Deja Vu and Remote Viewing

Joseph McMoneagle, possibly the most well-known remote viewer, has an interesting theory about how precognition works.  In his book Mind Trek he proposes that a person who exhibits this type of psychic ability is actually receiving information from their future self, at the point in time where the future self becomes aware of an event, or a correct answer.  In other words, if someone were doing a remote viewing session and successfully describes a target, it is because at some point in the future, they will know what the target is, and indirectly send that information back to their past self.  

This is a simplified description of McMoneagle’s idea; he describes it further in the context of the collective subconscious, which would address questions like “If that’s true, then how can someone predict something beyond their physical lifespan” or “What if the person being tested is never told the correct answer”.  

It’s quite a good way of explaining the mechanism not only behind remote viewing, but also the more spontaneous deja vu.  However, I would like to propose an alternate explanation for deja vu, just speaking as someone with no training in neurology or cognitive sciences.  It revolves around the idea that parts of our minds may operate at different speeds.   Typically, one would think that all areas of the mind would be closely synchronized in terms of timing.  However, what if one part of your mind perceived some events at a slightly different pace than the rest of your mind?  A thought process could be delayed by a second or so, for whatever reason, maybe a glitch in the mental software.  

Example: you experience some new event, such as having a conversation about an obscure topic with someone for the first time.  Most of your mind is processing this conversation in real-time, and as each segment of dialogue progresses it’s filed into the category of “memory”, something that’s happened in the past.  But let’s say one part of your mind is slightly delayed.  As it’s catching up, it starts to perceive the parts of the conversation that have already passed by, but this part of your mind experiences the events as “new”.  This leads to the funny feeling of “remembering” a new event as its unfolding, because the rest of your mind considers it to me something in the past.

I don’t know if there’s any proof that all parts of your mind experience time in the same way.  Otherwise, this seems like a reasonable explanation for why deja vu occurs.  

If you’d like to learn more about Joseph McMoneagle and remote viewing in general here is his Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McMoneagle

Written by Parker on November 30th, 2006 with comments disabled.
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