What is D'eja 'vu?

Answer 1

Deja vu is when you have visited a place for the first time in your life and suddenly you get the strangest sensation that you've been there before, you've seen and been in the same room, house, park, etc. You could be having a conversation with someone and suddenly a strong sensation can come over you that you have had this same conversation and been in this same room with the same person, somehow you have seen all this before, but you know that you have not. Maybe you have been to a social event and sat quietly looking around when you suddenly realise that somehow you have seen the same people in the same room before [they could be strangers or friends]. Some people feel lightheaded or dizzy when they've experienced this and it only lasts for a few seconds or minutes, but the impression that you've been there before is very strong. There is also the thought that it is a misfiring in the brain that makes you mislabel some thing as having happened before. Cues from the current situation may subconsciously trigger retrieval of an earlier experience. Scientists say that deja vu is actually not real. They say it happens when one eye lid closes a split second slower than the other one so you are getting the image twice therefore you feel like you actually have experienced it already.

Answer 2

Deja vu is a slight anomaly in your memory, where there's a slight delay where the image doesn't get to your brain as quick as normal. Giving you the feeling that you've seen this before.

Answer 3

Deja vu - a French expression meaning 'already seen' - the sense you sometimes have that you have been somewhere before, even though you haven't been there.