What is déjà vu? What is déjà vu? - Michael Molina

What causes the sensation of déjà vu? Dive into the theories and psychology that could explain why you’re having that feeling… again.
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You might have felt it -- the feeling that you've experienced something before, but, in reality, the experience is brand new. There are over 40 theories that attempt to explain the phenomenon of déjà vu. Michael Molina explains how neuroimaging and cognitive psychology have narrowed down the theories that could explain that feeling you're having...again.
Lesson by Michael Molina, animation by Josh Harris.
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[@shahmd4334]

When i was young and had deja vu i thought i had some kind of power to predict the future and no one else did.

[@cocobust761]

Yeah me too!

[@chippy_lol6958]

Shah md mohtadinur Rahman SAMEEE I THOUGHT I COULD PREDICT THE FUTURE i was like “I cannot tell ANYONE they will tell the government and will be a test subject!!!”

[@fategrafit4792]

Creeper Aww man IS THAT A JOJO REFERENCE

[@StarrySkies]

Sometimes I feel like I can through my dreams... I get a dream and after a while I see the same situation...

[@edgycatprisun3313]

@@StarrySkies omg same, or I would just randomly think of it.

[@saiiltothemoon]

can dejavu also happen in dreams? because sometimes I have a dream and years later I LIVE the dream

[@saiiltothemoon]

***** lol

[@ta0ji]

That happens to me to, but not YEARS later, Only a few times it happens years later. It's almost like I can predict the future. I think really deep about it, it's really creepy...

[@ta0ji]

+Ferret It's scary. I know. I've had it since I was 2 or 3.

[@cyrusdarkblood7385]

Talking from the supernatural standpoint that is called a premonition; to dram of something and later experience it or it happen. One of my theories is that its like a self-fulfilling prophecy; because you dreamed something it is stored in your subconscious and you unknowingly make it happen. This only works when its about yourself though.. my family has somewhat of a history with premonitions.. the one I think of most is how my mother dreamed of her father not being at her wedding before he later died. I like the idea that dejavu is a glimpse into what I call our sister reality; the reality exactly opposite ours, a place where a version of you has made the opposite decision of every decision you made. If you chose to make a left turn, the other you would have made right.

[@screenblind-jujus1190]

What if you've had that cliché dream that you went to school in your underwear...? Or where you are falling off a cliff...?

[@ChristWillSlayTheNWO]

I remember hearing a theory that Deja Vu is actually when there is a glitch in your brain that makes an event that just happened accidentally go to the long-term memory instead of the short-term. Which would explain why even though you just experienced the event it feels like it's already happened before in the past. Idk... this theory kind of makes the most sense to me 🤷‍♀️

[@AbcDef-kq4dg]

one hemisphere is slower than the other

[@yuga8810]

This is the only theory that makes sense tbh

[@arinakaiser9204]

this is the only sensible theory

[@2riel]

My 8th grade science teacher told me this too!

[@julyflymyyah]

This actully makes sense

[@jordanbeggs2400]

What's weird is that whenever I feel deja vu, I always vividly remember it happening before, but also remember feeling deja vu when it did happen before. I guess it is possible that the specific events that occur are just common and are so similar that my brain just thinks that they were in fact the same larger event.

[@recon17]

same for me too

[@vareemramjim880]

i m also the same

[@aarya2674]

same

[@eunicemwicigi8104]

so do I

[@omrsaeed719]

Yeah, Exactly !

[@shinobihawk8668]

I want to share my experience: when a deja vu happens it feels like i have that in my dream . Dream which you dont remember but recognize it when you see it again . The conversation around me is same aswell and the time feels as if had slowed down for a while

[@angaddebnath4895]

It happened to me too I had dreams but this takes after a few years then i suddenly remember the dream what about you i had it thrice

[@garima75]

OMG! I've experienced just the same thing!!

[@tubeyou89119]

Exactly the same

[@NancyChizea]

Same! Its crazy

[@thestarstarla]

Adnan Saifee you explained the feeling perfectly

[@eternitychu]

I don’t know if it’s just me or everybody, have you ever dreamed of a certain scene that haven’t happened in real life, and that scene happened a few days later?

[@leslygarcia3491]

yes that has happend to me

[@Amya.]

Yep I just had three deju vu attacks today from three different dreams.

[@fallinlight3944]

i did lol

[@kdjoshi726]

Yes. I saw myself standing in my grandma's funeral a few hours before my dad came up with the news of my grandma passing away

[@BTSarmy-ll6uy]

Yes me I have experienced it a couple timess

[@GatesOfHades1]

I had deja vu before.. heres the story: i was traveling when i said to my family “isn’t this the same place we’ve been 1 year ago?” And my family said “huh? This is your first time coming here.” And i was shocked that i recognized the mountains places and all when we got home i had my 2nd deja vu in the hotel i said: woah this really is deja vu im experiencing

[@searchingforaname592]

Here is my experience : It's was just 2days before my exmas. I was giving revision form a new PDF. I was writting the answer and my father was sitting besides me, I felt that I had seen it before. Not only that the way of writting the answers on the copy was same too. I also felt that I knew what my father was going to say .

[@jez9999]

I don't buy the "familiarity" theory. When I have deja vu, it feels like I have been in the *exact* same situation under the *exact* same conditions. I think the brain is interpreting current events as a memory or something.

