When people complain of their memory, they usually talk about their forgetfulness. However, the human memory can bring another surprise too – non-existent recollections.
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Déjà vu is an experience, which gives a person a feeling that he or she has already seen or experienced a new situation (people, places, etc) before. It does not seem to matter much at first sight. However, those, who saw a mystical side to it, could not leave the phenomenon out of their attention. They decided that déjà vu was a memory of the previous life. Intelligent and educated people may often swallow the bait of reincarnation too. Carl Gustav Jung was once struck with a painting depicting a doctor. The shoes, which the doctor was wearing on the painting, seemed very familiar to him. The psychologist eventually concluded that he was wearing those shoes in his previous life, when he was the doctor shown on the painting.
Déjà vu (translates as ‘already seen’ from French) was later classified into deja vecu (‘already lived’), deja senti (‘already felt’) and deja entendu (‘already heard’). It has the antonym too – jamais vu (‘never seen’). The latter may happen to a person when he or she comes home and suddenly realizes that it is a totally unfamiliar place.
Scientists say that déjà vu mainly occurs to people aged 15-17 and 35-40. This is not purely incidental. An overemotional and sensitive teenager does not have enough life experience to analyze events and thus has to resort to the complicated experience which he or she never had. At about 35 or 40 a person reaches the point of midlife crisis, when memory starts to bring new surprises – false feelings of untrue episodes.
Some physicists explain the déjà vu phenomenon in a more sophisticated way. They say that the phenomenon exists because our present past and future are simultaneous. Therefore, the already seen feeling is a consequence of a slight faulty operation in time.
Déjà vu is mainly a phenomenon of brief, instant recollections having no background. They pose no danger to a mentally stable individual. The false memory phenomenon is not so harmful, though.
False memory is a recollection of something that never happened. The easiest way to recollect something that did not happen is to convince yourself in it.
False memory may appear as a result of interaction with other individuals. Elizabeth Loftus, a US psychologist, an expert on human memory, determined that a person may have a wrongful reconstruction of events in memory. A person may often mix his or her recollections with somebody else’s experience, as well as films, books, etc.
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