Haven't I written this entry before?

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I've always felt that a sense of déjà vu means that my life is on the right track. The stronger the sense, the closer I am to where I'm supposed to be. It's a bit of a romantic notion, really. (Also probably rather self-serving, but that's a discussion for a different day.)

From a scientific perspective, déjà vu is apparently caused the brain skipping a little, rather like a scratched record. If I'm recalling correctly, sometimes the electrical impulses in one's mind are duplicated in rapid succession, so the feeling of having experienced something before is accurate, inasmuch as your mind is processing everything twice for a fraction of a second. Some people are genetically predispositioned to having these "skips", hence why some people experience déjà vu far more than others.

But I'd much rather believe it means things are going the way they should. I know my brain "skips" more often when I'm stressed, and it's comforting. It could even be an evolutionary advantage, in that it gives me an organic method of lowering stress. Unfortunately, I can't talk myself out of the science, and so the comforting nature is no longer with me.

Sometimes I wonder if scientific progress will kill the imagination.