[@BlueStarise]

+Jeremy Morton Same here. I used to get it as much as three times a day... luckily it doesn't happen as much anymore

[@jackpotsb3]

I agree with that idea that the brain is simply misinterpreting things as a memory so it feels like you "remember" a situation that is actually happening for the first time

[@wompaper]

+Jeremy Morton Yea I also think that the brain somewhat mistakenly connects the ongoing information with an "empty memory" or something. It's because most of my deja-vu's are actually verbal speech - it's like observing a conversation and thinking "yep, I've lived through this convo before" and when I recognize the deja-vu I always try to pay attention and push my brain to try to remember the next line in the conversation - this of course never happens but it's like it's on the tip of your lip and just as you hear the next like you're like "damn, now I remember".. I mean wtf brain..

[@code988yay]

U may have been there in one of the many dreams u have that u instantly forget

[@stoar]

There's a theory that instead of passing through short-term memory into long-term memory, the memory goes into long-term immediately. If you keep viewing the scene, the brain calls up this "long-term" memory as something you saw a long time ago instead of the same moment.

[@jeffrey1714]

I think deja vu is when a scene reminds you of a dream you had. But because dreams are mostly forgotten, you can't remember where you've seen it before.

[@ahuman8725]

EnderMCx I believe this is the answer aswell

[@tommykornfeld2470]

EnderMCx ikr

[@youneskasdi]

So you are telling me that we can see the future in our dreams ?

[@unidentifiedflyingtaco4601]

yeah, that's what I felt. I dreamed about moving to bay city when I was 10, and the next week my Mom divorced from my dad, and we moved to bay city. The only reason I remembered this dream was that it was super-scary to me.

[@alec95]

Most deja vu things are situations that are not really uncommon. Eating in a restaurant, taking a test in school, moving, having a certain conversation. Given the amount we dream, the probability that our brain makes up situations like these at some point is pretty much 100%. So eventually we will live through something we have dreamt about before. Not 100% accurately but we forget so many details of our dreams that the basic things in the situation are the same. I have a little notebook I write my dreams into and some of them happened, always with that deja vu feeling. But as I said, they were really basic things. Like going to a new school and having new classmates. And one girl in my class looked like one in that dream. I'm not saying I have some ability to see the future in my dreams but rather my dreams are sometimes "realistic" enough for them to possibly happen in real life. Nothing more than a coincidence, IMO.

[@valkyriehutton4556]

These are interesting theories and I've enjoyed all your stories. I do genuinely believe in different experiences with deja vu, but I'm surprised they didn't mention epilepsy. I read about my symptoms and one of the weird things is a feeling of deja vu during a seizure. This happens to me often.

[@_IDFK]

Same! I was surprised they didn't mention it in the vid (although I reckon the 1st explanation could be the technical part of that), and yours is the first comment to say anything about it, so, thanks for that! For me, it's like a switch clicks (or the focal seizure/whatever dejavu is starts) and colours get brighter, sounds more echo-y somehow and basically it's then like I know exactly what's going to happen and what everyone is going to say for a minute or so... it's the craziest feeling, like tripping and seeing the micro-future at the same time, lol. I guess that's the more entertaining side of temporal lobe epilepsy! ;)

[@kelseyziomkowski1623]

I have generalized epilepsy, but this is how some of my seizures start. It’s exactly like you’ve described. Trippy is a near perfect word. Also everything seems to slow way down or speed up and become very high def depending on the severity of the seizure

[@TrondArneAusdal]

It is actually a theory that Paul (Jesus` diciple) had epilepsy, and that it was the epilepsy that gave him his hallusinations. Its a common thing for certain types of epilepsy. I once read about a guy who laid down on the rail track - someone (voices) told him to do it. He lost both his legs and is now in a wheel chair.

[@mommainthekitchen]

Wow! That was explained so well....thank you!

[@user-sz1gn4pu8g]

It is just a bug it will be patched in the next update

[@_rehmz_]

TwenZy lollll

[@sadpowie]

Lol

[@bumwahidahmed3695]

Yea this version also sucks another bug called corona virus needs to be fixed too

[@Heinz_Egbert]

@@bumwahidahmed3695its breaking the damm meta!

[@aarushisingh6370]

A glitch in the matrix

[@haozervideos3396]

me: mom I just had deja vu mom: *it's because of that damn phone!*

[@prashantkrishnankutty6038]

Hahahahaha

[@skbkbs189]

True man. My mom always blames phone for anything that happen to me

[@darrencheung469]

Praveen K S same here

[@miadeita6535]

Me too... My phone and my mom are enemy

[@SeekerHeir]

MOMS AND PHONES ARE LIKE *OIL AND WATER*

[@Neha71580]

It's definitely something else. There were times when I'm having conversation with a group of people (or listening in most likely because i'm more of a listener), and when Deja Vu hits, I feel like I've heard or had this exact conversation before, in the same place, but it's impossible logically.

[@reyan3791]

Yeah,one time I was drinking soup with my father and I remembered that it happened already it’s kinda creepy

[@sweetcorm]

One time I went on a trip for 10 days. Throughout the whole trip I had deja vu multiples of times. But the thing is that I saw all of those moments in a dream a few days before the trip itself and the deja vu feeling was more of a remembrance of that fact. That isn’t even the only example of the same thing happening but this one is the most vibrant and distinct one

[@tanishagupta394]

When she said ' Are you paying attention?' I got so scared because I was reading comments and thought it was my teacher

[@keziahkwateng4522]

Me too 🤣

[@Anx10203]

HAHAHAHAAH THAT MADE MY DAY

[@krissy172]

And I was reading your comments when she asked 'are you paying attention'🤨

[@gurumbam]

HAHAHAHAH SO FUNNY

[@asiagowda1683]

And now it's super weird that I was reading your comment and she said "are you paying attention?" At the same time 😂😂 what a coincidence

[@theglasswolf3206]

I had ‘double’ deja vu once. I was watching a tv show when I had deja vu and then I had deja vu about having deja vu. Edit: It’s been ten months since I wrote this comment, and I had a similar experience a few days ago. It’s odd to say the least.

