Déjà vu


I’m jus writing this coz I couldn’t find an answer to a question a friend asked me jus now… May be someone else might have an answer to it…
wht’s with déjà vu? Wht’s the significance o it? hmmm!!! Now tht is something . Not really an arbit thought but jus a thought.
Y do u feel some things have happened befo’ even though u know deep down tht they haven’t really? Wht’s with havin to experience déjà vu with a person over n over again….? I don’t know? Do u ? I’m serious. Pen down wht u have to say bout it…. I’m thinking bout it all the time … maybe on some ideal Monday morning when I getup to leave for office I might jus be struck by the Answer till then I’m searchin… N the search is on till I find that ideal Monday morning…

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Anonymous said…
The term déjà vu is French and means, "Already seen." Those who have experienced the feeling describe it as an overwhelming sense of familiarity with something that shouldn't be familiar at all. Say, for example, you are traveling to sum place for the first time, and you are visiting a place there, and suddenly it seems as if you have been in that very spot before. Or maybe you are having dinner with a group of close friends, discussing some heart touching issues, and you have the feeling that you've already experienced this very thing -- same friends, same dinner, and same topic.

The experience of déjà vu 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.

The phenomenon is rather complex, and there are many different theories as to why déjà vu happens
As much as 70 % of people in the world report having experienced some form of déjà vu. The higher number of incidents occurs in people 15 to 25 years old than in any other age group.


Since déjà vu occurs in individuals with and without a medical condition, there is much speculation as to how and why this phenomenon happens. Several psychoanalysts attribute déjà vu to simple fantasy or wish fulfillment, while some psychiatrists ascribe it to a mismatching in the brain that causes the brain to mistake the present for the past. Many parapsychologists believe it is related to a past-life experience.

On the other hand, the déjà vu experience may be due to having seen pictures or heard vivid stories many years earlier. The experience may be part of the dim recollections of childhood.

However, 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.

Even I have experiences the same and the reason I believe for that is that you have been thinking bout the same either before you are sleeping or it’s been there in you subconscious mind for a long. You have been thinking bout the matter or situation for a long time.
11/14/2006 12:49 PM
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