Déjà-vu

30/12/2022 Nilson Lattari

Déjà-vu occurs when our memories fail. A kind of illusion that tricks us and our minds travel in time, and we feel that we lived that experience that happened before. We already lived it in the past and relive it again in the present.
This issue forged ideas in a lot of movies because it’s a very interesting aspect of our humanity. This special fragility of human beings that our brains pose us.
When I heard this word, I figured out Déjà-vu and Saint Agostini’s thesis about God’s existence. His thesis, for me, is fascinating, however, it was supported by the Philosophy that dominated the Fourth Century, when Christianity started its first steps. Some groups who were living at that time were trying to understand that moment in History. Including Saint Agostini didn’t follow the religion from Rome yet. Later, he decided to convert to it, but he asked God a time to fit into the new belief, as he wrote in his book: Confessions.
Apart from Déjà-vu, I consider Déjà-vu an interesting aspect when I compare it to his thesis. In his book, Saint Agostini wondered about some situations in life. I confess that I have thought of them when I see around us, the world and people running and I conclude that there is something wrong. Humanity in your behaviour is completely wrong, and we can see that we aren’t happy, and we don’t feel well.
Well, as I said before, Philosophy, at that time, was based on the conception of the soul (we had not yet found the documents about Aristotle’s thoughts). Then, people in Europe had a life conception based on spirit.
Saint Agostini established a world divided into two parts. For example, oppositions and contrary terms: beautiful and ugly; clear and dark; noise and silence, and near and far. Then, the second of his ideas, we recognize the beauty because we know the ugly, clear because we know the dark and others. Our life experience says to us that we understand them because we know their contrary terms.
Saint Agostini concludes: We realize unhappiness in the world because we feel or we already lived in its contrary term, or a happy world. And we are able to make comparisons between the two experiences.
Due to this, we could conclude that we lived in a time of happiness or we already know another world where we lived this happiness. A friendly humanity without our problems.
His conclusion would be that this Déjà-vu, this failure of our memories, this illusion that we already lived this time before, then this time existed because we were next to God.
For me, a brilliant and fantastic thesis. Then, why not trust or believe in this particular Déjà-vu where, in fact, it may be the people’s remembrances of a world that we already lived?