[@amritpalsinghdhir3066]

I Have had one of those!

[@flopin9888]

I had a quadrouple déjà vu once! Those happen to me every so often (multiple ones in a row)

[@karishort1891]

Lol time loop

[@TheSquirt5000]

i have those more then regular daja vu, i also have good memory which may be connected.

[@premierefinishes]

huh yo can get THAT;/

[@amanmahato3897]

I love the déjà vu . Thanks for explaining it.

[@abhijitbadgujar2443]

Loved what you did with the title. Smart.

[@user-cu8nn9fw7r]

Does anyone else notice that when you get Deja vu everything slows down?

[@harinderjitsinghdhaliwal5933]

Same

[@Youkai_arts]

And the whole world goes round and round. ....

[@poojanegi5418]

Same

[@user-cu8nn9fw7r]

Arjyama Maity | yea that too 😂

[@swapnilmishra4123]

Yeah!

[@ankanabiswas1328]

deja vu is the spoiler scene of life..

[@ankanabiswas1328]

it happened to me when I was talking with a group of people and I knew what the other person was gonna say next..

[@rajns8643]

@@ankanabiswas1328 And your next line is..... *Menacing*

[@sabihaali939]

@@ankanabiswas1328 same

[@angelaramirez3711]

Deja vu is a scence of future

[@11stem2d-delacruz6]

@@rajns8643 JOSEFUUU JOESTARR

[@rrmez9743]

Loved the play of words

[@drphosferrous]

I like the explanation in norse mythology: Time is cyclical and the universe begins and ends over and over, so all the events of our lives and times are repeating very similar but not exactly the same as the last time. Sometimes events seem familiar or predicted like a foggy memory because the part of us that doesn't die has seen it happen before.

[@erickgarciajohansson6869]

Just wanted to share my weirdest deja vu experience. I was in middle school and my class was assigned a math test which, when I got it, I immidiately called out to the teacher "we´ve already done this test before". Not at all, noone else recognized the questions and the teacher confirmed it was a brand new test. I was the only one in the class who passed that test without a single error because I honestly felt like I had written it before and recognized every question. would have been cool if that could have happend for every test though...

[@noname-wk3nl]

bruh that was cool 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@Ziro_kun]

Bruh...

[@bulldozer3582]

Deja vuuuuuuuuuu uuuuuuuuuuuuuu

[@Iseeyou0165]

Mate, I would love to have that kind of deja vu lmao a

[@Red-zw7oz]

Man thats a huge bonus

[@KiwiTheRetroGal]

When I have a Deja Vu moment, I think that I saw that scene in a dream

[@banadakoirala7165]

but at the same time it feels like its not a dream

[@animeislife6229]

Same

[@jeanevyazuelo2273]

Real

[@animeislife6229]

@@jeanevyazuelo2273 I think its real because it happens to me before but i cant remember

[@zanqriaa3690]

om- I found somebody thats soo relatable ;-; samesame

[@isabellamorfitt841]

This video set my brain on fire

[@whitneyprior3263]

the first theory us so cool i've never thought of it like that

[@lunesre417]

Literally had a Deja vu yesterday and This vid came into my recommended I’m scared now

[@bonkadoom]

Google knows

[@arttukettunen5757]

Dude I have many deja vu situations a week

[@lilbich6576]

Same like me yesterday we went to a tea house with friends and my friend a lady jumped one step because of a rock and I followed also jumped because I was walking after her and boom deja vu!, I never search anything related to it but this video shows in my recommendation, creepy right?

[@indecisiveexplorer4565]

I wrote about Deja Vu yesterday, on paper. And this video came up. It happens that way a lot with me with the video and real life connection. It's scary at first but you get used to it.

[@daliovic24]

Think about the several times that you had a déjà vu and no videos came up

[@branthebrave]

They should have played the video twice

[@mattyonsurvey]

+Brandon Boyer I agree. I agree.

[@branthebrave]

Matty Jean Hahaha I get it. Hahaha I get it.

[@randompeo4521]

Wow. Wow.

[@funkblack]

+Justin Rara Don't get it. Don't get it.

[@dmuckiwatchi9376]

+Brandon Boyer Lol

[@bonnienguyen8373]

The first theory is so cool I've never thought of it like that.

[@chikumboo]

Great explained !👏🏻

[@deanneradam7444]

so it's basically like we're experiencing glitches

[@oneflakes2319]

That’s deep

[@LJlight]

A glitch in the matrix.... maybe our subconscious mind knows it and dreams of it because we experience it in the future....

