Almost all of us have experienced déjà vu.

The translation being “already seen”. That fleeting moment of walking into a room and knowing you have been there before. A moment of absolute certainty of having experienced that situation previously. A certainty which in that same instant remains tantalisingly just beyond our grasp. In fact, déjà vu is such a common experience as to have become almost mundane.

So what is Déjà vu? And why does it occur?

As ever, our scientific friends have come up with a simple solution and dismissed the experience with a logical explanation. To their eyes déjà vu represents “A mismatching in the brain that causes the brain to mistake the present for the past.”

How simplistic and unimaginative is that? If that were the case, then a whole lot of brains would be doing a whole lot of mismatching over a whole lot of years. Don’t you think the brain would have sorted the problem out by now? We’ve already had sufficient millennia to grow ears and eyes. But not sufficient time to correct a brain mismatch? It’s not very likely. Not very likely at all.

Instead, why don’t we consider déjà vu in a different way, building on some of the ideas we’ve already previously accepted. Expanding on from those conclusions, isn’t it far more likely that instead of some cranial glitch, we are in fact experiencing a crack in the fabric of time?

The time loops which we have already agreed upon, are unlikely to be perfect in form or function. As with anything else in existence there will certainly be anomalies. So, with déjà vu could we simply be experiencing a brief merging of our loop with a loop other than our own? We are getting the impression of something having happened before, for the simple reason that it has happened before. Except it has taken place within another separate circuit of time. What we are experiencing, is an anomaly in times flow.

Seems like a much better fit.

To my mind, déjà vu is almost screaming evidence of the existence of the time loops we previously discussed.

So as always, following on from that, the next the question becomes, how can we take advantage of that momentary breakdown in the fabric of time. In however marginal a way. Because as ever, once that fractional connection has been made, it will one day be leveraged to the max.

For example, to take advantage of this phenomena, what we would need to do is expand the gap between déjà vu and the actual event. That is, currently we experience déjà vu simultaneous to the event occurring. (You feel you have walked down the road before, as you are walking down the road). What we need is a method of knowing we have walked down the road before, prior to walking down the road. We need to expand the simultaneous experience of déjà vu into two separate events, then spread those two events further apart.

Can that be done? Even fractionally?

Let me run an alternate hypothesis past you. Previously we have accepted that other universes exist, likely right in front of our eyes. Might it be possible that déjà vu is a link with one of those other universes? That déjà vu is just a momentary leakage from one time loop to the next.

A leakage where universes rub together for example. We have already agreed that alternate universes will be exchanging matter, so why shouldn’t they also be exchanging time? Einstein already tells us that space and time are the same thing.

Which brings me to my point. Are those invisible separate time loops actually those similarly invisible alternate universes? Are time loops and alternate universes one and the same thing?

What makes that idea initially difficult is that time loops by definition have to be a repeat of what is going on, with the same thing happening again and again. But having infinite alternate universes means you obviously get an infinite number of variants of possible existences. And among those infinite variants, because they are infinite, somewhere you will find universes which are our time loops. It has to be so.

Then think about it. Doesn’t it seem likely that any parallel universes repeating similar time loops would be more adjacent to each other than universes which work in a completely contrary way. Those ones where people stand upside down and walk backwards. Aren’t those fractionally different universes likely to be right next to us right next to us? Right in front of our eyes?

To summarise, Deja Vu is likely to be a simple glitch between the merging time loops of parrallel universes. What we need to try now, is to exploit that.

Perhaps that exchange of matter/time between universe is more common than we had previously imagined. Instead of a universe being solid with occasional holes caused by rubbing points, maybe they are more like sieves. Maybe they are mists running through and in and out of each other. Almost completely ephemeral.

Ephemeral would help with a lot of issues. If we stop seeing things as solid a whole lot of possibilities open up. And lets face it, we know universes aren’t solid. Nothing is solid. Universes are made up of atoms which themselves are full of clouds of electrons.