can some-one please give me a brief expination of what they think deja vu is? Also, how and who it occurs to the most. Thanks, all answers are apriciated (how ever you spell that!) ;)
2007-01-03 02:40:41 · 18 answers · asked by Jonnie D 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
As the others have already stated, daja vu means 'already seen' and is the experience of feeling like you've already lived through a particular expanse of time. It usually only lasts a few seconds, maybe minutes.
According to studies, about 70% of the population has experienced deja vu, and the age for the most common occurence is between 15-25. Supposedly that's when our brains are still subjectible.
Since deja vu sometimes involves more than just 'seeing', and sometimes doesn't involve sight at all, there are three kinds of deja vu recognized:
1. déjà vécu, which is supposed to be the most common and means already lived through.
2. déjà senti, the most unremembered means already felt.
3. déjà visité, the most uncommon, already visited.
Some doctors believe that it's a form of epilepsy and/or stroke.
Many theorists believe that deja vu is caused when one's conscious mind has a slight delay in receiving perceptive input. In other words, the unconscious, or subconscious, mind perceives current surroundings before the conscious mind does. This causes one's conscious self to perceive something that is already in one's memory, even though it was in one's memory only a split second before it was perceived.
That would make sense, however what if the episode involves a conversation with another person? That explanation wouldn't be logical.
There are several other explanations concerning nuerons and electrical charges of the brain that are all very dry and I can't seem to comprehend.
I do understand that everyone seems to agree that deja vu cannot be recreated in a lab except under hypnosis.
I've had many deja vu encounters throughout my life and I've always heard that those experiences are like coming across breadcrumbs on your way out of a strange place. In other words, they are mile markers for where you've already been and you're on the right path.
2007-01-03 06:41:52 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Deja Vu is experiencing a moment you've experienced before, but really haven't.... For example: Let's say you have a dream about meeting a person you've never met... or visiting a place you've never been... Then later on (while awake) you actually meet this person, or visit this place... You would feel like you had met, or been there, before... when actually you have not... that feeling of "I've met you somewhere, or, I've been here before" is deja vu...
There is also a movie in theaters starring Denzel Washington called Deja Vu.
According to the Matrix, Deja Vu occurs when "they" change something.
2007-01-03 02:54:08 · answer #2 · answered by just nate 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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]
2007-01-03 02:51:22 · answer #3 · answered by radiance 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Deja Vu is where you have seen something before, and you get a feeling of knowning what is going to happen again in the same situation. It occurs to everyone, I don't know how, but who is everyone.
2007-01-03 16:51:19 · answer #4 · answered by amazon 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's just a split second in your mind that something seems so familiar to the eye. It could be something you've seen in a past dream or maybe you'd been in a room that seems decorated the same as you'd once seen and it's just that sudden feeling of recollection that is undeniable and possibly of vital importance. I once had deja vu of a dream I had, that a friend and I had been in a crash. A month or so later, we wrecked and I responded exactly as my dream insisted with common dream flaws. The girls that were in the car and perfectly fine in my dream, we had left at my aunt's house by pure chance while we drove to my friends grandmothers house. My friend had his first epileptic seizure behind the wheel, beneath a blood moon, that night. Deja vu to me is a sign from God to watch my steps and be aware!
2007-01-03 03:41:01 · answer #5 · answered by J Brewhah 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Deja Vu is a term used for the phenomenon of seeing something which we think we've seen already. If fact, we have. Just like our dreams. Or dreams are only us, experiencing our lives in a different period of 'time'. In this 'Cosmic Wheel' we are able to revolve around a 'time line' in which everything that will ever happen, has happened. We are simply 'travelling' if you will, between these 'times' seeing these 'times' at different points in 'time'. Therefore, a deja vu is a place in 'time' where you have already been, and your mind is just remembering that moment.
It's quite confusing for me to explain I know.
2007-01-03 02:58:32 · answer #6 · answered by prizefyter 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's French and literally means "already seen". A feeling of Déjà vu is that funny thing that can occur to people when they get to think they've already been previously in a particular situation. Déjà vu can last from a split second to a few minutes, seldom more.
I understand this can happen when a person is dog-tired or exhilarated, or possibly in a trance, whatever the origin of it.
2007-01-03 02:49:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is a rollercoaster at six flags.. Also in the Matrix triligy, when one notices deja vu there has been a change in the matrix (or computer world).
However deja vu is basically seeing somthing and then moments in time you see the same exact thing.
2007-01-03 02:48:13 · answer #8 · answered by in_si1ence 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have heard deja vu explained as the two sides of the brain processing something, one side just a split second slower than the other, which makes it seem as though you experienced it twice. That's the only explanation that I've ever heard that actually made sense.
2007-01-03 02:45:52 · answer #9 · answered by Tallulah 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Okay... yesterday, i wake up at 7:30. i get a cup of coffee, and accidently spill it. wife cleans it up for me, i head on to work. then someone goes running around, saying stocks are very good today and that we should use the early afternoon to invest. later, i see a red car in traffic. i go home and rest.
Today, i woke up at 7:30, spill my cup of coffee. The stock market is apparently very good and that red sports car looks good. And then suddenly, I realize that all happened yesterday.
"De Javu"
It's how something happens or appears to happen again... and again... and again, whether it brings us to the point of confoundment or confusion or pure annoyance.
For most people, you may occur deja vu by repeating the same thing over and over again for hours, but i guess...
You read the sign of a street. "1st Street" there is a cute dog
You continue walking. You look up at the steetpost. "1st street" uh! another cute dog..
2007-01-03 02:51:49 · answer #10 · answered by The 35th of the Order 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