what´s a deja vu?

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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.

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. 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

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The illusion of remembering scenes and events when experienced for the first time, a feeling that one has seen or heard something before
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dé·jà vu (dzhä v) KEY

NOUN:

Psychology The illusion of having already experienced something actually being experienced for the first time.

An impression of having seen or experienced something before: Old-timers watched the stock-market crash with a distinct sense of déjà vu.
Dull familiarity; monotony: the déjà vu of the tabloid headlines.
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When you suddenly feel like you have already done this,

feeling of a experince you had before like I WAS HERE BEFORE

It's when you feel like you've experienced something before.

literally means "already seen", basically it's your brain thinking that's it's already seen something or something similar.it's no big deal. Just a past memory colliding with a current thought.at least that is my take on it.

It's when you feel like you've experienced something before.

It could be something you dreamed and then later it came true.

The feeling that you are experiencing something you have already experienced before. The feeling that you are experiencing something you have already experienced before.

where u feel like somethn has allready happened to u

i think i have seen this question before. Naw just my imagination

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