EngineeredTheology

There have been times in my life that I have had a strong sense of deja vu (literally meaning “already seen” – living in France has some benefits). In the last few years the feeling has come in pairs. The strange thing is that when I feel that I’ve already done something like this before, I remember the first time I did it (and had the feeling that I had done this before). This would mean that my first feeling of deja vu was not that I already had seen this, but that I would see this again.

The latest was on Friday. I was sitting at my desk reviewing some prints at my desk and had a strong sense of deja vu. After a quick second I remembered a few months ago, sitting at my desk and having a strong sense of deja vu (looking at similar prints in a similar manner, looking for a similar thing). Admittedly, none of this provided me any answers, direction, or insight (cancer was not cured, no one was saved from impending doom, and it actually took me longer to do the job because I was now distracted).

The question this brings up is the relationship between memory and time. String theorists predict that there are multiple dimensions in the current reality that are currently undiscovered (10+). An expansion of the time dimension would disrupt our basic ideas of “future” and “past”, and would allow strange things (as allowing us to remember things that have not happened).

Since this type of future telling that I think I have experienced has not provided any benefit once soever, it is difficult to see it as anything but a temporal anomaly. The possibility that such an anomaly could exist must then expand my ideas of what is and is not possible in this world.