[@yashbhandakkar3959]

Dark

[@raunakgiri21]

@@LJlight or someone just travelled the time

[@aminanazeer6864]

A glitch in the matrix

[@alexsparks-bakota3099]

“Is it your brain just acting slow?” Oh yeah then I get it all the time

[@linwoodvalentine7693]

I believe many can relate lol

[@kaylublol9498]

Alex Sparks-Bakota 666th like 😎😎

[@CKzoidYT]

No its your eyes acting slow as one eye sees it first and reports it to the brain then the second eye see the same thing but it gets reported a bit slower

[@Error340GTL]

i just experienced one of the strongest deja vu of my life. whenever this happened my heart started beating fast and strong and i thought that i was stuck in some time loop or it was just a dream dream and im gonna wake up somewhere.

[@beyourself4996]

I hear a lot of this world now, I get explanation thank you so much!

[@LinhLe-em1br]

i dream about stuff, and then they happen again years or months later, i hate it cause i feels so weird

[@gingerneko7811]

Linh Le It happens to me as well.

[@kevinofthesharingan9600]

ikr

[@anikaedenboyer1195]

same

[@alexpunsalan5786]

yeah

[@wilytw]

SAME!

[@caito26]

I have deja vu in ways where situations from my dreams have occurred and then reenacted in the exact same way often involving being in a specific location I have never visited in real life and a odd conversation being played out exactly the same as it has in my dream. So none of those theories fit my experiences - would be interesting to hear the others.

[@DoubleNN]

+Caitlin Hobbs Yeah, I know sometimes I would just sit there, a lot of familiar things happen, and I think "oh yeah, I remember this, now, *this* will happen" And then *that* happens. How is that even possible without the bending of ones perception of time, and why is it not universal meaning you can see your future but have no control over it? I can sometimes think of it a few hours before it actually happens. It is weird though.

[@arbyzeiraj2681]

+Caitlin Hobbs the theory i believe is that deja vu is a enxperince we had in our past lifes :)

[@jaelisKU]

+Caitlin Hobbs thats how i feel too! THere have been so many times where i just thought " I could almost swear I had a dream about this years ago.." Its always just a snippet, and sometimes even includes me thinking about how I had a dream about this before...

[@nixgalexa7244]

+Caitlin Hobbs Me too! When this happens I purposely disrupt it by doing something I did not do in the dream. But now the dreams of the future now have me disrupting them, and now I have to intensify it.

[@provo6816]

I only have had it through my dreams too

[@DaveWasHere112]

I’ve had deja vu happen to me many times before. When I’m in a situation I instantly “remember” it as if I’ve already done this even though I never have. It’s truly a strange moment.

[@user-nm4gt9zx7k]

The 1st theory seems the most convincing to me. It definitely has to do with processing information and storing into our memory. Sometimes something goes wrong and the events get recorded not as what's happening right now, but as what has happened in the past which leads to that weird feeling known as 'Deja Vu'.

[@potatoesare_jesus2278]

To all the people saying that they Had a dream And experience that dream many years later, That is something called Déjà Rêve and it means “Already Dreamed”

[@iamokay0497]

Some people could even be talking about Prophetic Dreams

[@christallebristol7512]

So basically reoccurring dreams?

[@undeaddragon9612]

no more like a dream has come to life

[@DC-zh5qs]

Thanks for the info

[@perlaserafini9999]

I've had soo many times and I finally know how it's called

[@PlanetYokoshima]

When a Deja-vu starts with me, I can usually remember what will be coming next :(

[@conqmain2751]

Ikr

[@Abhishek-ue6tj]

It happens to everyone

[@potatoavocado9991]

Same

[@abdirahmanmohamed4196]

Same

[@menace2societies]

To start with, Deja vu is an event happened already in the past and future. Your past is already determined by your future, your future is already determined by the past. It’s time paradox... all the things you do is already your fate on your future. Every 33 years your cycle is the beginning and an end. Every thing happened before or after the cycle is determined by time. If you could see past and future at the same time, things cannot be changed because time is a hyperbeast. -The Emerald Tablet’s Member 2052-1921

[@mckayleepugmire9947]

I sometimes remember dreaming about something happening as that something happens, and I feel like most people experience that as deja vu. I've used it to unlock something before, but mostly it makes me confident about my choices in that moment.

[@AlonsoLioneth]

Dreams and déjà vus are so fascinating!

[@obliquefrost124]

Legend has it that the plate of spaghetti is still falling while the waiter is trying to catch it.

[@kaswaranab352]

Pasta! 😌

[@realprisec]

@@kaswaranab352 yeah logic 0.

[@reymartbara2206]

It's all becuz of gravity

[@bonoloto-7650]

Oh you’re a genius

[@illogicalGhost]

"is your brain just acting slow?" all the time, next question

[@rasyarawal06]

illogicalGhost my thoughts exactly 😂

[@iiwitherminecraft2787]

It came in the same time I've read the comment

[@shobhitkumar1971]

@@iiwitherminecraft2787 Same 😂

[@ThePereubu1710]

The most logical explanation I ever heard - this was during a discussion with some pretty clever people even though none of us were neurologists - was as follows. On encountering a situation, our brain has to process the new information and we sometimes describe this as "thoughts". Our brain also processes stored information AKA "memories" Occasionally, the brain misprocesses a "thought" as a "memory" I've no idea if this is even a true representation of how the brain works (like I said, none of us who were discussing this work in this area) but it made sense to those of us around the pub table!

[@jespowell5254]

whenever i used to have deja vu, it would be at school in the classroom or something i’ve seen in my dreams that comes true. i used to feel like i didn’t exist in that moment and that i was just… nothing. it always made me feel so empty so i’m glad it hasn’t happened recently.

