what is the real meaning of "Deja Vu"?

Question

A movie is being mad with this name.I need to know the meaning

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.[1]

Answer 2

Based on the french words deja (already) vu (seen). As in I've already seen that stupid Orcal_girl spam in every question not answering just posting a link to a stupid website!

But anyway, it's happened to me several times. Usually during a time of great stress, I'll get this eerie sense "this has happened before." It's usually something mundane not momentous, a bit of conversation, a sight or sound. Usually dialogue though. Someone will be talking to me & I'll say "I just had a deja vu!" I have a couple of ideas about it. Someone told me that they believe we travel into the future in our dreams but that we forget it when we awake. Once in a while a little piece of the dream remains in our memory so when we experience it in life it triggers the memory. Someone else told me that when you experience a traumatic event, your mind actually travels into the future & back. This is how some people become psychic.

Then there's always the matrix theory: the world is all an illusion & we're really just being used as batteries for the machines. Sometimes when they change something, there's an overlap & we experience deja vu. Tee hee.

I'm not really sure why they happen but they are weird & creepy. Who knows?

Answer 3

This is a word originated from a neighbour of English speaking nation, none other than France.

Deja Vu is a terminology which exactly means " Already Seen".

You can very well attribute this to any Veteran , you can call him Deja vu , because he would have already seen many a situation.

Experience -- " Already seen"

95% of us would agree Deja vu would lead to inspiration because we would like to emulate such have because we also would like to be men of many a moments like them.Experience can drive anyone crazy.But there are lots yearning for such experiences, so at the best we adore people who have had many "Already seen " situations.

You could have come across many Corporates have started associating theselves to " Already Seen "- Deja vu They have one step gone ahead and started naming Deja Vu.
which attracts everyone.

It is an attraction , it is an illusion but Deja VU is happening.

-- Bye

Answer 4

Deja Vu really is having the feeling of rexperiencing something like if you have a dream a friend asks a certain question then the next day your friend asks the same question you think deja vu because it was in your dream even if you didn't remember your dream

Answer 5

Deja Vu is French. It means when you are going through the same thing again you would say its Deja Vu. Like say if I went out of my house one morning and the saem guy was standing in the same spot and the dog in the same spot as yesterday. It happened two time so its like your in the same exact setting more than once. Its Deja Vu. NOT SOMETHING YOU EAT IN FRANCE!

Answer 6

"Deja Vu" is a French phrase that translates "Already Seen".

It refers to the spooky feeling you get when you have the feeling you seen something or done something before.

It usually triggers, at least in my case, by trivial events involving familiar people... Suddenly you feel like you said exactly the same thing before while doing just what you've been doing...

Some people think that your brain is "thinking forward" and out pacing your mouth and hands, so when you say/do something, the brain is "remembering" it because its already thinking about what it wants to say/do next...

Answer 7

"Deja Vu" is French word and mean "already seen". But popular mean in life is as this example: when you go in some place for firs time, but you feel that you are been before here that is "Deja Vu". I am had "Deja Vu" already and feeling is very strange and confusing...

Answer 8

dé·jà vu (dā'zhä vū') pronunciation-
n.

1. Psychology. The illusion of having already experienced something actually being experienced for the first time.

2.
1. An impression of having seen or experienced something before: Old-timers watched the stock-market crash with a distinct sense of déjà vu.
2. Dull familiarity; monotony: the déjà vu of the tabloid headlines..

Answer 9

French for "Already seen".
But the meaning is not same as "something you have seen before"........

It's actually refers to a wierd experience that while something is occurring (as seen), you seem to see a fore-play of it split seconds BEFORE the scene is continually unfolding.
You tend to think you have seen it before but you have actually not - because you cannot tell what happens next.

Some scientists say that while the visual stimulus from yr eyes while they travel to the brain via nerves, the input from yr 2 eyes sometimes have a split second difference in timing.

Answer 10

good question but let me ask you this .... what is the real meaning of "deja vu"?