New Age question: What is Deja vu?
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It's from the french and it literally means "already seen".\nSo Déjà vu: Is a feeling where you strongly feel like you already have seen somthing that is hapening, like if you had already lived it. Some times it can be so strrong that while you're in the middle of somthing you can even prdict how things will take place. \n\nFurther than that I must admit myself to be ignorent. So i'll be watching the up comming answers.
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Strange though it may sound, sometimes 'deja vu's' come from the present. the feeling you have seen something or been somewhere before can eminate from the short term memory tricking itself into thinking its seen it before. in reality it was only a few seconds ago you saw it but something caused a blip, possibly a flashback or thought of something else causes an interuption. the best analogy I can give is of a car CD player going over a bump in the road, it returns to the same point where the mind left off. End result, you feel like youve been here before, but it was only a few seconds ago. A loop in time for want of a better term.
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Deja Vu. It is French for already seen. I don't believe in it myself. I have heard it explained as your mind mixing memories of real past events with elements of the new experience. I am not sure if I find that really believable either.\nhttp://people.howstuffworks.com/question657.htm\n\nIn this article they note the age point. This might be a normal event in a maturing brain. I would not let the mention of epilepsy scare you because people with no epilepsy get it too.
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Deja vu isn't anything metaphysical or divine. It is a well know psychological phenomena that occurs because of certain neurochemical changes, although the details have not been nailed down. For example, one idea involves a trigger to the parahippocampal gyrus - which is something in the brain.\n\nBasically it _feels_ like you are experiencing something you have experienced before, when in fact you are not. The deja vu feeling is being generated by a hiccup in the brain. Ocassional feelings of deja vu are not uncommon, quite the opposite in fact. Generally it is not something to worry about, although it can be a symptom of temporal lobe epilepsy.\n\nThere is also something called jaime vu, which is the opposite. You actually experience something familiar but it _feels_ like you have never experienced it before.
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Well, first, it is : " Déjà vu "\n\nIt is a very common french expression that means " already seen".\n\nYou can say déjà vu when you feel like you already made the same action sometime. It is commonly used to describe the feeling you get when you feel like you already did something the exact way.\n\nYou can say deja vu in all senses of " already seen "\n\nHope it helped, Andrew.
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Here's what I found:\n \n \nEveryone has experienced the unsettling mystery of déjà vu--that flash of memory when you meet someone new you feel you've known all your life or recognize a place even though you've never been there before. But what if the feelings were actually warnings sent from the past or clues to the future? It is déjà vu that unexpectedly guides ATF agent Doug Carlin through an investigation into a shattering crime. Called in to recover evidence after a bomb sets off a cataclysmic explosion on a New Orleans Ferry, Carlin is about to discover that what most people believe "is only in their heads" is actually something far more powerful--and will lead him on a mind-bending race to save hundreds of innocent people. \n\n \nLogline: An FBI agent has the ability to travel back in time and falls in love with a woman as her murder approaches.
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Deja Vu - the feeling that this this has happened before, that you have been here before, or you have experienced this before. Most people may have had this feeling at one time or the other. Usually some incident or some similarity of the present to past events triggers this feeling. Our memories are not perfect, so sometimes things do happen which seem similar to what happened in the past, and you get the feeling of deja vu. But if you think and try to remember, you may recall that it was a different experience.
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Deja vu is a normal experience that everybody gets. However frequent and intense Deja vu can occasionally be part of an Epileptic seizure from the Temporal lobe - but dont worry, everybody gets Deja vu.\n\nIt is not a feature of Alzheimers.
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I don't experience it as often as I used to, and I've no idea why. Theories abound but as with many strange phenomena I'm not sure there is a satisfactory explanation for it. It's just that inexplicable sense of having lived a moment in time (usually quite a brief and fleeting moment in time) before. Whether it's an unconscious familiarity with something real or imagined or a conscious sense of actually having lived such a moment before is impossible to say with any certainty. (And yes, you have asked this question before... but when and where is another matter entirely... spooky, huh?) ;)
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Well, there's nothing for certain. But I have surely had several dreams that have become true. Like everything in it. Gives you the sensation of deja-vu.
