Deja vu, as stated by Gobinui, is indeed a "brain fart," not a supernatural event. It is caused by misaligned neurochemical sequences in the brain and has indeed been studied at length by neuroscientists, neuropsychiatrists, and neurologists. Some think this it is caused by a miscommunication between right and left brain function. It is because your sensory input is causing you to feel as if your remember something before the sensory recognition kicks in that it is happening. It is not about reality or time--it is about neurochemical sequences that allow you to perceive reality and time.
This in fact says A LOT about "REALITY" and the provisional and slippery nature of human perception of Reality. We do not experience reality as it (and we do not experience the past or future as it is), we experience our mental projections and sensorial wiring about it.
Children very often have frequent and prolonged bouts of deja vu --I did myself and also had many more vivid instances of precognition and clairvoyance as a child (although i can increase episodes of clairvoyance if I spend long amounts of time in meditation practice), but although events like precognition seem to happen in the context of deja vu, I think true episodes of it are only tangentially related.
Prolonged episodes of deja vu in which there is a sense of extreme wondermernt, disorientation or anxiety are actually related to seizure episodes. People think of seizure episodes as a grave illness called epilepsy. Although epilepsy is a condition for some people (that has many different symptom variations), healthy, ordinary people do have inexplicable brain glitches now and and then and these types of episodes are very common in children. Some seizure episodes can have a mystical quality, depending on the part of the brain being affected.
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Leaving aside those principles of magic that play on the superstitious and that, whatever they be, are unworthy of the general public, we will direct our thoughts only to those things that contribute to wisdom and that can satisfy better minds . . . -from De Magia by Giordano Bruno (born 1548; burned at the stake February 16, 1600). My Webpage
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