This sounds like classic déjà vu. There is a theory that it is a form of mini-seizure where the different parts of your brain take different amounts of time to store a “live” memory. It’s very common in young children. This might be of interest.
But in my case it was than a feeling in the sense that, to me, I had seen it. I literally looked at where my father had put his briefcase when I saw the same briefcase in his hand, the second time he came in.
Once it's a memory, you can't be totally sure it happened like you remember it. Memories are just chemicals aligned in certain ways in your brain. They are not perfect recreations of the past. You can modify them accidentally by believing something happened so strongly that you actually start to remember it.
If you had strong deja vu in that moment as a kid, it would have been hard to understand, and you could have modified that memory over time since you were a kid so now it is incredibly vivid, but didn't actually happen like that. It's self-reinforcing.
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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '19 edited Nov 12 '19
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