June 2005

Déjä-vus. We all have them every now and then.
Scientifically it hasn't been conclusively explained. There are many theories going around. From a "short cut" in the brain to a link to previous lives.
I'm quite open to any plausible explanation, but just recently I came up with one myself.
I believe in previous lives and next lives and reincarnation, but I also believe that this present life isn't the only one we're living. Ofcourse it's purely speculation, and I'll probably be declared completely off this planet, but I believe also that there's a possibility of alternate — parallel — worlds in which another version of me lives his version of my life.
I believe that we always have a choice, and that every choice we make has a different outcome of our life, eventually, and that in that parallel dimension the other version of me could make a different choice.

The other day I had such a strong feeling of déjä-vu, that I stopped in mid-air with what I was doing. I had a clear vision of what was going happen in the coming minute, and I kind of looked forward to the moment of what was "supposed to happen". When that didn't happen I started wondering how it could be so. The following idea occured to me.
Suppose that all parallel dimensions are linked. You live the exact same life until at some time point in one of the dimension you make a different choice, which causes your path of life to take a different turn in that particular dimension.
What I came to think of what a déjä-vu could be, is that you have a flash of a moment a view in the other dimension at the moment that the two paths split up, because you made a different choice in this or the other dimension.
I can't ofcourse say what would've been the difference in choice, but the déjä-vu that I saw could've been the continuance of the version of the life in the other dimension after I made the different choice. And in this dimension I continued with the life that I'm living while I'm typing this.

Plausible? Spooky? Who can tell?