"Déjà vu" is the experience of feeling sure that one has already witnessed or experienced a current situation, even though the exact circumstances of the previous encounter are uncertain and were perhaps imagined.

The term was coined by a French psychic researcher, Émile Boirac in his book L'Avenir des sciences psychiques ("The Future of Psychic Sciences"), which expanded upon an essay he wrote while an undergraduate.

The experience of déjà vu is usually accompanied by a compelling sense of familiarity, and also a sense of "eeriness", "strangeness", "weirdness", or what Sigmund Freud calls "the uncanny".

The "previous" experience is most frequently attributed to a dream, although in some cases there is a firm sense that the experience has genuinely happened in the past.

Now that this is over, why does this person below me keep following me around?

I remember her from somewhere, but she does not register in my memory.

Oh yes, I remember now, she is my daughter asking me for a down payment on her new car.

 

I feel like I have before, but I'm just not sure...

 

Yes.. Its always random in any given day... I'll suddenly tell myself that this has happen to me before and the scene that just happen earlier will playback on my mind very clearly. Its a weird feeling and amusing at the same time.

 

I get the strangest feeling I've answered a thread like this before.....

 

This is like Deja vu all over again......

 

I did once.

But never before or since.

 

Yes and she was worth every penny!

 

Every time you post, joliet.

 

All the time. And I can somehow telepathically tell people to call me.
*Twilight Zone music plays*

 

Deja vu

Deja vu happens to everyone!Very normal reaction of the mind!

 

Have you ever visited *a store for the first time and had it feel eerily familiar? Or maybe you're deep in conversation with a friend and you suddenly get the feeling that you've had the exact conversation before, even though you know that you haven't. If you've ever found yourself in either of these situations, you've experienced déjà vu. Sixty to 70 percent of us admit to getting this feeling at least once in our lives. The sight, sound, taste or even smell of something makes us think that we've experienced it before, although we know that we couldn't have.
There are more than 40 theories as to what déjà vu is and what causes it, and they range from reincarnation to glitches in our memory processes. In this article, we'll explore a few of those theories to shed some light on this little understood phenomenon.
Déjà vu is a French term that literally means "already seen" and has several variations, including déjà vécu, already experienced; déjà senti, already thought; and déjà visité, already visited. French scientist Emile Boirac, one of the first to study this strange phenomenon, gave the subject its name in 1876.
There are often references to déjà vu that aren't true déjà vu. Researchers have their own definitions, but generally déjà vu is described as the feeling that you've seen or experienced something before when you know you haven't. The most common misuse of the term déjà vu seems to be with precognitive experiences -- experiences where someone gets a feeling that they know exactly what's going to happen next, and it does. An important distinction is that déjà vu is experienced during an event, not before. Precognitive experiences -- if they are real -- show things that will happen in the future, not things that you've already experienced. (However, one theory about déjà vu deals with precognitive dreams that give us a "déjà vu feeling" afterwards. See the Déjà Vu and Precognitive Dreams section.)
Hallucinations that are brought on by illness or drugs sometimes bring a heightened awareness and are confused with déjà vu. False memories that are brought on by schizophrenia can be confused with déjà vu as well. Unlike true déjà vu, which typically lasts from 10 to 30 seconds, these false memories or hallucinations can last much longer.


enjoy (note i did not write this nor come up with it on my own it was a simple copy and paste)

 

Huh. Me to!

 

Huh. Me to.

 

Huh. Me to

 

No deja vu, just temporal displacement.