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Deja Vu - Already Seen.\n\nThis can be many things.\n\nJungian theory states that we all have soul memory.  So if you are in a spot that an ancestor was - maybe you have a flashback.\n\nAll animals have instints - These are genetic memories.  Again flashbacks.\n\nSometimes one side of your brain process faster than the other, or you store a current event as memory BEFORE your cognitive side actually mulls over it.\n\nThen somtimes it's a step back in time.\n\nThen sometimes it's a quick premonition.  Like the time I overheard a boy in the front of my class talk to another about his vacation and I knew the whole entire conversation before he actually said it....  But that could be a wierd coincidence.....\n\n....
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yeah i broke it\n\nI figured out in my mind that it was simply a preconceived event played out in your mind like a dream you had already had.  So that if the event were to occur you feel as though you have already experienced it, so I took up a challenge and told myself the next time it happened i would make sure to do not as i remembered.\n\nIndeed I did, in spring 2004, while at work I had deja vu and behold i was preparing to talk to someone, so i said i just own't, and walked on, the feeling went away in an instant and i have not had deja vu since.\n\nIf i do, i'll do the same thing.  If you wonder then why you don't constantly have it, it is because it is a specific event, not generic like saying hello to someone, but like all the pieces of a chess set have to be laid out in a perfect way, that your mind can see ahead the next few moves.
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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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Does anyone know what causes Deja Vu?
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Everyone's had it.\n\nI think it's like a delay of your mind between what you see and what your brain sees, making you feel you've seen that before.\n\nOr something like that.\n\nCheck this website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deja_vu
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No expert, but I can say unequivocally, we all have been "there" before life. Same place as after death, only none of us can remember because memory is a human condition. In the before and after, time doesn't exist, therfore memories cannot as they are based on experience and time...both of which are "Earthly" conventions. Consciousness, as an illusion and condition of human and perhaps other life forms' existence, leads us to many erroneous beliefs and misconcpetions about life after death. Life is now, death is later, so there is no "life" after death, else there is only life. But there is a condition and that condition is similar, if not the same, as pref-life. But I am no expert...
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The 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.\nTypes of déjà vu\nAccording to Arthur Funkhouser there are three types of déjà vu:\n\n[edit]\nDéjà vécu\nUsually translated 'already seen' or 'already lived through,' déjà vécu is described in a quotation from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens:\n\nWe have all some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done before, in a remote time - of our having been surrounded, dim ages ago, by the same faces, objects, and circumstances - of our knowing perfectly what will be said next, as if we suddenly remember it![1]\n\nWhen most people speak of déjà vu, they are actually experiencing déjà vécu. Surveys have revealed that about one third of the population have had these experiences, more often (and perhaps more intense) in people between the ages of 15 and 25. The experience is usually related to a very banal event, but is so striking that it is remembered for years afterwards.\n\nDéjà 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. Because of this, theories that the situation was just read about earlier or experienced in a previous life are invalid, as those experiences could not recreate the exact situation due to a lack of sense involvement or the presence of modern surroundings.\n\nMore 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. As described in Moulin, C.J.A., Conway, M.A. Thompson, R.G., James, N. & Jones, R.W. (2005). Disordered Memory Awareness: Recollective Confabulation in Two Cases of Persistent Déjà vecu. Neuropsychologia, 43 :1362-1378.\n\n[edit]\nDéjà senti\nDr. John Hughlings Jackson recorded the words of one of his patients who suffered from temporal lobe or psychomotor epilepsy in an 1889 paper:\n\nWhat is occupying the attention is what has occupied it before, and indeed has been familiar, but has been for a time forgotten, and now is recovered with a slight sense of satisfaction as if it had been sought for. ... At the same time, or ... more accurately in immediate sequence, I am dimly aware that the recollection is fictitious and my state abnormal. The recollection is always started by another person's voice, or by my own verbalized thought, or by what I am reading and mentally verbalize; and I think that during the abnormal state I generally verbalize some such phrase of simple recognition as 'Oh yes - I see', 'Of course - I remember', &c., but a minute or two later I can recollect