Deja vu
Deja vu, don't ya just love the word? is the feeling you've experienced something before, but not sure of the circumstances, perhaps, imagined.
Deja vu usually comes from a sense of familiarity, a sense of 'eeriness,' what Freud called the uncanny. The previous experience from the sense this has happened before, maybe from a dream.
Children and adults, alike, know the feeling. Studies are difficult in laboratory settings about the subject.
The most common description is a strong sense of 'being recalled' , but can't place where.
Some researchers say deja vu is a neurological problem, like the 'jolt' you feel before you fall asleep. Other explanations, an error in retrieving learned information, just, momentarily forgotten.
The opposite of deja vu, jamais vu, when someone momentarily does not recognize a word, person or place, but with a little help, does recall.
And presque vu, or the tip of the tongue, can't recall a name or situation, its on the tip of my tongue. This study shows promise in results.
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Thursday, January 27, 2011
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