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Dreams that can predict the future or make you feel like you all ready been there and done that

When you are out and about in your daily life and you have this weird feeling come across you and you have a feeling that you've been there and the situation seem way too familiar to you. This is call déjà vu is a French word for already seen. Have you also ever had the feeling that you know the outcome of an event before it happens, this is a Precognitive experiences are through dreams or visions that allows a person to think that they already knows the outcome of an event that's about to take place. Through time there have been many dreams that foretold certain events and created something or helped improve something. The study of déjà vu has not been significance until recently years much advancement about learning about déjà vu has taken place.

There are many famous dreams that have happened from predicting something that's going to happen or that created something that we all use or know of. One first famous dream is .

Paul McCartney finds the song "yesterday" in a dream

Otto Loewi dream lead to Nobel Prize because of his work on the chemical transmission of nerve impulses

Kekule- dreams of molecules and bezene structure

Madame C.J. Walker- took a dream and became the first female American self made millionaire.

Elias Howe- finished his invention of the sewing machine

Jack Nicklaus fixed his golf swing through his dreams

Abrahams Lincoln Dreamt of his assassination

Constantine

Mark Twain dreaming of his brother's death

Scientific information about déjà vu

There are two types of déjà vu Associative déjà vu and, Biological déjà vu.

The Study of déjà vu has been ignored by scientist in the past because of it's "association with a past life experiences and abductions" (how it works pg2) so finally scientists have put aside these association and started to see the déjà vu as a study of memory. They have discovered so far how temporal lobe is responsible for how memories are stored, retrieved, and formed. Within the temporal lobe is the" hippocampus (which) enables us to consciously recall events."(How it works pg2) Also inside the temporal lobe is "parahippocampal gyrus enables us to determine what's familiar and what inst and without actually retrieving a specific memory to do it"

Throughout experiment 60% of people have experienced déjà vu most of the people are between the ages of 15 and 25 it is said that déjà vu experiences decrease

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