Most of us have experienced déjà vu within the past year. It's generally described as seeing a small set of events unfold that you swear you've seen before. The events are usually insignificant, somewhat difficult to describe, and are very fleeting. It has been a long-standing belief that déjà vu is caused by a delay between the eyes and the brain - in other words, déjà vu hinges on being able to see.
Several years ago it was reported that the blind experience déjà vu as well: http://www.livescience.com/1160-blind-man-deja-vu-busting-myth.html
This effectively reset all previous research in déjà vu, causing it to start from scratch again. Quite literally years of research went out the door. What makes déjà vu interesting from a research point of view is that it's commonplace, but it's also very random. Researchers can't catch that moment when it happens. It makes one wonder that if the researchers themselves didn't experience déjà vu then they would probably label it as a minor psychotic episode.
Take that last sentence in for a moment. Real research on déjà vu exists solely because the researchers will experience it, too. The next time something amazing happens - that only you experience - don't write it off as something random or something that didn't happen. There are too many abilities that we have that no one fully understands.
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