Two months ago (approximately), me n my good friend vikram were sitting on the steps of DEVIKERE pond on top of chamundi hills. The dude was leaving the country in a couple of weeks, so we both were simply trying to simply sit, talk n exchange ideas, saying goodbyes n stuff etc etc. We both have a same wavelength of thinking, so i knew i was going to miss our wacky thoughts, discussions and conclusions about every freaking thing around ... ( he's presently goofing off in Florida right now!). And being the morons that we are, of all the things in the world, we ended up talking about time-line continuum and dejavus....
It was very windy that day, causing small surface waves on the top of the pond. it was fun seeing the algae on top move with the waves.. We both physics buffs couldn keep quiet, so we started taking small pebbles and throwing them into the waves to see how it would turn out, what we observed was this, the waves were as they were, but there were ripples forming too, on the waves. and these small ripples started spreading over the entire surface of the pond .. and where two ripples met, it was nice to see them cancelling out each other. Watching that scene got me started on talking about chaos theory, universe etc etc
Eventually, we started talking bout dejavus... (u know, that feeling that somehow u have been in the same situation before...) ( like meeting some random person for the first time and feeling that somehow u have already met that person in the past!). our thoughts then turned to time travel and we ended up discussing that in length a bit.... thats when i got an inkling of an idea that i am going to share with now..
This is a bit doozy, so keep your concentration. OK, here goes, i bet everyone in their life has had that strange feeling of a memory or an experience or a scenario of a present event feeling as if they have already been in that situation.. like going into the class on a random day to suddenly feel in your brain that u had done the exact same thing and seen the exact same scene n felt the exact same way sometime before. but, it is impossible for that to have happened before because whatever u r going through is happening now, and there is no chance of it happening in the past. THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT IS CALLED IN COMMON LANGUAGE AS dejavu!- the feeling that you have had the same feeling before!
so how do u explain this?
this is what i've come up with.... how do u remember a memory? u remember it in a million different ways, but always, when u recall it, u get a glimpse of that memory, in and whatever extent you want. in other words, u are picking up that particular instance from a huge database of your past instances or experiences. so our brain analogically opens up this huge file holder, flips through the different files, picks up the necessary one and displays it to our inner eye , or imagination or perception or whatever, and once we have used that file, puts it back and stores it away.
now, the conscious part of our brain has access to all these past events because, the conscious part has been through all those things. therefore it has access only to those things. thats why, only when you are perfectly awake, sane and not hight, u can remember and recall memories perfectly.
note that, at the same time, our sub-conscious part of the brain is always active. its the one which has direct access to the conscious part, but the transaction is not possible the other way around.
whenever we are sleeping, the sub-conscious part of our brain is active.
and this is my explanation of dejavus:
The human brain has access to all the memories of the past and the "memories" of the future. only thing is, that it has only access to the past because thats the only part the conscious brain remembers. however, the subconscious which is not under the control of the conscious brain, does have. sad part is that we can never voluntarily access these forbidden memories as they are under lock and key of the sub-conscious brain. this subconscious part of our brain has already seen and perceived these memories of the future. which is exactly why we sometimes get premonitions, good feelings and bad feelings about things which are yet to occur. the precise reason why you have dejavus. you feel that u hav been there before coz ur subconscious has already been there. and when your conscious part of the brain realizes that, u have a dejavu....
The human brain is a wonderful thing. its possibilities are limitless. the only problem is that everyone tries to run the thought process in thier own way. causing clashes between the free running subconscious and the in-control conscious and in this process, many of our wonderful extraordinary abilities are lost. why do u think ppl who do meditation, tapasya etc have such a clear perception and have such a right idea about the future? its coz thier brain is clear. there are no clashes b/w the conscious and the subconscious!
so, to let your brain work at its best and go beyond, let your conscious and subconscious work in tandem. which u can do by trusting yourself more and following your impulses!!!
anyway, thats enough for today...
and vikram , dude, seriously wish you were here! anyway, enjoy in florida, do something insanely awesome and make us proud!!! hope to see you soon in a couple of years!
take care you all senior blokes who are away in all your jobs or masters or whatever :)
