what is Dejavu?

Hi coldfire, Deja Vu is actually a French word meaning "already seen." It normally affects us when we are in a situation for the first time but our mind says we have been there before. The surroundings all look familiar and we know how the conversation will go. Whether this comes froma previous dream state, where we have glimpsed into our future or whether it is an animalistic safety measure that is locked away in our brain and little used no one is sure about. Deja Vu, has happened to me on numerious occassions, and although it is a strange, eerie feeling I don't ever feel scared by it. In fact I see it more as a blessing than a curse. Maybe, one day it will kick in and save me from an unpleasant event.

It's the feeling that you've already experienced the thing that is happening now. I have Deja vus a lot. I mostly see them in my dreams but completely forget about them. Then someday it just happens and I feel like it has happened before, then I remember it was my dream. It's really strange though. I wonder if dreams can predict our future

Hello coldfire. Actually, during my high school days, my friends discussed that kind of stuff. I actually experienced those stuffs. That the present happenings had once happened before. I don't know if it is really true. ^^

Hello coldfire0430, yes this feeling is really weird, the experience of feeling that we have already experienced the current situation exactly! The feeling of Deja vu is a compelling sense of familiarity, a sense of eeriness and as described by Sigmund Freud, "uncanny". Sometimes these experiences are so vivid that it feels like either I am dreaming it or have previously experience it in my dreams. But the confusion as to when and where is so very great too!

Indeed that is dejavu. I like to think that maybe we aren't just feeling like we have been there before, maybe in a past life we experienced something similar.

I have experienced it many times. there was even an incident where it happened 3 times, same situation. We have discussed it during our psychology class back in college and our professor said that its actually just a trick of the mind. Impulses elicited by our brain are the once responsible for it. Thats why it makes it seems that we have experienced it before because the electrical impulses in the brain goes to the memory portion of the brain.

I have always experienced that dejavu is a moment when something that has happened to you before is happening again. it can be an eerie feeling and a spiritual one as well.