Recursion by Blake Crouch | Book review

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I love reading books that are about time, memory and consciousness. I became a fan of Blake Crouch after reading his book Dark Matter last year. I knew I had to read this one too. I read this last month and he blew my mind for the second time. I'm still on recovery mode 😄⁣⁣ ⁣
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In Recursion by Blake Crouch, there is a 'False Memory Syndrome' epidemic fast spreading and this is causing people to commit suicide. People are getting flashbacks of memories that do not belong to them, but they strongly feel like they have lived those memories giving them deja vu moments but of the worst kind.⁣⁣
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What is causing this epidemic? An invention of 'The Memory Chair' allows people to travel back in time and change memory to change reality, but not without a repercussion. When a memory is changed in the past to change a reality, the memory of the past reality comes back in the form of false memory. In the new reality, every other person connected in some way or the other with the person whose memory is changed gets FMS. This brings forth conflicting memories causing psychological distress often resulting in people committing suicides.
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In the story, detective Barry Sutton used the chair to go back to a timeline where his daughter died in a hit-and-run accident, and changed the memory so that he can save her, but only ended up perpetuating her sufferings. She survives the accident but she now has false memory of her own death. Now that she is alive, the memory of her death becomes a false memory. (confusing? I know😄) Unable to come to term with her conflicting memories, she commits suicide. And this phenomenon is happening around the world. The side effect of altering reality. ( I know it's crazy. Thankfully it's only fiction 😄 ) Long story short. Eventually they got rid of the memory chair and save the world from apocalyptical chaos 😃⁣⁣⁣
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Question: Have you experienced deja vu? Why is there a sense of certainty that you're experiencing a moment for the second time, when infact it's happening for the first time? Is dejavu and FMS related? Is it a psychological condition? Any neuroscience experts or psychologists?

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