What is Deja Vu? Please help me and my workmates!!!!!!?

Answer 1

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 2

Deja Vu is when you enter a room and feel like you have been there before, say a word and remember something, meet someone and have lots in common with them, go on vacation and feel like you know your way around but you have never been there. Those are just a few .... In many ways, people mix Deja Vu with Karma - sort-of-similar - but Deja Vu can pop up at anytime. Hope you understand...

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.[1]

Answer 4

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 5

When you have seen or experienced something in real life and then days, weeks, years later you experience the exact same thing. Example of it is in the first Matrix movie when Neo see's a black cat and 10 minutes later he see's the same scene. Thats Deja Vu.

Answer 6

deja vu is the title of beyonces song, first released from her second solo album but apart from that it means to live something you have the idea you have lived before. dont you ever get the feeling that uve seen something happen and you think uve seen it again...? well thats what deja vu is, for ex. once i saw this dream with me and my friends going out and when that actually did happen i was like omg. ive experienced this before.... i hope i helped you and your workmates and im chosen as best answer (cheeky or wot?.....lol_) xx

Answer 7

Deja Vu is when something happens to you in the present but you have a sick feeling that it has happened to you before. Yet you don't really remember when before. hope this helps.

Answer 8

in easier terms, it basically means u are in a situation that feels familiar, like it's already happened before. like say u are talking to someone about something and u swear you have had the EXACT same situation before. the other day i had a killer de ja vu lol. it feels really weird to experience deja vu

Answer 9

Deja Vu means you saw something and you know what it is, you just cant place where, when or how you know this person. That sort of thing.

Answer 10

Deja Vu is where you feel you have seen something before but infact this is not true, it has just taken your neurones slightly longer to pass all the information to your brain, given you the feeling you have seen this before.