Can sumone explain how deja vu works?

Question

Can sumone explain how deja vu works?

Answer 1

Here is a link explaining DejaVu in detail.

The more you know....

Psi

Answer 2

It's just a feeling or a sensation of having been somewhere before or experiencing a moment that makes you think it has happened before.

Answer 3

it's a feeling that something that just occurred had happened exactly the same.

Answer 4

it's a repetition of what u've have seen something similar as something else. Like if u dream something, and it really happens for real......................i think

Answer 5

Hey Matt.....I know you're pretty worried about deja vu and links to your anxiety. Here's a site that describes that the two may be related.

Get a Dr.'s appt to discuss this. Worrying about this will create more anxiety and you can get help. You don't have to do this only online or alone!

Good luck!!!

Links with disorders

Early researchers tried to establish a link between deja vu and serious psychopathology such as schizophrenia, anxiety, and dissociative identity disorder, with hopes of finding the experience of some diagnostic value. However, there does not seem to be any special association between deja vu and schizophrenia or other neurotic conditions. [9]. However, the strongest pathological association of déjà vu is with temporal lobe epilepsy.[10][11] This correlation has led some researchers to speculate that the experience of déjà vu is possibly a neurological anomaly related to improper electrical discharge in the brain. As most people suffer a mild (i.e. non-pathological) epileptic episode regularly (e.g. the sudden "jolt", a hypnagogic jerk, that frequently occurs just prior to falling asleep), it is conjectured that a similar (mild) neurological aberration occurs in the experience of déjà vu, resulting in an erroneous sensation of memory.

Answer 6

Well......you might hav observed that you are having a dream and wen u wake up u cant remember it.....Well thats just it wen u see some thing similar to the forgoten dream u get the feeling that it has happened before.......!!

Answer 7

Déjà vu (pronounced /ˈdeɪʒɑː ˈvuː/ (help·info); French /deʒa vy/ (help·info) "already seen"; also called paramnesia, from Greek παρα para, "parallel" + μνήμη mnēmē, "memory") is the experience of feeling sure that one has witnessed or experienced a new situation previously (an individual feels as though an event has already happened or has repeated itself). 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", 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".

The experience of déjà vu seems to be very common; in formal studies 70% of people 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. It has been extremely difficult to invoke the déjà vu experience in laboratory settings, therefore making it a subject of few empirical studies. Recently, researchers have found ways to recreate this sensation using hypnosis.[1]

Answer 8

Deja vu is when your brain is processing a new thought/observation as if it's a memory.  You are remembering something that has never happened, as it happens.  It's a glitch in the wiring.

Answer 9

Basically, it's a misfiring in your brain - it causes your brain to file a new experience as a repeated one, which is why you get the feeling you've done this before even if you haven't.

Answer 10

simply stated...if you see something, hear something or go to a place that you have a feeling that you have seen, heard or been to before...that is deja vu.