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Originally Posted by Bang A Drum
dé⋅jà vu
/ˌdeɪʒɑ ˈvu, ˈvyu; Fr. deɪʒa ˈvü/ [dey-zhah voo, vyoo; Fr. dey-zha vy]
–noun
1. Psychology. the illusion of having previously experienced something actually being encountered for the first time.
2. disagreeable familiarity or sameness: The new television season had a sense of déjà vu about it—the same old plots and characters with new names.
Origin:
1900–05; < F: lit., already seen
Yes, I do.
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Good, but...
Apparently scientists now believe that deja vu is:
When the left/right half of your brain works fatser than the other for a split second, seeing/sensing everything around you first. Then, when the other half catches up, you think 'this is familiar'
