Truth or Speculation?

So I did a little interview. It was to a future psychologist named Ernesto. We talked about why déjà vu occurred and his answer was, "I think it’s all in your mind, you see something and you can’t forget about it, so later on if you see something remotely similar you feel a sense of déjà vu because the event, indeed, has occurred to you before" (Mejia). This is one of the things I had already researched before and so it made sense that he thought the same way. He went on to elaborate that if the event hadn't occurred then there wouldn't really be a sense of déjà vu or so that was his opinion. I also ended up having him ask his grandmother a few questions for the purpose of finding out if age actually had to do with how much you experienced déjà vu. He then explained that she’s 62 and said she has experienced déjà vu in the past, but not in a while. She said she couldn’t really remember when was the last time she had the experience. This helped me prove that Lewis' ideas were correct and memory did affect the recurrence of déjà vu. As you get older your memory gets a bit more foggy so that begins to affect it and in the long run you may end up not having the experience at all. This can be very unlikely, but there have been times it has occurred.

Jordan Gaines Lewis, Ph.D. “Why Do Some of Us Get Déjà vu More Often Than Others?”

VVVVPsychology Today, Sussex Publishers, 13 October 2015,

VVVVhttps://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/brain-babble/201510/why-do-some-us-get-d-j-VVVVvu-more-often-others. Accessed 17 September 2017.

Mejia, Ernesto A. Personal interview. 27 September 2017.