Hi,
This topic was covered by Ask Yahoo! back in 2002.
Essentially, deja vu, is "the sensation of feeling eerily familiar with a newly encountered object or situation. It's that slightly jarring state of mind that can be triggered by any number of stimuli: a photograph, a phrase, a hand gesture."
Over 70% of people have reported experiencing deja vu. Interestingly, it "appears to affect people aged 15 through 25 more than any other age group." Additionally, deja vu has been associated with a kind of epilepsy. "Some epileptics have reported feelings of deja vu that occur prior to and even during seizures."There's no scientific explanation as to the cause of deja vu. It's just one of those things.
And, as for me, I remember having one particularly strong case of deja vu in the ninth grade. My math teacher was handing out papers and one fell to the ground. There was something about the way the paper fell and swooshed, that really affected me. It was weird. And, clearly, I'm not alone.
Mike
2007-07-06 15:25:12
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answered by Ask Mike 4
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Maybe it's a malfunction of the brain where an experience gets routed to the area of the brain where memories are stored before reaching the correct one. When the experience reaches the correct area, it is already in the memory area and feels exactly like a memory although it isn't. The whole process occurs in a moment.
2007-07-06 15:22:34
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answered by Anonymous
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OK this is kinda hard to follow but here it goes.
The mind processes information it receives info through the senses. Normally this is then stored into the memory. Then we remember what we just experianced. We know the differance. This is what I see and will remember and this is a memory.
Deja vue is when the path in the mind to the memory gets luped. So what we see now, goes through the wrong path in the brain. we experiance it as a feed back lupe in our memory. It goes to the memory backwards. We think what we are seing is a memory but its a glitch in the system.
2007-07-06 15:29:17
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answered by Rich 5
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The answswer by the avatar "god" is the one I hjave always heard, Your brain inadvertently stores a memory before it thinks about it.
Normal brain sequence is:
see/hear something > compare it to my memory bank > interpret > store new data in memory.
Deja vu occurs when the new memory gets stored BEFORE the comparison occurs. Then there is the feeling that "I have seen or done thie before."
Nothing spiritual - it's purely psycho-electro-chemical.
2007-07-06 15:30:37
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answered by Richard of Fort Bend 5
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I think de ja vu is when you meet someone that you met before in dreams or in a past life, and when you are in a place that you've been before in your dreams or in your past life, and also when you hear something (a phrase or a song) that you heard before in your dreams or in your past life.
Peace!
2007-07-06 15:17:26
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answered by Janet Reincarnated 5
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confident, occurred immediately I went paying for. I do the self checkout. as quickly as I observed my entire, I had even funds for subtotal. With the extra taxes, it replaced into nevertheless even funds. This replaced into the 1st time i bought groceries and had even funds and 0 cents.
2016-11-08 09:06:38
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answered by blaylock 4
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ones mind playing a trick of them
2007-07-06 15:17:37
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answered by dogpatch USA 7
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