[@krovedills]

It's a glitch in the matrix, don't you know?

[@kobathedread]

Meow ..................................Meow

[@23kofi]

I'm afraid that could be true. Now the question is which pill are you going to take? The red or the blue?

[@matthewskywalker2975]

both, purple

[@23kofi]

Haha! Witty @Matthew Walker

[@flappybird5067]

+Sambuca Wd so where in a matrix dun dun dah!

[@chuckyb9469]

Jonas: "If the world is a simulation, deja vu is a glitch in a matrix." Martha: "Or the message from the other side."

[@jana8977]

I was thinking about this 😂

[@Bingus453]

Dark Fans Reunite. 💪💪

[@ZadeGhawi9]

A man of culture

[@blaaahhh]

Dark family😂😂

[@JamieBarrington]

Der anfang ist das ende und das ende ist der anfang.

[@indriyahapsari]

I used to have deja vu really often and got diagnosed with lateral temporal lobe epilepsy, which one of the symptoms are having deja vu. Took me a while to realize that sometimes it comes with great migraine for days or weeks. It’s basically one kind of seizures we need to control by medicine otherwise it’s getting worse, at least for my case.

[@jelenalola9419]

How often would you get them?

[@anonymousleapyear5616]

I used to have SUPER frequent Deja vu when I was little, and whenever I did I would get a minnie stomach ache at the same time as the Deja vu, but over the years both have lessened and now I don't seem to have any physical effects when I get Deja vu. but this reaction has led me to believe that Deja vu is connected to some sort of process in the brain and the reason I would get the stomach aches was rooted in some sort of connection to that process messing with something that resulted in me getting a stomach ache. however it is also possible that since Deja vu would freak me out so much it was more of a butterflies in the tummy kind of thing

[@Noodlepony]

That first theory sounds the best

[@ajtepal8596]

Actually all of them happen to me The three of them are correct at the same time

[@syrmik2686]

@@ajtepal8596 How can you know? When your brain itself is the one that got tricked

[@Eyngii]

I was at my gfs home. We were chillin' on the bed and watching a movie. Suddenly I said: "I know this situation. We are watching this movie and your sister will come into the room now". The door opens and her sister came into the room 😶

[@Anx10203]

UM OKAY- THAT IS TOTALLY NOT WEIRD AT ALL- But tbh that is also so cool lol you jusy predicted it WOW haha nice

[@random_person233]

HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE

[@sumareddy9784]

@@random_person233 it’s called as déjà vu

[@MNaga-ty6wp]

Yessss this is what I always believe can happen. Predicting the immediate future when in deja vu.

[@boredom4475]

But what i do is like changing the future since its much fun

[@Illumeastrology]

I’m living now what I dreamed as a kid. Broken pieces of dreams all in a row. I know this because the dreams were absolutely unforgettable I remembered having them. Then 30 years later I experience them and why I have so much deja vu because I dreamt it all first. Yes I remember many of my dreams.

[@miralchokr4137]

So this is what deja vu is, so I sometimes get deja vu, but never actually really got more introduced in to the topic. Thank god this video existed to help me through deja vu and the explanation.

[@saumyaramchandran6338]

'Unfortunately there isn't any single explanation for deja vu' Moms: it's the phones.

[@Bartman35SeasonsStrong]

Nah but listen to your mom

[@SussyBaka-ci5xi]

karens*

[@karenmcdonald4263]

@@SussyBaka-ci5xi Will ya quit with the Karens already....!!!

[@deadlybeastusar9471]

Hi

[@castaways1769]

@@nabsterific LMAO

[@doubledashtwo]

"Déjà Vu is a glitch from the matrix. Or a message from the other side." -DARK

[@nageshc1972]

can you explain .... i've never hard of it !!

[@II-cq5gb]

The diag is originally from the matrix

[@shreenikethanv6241]

Gave me chills after reading that second part. "Tje other side".

[@erapathania4308]

that's what I think everytime I get a deja vu

[@tzimgeo1929]

Never believe anything else

[@EnjoyingLife2024]

"Already seen" = "already lived". TY for helping me understand why a new situation seems almost identical to an event I lived thru before. This time, however, I'm prepared to handle the situation so that it isn't damaging to me or to the numerous people I represent. There's a saying the universe will keep testing you to see if you've learned the past lessons. So, I'd better show that I learned this lesson and learned it well. Deja vu is real. 💯

[@samiya2765]

when I get a deja vu I get shivers down my spine ,and time seems slowed down and for a moment I get lost in my memory

[@korncobb6826]

When I have deja vu, it feels like something I've seen in a movie, or a dream.

[@flow1465]

Is it like a supernatural power or something?

[@yeyes9557]

+Batman Basically everybody have Deja vu. so no its not

[@marissageldersma8882]

Same with me! I feel like I had a dream about it

[@flow1465]

Animal Partie I never had one.

[@ss-kip]

Kyley Cobb yeah...sometimes.. in real life..!!!

[@hwng2754]

i just recently found that it's called deja vu, all this time i thought i had superpower "i can see the future". hahahhah

[@sirshadebnath4283]

Me too....i thought it was paranormal or super natural

[@57-kaustubhjain22]

Me too 😁

[@4havn]

YoMaTeHazel swear

[@MeyMey-lc7th]

Ikr!

