Then what is Deja Vu?? Has anyone known they had seen a "scene" play out before them before it has?

Answer 1

Deja Vu is, basically, a mistake in perception.
The same thing stands for the opposite phenomena, Jamais Vu (when something that had already been expirienced the one treats like something absolutely new).
I had Jamais Vu expirience :)

Answer 2

When I was a child, I had a nightmare that a man with white hair and pink eyes (an albino) had grabbed me and dragged me through the house to kidnap and kill me. Two weeks later, I saw that exact man from my dream in the Goldie Hawn/Chevy Chase movie called "Foul Play".

Ever since then, I have dreamed things and weeks later I will see things and it is like "wow, I have seen this before" so much so that like if it is a dream about driving, I will know exactly what the person next to me in my car will say and I will say it right as they say it.

So I believe in Deja Vu, however so far, all of my Deja Vu's have been harmless and they do not turn out bad like in the dreams.

Answer 3

Deja vu occurs for a simple reason: synapses misfire in your brain, causing you to perceive an event twice...once from one eye and ear, then a split second later from the other eye and ear. The effect rarely lasts longer than a second or two, then your brain pulls itself back into time. A very strange yet common occurrence. Deja vu has nothing to do with dreams...that would fall under the category of precognition.

Answer 4

Deja Vu is something that people have when they project their minds while asleep into the future and they see an event or object or person, This is allways forgotten when the person wakes up untill the moment of time you saw happens and the sub-concious mind recalls it happening giving the feeling of Deja Vu.

Answer 5

The term déjà vu (French: "already seen", 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, Émile 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," "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.

Scientific research
In recent years, déjà vu has been subjected to serious psychological and neurophysiological research. The most likely candidate for explanation, according to scientists in these fields, is that déjà vu is not an act of "precognition" or "prophecy" but is actually an anomaly of memory; it is the impression that an experience is "being recalled" which is false. This is substantiated to an extent by the fact that in most cases the sense of "recollection" at the time is strong, but any circumstances of the "previous" experience (when, where and how the earlier experience occurred) are quite uncertain. Likewise, as time passes, subjects can exhibit a strong recollection of having the "unsettling" experience of déjà vu itself, but little to no recollection of the specifics of the event(s) or circumstances they were "remembering" when they had the déjà vu experience, and in particular, this may result from an overlap between the neurological systems responsible for short-term memory (events which are perceived as being in the present) and those responsible for long-term memory (events which are perceived as being in the past).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0_vu#Scientific_research

Answer 6

I had a dream one night when I was a child that my brother and sister-in-law had asked me if I wanted to go to a store with them. While I was at the store I tried to get a basket ball off of the shelf but I could only touch it with my finger tips because the shelf was too high. The ball ended up falling and hitting me in the right in the face. The next morning when I woke up those exact events took place, except I didn't make the connection until later on. It blew my mind.

Answer 7

it happened to me many times - been there done that - some say that this deja vu is something like a memory of a past life - i don't know what to think,i mean,i believe in reencarnations but did i rencarnate in the same place as did now?

Answer 8

yes!!! it sometimes get's annoying,scary,sudden, feeling. But somehow that's life. I had that over 2 years. Deja vu happens to most people.

Answer 9

It's just an event that has occurred in a past life that happens again in this life and it feels so real, so new but old at the same time because it has already happened to you. So you know what to expect or what to change if you need too, in order to have a better outcome.

Answer 10

I have had dreams like that since I was a small child. I can usually tell when a dream will really happen and when a dream is just a dream too. Too bad I can't dream the powerball numbers.