What is Deja Vu?

Question

What is the explanation of that special phenomenon?

Answer 1

The phrase "deja vu" is French for "already seen" and is used to refer to when a person experiences the feeling that they have seen, experienced, or been someplace before even when they are sure that that is not really true. So, for example, a person who arrives at a new city they have never before visited may experience deja vu on a street, experience the intense feeling that they have been on that street at some point in the past.

Some people who believe in psychic phenomena also believe that the experience of deja vu is evidence of those phenomena. Some may claim that deja vu occurs because a person once saw such a street before remotely, but without realizing it. Others may claim that deja vu is a result of reincarnation - in a past life, the person *did vist that city and that street before.

Answer 2

Deja Vu is thinking about the past feelings and the things that we have done in the past. This phenomenon will generally occur in the old people.

Answer 3

Your brain creates, stores, (and can even edit) memories. Computers use a hard-drive where our brain is not privy to a mechanical storage device, rather we have a "biological" storage device.

Computers store information on partitions of the hard-drive and know where every itemized byte lay on its motherboard.

A human brain stores information in RNA strands in the brain, which sorta "float around" and are not always accessible if the corresponding benzodiazemines aren't within range of proton antagonists.

Rarely, an RNA strand can immediately become lost and experience the simultaneous loss and creation of a memory at the same time. The RNA will re-replicate and you will have 2 exact memorys of the same event.

Deja vu is actually the brain's response to handling the abnormality. A human's brain responds to the presense of two exact "memory molecules" by ascertaining that the two events are seperate.

Since the memories are recorded/created as soon as they are happening, one feels as if they had premonition of the event before.

The easiest way I can explain this, and the way that I showed an example for my class is this.

Pretend you buy a goldfish from a store and put him in a fish tank. While you are doing this, your brain is creating 2 memories of it at the exact same time. This relatively insignificant event now has instantly created 2 (or even more) RNA strands at the same time and your brain has 2 to deal with.

The result is that you feel "one has taken place in your mind or in a dream" or in the past or something.

If you have any questions you can email me, I have some good books I'd recommend. Also, if you study the psychology of dreams, you can usually find a reference to deja vu.

Have a great day.

Answer 4

It is a kind of a premonition. Something that you feel to either let you know this is o.k., the thing that you were doing or saying when you had Deja Vu could be a sign from the 'other side'

Answer 5

It is kinda of a short circuit in your brain and you see an image, then your mind short circuits and then returns to the same image, and then it seems to us as if we have seen it in the past. Deja Vu just means that you think that you have either been there before or meet the person before, or actually had an event happen to you before but it did not.

Answer 6

Deja Vu is an experience where something happen in your past and now in the present it seem similiar to that experience to close like everything is a repeat of that day or moment in time.

Answer 7

What is Deja Vu?
What is the explanation of that special phenomenon?

It is a movie (Denzel being a hero again).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deja_Vu

Answer 8

Deja Vu is the eerie feeling that you said or experienced the same exact situation precisely (word for word, feelings seem strangely familar) some time ago even though you know it never happened before.

Answer 9

something such as an event that happened "exactly the same way" before. It could be five minutes ago or a few days ago. I honestly don't believe there is such thing as Deja Vu

Answer 10

i think deja vu is actually something when you feel like you're experiencing the exact same thing because you actually have experienced it but you just don't remember it.