Recollection

We all remember a time where we stared at something and it just felt eerily familiar. Almost as if you've been in the exact same position before. It's a tingling experience that science itself can't explain.

I've seen it happen though. I stood behind my friend as she danced in the bar in a drunken state, I watched as a transluscent smirking figure posessed her for a moment, only to float away seconds later. I couldn't find it in me to tell her what I saw. I simply chalked it down to the alcohol getting to my head. Maybe it was just floating dust.

But it wasn't. Long after we left the bar, I saw the image over and over again. Ghosts just entering humans for seconds at a time, floating away nonchalantly like nothhing ever happened. One thing I noticed is that the person would always claim to experience some kind of deja vu. I had my suspicions, but that just couldn't be possible, right?

I didn't believe it until it happened to me. I was in an airplane bathroom, just looking at my reflection. I saw the figure enter from behind, but instead of being afraid, I felt a wave of calm rush through me. This has happened before. Everything about the aircraft began to feel familiar - the walls, the windows, even the carpets. It was the textbook definition of deja vu. Yet I knew it couldn't be possible, this was the first time I boarded an aircraft.

"Who are you?" I whispered in my head.

"I am the captain," a hoarse voice whispered back. "I was the captain, before they replaced me. I spent my last moments in this very aircraft. This is my home."

Then he disappeared.

I couldn't relax the whole trip. It was hard to wrap your head around these kinds of things. deja vu isn't just a product of our own brains, or even the things we saw in another life, it was ghosts entering our bodies so they could experience things from a human point of view once again. And I don't know if that saddens me or terrifies me. I never told a single soul after that, not even when my friends mentioned it, not even when it happened again.