What is De Javu?

Question

Why does it happen??

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 coined 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. Déjà vu has been described as "Remembering the future".

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. 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

De Javu: You think that you had already experienced the situation you are in right now but you yourself cant even tell whether it's true you had experienced it or not

Researcher still cant solved why this deja vu happened. It is a study of our brain. And our brain is the most complex organ in our body.....hope the expert will come out with a best explanation in near future

Answer 3

Deja vu (French for 'already seen') is that feeling that you've been somewhere or done something before, when you haven't / couldn't have.

Some will try to tell you it's proof of reincarnation, but those people are silly. No one really understands this phenomenon - the best suggestion is that one has seen or been in a similar environment and that the mind tries to impose some familiarity on a novel situation.

Answer 4

One of the best explanations I've heard is that deja vu is actually caused by a misfiring of the nerve cells in our brain. We have synapses (spaces) between nerve cells and thoughts are transmitted when electrical activity is passed along the brain nerve cells - through the release and taking up of specific chemicals. Deja vu is said to happen when the thought process starts, misfires, and then starts again. All separated by milliseconds but enough to suddenly produce the feeling of familiarity and the "been here, done this" phenomenon. You have - only half a second before.

Answer 5

Its a psychological thing.

Its the feeling that you have been somewhere before.

It happens alot for me and it is freaky, I will be in a situation, everyone is doing the same thing that I thought I saw a month ago... the exact same thing, not like routine it usually happens to me if I am watching telly and people and things around are in the exact same position as before... saying the same thing etc..

I cant explain it, it is just weird.

Answer 6

de javu, is that some place in south africa? what it is I do not know! maybe some ancient tribal religious gather point.

Answer 7

Seen before. The feeling one gets when one is in a situation that one has encountered before.

Answer 8

when you experience or see something that you feel you have already experienced or seen once before ... 'Deja Vu' can be literally translated from French to English as 'Already Seen'

Answer 9

havent you asked this question before ...haha..i think its when you see or hear something and it accidentally goes into the long term part of your memory rather then the part of the brain that just analyses.

Answer 10

I believe your memory, all too easily, can adapt itself to fit the moment.

Sadly, we're not perfect.