Deja Vu, what exactly does it mean? and what language is this???
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Its French.\nThe term déjà vu (French: "already seen", also called paramnesia) describes the experience of feeling that one has witnessed or experienced a new situation previously. The term was created by a French psychic researcher, Emile Boirac (1851–1917) in his book L'Avenir des sciences psychiques (The Future of Psychic Sciences), which expanded upon an essay he wrote while an undergraduate French concentrator at the University of Chicago. The experience of déjà vu is usually accompanied by a compelling sense of familiarity, and also a sense of "eerieness" or "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.\n\nThe experience of déjà vu seems to be very common; in formal studies 70% or more of the population report having experienced it at least once. References to the experience of déjà vu are also found in literature of the past, indicating it is not a new phenomenon. However, in laboratory settings, it is extremely difficult to invoke the déjà vu experience, making it a subject with few empirical studies.
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Quite.  Deja vu is a simple case of the brain storing information in the long term memory AND the short term (or working) memory simultaneously.  \n\nWe have two parts of the brain dedicated to memory: long term and short term memory.  Short term memory lasts for about only 30 seconds, while long term memory can last a lifetime.  Normally, information is first allocated to short term memory and then through association or repetition, it is transfered to long term memory.\n\nBut once and a while, the brain will simultaneously allocate a piece of information to both long and short term memory.  Since it's still in our working memory, it's fresh on our minds, but we also feel like it's something we've experienced a while ago also.  That is because we are also "retreiving" this information from our long term memory even though the thing just happened.
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This is NOT DEJAVU. I know, because I experience Deja Vu regularly and it is nothing like you are describing. It sounds like you have a physical condition and I would recommend seeing the doctor immediately... it couldn't hurt just to check it out!
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Oh yeah, I've had those deja' vu instances many times. Especially if it happens to be an older place, maybe a place with some history or legend behind it.  Sometimes it's just nothing more than a coincidence, other times, who knows a leap into something that might have occurred in your past?\nI don't think anyone really knows or understands fully what cases those feelings. It could be something you have lived before if you believe in reincarnation and past lives, it could be that you saw that place or had been to that place when you were younger and only by seeing it or going to it again did it bring back that past memory from your childhood.\n\nMe I believe in Past lives and reincarnation. But that's just me and my opinion on things.
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I'm always getting deja vu, it's a really odd sensation. Sometimes I'm not sure if I have dreamt about a place before I visit it, it's a really surreal feeling!
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this happens to me too. it is called deja voo (who knows how to spell that!) when you actually see it in real life. this happens to me quite frequently\ni used to think i was psycic
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Deja vu is just the human instinct and 6th sense telling you ur on the right path...
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wow... we suffer from de ja vu.... ALOT!
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I have experieced this several times. People have told me it's deja vu, but deja vu is only a strange feeling that you have done something before, not actually dreaming about it.\n\nI was able to experiment a bit (very limited), where in some cases I tried to follow how the dream played out, and in some cases I tried to do it differently.\n\nMy conclusion...\n\nI don't know. I have never met anybody else with the same experience, and haven't been able to find anything on the internet either. Don't worry about seeing the future though, if things come true, they will, if they don't, they won't. Worrying about it won't help a stich.\n\nI would suggest looking into "lucid dreams" which is the closest thing I found where one can control their own dreams, which I have also experienced. Interesting stuff.\n\nGood luck, and try to enjoy it, there aren't too many mystical things in the world today.
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The one we assume is 'now', but actually took place before now and it takes awhile for us to 'catch up'....science has already established that our brains are programmed with a delayed reaction anyway.   I think deja vu is due to either reincarnation, or the fact that time is not linear. mail me if you ever want to talk about it...time is one of my favorite subjects in the world, and greatest dilemmas!
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I have deja vu in that I have an overwhelming sense of familiarity to people or places from time to time with no logical explanation for it.  Good question.
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Several psychoanalysts attribute déjà vu to simple fantasy or wish fulfillment, while some psychiatrists ascribe it to a mismatching in the brain that causes the brain to mistake the present for the past. Many parapsychologists believe it is related to a past-life experience.\n\nRead more about it at the following link....
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deja vu. It happens to me all the time. I think that we keep having to relive our life over and over again until we get it "right"..
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Interesting question!  I am really looking forward to the answers on this one.\n\nI used to think I was having past life memories.  I was having a deja vu-type experience very often, like every few hours.  I would remember a memory that wasn't my own.  To this day I'm not sure whats happening when it occurs (still pretty much daily) but I'm sure its just some wires getting crossed in my brain somehow.
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First of all...its deja vu.\n\nDeja vu is a French term for "already seen."  So in other words...yes...when you feel like you've seen or done something before, it's deja vu.\n\nWhat you do about it is up to you...you can either learn to learn from what you've seen or done or just simply recognize it as something  you've already seen or done.
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Off and on I believe yes. It depends on what you think is a realistic dream or not. Realistic dreams I believe in some respects are predictions, depending on how you live your life and what kind of path you take. I think those kind of dreams trigger those deja vu feelings when we are awake, alerting you possibly to a realized outcome that you had dreamed about previously.\n\n  The unrealistic or fantasy dreams I believe are symbolic of events that all was,are, and are about to take place. In order to decipher those dreams, you will probably need a dream dictionary to decode what those dreams mean.
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No, Deja Vu itself is not harmful. However, if you are experiencing this repeatedly all day, and it is starting to interfere with your everyday life, you may want to seek out the help of a psychiatrist. It is possible that could be from some underlying psychiatric condition.