What's "Deja vu" in english?

Answer 1

Deja Vu is when you have experienced something that has already happened or something you have already seen...like when you have a dream about something and later it actually happens as it does in the dream.

Answer 2

Deja Vu, Firstly Is A French Term, Which In Literal Translation Means "Something That Has Already Happened". This Term Best Describes The incident which We (I) Have Visualized in our dreams or deep thoughts.

Answer 3

Deja vu

Answer 4

I think there's no English equivalent for deja vu...just google it or something

Answer 5

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 6

Already done that/Already considered. However, deja vu is not generally translated as it is commonly understood.

Answer 7

it's "deja vu," a term that's crossed over from French.

It means "to have seen before," usually used to describe that eerie sensation that you have experienced events before, but can't place when.

Answer 8

French : déjà, already + vu, seen

Answer 9

Christi@n's cool answer was pasted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deja_vu.

Nothing wrong with looking up an answer. It's just not cool to leave out the source!

Answer 10

Put simply it means the sensation when something seems oddly familiar, as though you have experienced it, seen it or done it before.