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familiar to us. Up to 90 percent of all people have had such a d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu (in German: \u201calready seen\u201d). But scientists are still puzzling over how this feeling arises. Therefore, there are currently about thirty different theories about the cause of this phenomenon.<\/p><div id=\"weltd-1573407582\" class=\"weltd-mitte-text-2 weltd-entity-placement\"><div id=\"traffective-ad-Mobile_Pos3\" style='display: none;' class=\"Mobile_Pos3\"><\/div><\/div><p>One thing is certain: men and women experience d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu equally often. Travel enthusiasts experience this more often than couch potatoes \u2013 probably because they feed their memory with new images, sounds, smells and emotions more often.<\/p><p>Liberals have it more often than conservatives, younger people more often than older people, people with higher education more often than those with less education. And the more tired someone is, the more likely they are to experience d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu. In fact, there are even people who constantly have d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu, to whom every situation in their <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weltderwunder.de\/leben-glueckliche-menschen-wirklich-laenger\/\">life<\/a><\/u> already seems familiar \u2013 as if they were caught in an endless loop.<\/p><div id=\"weltd-4217316573\" class=\"weltd-anfang-text weltd-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><div id=\"traffective-ad-Content_1\" style='display: none;' class=\"Content_1\"><\/div><\/div><h2>Subliminal stimuli can be the cause<\/h2><p>Some researchers believe that d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu is based on real memories. Example 1: A girl bakes gingerbread with her mother every year at Christmas time. Many years later, she can hardly remember it, she walks through the Christmas market and experiences a d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu. The atmosphere and the smell bring back memories of the past. She has the feeling that she has experienced this situation exactly like this before.<\/p><p>Another explanation of d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu relies on the influence of the unconscious. Example 2: In a train station hall, a man wants to check the departure time of his train. As he raises his <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weltderwunder.de\/tipps-gegen-kopfschmerzen\/\">head<\/a><\/u> to look at the scoreboard, his eyes fall on a woman standing beneath the board. The moment is so brief that he doesn&#8217;t consciously notice it. A few minutes later, he wants to get on the train, the woman lets him go first \u2013 and the man experiences d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu. Unconsciously, his brain processed the image of her and now recognized her.<\/p><h2>Memory or fiction?<\/h2><p>But what if the d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu is not based on a real experience? This is also within the realm of possibility. Parapsychologists, for example, consider d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu to be a clairvoyant dream; esotericists, on the other hand, see the phenomenon as a spontaneous memory of a previous life.<\/p><p>This may sound crazy \u2013 but science doesn\u2019t know any better. Neurologists still suspect that the answer can be found somewhere in the depths of our brain. Here the <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weltderwunder.de\/geschmackserlebnis-sinfonie-der-sinne\/\">hippocampus<\/a><\/u> , a part of the temporal lobe, distinguishes between known and unknown sensory impressions. In a d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu situation, the theory goes, the chemistry is simply going crazy.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost everyone has encountered d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu &#8211; the sudden feeling of having experienced a similar situation before. 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