[@shinobihawk8668]

YoMaTeHazel you are not the only one 😂

[@davidnewport456]

When I was a very small child I just assumed that we kept living exactly the same life over and over again and would go back to the start and recommence the whole process. A bit like a movie on repeat. And every now and then when something happened we would remember it from last time and what would happen next.

[@ruthmclean8018]

I've always thought/felt that deja vu was something that we experienced in our previous life. (as a spiritualist, I believe in multiple lives). I think that it's a similar moment that is, like the second theory said, playing out in your head wrong. so maybe there's a familiar object? a familiar moment? I don't know, that's just what I feel.

[@pradeepviswanathan6375]

When i was a child, i thought i am mutant, having some super power😂

[@nidhi9652]

I still do lmao

[@Padhnahipadega]

Exactly i thought😁😁

[@DEEPAP-xs2ds]

Lmao

[@anushkapatil6906]

I thought it too lmao

[@maya07_11]

same lol like I guessed my friend's grade and I believed that I had a super power

[@inanjarif1388]

Everyone asks "What is déjà vu?" But no one asks "How is déjà vu?" :(

[@HeyManan]

*Sad déjà vu noises*

[@Zeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee]

Or “Where is déjà vu?” ;(

[@Project_Crazed]

Which is Déjà vu?

[@mathewpaul1341]

Sed bgm!

[@isabelamelo7155]

:(

[@odipglance5707]

Thank you

[@thomasd589]

thanks, this helped

[@shrovitz969]

Every time I feel Deja Vu I feel creepy, I remeber the same thing happening to me(even every word and every thing at its place), but its not that clear memory. Sometimes I feel like the future is already decided.

[@flamingaish]

Maybe

[@Anx10203]

Who knows On the other side that would be sad. Then we wouls just be living like machines and actually not really deciding anything. :,)

[@amberallan9034]

Wait I have a question.. hear me out. When I talk to a different boy I see him (him=the boy ik and love) 24/7 and idk why.. it’s weird- today I was playing a game and there was this random boy in the club and I was dancing with him thinking he is him but I knew it wasn’t him.. I can’t explain it- it’s hard. This boy in my school was talking to me but I thought it was him but everytime he talked, my mind went back to normal

[@boredom4475]

Nah u can still change the path u take

[@shrovitz969]

@@ribbyrosamossa2040 Feels confusing, well you will definitely feel it someday.

[@phenlism]

Someone somewhere is rewinding time and deja vu is a side effect of it.

[@glennellis5509]

phenlism i guess you've watched steins gate before

[@dipalibindra8027]

omg! I was about to comment the same thing! 😝

[@blsphmsrlty]

the second one makes so much sense

[@literally_dave]

A lot of people say that deja vu happenes in a dream and happens days later,for me deja vu is when I look at a certan person/action that is very vivid and then moments later I look away and when I look at the same spot again the thing that happened happens again!I know that was a mouthful.

[@veryfancysavior7265]

That's odd when I get déja vû I can predict the short future :/

[@lmlexi21]

For real. Me too! Happened way more when I was younger

[@trevorloeew]

I see the future when I sleep

[@leeanderson0775]

Trevor Loew y

[@PurpleSwils]

yeah, it's not only an "i have seen this before," moment, it's also, "I know what's going to happen next," only it never quite happens how i thought it would

[@stephanyreyes6138]

same

[@duckperson5533]

As a person that experiences déjà vu A L O T, i think the first theory is the most plausible.

[@hamza-trabelsi]

My only problem with the first theory and all of them actually , is that I actually dream about the deja vu , few days before , I dont remember when and or how , it is just there in my mind it happened recently . then when the Deja Vu moment comes , I recognize it, and i get goosebumps

[@duckperson5533]

@@hamza-trabelsi that must be pretty spooky to experience, but it also could be your brain making false memories that seem real

[@hamza-trabelsi]

@@duckperson5533 a false memory that matches a moment I live few days later ? is that a coincidence ? It not just visual , it is a feeling , Like for example carrying something in my hand or doing some action during that moment , I remember the action and how it feels ( heavy object in my hand ) , not just the image.

[@_sammybhai5465]

@@hamza-trabelsi this happens with me too many times I accurately recall what will happen next

[@angelxu5102]

@@hamza-trabelsi yaaassss same

[@krimokrimov6050]

Déjà vu used to happen to me repeatedly at times in my life, but it was accompanied by a headache for a minute or two and the feeling that I saw that event in a dream before

[@furettoarrosto3017]

i think that dreams have a connection to this… the fact that we do multiple dreams every night and we remember only a small amount of them when we wake up, so probably we have done a bunch of premonitory dream or we have just dreamed a lot of scenarios in our life and we don’t remember of that particular dream but our brain deeply memorized that

[@emluvslou]

I recently had déjà vu where I was remembering that I was having déjà vu in that moment, like I already knew it was going to happen to me. I can’t even explain how weird it was, but it was stronger than I’ve experienced before and felt like I was watching everything unfold in slow motion around me. Glitch in the matrix probably 😏

[@_IDFK]

or mild temporal lobe epilepsy.... That's what I have been diagnosed with anyway. (not just because of the deja vu, but it's a related symptom, not mentioned in vid)

[@ijd990]

Same

[@mokongthe3856]

same happened to me, just earlier, i was watching an Anime Spy x Family, and watch a scene and felt, wait a minute this feels like a Deja Vu? like I already seen the scene twice before. felt like inception but deja vu

[@MarlonValcq]

I had the exact same thing. It makes me wanna throw up sometimes, because I keep thinking about the déjà vu while the déjà vu of the déjà vu unfolds at the same time. Still amazes me

[@SudipRajbanshi05]

Same happens with me

[@tamidis5500]

None of these explain why in most of my De ja vu I can generally call the next two to three immediately upcoming events accurately.

