2007-10-08 08:24:49 · 9 answers · asked by amazed !!! 4 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Deja Vu.
It was a movie Denzel Washington was in. It was pretty good too.
2007-10-08 08:35:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Déjà vu ,also called paramnesia is the experience of feeling that one has witnessed or experienced a new situation previously. The experience of déjà vu is usually accompanied by a compelling sense of familiarity, and also a sense of "eeriness", "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."
Types of déjà vu
1. Déjà vécu
Déjà vécu refers to an experience involving more than just sight, which is why labeling such "déjà vu" is usually inaccurate. The sense involves a great amount of detail, sensing that everything is just as it was before and a weird knowledge of what is going to be said or happen next.
More recently, the term déjà vécu has been used to describe very intense and persistent feelings of a déjà vu type, which occur as part of a memory disorder.
2. Déjà senti
This phenomenon specifies something 'already felt.' Unlike the implied precognition of déjà vécu, déjà senti is primarily or even exclusively a mental happening, has no precognitive aspects, and rarely if ever remains in the afflicted person's memory afterwards.
3. Déjà visité
This experience is less common and involves an uncanny knowledge of a new place. The translation is "already visited." Here one may know his or her way around in a new town or landscape while at the same time knowing that this should not be possible.
Dreams, reincarnation and also out-of-body travel have been invoked to explain this phenomenon. Additionally, some suggest that reading a detailed account of a place can result in this feeling when the locale is later visited.
2007-10-08 08:53:33 · answer #2 · answered by Blanche_Krag 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a French expression and there are two words: déjas vue
Litterally translates to "already seen". The expression is used when living a moment that feels as if it was experienced before. English speakers commonly prononce it "dayjavoo" incorectly. which sounds like "already you"
2007-10-08 08:35:34 · answer #3 · answered by Frenchy-68 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
déjà vu [(day-zhah vooh)]
The strange sensation that something one is now experiencing has happened before: “I knew I had never been in the house before, but as I walked up the staircase, I got a weird sense of déjà vu.” From French, meaning “already seen.”
2007-10-08 08:30:04 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Deja Vu...
feels like you've seen and/or been there before...
The illusion of having already experienced something actually being there
2007-10-08 08:32:02 · answer #5 · answered by ? 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Déjà vu. In literal French, it means 'already seen'. In English, it is the sensation that whatever is happening has already happened before.
2007-10-08 08:27:20 · answer #6 · answered by Doc Occam 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
dejavu it means to have a mistaken feeling of having experienced the present situation before.
2007-10-08 09:24:46 · answer #7 · answered by sheika 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
deja vu
It is the experience of feeling that one has witnessed or experienced a new situation previously
2007-10-08 08:27:43 · answer #8 · answered by kyla 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
deja vu... it means "already seen."
2007-10-08 08:28:36 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