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I had a thought about what déjà vu might be.

Physicists believe that there are alternate realities all around us. Part of this theory is that every instant our universe splits into an infinite number of alternate universes. Some have extrapolated on this idea, proposing that universes close to our own would be much like ours, and those not so close would be much different.

What if our spirit or souls or energy shifts universes from time to time?

My house key fits in my door upside down – or right side up, depending on its mood. Everyday no matter which way I try it in the door it is wrong. If I put my key in the door today right side up, and tell myself its right side up, then tomorrow it will be too. What if tomorrow when I come home from work I jump, or shift universes. In the universe I was in, my key went one way, and in this new universe, it goes the other.

In this universe the key goes in upside down. If I had written down the direction yesterday or this morning, my note would clearly say upside down right now. If I research the lock maker there would be a definite reason why the key goes in the way it does, complete with a history of how long it has been this way.

This doesn’t change the fact that somehow, in some way, I know it was the other way. So this is my theory – as we jump for one universe to the next, we bring with us an imprint of the way things were. Just a tiny remembrance of what we just experienced. But once we realize it, or try to grasp the difference, it slips away as we settle into our current surroundings.

Our soul remembers, even if our brain and our memories have always been here, in this universe.

Déjà vu is the overlap of these universe shifts. As we make the jump from where we were to where we are, our record skips – just for a second.