What's going on when deja vu happens, to me it's cool, then it's gone
2006-12-22 21:19:03 · 12 answers · asked by c p 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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.
2006-12-23 01:04:30 · answer #1 · answered by Honey W 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
TRINITY: A deja vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they change something.
2006-12-23 05:25:47 · answer #2 · answered by C J 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't understand it any better than you do. But it does happen and it is a mystery as to how it happens. But as far as it being akin to a seizure, that is wrong. I have seizures and there is
nothing cool about it. It is damn scary and it could kill you. I've
never heard of someone dying from deja vu before.
2006-12-23 05:28:46 · answer #3 · answered by gailpendarvis 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hot Carl has it right.
read about it here:
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/deja+vu
Funny thing though, as you age it happens less and less - at least that's been the case for me. (60)
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2006-12-23 05:24:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
its simmular to tip of the tounge syndrome. same thing in the brain happens. You know you have a memory relating to this event, and the brain has the event in a memory cluster but cant specify exactly which one. THus creating a tip of the tounge feeling via memory.
2006-12-23 05:25:16 · answer #5 · answered by duffmanhb 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Previous life time invading upon real life time..its really normal happens to everyone all the time .Most dont realise it but well it happens
2006-12-23 06:01:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A "short circuit" in your brain akin to a seizure. Neat though, no?
2006-12-23 05:20:39 · answer #7 · answered by hot carl sagan: ninja for hire 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
idk, but i get the feeling all the time, i think its because i just space out a lot (Thinking about different things) and then later when i walk by the same spot it's just like, whoa.
2006-12-23 05:25:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
its like a dream you had a long time ago, and came true.
its really weird.
2006-12-23 05:21:34 · answer #9 · answered by Lara <:(((>< 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
when u feel that this situation have occured and u are repeating it.
2006-12-23 05:22:58 · answer #10 · answered by la montée 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