I just wanted to learn how to spell it right.

Déjà vu, literally "already seen") is the experience of feeling sure that one has already witnessed or experienced a current situation, even though the exact circumstances of the prior encounter are uncertain and were perhaps imagined. The term was coined by a French psychic researcher, Émile 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. 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.

The most likely explanation of déjà vu is not that it is an act of "precognition" or "prophecy", but rather that it is an anomaly of memory, giving the false impression that an experience is "being recalled". This explanation is supported by the fact that the sense of "recollection" at the time is strong in most cases, but that the circumstances of the "previous" experience (when, where, and how the earlier experience occurred) are quite uncertain or believed to be impossible. Likewise, as time passes, subjects can exhibit a strong recollection of having the "unsettling" experience of déjà vu itself, but little or no recollection of the specifics of the event(s) or circumstance(s) they were "remembering" when they had the déjà vu experience. In particular, this may result from an overlap between the neurological systems responsible for short-term memory and those responsible for long-term memory (events which are perceived as being in the past). The events would be stored into memory before the conscious part of the brain even receives the information and processes it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0_vu

Du Quois: "This is Chevalier, Montage, Detente, Avant Garde, and Deja Vu."

Deja Vu: "Haven't we met before?"

Nick Rivers: "I don't think so."

- Top Secret

Total Recall and The Matrix were two that fascinated me. I like the word 'anomaly'.

I, like George Carlin, often get Vuja De- the odd feeling that I am about to do something that I have never done before.

I wonder how reincarnation would be affected by Deja Vu. Personally, I can't remember any of my reincarnations. I did enjoy that one episode with the X-Files. Could you imagine if you did have prior life experiences and could remember all of them how it would affect your present life?

That would be pretty bizarre. Personally, the episode you speak of is one of my ALL TIME favourite episodes of The X-Files. The idea of having a bond with someone that is so strong that it permeates space and time is a very attractive thought.

I really liked it, too. I liked when Kung Fu or I should say Grasshopper (David Carradine) traded places with his grandfather who also was Grasshopper in a formal life when you think about it. It has had an affect on different cultures in different ways.

Déjà vu


RE:The most likely explanation of déjà vu is not that it is an act of "precognition" or "prophecy", but rather that it is an anomaly of memory, giving the false impression that an experience is "being recalled"


I had one that definitely was not a false impression. I entered a restaurant I had never been in before. I remembered being there and I remembered that moment, but I remembered that there was a model train in the restaurant. At the time of the feeling, there was no train.

I asked the waitress, "Is there a train in here?" She said "Yes, but I guess it hasn't been started yet. Then a few minutes later, the train could be seen going around its little track.

That's no false impression.

I don't think reincarnation has anything to do with Deja Vu. Deja Vue has to do with time.

An event exists in the present moment. The future and the past don't really exist. When you are having a deja vu, you are experiencing an expanded awareness of the moment and event that is in progress. It seems like a memory, but that is not what it is. It is simply information about the present event expanded slightly.

Stephen King wrote a short story about deja vu titled That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French

That is hysterical! I just might have to read that story. I'm normally not a Stephen King fan.

It's in his short story collection Everything's Eventual.

Thanks. I will have to check it out. :)

Stephen King's "The Langoliers" is another good one. I especially liked when the blue wrench was portrayed. It seems that we sometimes wish to prove our dejavus.

Wow......I feel....

Like I've been here before!!!!!

Deja Vu is you remember that you have already done this many many many time before...reincarnation goes in a big circle and you rexperience the same lives over and over again...and eventually you start to remember..it "bleed's through" as ram dass said in the yoga's of the bhagavad gita...how ever I have personally experienced this knowledge through deep meditative states and what is written the gita confirmed that for me.


peace