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.
but to answer your question yes.
2006-11-15 01:26:10
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answered by daizzddre 4
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Does anyone else out there ever get that boring sense of deja vu groundhog........duuuuuuuh!
2006-11-15 01:41:09
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answered by Anonymous
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That's not de ja vu babe, that's lack of stimuli. Help out at the local penitentiary or something you'll hear conversations there that will keep you awake all night.
2006-11-15 01:24:32
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answered by mizzsquitz 3
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Yes- sometimes it's just best to take a few days off and be alone for a while. Refresh yourself!
2006-11-15 01:24:13
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answered by Rebecca M 1
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properly I dont be attentive to if i'm incorrect to declare this, yet what's ordinary approximately goals, ordinarily, is they constantly comprise this intense sensation of familliarity. interior the goals we dream, we detect ourselves in distinctive places, in distinctive circumstances, yet interior the dream, we are as though stamped with a feeling of identity, one that tells us... " whats up... i'm merchandising cows in China in this dream... and that i certainly sense as though it somewhat is my occupation." My component is... in goals, there is usually a feeling of familiarity. case in point, final evening I had a dream the place i replaced into in a lounge staring at television. The room had no counterpart interior the actual international... i.e. it replaced into basically a lounge I imagined for the dream apparently. interior the dream... It felt familliar... basically through fact it replaced into mandatory for it to sense familliar. regardless of each thing, interior the dream i replaced into "at residing house" besides the certainty that the placement wasn't my actual residing house in waking existence. so as that experience of familiarity as though a could-have for the goals consistency to bypass completely. to respond to the question... goals are packed with de ja vus through fact there is the would desire to believe that what we see is actual. If I dream i'm ingesting interior the kitchen of my residing house, i'd desire to believe that it somewhat is my residing house interior the dream. to try this, an automatic experience of identity and familiarity is issued to the placement and time interior the dream... it is going to look familliar, as long as you assume the dream to sense actual.
2016-12-10 09:35:44
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answered by Anonymous
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Havnt you and i had this conversation before ?
2006-11-15 01:45:35
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answered by wozza.lad 5
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yes all the time sometimes its great but other times its not so great
2006-11-15 01:29:30
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answered by Anonymous
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I knew you were gong to say that
2006-11-15 01:22:04
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answered by JAYFIRE 4
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Bazaar isn't it.
2006-11-15 01:35:31
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answered by eyes_of_iceblue 5
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comes to us all
2006-11-15 01:26:15
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answered by eagledreams 6
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