what is a deja vu?

Answer 1

a strip club

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.

The phenomenon is rather complex, and there are many different theories as to why déjà vu happens. Swiss scholar Arthur Funkhouser suggests that there are several "déjà experiences" and asserts that in order to better study the phenomenon, the nuances between the experiences need to be noted. In the examples mentioned above, Funkhouser would describe the first incidence as déjà visité ("already visited") and the second as déjà vecu ("already experienced or lived through").

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.

Here are some interesting links:

Skeptic's Dictionay: Deja Vu
Time Magazine: Been There Done That
How Time Works
How Time Travel Will Work
How Your Brain Works

Answer 3

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 4

Deja vu is when something happens to you today, for example, and you feel as if it's happened before. It literally means "already seen" in French. Sometimes I feel like deja vu, because I've dreamed something and then it actually happens to me.

Answer 5

The term means 'flashback',but that's deceptive. Some quantum physicists say that it's possible to remember the future and create the past,the way most people remember the past and create the future.Deja vu,as it's loosely called, is the first type of remembering.

Answer 6

It is the feeling that you have been somewhere or seen something already. Like if you go into a town and start to look around and you get the feeling that this isn't the first time you have been there even though you have never been there before.

Answer 7

if I remember highschool right,
there is a part of your brain that connects the left and the right

you realize something with the right side ,
and it beams the info over,

but in the case with deja vu
the right side realizes something
and the left side realized it independently
so when it goes to tell the other side,
it allready knew it, it allready experienced it
and you are left thinking, this is allready been done, when was it
when in reality, its just a minor lag in the thingie that makes the two halfs talk to each other.....
I think its the corpus coliseum nerves......

Answer 8

deja vu means that when stuff u saw already happened happens again

Answer 9

Feeling as if one has lived through or experienced this moment before; may occur in people without any medical problems or immediately before a seizure (ie, as a simple partial seizure).

Answer 10

This originates from the French language...It means "already seen"

Answer 11

When you get that feeling that you experienced or been in the same place before even if you never have been.