Is déjà vu really possible?

denmarks

Deja Vu (French for already happened) is just a peculiarty of the brain that confuses past and present time. It just makes you believe you saw something in the past evern though it is occuring at the present. Aug 26 06, 5:19 PM

zbeckabee

The term déjà vu (French for "already seen", also called paramnesia) describes the experience of feeling that one has witnessed or experienced a new situation previously. The term was created 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 French concentrator at the University of Chicago. 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. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deja_vu Aug 26 06, 6:12 PM

Allergic2Life

The psychiatric occurence is very possible, and most people experience it. But can a person re-experience a past event, No. Aug 27 06, 6:05 AM

lanfranco

Here's an interesting article on an extreme version of the phenomenon, published about a month in the New York Times. As you will see, researchers are studying the subject seriously: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/02/magazine/02dejavu.html?ex=1156824000&en=27187be0fdf1c78d&ei=5070 Aug 27 06, 4:56 PM