could u plz explain a little about "deja vu" ?

Answer 1

The brain is a huge pattern recognition machine. It takes in data and likes to make connections. Sometimes it is so good that it makes those connections when there really aren't any. That's how we can see faces in clouds. The brain looks at a pattern in the cloud and says, "face".

Throughout life, we go through many events. Our memories store data about them. Sometimes the data is more complete and sometimes it is less.

Once in a while, something will happen which is somewhat similar in some way to something that has happened to us before. The pattern is so loose, though, that we don't consciously remember what the previous event was. All we get is a vague, "Hmm, this is familiar" or "I've done this before" sensation. That is Deja Vu.

Answer 2

Hey! I am only a highschool student, so my theory is purely based on personal beleif/experience and imagination. Deja Vu happens to me every once in a while. I always feel as though the event has been experienced in a dream, almost as if I was reliving a forgotten dream (because I extremely rarely remember my dreams). An example would be just last week. My two partners for a project were discussing something and then asked me a question as I stared at the worksheet we were supposed to be doing. I almost sayed 'wow' aloud it was so creepy that I even remembered seeing the worksheet in my FORGOTTEN dream, but I hadn't seen that paper until that day. I don't even remember what the dream was about, but I remember that two seconds of it. But I also talk in my sleep and sleepwalk a lot. Don't know if there is any correlation but my mom beleives that I do this because when I am alseep I am reliving my day or past events or something that bothers me so my mind deals with it by talking in my sleep. So the theory that in Deja vu we are recalling forgotten memories seem valid. People who block stuff from there memory simply do just that: block the memory, not erase it. There mind could retalliate by creating Deja vu experiences in everyday life. However, I am also a strong beleiver in reincarnation too. There are some times where I experience a different kind of deja vu that might be because of that. Honestly though, I don't think we will ever be able to fully understand stuff like ESP and Deja vu. Its just one of those things. Wow, sorry. This kind of turned into my personal blurb of Deja vu speculation. Well, hope this helps anywho!

Answer 3

Haven't I answered this question before?

LOL seriously though, deja vu is french for "already seen", and is the feeling that you have done something before when it is the first time. There are a couple of explanations for this sensation. It is possible you actually did do it before but just don't have a clear recollection, or that you are recalling a dream. Some people also attribute deja vu to reincarnation and memories of past lives. There are also some neurological theories that involve errors in how sensory input reaches the memory, resulting in the brain interpreting new data as a memory.

Instances of deja vu are said to be considerably increased for people suffering from temporal lobe epilepsy, and also schizophrenia and anxiety to a lesser extent. Of course, most healthy people experience occasional deja vu from time to time and it is not by itself a cause for concern.

Deja Vu is also the name of an Independent Boston Pop'n'Blues band, and a file backup software product.

Answer 4

Deja vu (already seen) is a rather weird experience. I recall reading an article many years ago that explained how it works. The theory is that the optic nerve, which is quite flexible, sometimes straightens out for a second or two thus allowing anything in sight to reach the brain a millisecond before it normally would. The brain reacts immediately and as you are still seeing the scene or object at 'normal' speed it gives the feeling of having seen it or been there before. Because of this you also believe that any conversation you are engaging in has been said before. The feeling of deja vu disappears as soon as they eyes move as the optic nerve flexes with them.

I'm sure I've answered this question before.

Answer 5

Have you ever been somewhere you know you have never been to before, but it seems familiar? Or just in a random situation, you will know what someone is going to say or do cause it has happened before? That is "deja vu". Or it can be just an ordinary thing that happens more than once. Maybe your car breaks down on the way to work and the following week the same thing happens..."deja vu"

Answer 6

The term "déjà vu" (French for "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. While it has been extremely difficult to invoke the déjà vu experience in laboratory settings, therefore making it a subject of few empirical studies, recently researchers have found ways to recreate this sensation using hypnosis.

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

Answer 8

Definitions of de ja vu on the Web:

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, Emile Boirac (1851-1917) in his book L' Avenir des Sciences Psychiques, which expanded upon an essay he wrote while an undergraduate French concentrator at the University of Chicago. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_ja_vu

Answer 9

Did u check whether thr are any other qustions relating the same thing...
By the way...whe u see something new and you fell that u hav seen it before even when u havnt...u say that u r having a deja vu

Answer 10

It means the same thing happening twice.