[@nidhi9652]

The first one does. But personally the vagueness makes it a bit more interesting

[@mattlivingston2192]

@@nidhi9652 Nope, not really. I was at a friend's place and was suddenly overwhelmed with a sense that I *remembered* what would happen next - very specifically. It really felt like a memory, but I knew it had not happened yet. So, I literally called it. I said "In a moment, Andrea's gonna come down the stairs with a pair of nail scissors in her left hand." And sure enough, that was exactly what had happened, seconds after I had uttered my prediction. There were two other people that witnessed this and they could not understand how I could have known that (nor could I). The first theory, dual processing, does not explain how that could have happened, unless the exact same dual processing "fault" occurred synchronously in three separate people. Actually, not even that explains it. If it had been a synchronous dual processing fault, the others who witnessed it would have been able to make the same prediction. Disclaimer: we were all pretty baked at the time.

[@nidhi9652]

@@mattlivingston2192 Ah, the presence other people does make that theory fail, yes

[@saadaintsad]

Once, I was at a coaching center, and then suddenly it rained and as it started rained, I could simply tell what will be the next events. What will the one sitting behind me would do. Maybe my mind was working slowly and I was distracted. Maybe I am distracted cause my mind was slow at that time. Deja Vu! Deja Vu?

[@gamingx5326]

That's deja hu square

[@kristineximeno6739]

For me, whenever I have a strong deja vu, it is almost always guarantees I will not encounter that place or that person ever again. It always happens when I was about to change job. When it happens, I always think there is no way I will leave this job and it happens. I have experienced this so many times, so when it happens again, I always accept it no matter how impossible I think it will be. But, it gets scary when I experience it with a person, cause that means I will not see this person again. Or something will happen to them or my relationship with them. I remember when I was in a great marriage with my ex, I experienced it one day, the type of deja vu I know. I was thinking this is insane, there is no way my marriage will have problem. I told my ex that I have those deja vu again and its telling me that we will separate. He was laughing or ignored me. And now we are divorced. I don't think me thinking of it caused it. I always ignore it until these things happened so many times. Anyway, Im sure some people have the same experience as me, just not sure what caused it.

[@trollgod6467]

Can we all take a moment to appreciate the animation

[@flamingaish]

A moment given

[@anonymous52638]

Another moment given

[@mayas.g.m.7715]

A third moment given

[@sharath165]

take my moment too

[@dontknow-cm8fz]

A fifth moment given 😂

[@jaimie00]

When I have déjà vu, it is an overwhelming feeling, and every sound, smell, taste, the conversation I'm having...just everything is unfolding in a way that really feels as if all of it happened before. It usually lasts about 2 minutes, and a little way through it, I can even predict a type of thing that will happen. (And no, I don't believe I can actually predict the future. It's just how it feels.) I finally figured out that the déjà vu was happening because I was having simple partial seizures. My brain is a weird place to live.

[@iceisverynice]

very articulatley put..my deja vus are very similar to yours

[@jamesrichardson7619]

I also suffer from epilepsy, and my experiences of Déjà Vu (I've also been told that it may be Préja Vu in this case- where we know that what we are about to will feel determined?) trigger my seizures. I remember the first time it happened whilst having breakfast, and suddenly I knew I would pick up a spoon, and that I would pick up the spoon in such a precise, detailed, way, that I couldn't resist even if I tried. As if even down to the nanometer, the spoon absolutely had to be picked up in a particular way, and it is the only thing I could focus on or think about. When I have these I can't talk, tunnel vision descends, hearing fades away. As you say, very eloquently, it is overwhelming, and a very weird experience to have and recollect upon. I mention breakfast, because weirdly... it's always during breakfast. I have moved house and countries multiple times since it started... but something about Breakfast my Brain struggles with, despite the surroundings changing entirely. Since then I have learnt to fight against it, forcing myself not to do the action that I know is about to happen- which is very difficult because in these moments, I cannot remember that I am epileptic or even who I am, I just know that if I do the action *something* bad will happen, though I don't know what. It's the only way I can avoid seizures, and has worked for a couple of years now. (Grand mal/Tonic-Clonic in the temporal lobe, by the way.)

[@thebinlgbtisbabadook7832]

Same here. Everything is magnified and my heart and mind both race

[@_IDFK]

@@jamesrichardson7619 That is SO interesting! Thank you, I have never heard the term Préja Vu before, but that is exactly it, it's not 'already-seen', but 'about to-see' ! Lol, brilliant. (I also get jamais vu :( I have also found ways to 'resist' the seizures taking a grip sometimes, I didn't know that was possible, but am learning new coping techniques all the time, thanks man. And good luck avoiding those bilateral GTCS bastards! xx

[@kieraplays5197]

The first time I experienced déjà vu was in my year 5 camp. it was time to go swimming in the pool, after around 20 minutes I decided to spin around in a circle. bam, there it was. I felt as if I had been there before. Everyone was in the exact place of the memory. and to this day I still remember it so clearly...

