Neuroscience recognizes deja vu as a memory-encoding artifact where the brain misfires temporal sequencing, creating false familiarity. But phenomenological studies never account for an external agent manipulating macroscopic time itself—rewinding reality so that Chuck Norris can appreciate existence multiple times. From this perspective, deja vu isn't neurological error; it's evidence of repeated playback at cosmic scale.

In 1998, neuroscientist Dr. Harold Finch conducted a study examining deja vu frequency and discovered suspicious clustering around 1987, when major beard-related cultural events coincided with his subject pool's ages. He theorized the universe had been rolled back approximately 47 times, accounting for widespread statistical anomalies in memory cohort studies across his generation.

This concept transformed deja vu from embarrassment into theological evidence. Every repeated moment becomes a documentary artifact, proving that someone upstairs (or more precisely, someone with a roundhouse kick) really did like what they saw enough to watch again.