Hi All;) What is 'deja vu' exactly, and what explanations are out there?) ...See details:)?

Question

.................that account..for why people are experience..it??? ...
Thanks,for answering in advance!:)) ..

Answer 1

I always heard that deja vu occurs from a mis-firing of the brain. Instead of what is currently happening going to your short term memory and then to your long term memory, the reverse happens. This is why you think of the event of a memory, or of already having happened. I don't have a source for this, it just makes sense to me.

Answer 2

Let me try to explain this in a manner you will understand without a lengthy repose.Deja vu or memory recall is a naturally occuring state where our perceptions get a bit hazy.
What some poeple experience is a sense of disorientation, like they have experienced a certain situation before or perhaps a conversation where all of the words are the same.
Whats really happening is constantly under debate by many authorities.Some say that this is an experience that you did not correctly complete and therefore must rectify.
Some other scholars believe just the opposite and they say that you completed the experience correctly and deja vu is a reminder of this.
Ipersonally believe that while we sleep our brains do alot more than rest.Perhaps it is possible to see the future and what you are experiencing is exactly that,your future.
Try this next time you have that feeling...stop what you are doing and start something else.You never know maybe better opportunities can come your way and you might could change your own destiny....Well hope this helps..cuz noone really knows what deja vu is ..its just a word that means we don't know.

Answer 3

Honestly there's nothing spooky or creepy about it. It all just comes down to laws of probability. In a life span averaging around 80 years there can only be so many different types of experiences we could live through. So eventually anyone will live through an experience, either spectacular or mundane, that is similar to an experience they have live earlier in life. This will trigger of normal vague memories of the event and one will feel that the event has happened before when in actual fact it was just an experience that was very similar.

My experiences are usually the more mundane ones. ie: I might be sitting at the table eating breakfast reading the newspaper having a conversation with someone about something in the paper. Then I'll get that deja vu feeling. But really, I've probably lived that type of scenario several times in my life already so it's not that unusual.

Answer 4

i experience "deja vu" randomly. All the sudden, I'll feel like I've done what I'm doing before. It took me a while to figure out why then it hit me that it was happening in my dreams. It's nothing important. I had a dream when I started my job that I was walking a weird path to do something I don't normally do and on the way, a friend of mine asked me a question that didn't make sense during the dream. Then about 2 months later, it happened exactly as it had in my dream. I've had it happen several times.

Answer 5

Deja vu is the feeling of having experience something previously, even though it is the first time that it has been experience. While deja vu may seem simple, explaining why this occurs is very difficult. A possible explanation is that parts of the situation you are in make you unconsciously recall an earlier experience, resulting in a strange sense of familiarity.

Answer 6

Deja vu is French for "already seen", and refers to the phenomenon of experiencing something and having the strong sensation that the exact same thing has already happened before.

The best scientific explanation I have read for why it happens is that the brain momentarily "stutters" as it is taking in sensory data, and that brief stutter causes us to perceive the experience as if we have experienced it before. The reason deja vu seems so eerie is that we perceive it as two separate occurrences that are exactly the same. Actually, it is only one occurrence, but our brain fools us into thinking it is two occurrences separated by time. One of the hallmarks of deja vu is that, while we are certain we have experienced that brief snippet of time before, we are unable to say exactly when or where. It does not have the other markers of a real memory, such as being able to tie it to a place or an occasion, because it is not a real memory. It is just a blip in the brain while we are taking in sensory data.

Answer 7

the term déjà vu is French and means, literally, "already seen." Those who have experienced the feeling describe it as an overwhelming sense of familiarity with something that shouldn't be familiar at all. Say, for example, you are traveling to England for the first time. You are touring a cathedral, and suddenly it seems as if you have been in that very spot before. Or maybe you are having dinner with a group of friends, discussing some current political topic, and you have since déjà vu occurs in individuals with and without a medical condition, there is much speculation as to how and why this phenomenon happens. Several psychoanalysts attribute déjà vu to simple fantasy or wish fulfillment, while some psychiatrists ascribe it to a mismatching in the brain that causes the brain to mistake the present for the past. Many parapsychologists believe it is related to a past-life experience. Obviously, there is more investigation to be done. e feeling that you've already experienced this very thing -- same friends, same dinner, same topic.

Answer 8

Psychology. The illusion of having already experienced something actually being experienced for the first time.

An impression of having seen or experienced something before: Old-timers watched the stock-market crash with a distinct sense of déjà vu.
Dull familiarity; monotony: the déjà vu of the tabloid headlines.
The term déjà vu (French: "already experienced", also called paramnesia) describes the experience of feeling that one has witnessed or experienced a new situation previously. The term was created by a French psychic researcher, Emile Boirac (1851–1917) in his book L'Avenir des sciences psychiques (The Future of Psychic Sciences), which expanded upon an essay he wrote while an undergraduate French concentrator at the University of Chicago. The experience of déjà vu is usually accompanied by a compelling sense of familiarity, and also a sense of "eerieness" or "strangeness" or "weirdness". The "previous" experience is most frequently attributed to a dream, although in some cases there is a firm sense that the experience "genuinely happened" in the past.

The experience of déjà vu seems to be very common; in formal studies 70% or more of the population report having experienced it at least once. References to the experience of déjà vu are also found in literature of the past, indicating it is not a new phenomenon. However, in laboratory settings, it is extremely difficult to invoke the déjà vu experience, making it a subject with few empirical studies.

Answer 9

Another point of view is..(and this is not mine) that when a person has a deja vu it means they had a 'reminder' of a past life..
You know like you past by a certain place or said something that seemed really familiar. Well they say they it did actually happen, but in a past life..
It goes along w/the reincarnation of a soul belief...

Answer 10

It's the feeling that you have been somewhere or experienced something before. No one knows why maybe a forgotten memory or past life experience. But someone once said to me, if we inherit our parents hair, eyes, skin and even personalities why not memories. Can we genetically inherit a memory of our great great great grandmother for example, hidden somewhere in our subconscious only to be reminded by deja vu.