[@mallowss8336]

I get this feeling every 3 days to 1 week~ I still don't know why but, I feel most events in my life are familiar, it creeps me out sometimes tbh

[@coryandrews9235]

Whenever I experience Deja Vu, it comes with the precise feeling that I saw this event play out in a dream, usually one I recall having had several weeks ago, but usually not considering the dream significant because the events depicted were so mundane. The descriptions of the theories given here don't quite accurately describe that sensation, but I think I may be combining memories in my head--I remember an event similar to the one I'm currently experiencing, and simultaneously, I remember having woken up from a mundane but slightly odd dream, and my brain connects those memories to a current event because of similar--but in reality, NOT identical--details.

[@Foatizenknechtl]

yeah man that sounds exactly like me :D

[@sweetcorm]

Absolutely same

[@anyazhang69]

deja vu is like the recap between episodes

[@iplaygames1497]

I think its just me having what's happen a million times in my head and processing so hard

[@Wow.....]

I searched his because I just had the weirdest dejavu... I was walking with my friend on a road and I asked her if she heard something she said yes. After that I realized that I had memories of this event and many times. multiple memories of the same moment. Then I got scared to death and started shouting “stop” and became the same thing as the other one. I think it’s the scariest and most realistic thing I’ve ever lived. 10 minutes after my heart is still racing and I’m questioning reality-

[@nuzixa9387]

This sounds weird, but when I feel like I’m having Déjà vu I try to change it by doing something what I didn’t do last time? Anyone else 😂

[@saisagarsingh3340]

Same here. When you watch something in ur dreams and some part of that dream actually happening in real time 😆😆

[@FelixPlays]

All the time 😂

[@rudrakshay31195]

Yeah...

[@inayaisaac1824]

I just stand there surprised

[@MrLungeli]

Same 🤘🏻😁

[@CDeeez94]

Someone told me Deja Vu is a glitch in The Matrix.

[@oberstaffe2733]

Stephen Sunday lol

[@TheDeebone]

that makes sense.

[@tangthikimloan7550]

or maybe the glitch in The Matrix is Deja Vu

[@sara.heehee6002]

If so, then why doesn't everyone experience it at the same time?

[@jesusshrek1271]

@@sara.heehee6002 the system of matrix works like that. It visualises reality in base of individuals. So a glitch is a glitch for you but it isn't for another individual. If it would be the opposite case, a small malfunction could lead to a disaster. That's the perfection of matrix

[@luisnobrelucas150]

The first theory looks the best to me. Normally we feel the momment and only after we can remember it. The deja vu looks like a delay in the feeling, that allows the memory to be ready before the feeling.

[@youxme7520]

I get shivers for real ! So many feelings if Deja vu n it's has come true ? Not sure if I really deja vu

[@WhiphTikoto]

I've had deja vu so bad I've stopped my friend when they start to talk and I tell them what they're going to say next. I get it right everytime and we both just believe I have super energy some days

[@swapnilsrivastava5351]

You must save the world. Talk to that goddamned Corona

[@bigbrother7952]

You go BOY.. you're our hero.. Save the world.. with your super powers.. GREAT JOB..

[@WhiphTikoto]

@@bigbrother7952 idk about all of that lmaoo

[@Miss.Elaineous]

Koto I get it like that too! I can tell you what’s going to be said and done in the next few seconds. It freaks people out, but I don’t get deja vu very often.

[@emalytroop5542]

Well do u actually remember from ur de ja vous like what they going to say I mean I f it happens to u how do u remember they gonna say this

[@jamiedias]

the 1K dislikes are people who have traveled through dimensions and know why we all experience deja vu

[@lumine7330]

I swear, for the past few years, deja vu (Sorry that I didn't write the accents) happened to me everyday. Sometimes every few hours. I would always remember seeing everything everywhere before and I knew what deja vu was, yet it still freaked me out a little. Maybe it was just a phase people randomly go through or maybe it was caused by certain things, but whatever it was, I am experiencing it less now- the extreme amount of it, to be exact.

[@SqueamishNerd]

I remember one time when my mum was driving a car and I was sitting next to her, and suddenly I realised that the neighbourhood we drove through was very familiar and I realised that it was from a weird dream I had some months earlier, but I also realised that I could not have been to this neighbourhood before in real life. I asked my mum if we had ever been to this neighbourhood before, and she said that she had been there but she didn't think I had been there. It was a very creepy feeling.

[@localtriggerfan1998]

Sometimes when I have deja vu, I can remember the scene but I can't remember whether I had seen it in reality or in my dreams.

[@getpriyanka]

What if we all traveled into the future, but did something wrong, so the people of the future sent us back, and erased our memory, but we still only remember tiny parts of it

[@strangr87]

Arguable🧐

[@flamingaish]

Horrific bro

[@shikari195]

FBI : Delete this now!

[@champamukherjee5935]

😑

[@klarazaharova8473]

Hahaha :))

[@LD-dt1sk]

The way it happens to me is that I dream it and forget about it. After some time that dream actually happens and I can remember when I dreamt it and I can predict what’s gonna happen next. I also feel as if my body just does on it’s own for a split second.

[@Fear_Therapy]

This is very interesting! 🤔

[@Donut-Eater]

Dé jà vu! I've been in this place before Riding higher on the streets

[@tyranny2705]

comment should be wayy up there

[@jodise]

Ah i see. U r man of culture as well

[@sneexolotl6903]

And I know it's my time to go Calling you and the search is mystery Standing on my feet

[@snehabera6125]

I too wanted to write this... you read my mind. ..

[@brandonchan5387]

I feel like I should know this reference...