What is déjà vu? Is it something your subconscious mind saw or heard, hidden in the recesses of our memory until something or someone stimulated the memory? Or is it something more?
Some believe it is memories of a past life, evidence of a reincarnated soul.
Some say it a similar event, forgotten and pushed away until a similar event, place or person enters out life and the memory is a trigger. But only enough to make us feel the connection. Instead of connecting the trigger to our similar memory we create a new one. Thinking we have been there, done that or met them before.
We can let our imagination go wild in determining what it really is and as a writer that is exactly what I did.
In my second book, The Promise, the main character learns of “memory inheritance”. She is told that just as eye and hair color are inherited from our ancestors so is our memory and knowledge. She learns that our brains were intended to be far more advanced than they are. No surprise there, we do know that we only use portions of our brain.
So, think about this. What if in the beginning we used the full capacity of our brain? That would answer questions such as to how the pyramids were built and how early Roman’s were known for their brilliant engineer’s and architects. What if they were using centuries of knowledge passed down from their ancestors? Think of all the possibilities.
This is just a writer’s mind but I like the idea. Have fun with the thought. Think of your ancestors, their life experiences and knowledge. How would you use those inherited memories to make the world a better place?
