
“But we don’t have any evidence for that yet. The idea so using wormholes to look at the past is pretty much accepted as a theory, nut the details are far too much for a film like this. “It could be that déjà vu experiences make people cautious, because they might not trust their memory as much,” he says. We still don’t know if déjà vu is beneficial, says Köhler. If they’re not making memory errors, there’s no trigger for déjà vu, he says. “Without being unkind, they don’t reflect on their memory systems,” he says.īut people who don’t experience déjà vu might just have better memory systems in the first place, says O’Connor. “It may be that the general checking system is in decline, that you’re less likely to spot memory mistakes,” says O’Connor.Ĭhristopher Moulin at Pierre Mendès-France University in Grenoble says the findings do not bode well for people who don’t experience déjà vu at all.

Among the authorities trying to sort out the crime scene is ATF agent Doug Carlin ( Denzel Washington ), whos particularly good at reading details.

This would fit with what we already know about the effects of age on memory – déjà vu is more common in younger people and trails off in old age, as memory deteriorates. A thriller with a science-fiction twist, DDJJ VU begins with a terrorist attack - a bomb explodes aboard a ferry carrying Navy sailors on leave. If these findings are confirmed, they suggest that déjà vu is a sign that your brain’s memory checking system is working well, and that you’re less likely to misremember events. “It suggests there may be some conflict resolution going on in the brain during déjà vu,” says Stefan Köhler at the University of Western Ontario in Canada. Plot: A ferry filled with crewmen from the USS Nimitz and their families was blown up in New Orleans on Mardi Gras.
