Déjà vu

Déjà vu is French for ‘already seen’. However, it is most commonly used to describe the feeling of having experienced an event exactly before. Most of us have felt this, leaving us staggered to collect ourselves and think hard on the uncertain memory. But we can never bring it to mind.

The scientific explanation of Déjà vu, experienced by two-thirds of the population, is that our conversant familiarity with our world gives us this feeling. The fewer memories you have, the less likely you will experience Déjà vu. And it makes sense. If your expertise is minimal, you wouldn’t have much to compare a given happening with.

It almost sounds like a glitch that happens when processing immense data. Where a code gets confused and fetches a wrong line of logic from a program. Are we then living in a simulation?

Here is one of the many bizarre theories I have... Memory is not sequential. We experience Déjà vu because the current happening is part of our collective memory. Meaning it already exists. This leads me to theorize that our creation is complete or ended. Only then can memory already exist and be non-linear.

Just hear me out, as I can support my theory. Have you ever come up with an idea or an understanding only to find out someone has also come to that very understanding and idea? This is why we patent. It is not just to stop someone from stealing your idea but also because many others come up with it. The most famous invention, Nylon, a polymer, was created in New York and London simultaneously. NY in Nylon is for New York, and LON is for London. When it was established that people came up with it concurrently, it was jointly named Nylon.

A famous saying, ‘It has all been done before,’ suggests nothing is truly new. Every invention is a replica of what exists in nature organically. We are copying from natural expressions or building on top of an existing concept, which is nothing but memory.

We seem to have finite possibilities; all we can do is come up with different permutations and combinations of what already exists. We are bound to coincide with one another if we are exploring a given set of probabilities. Déjà vu hence is a crisscross of memories.

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Here is an excerpt from ALL KAAL NONE - SAC OF SURPÄS Part 1 to spark your interest.
“Need is natural for continuation. You’re confusing it with want.”
“But I'm sure my heart will stop beating if I’m not with you. Isn’t that a need?”
“Still a want. Breathing, eating, and resting are needs for the physical body. Everyone craves constant pleasure. After the first experience, it is a reaction from built memory, making every subsequent encounter boring. Nonstop stimulus numbs the natural state and compels us to move to another stimulation, increasing dosage. The outward projection of your wants can never cease the fire inside you. One needs isolation to close the distance and delete the split between them and the world around them.”
Asher's words brought the feeling of déjà vu. She focused on what favored the current state of her mind and stored the rest. “I feel alone when you’re not around me, even when surrounded by many.”
“Being alone is the best way to explore yourself and be self-aware. You can then find out what makes you happy without any external dependency.”
“The only thing that makes me happy is you.” She considered herself emotionally weak without him.
“What about before you met me?” He flicked her tiny nose.
She giggled. “It was the idea of being free.”
“Are you free now?”
“Hmm. Not really. Can we ever be free?”
“Free of what is the question.” He sighed, reflecting on the celestial entrapment around his absolute existence.