I always thought deja vu was just a brain hiccup until my kid said something weird

For years, I brushed off that 'been here before' feeling as just my mind glitching. Then last Tuesday, my 5 year old looked at the new park bench and said, 'We sat here before, and you had a blue shirt.' I was wearing a blue shirt, and we'd never been to that park. It wasn't just a feeling; she described a detail. That specific moment made me actually look into shared deja vu stories. Has anyone else had a glitch where someone else remembered the same 'false' memory?

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kelly3383d ago

My wife and I both got the same weird deja vu at a restaurant once. We just talked it out and realized our brains probably linked a similar smell to an old memory. It was still super creepy in the moment though.

matthew7033d agoMost Upvoted

Nah, that's way too simple of an answer. What if deja vu is actually a brief glitch where you catch a real memory from a parallel life? Your brains both picking up the same random smell link feels like a huge stretch. It's way weirder that it happened to both of you at the exact same time. That shared moment is the creepy part that science can't really explain away. I'd be more freaked out by the coincidence than comforted by the smell theory.