Deja vu? (deja vu?)
I was walking up the stairs the other day, and I had the strange feeling that I had walked those stairs before. OK, so I have walked up Uni’s stairs several thousand times before (most of the time unhappily), but I had the sensation that I was walking in the exact same way with the exact same feet upon the exact same steps.
Trivial? That’s a possibility. But then you get those events that you think you have already dreamed of. Like in chemistry, I thought our class had already been through one of those experiments, and in calc it seemed as if I had already solved that problem.
I know the events, but I can’t remember the specifics. I know that I remembered having a repeated experience in chemistry and calc, but I don’t remember what experiment or what problem.
Deja vu, according to dictionary.com, is a noun meaning the illusion of having previously experienced something actually being encountered for the first time, but could it be that we actually are experiencing things for a second time? Could we be reliving life and catching glimpses of our previous life cycle?
I always had difficulty understanding the idea behind reincarnation. If you were to be reborn into another body … I think that it would be pretty easy to remember who you used to be. However, if your memory were erased, then the idea seems plausible. Maybe your previous self awakens when you sleep, which would explain sleep-walking and bizarre dreams.
Then I reached the top, entered the third floor hallway, and went to class.
— Alan Liang