my dad and I are having an argument about what it means.
2006-10-20 15:51:09 · 18 answers · asked by the new cookie cutter style 6 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
It's a French expression that means "already seen".
2006-10-20 15:52:38 · answer #1 · answered by Blue Jean 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
What Is Deja Vu Mean
2016-10-15 05:55:26 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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.[
2006-10-20 15:57:49 · answer #3 · answered by khay 1 · 1⤊ 2⤋
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.
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2006-10-20 16:01:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
when you have a deja vu ; its like something happened and like the exact same thing already happened the day before or this morning and yea
2006-10-20 15:59:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2016-08-23 09:11:10 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's when a person feels that they are experiencing something they've already experienced before, or going someplace for the first time and thinking they've been there before.
2006-10-20 16:12:29 · answer #7 · answered by Bethany 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It means what is happening now seems like happened before.
2006-10-20 16:06:36 · answer #8 · answered by mimi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The sense that what is happening now ,has happened before.
2006-10-20 17:45:19 · answer #9 · answered by bernice l 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it means when u experience an event/experience that you feel like you have done before.
2006-10-20 19:49:22 · answer #10 · answered by themightybrain 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