The mind is something like our connection with the external world. What we know as reality is perceived, transformed and sometimes altered by consciousness. One of the most basic ways this happens is déjà vu, but there is another, creepier version of the feeling of having experienced something and it is called déjà rêvé.
What is déjà rêvé?
If we go to the simple translation, déjà rêvé means “already dreamed.” This experience applies to both a memory and a scene or feeling that you have experienced while dreaming. Exactly: déjà rêvé occurs while you are passing through the dream world.
While it is unsettling to experience strangers, now add the factor of dreaming repeatedly. This concept itself is not fully understood. It had previously been proposed as an old-fashioned and unimportant prophecy.
There are parapsychological explanations for these phenomena, and they are usually associated with clairvoyance or other mystical abilities worthy of great prophets. But although these explanations stimulate our fantasy and we love them, the truth is that déjà vu and déjà rêvé have scientific explanations that ensure that they are mental processes in which the brain has problems accessing the memory of a previous experience.
In short, déjà rêvé is a new experience that can take you back to a past experience, but since your brain cannot remember it specifically, it returns to it again and again. Although this can be experienced in three different ways:
Like the collection of a specific (episodic).
Like the reminiscence of a vague (familiar) dream.
As if you were in a dream, while awake (dream state).
So what is the difference between both?
The element that differentiates these two experiences of time and memory is that déjà vu (translated as “already seen”) refers to something that we experienced, that is, it has not happened even in dreams. While déjà rêvé may happen in your dreams before it happens in reality.
What seems to be a fact is that dreams have an enormous weight in what we call wakefulness: not only are they loaded with symbolism (which so fascinated the psychological discipline, since for it dreams were the language of the unconscious), but their functioning could even have to do with the needs of our body when we are active.
Both are, without a doubt, experiences that throw our sense of time and space out of control. To a large extent, they tend to make us believe that we are time-traveling beings, but if we go a little beyond dream experiences and the spiritual sense, science explains it more clearly. And you, have you already had déjà rêvé or déjà vu?