning with uneasy feeling but dismiss the dream because it was so unfamiliar.
Several months to serveral years would pass.
Deja Vu happens with strong recollection of the dream and almost always associated with a tactile experience. Like turning on a lightswitch or pushing a button or going through a door.
A sense of sudden change is happening.
Events not always like the dream. i.e. person in the dream was standing to my left and in reality they are on my right. Also, all the events of the dream not happening in reality.

I had attributed these dreams as insights into dimesional possibilities. i.e. This is one this that could happen, and we are fully able to modify the outcomes before some things come to pass. I have not experienced them as often in my 30s as I did my 20s. Also, I have become more comfortable as they happen and been able to observe more and control my feeling (of dread, sudden change).

My life has seen regular abrupt changes in career, people and places. For instance moving cities, homes, careers on the average of every three years.

Thanks again for the great blog entry.

Posted by: ConservativeGreen at August 22, 2006 3:25 PM #

David says:

An enjoyable and thought provoking article .The reason in fact that I read it was that I experienced my second major deejay vu. It's interesting how the article's description about the dreams and realisation is the same as my experiences with this phenomenon. However my experiences differ in that the time periods between dream and realisation seems to be many months and not frequent.

Posted by: David at September 15, 2006 10:32 AM #

Sarah says:

I have experienced deja vu many times through my life. I would wake up from a dream and think to myself, well thats weird that could never happen, but then as life takes its course eventually the event I think could never happen happens. Its very strange. Sometimes I would have these dreams and the very next day they would happen.

ex.. the other night I had a dream of really no importance but my son and I were standing at his bus stop and my work badge was sitting in the middle of the ground. I thought to myself well thats weird because my son hates when I stand at the bus stop with him and I very rarely do so. But this morning there was not a single soul at the bus stop so I deceided to wait out there with him, and I'll be damned if my work badge wasnt lying in the middle of the ground. I have no clue how it got there since I havent been over there. Who knows glad I found it though. Although these posts are alittle old I still found this a great read!

Posted by: Sarah at February 21, 2007 12:43 PM #

amy says:

I have had de ja vu a lot in the past year. Dreams that I have had a long time ago or even memories that are burried away are coming to the surface. The sound of a train seems familiar, friends that I hang out with seem familiar. One night I was hanging with my friends and I had de ja vu for well over an hour. The whole time I was pretty quiet because it was an out of body experience and everything felt right. Deja vu does not bother me, it comforts me. But last night I had a dream and in my dream i realized it was deja vu even though the exact events in the dream have not happened in waking state. What really bothers me is that there was a person in my dream that I feel that I have a connection with in my waking state. What in the world could it mean to have dejavu in a dream, where you experience the same feeling in waking state, yet in your dream. That is the strangest yet most comforting dream I have ever had and I will hold onto it as long as I can. Maybe in the future my dream will be my only proof that this connection is real.