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Do yooh know what the word, ''deja vu'' means?

Answer 1

it means when something repeats

Answer 2

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 the feeling that you've already experienced this very thing -- same friends, same dinner, same topic.

Answer 3

"Deja Vu" is French for "already lived." This phrase is usually said when a person has felt like they have "seen" or "done" something before, although they haven't experienced it. I get these all the time. It's a psychic phenomenon.

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Answer 4

Deja vu refers to a sense of having been in a situation before. It does not refer to actually having been in the situation before, as some have said.

Answer 5

Deja vu means a sense of experiencing a feeling or thought which you think you have already experiened it before where in reality you are experiencing it for the first time.

Answer 6

Déjà vu is French for "already seen." Déjà vu is an uncanny feeling or illusion of having already seen or experienced something that is being experienced for the first time. If we assume that the experience is actually of a remembered event, then déjà vu probably occurs because an original experience was neither fully attended to nor elaborately encoded in memory. If so, then it would seem most likely that the present situation triggers the recollection of a fragment from one's past. The experience may seem uncanny if the memory is so fragmented that no strong connections can be made between the fragment and other memories.

Thus, the feeling that one has been there before is often due to the fact that one has been there before. One has simply forgotten most of the original experience because one was not paying close attention the first time. The original experience may even have occurred only seconds or minutes earlier.

On the other hand, the déjà vu experience may be due to having seen pictures or heard vivid stories many years earlier. The experience may be part of the dim recollections of childhood.

However, it is possible that the déjà vu feeling is triggered by a neurochemical action in the brain that is not connected to any actual experience in the past. One feels strange and identifies the feeling with a memory, even though the experience is completely new.

The term was applied by Emile Boirac (1851-1917), who had strong interests in psychic phenomena. Boirac's term directs our attention to the past. However, a little reflection reveals that what is unique about déjà vu is not something from the past but something in the present, namely, the strange feeling one has. We often have experiences the novelty of which is unclear. In such cases we may have been led to ask such questions as, "Have I read this book before?" "Is this an episode of Inspector Morse I've seen before?" "This place looks familiar; have I been here before?" Yet, these experiences are not accompanied by an uncanny feeling. We may feel a bit confused, but the feeling associated with the déjà vu experience is not one of confusion; it is one of strangeness. There is nothing strange about not remembering whether you've read a book before, especially if you are fifty years old and have read thousands of books over your lifetime. In the déjà vu experience, however, we feel strange because we don't think we should feel familiar with the present perception. That sense of inappropriateness is not present when one is simply unclear whether one has read a book or seen a film before.

Thus, it is possible that the attempt to explain the déjà vu experience in terms of lost memory, past lives, clairvoyance, and so on may be completely misguided. We should be talking about the déjà vu feeling. That feeling may be caused by a brain state, by neurochemical factors during perception that have nothing to do with memory. It is worth noting that the déjà vu feeling is common among psychiatric patients. The déjà vu feeling also frequently precedes temporal lobe epilepsy attacks. When Wilder Penfield did his famous experiment in 1955 in which he electrically stimulated the temporal lobes, he found about 8% of his subjects experienced "memories." He assumed he elicited actual memories. They could well have been hallucinations and the first examples of artificially stimulated déjà vu.

Answer 7

An already discussed matter.

'deja vu' & 'vuja de'.

"Deja Vu" is French for "already lived."

This phrase is usually used when on seeing something / some place, a person feels like he / she has "seen" it before..

Answer 8

Deja vu is the feeling that you have been somewhere or in a certain situation before.

Answer 9

Deja Vu is when you experience a recall or premonition of an exact occurence. Related mostly to minor incidents so it is hard to discern whether or not the event had happed previously.

Answer 10

what DOES THIS MEAN?
Do yooh know what the word, ''deja vu'' means?

what DOES THIS MEAN?
Do yooh know what the word, ''deja vu'' means?

what DOES THIS MEAN?
Do yooh know what the word, ''deja vu'' means?

what DOES THIS MEAN?
Do yooh know what the word, ''deja vu'' means?

what DOES THIS MEAN?
Do yooh know what the word, ''deja vu'' means?

Answer 11

Deja Vu is when you are in a situation and you feel like you have live that before or you had like a vision of it before...