What do you think deja vu really is?

Question

Any ideas?

Answer 1

The term déjà vu is French and means, literally, "already seen." Those who have experienced the feeling describe it as an overwhelming sense of familiarity with something that shouldn't be familiar at all. Say, for example, you are traveling to England for the first time. You are touring a cathedral, and suddenly it seems as if you have been in that very spot before. Or maybe you are having dinner with a group of friends, discussing some current political topic, and you have the feeling that you've already experienced this very thing -- same friends, same dinner, same topic.

Also called Paramnesia.

Answer 2

I have experienced deja vu a lot. It's just a brain lapse where the short term memory is accidentally sent to the long term memory first. Well, that's a theory. I'm sure other people have different explanations.

Answer 3

a glitch in time or a power that we havn't harnesd yet,sometimes i have these alot its scary,i would have dreams of everyday acounts that when i woke up seemed strange ,sometimes involves people that i havent even met at that time.these deja vu s wouldnt happend sometimes months or years laters,and as the years go by they become more vivid. when i catch my self in one its weird because its like i'm having a clairvoyant moment,,,i used to talk openly aboutthis with friends but they think im nuts, maybe i am or it happens to other people to and i dont know about it .yet!

Answer 4

I think that "deja vu" is when you see/visit a place in time where you have previously seen/visited in another life. It is the inter-section of the two events.

Answer 5

When your mind doesn't process something your seeing fast enough so then it feels like a memory rather than what's really happening at the time. Since your brain is not processing it fast enough it might then even feel like an association to a recent dream you might have had as well.

Or maybe it's a glitch in the Matrix :)

Answer 6

lets say u go in a sore
and u think uve been in there before but you havent


when u think about it that ur having deja vu WHILE ur having it, it goes away

Answer 7

im seriously freaked out by it cause ive been getting dejavous about soooo many things recently and its made me think-- "maybe this already happened and i just forgot" in whatever situation i was in. though--- i think now it might happen when you dont notice it but you give something a "second thought" right when or after it happens.
i think it might be something unexplain(able)ed
or maybe just your memory refreshing briefly..? lol

also i get dreamavouszz- which is a word that i made up (maybe). it happens throughout the day where something reminds you briefly of a dream you had, or just reminds you of the dream feeling.

ohmigosh- looong eh?!
k bye =D

Answer 8

I could swear you ask this question before. I think it's due to a bad memory, people have been to certain places and just forgot. How many times does someone tell you the same story?

Answer 9

good question.
i think it's the mind playing tricks. something fires nerves in your brain to create a false memory. like you knew that was going to happen, when actually you didn't, you thought you did because you have a recollection of that thing happening, but you really don't. it's an illusion.

Answer 10

Nope