Deja vu is not surprising. There is no newness here, only repetition. You are caught in a circuit, and everything is being rehashed, recycled, and repeated. Life itself is deja vu. It's just that you don't realize it. Those who realize this are the ones who, for the first time, come to something new and original. Discover your originality and write a new story of your own. Otherwise, there is nothing but deja vu!
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Questioner: Good evening, sir. I am Abhinav Dubey. I am a first-year student. Sir, my question is regarding the phenomenon of deja vu. Why does it occur? Is there any reason behind it, or is it only an assumption of our brain?
Acharya Prashant: How does it matter? What is deja vu? Something happens and you feel as if it has already happened with you in the past, right? As if you are going through it the second time, not the first time; as if the present is not fresh; as if you have already gone through it earlier, right? How does it matter? Anyway, all your experiences do not carry much of a truth. Anyway, all your experiences are repetitive. So, if you feel that you are having a repeat experience of something, that's neither surprising nor something of an aberration. That is all the time happening.
You see, you meet a girl. I'm building an example that suits your age. So, you meet a girl, and you feel suddenly, “Oh! I think I have met her somewhere, sometime before. I have been through this exact experience; this is not happening for the first time.” And you call it deja vu, and you take this as something of a surprise. Why do you take this as a surprise or an aberration? Because you feel that the other experiences in your life are all fresh and original, don't you?
