I was chatting with someone earlier tonight. I was talking about something meaningless, a segue into insignificance. I watched another person's drink tip over through her un-remarkably grandiose gesticulating, and then I suddenly paused; I knew what was about to happen.
Usually, it's a trigger--someone says a specific thing, an object is moved, someone makes a mistake. After that moment, a clear revelation is accepted into your psyche. You suddenly become clairvoyant, you can see how the rest of the conversation will progress, or what the next two or three things destined to happen and how they will transpire.
So in a wild attempt to debunk that belief, you do everything you can to perform the opposite action, you avoid saying the one thing in your head that will concede to your sudden vision. After all, deja vu is only a strange thing in your head that can not only be avoided, but explained eventually by science.
Subsequently, your conversation begins to suck. It dies, if for no other reason than that it becomes suddenly uninteresting.
In summation, I propose that deja vu is not actually a moment of vision. Rather, it is actually a choice. When it happens, a future moment (whether artificially induced by time travel or naturally occurring in the brain) is made clear to your mind, and you are commanded to make a choice to follow the seen path or to intentionally deviate in order to create a life-changing (and possibly universally significant) decision.
This being said, I cannot wait to have a moment like this again. I will post my findings here.
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