What means "Deja Vu"?
By branzicel
@branzicel (77)
Romania
5 responses
@onestepahead (285)
• Canada
14 Dec 06
Here are a couple of example of deja vu, which literally translated from french means already seen.
Say, for example, you are traveling to England for the first time. You are touring a cathedral, and suddenly it seems as if you have been in that very spot before.
You are having dinner with a group of friends, discussing some current political topic, and you have the feeling that you've already experienced this very thing -- same friends, same dinner, same topic
As much as 70 percent of the population reports having experienced some form of déjà vu. A higher number of incidents occurs in people 15 to 25 years old than in any other age group.
It is possible that the déjà vu feeling is triggered by a neurochemical action in the brain that is not connected to any actual experience in the past. One feels strange and identifies the feeling with a memory, even though the experience is completely new.
@Tushardhoot1 (248)
• Canada
14 Dec 06
Definition of Deja Vu from dictionary.com:
1. Psychology. the illusion of having previously experienced something actually being encountered for the first time.
2. disagreeable familiarity or sameness: The new television season had a sense of déjà vu about it—the same old plots and characters with new names.
@gscs1838 (1536)
• Malaysia
14 Dec 06
the experience of feeling that one has witnessed or experienced a new situation previously
the experience is usually accompanied by a compelling sense of familiarity, and also a sense of eerieness, 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.
@pHr0sT (427)
• Canada
14 Dec 06
The term "déjà vu" (French for "already seen", also called paramnesia) describes the experience of feeling that one has witnessed or experienced a new situation previously.
The 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.
I have had Deja Vu!