00:00Same furniture, same people, same half-eaten muffin on the counter, but you've never been here before.
00:06The sensation you just experienced is déjà vu. That's French for already seen.
00:11There are some creative theories as to why this happens.
00:14One is that we're living in a simulation and the matrix just glitched.
00:19Another has to do with parallel dimensions, and spiritualists believe that déjà vu is proof of a past life.
00:25Yes, I totally visited this Starbucks back in 1793.
00:30But the most plausible theory is this.
00:32When you experience something for the first time, it's handled by your right-now system,
00:37and it's being stored in your memory so you can recall it later.
00:40But sometimes the right-now part of your brain files it away before you're even done with it.
00:45So it's like your brain hitting save as before you even write the document?
00:49Yeah, exactly.
00:51The Always Wondered Podcast.
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