Very interesting theory. First of all, I have experienced deja vu also - the first time when I was just ten years old.  My family had just moved out-of-state to live with my father's mother.  Not long after we arrived, I was in the back yard playing catch with my uncle.  During our play I had that feeling of deja vu.  Everything felt the same - same people, same place, same activity.  The one thing that made the event "feel" unusual was time - the feeling that this event had taken place earlier in time and I was  "remembering" the event.  It was as if I had moved forward in time with the knowledge I had previously been playing catch with my uncle, then had come back in time to "relive" the event.  Are there fluctuations in space/time allowing this kind of event to happen?  It would explain those bad feelings you get sometimes, when you "feel" something bad will happen - had you moved forward enough in time to live the bad outcome, then came back to live the event for the "first" time with the feeling it had happened before. Food for thought.        

Interesting thoughts. Here's my two cents for your group to toss around.  What strikes me from my own experience was the overwhelming feeling. It seem SO real - and my personal experience had nothing to do with anything previous in my life. That particular experience wasn't a memory trigger. Well, "in my current life" experience anyway. Conversly, I don't have any preconceived ideas of reincarnation. Don't know, don't care much. Present day existence is enough to handle.

I also wonder:

Being connected to something previous (eons previous) is easily fathomable. What one cellular trigger has traveled to you, and is in you, from a person 100,000 years or more ago?

What was that movie? Altered States? On a side note, LSD has a profound way to allow ones realization of it's exact first begining, (your first cell?) I guess I have to qualify that statement. Yes, been there done that. Grew up in a college town in the late '60's. I feel very lucky to have survived the experience and would never try it again. The experience was as fundamental a realization of "where I came from" as was joining the Army and learning how the basic real world turns. (Politics, big dog gets the porch, etc.)

The first cell. Before it splits. It's a reality.

 Impetus of the conscience? Million dollar question I suppose. When does it form?

I'm not sure if deja vu is recalling a similar experience or recognizing an event we once saw in the future. 

Hi all,

My name is William Bailey, and I am new to this forum. I just happen to stumbled over this thread while doing some research online, and I thought I’d chime in with my own belief on this subject.

I not only believe in deja vu's, but I have personally had them including one major vision that inspired me to write my book. I wrote the section appropriately titled "The Epiphany,"  in the forward to my novel, The Great Ship of Knowledge. You can read it online for free by following this link; http://www.thegreatshipofknowledge.com/content.aspx?page=Front%20Matter

I also believe this deja vu phenomenon might be the result of our minds inhabiting a virtual copy of the actual world. That belief is one I just wrote an essay about titled "Making Virtual Sense of the World" for my composition class. If you would like to read it, I have it posted at the bottom of this web page; http://www.thegreatshipofknowledge.com/content.aspx?page=blog

Sci-fi regards, William

Just wondering, has anyone ever experienced repeated deja vu while with the same person? I've never had deja vu so often, until I met this person. I can't even explain...so weird.