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About Déjà Vu…?

Déjà Vu is known to be the experience of going through a new situation, but having already experienced it before.

The term was originally coined by Emile Boirac, a French psychic researcher who lived from 1851 to 1917. His book The Future of Psychic Sciences, L'Avenir des Sciences Psychiques, featured the concept of Déjà Vu.

Most Déjà Vu moments are usually accompanied by an eerie sensation, and generally, the situations are attributed to a firm sense of something that had happened before, as well as events that have happened in a dream. Because of this, Déjà Vu is also referred to as the act of remembering the future.

Studies have shown that a Déjà Vu experience is very common, but is extremely difficult to invoke upon. To this end, the study of Déjà Vu moments isn't very common. Déjà Vu researchers use hypnosis techniques in calling for Déjà Vu moments, to further their studies, and at times, even this would yield frustrating results.

Although Déjà Vu moments are known enough that 70% of the world's population could relate to them, the types of Déjà Vu aren't as famous as Déjà Vu, in the general sense. Arthur Funkhouser states that there are three types of Déjà Vu moments, Déjà Vécu, Déjà Senti and Déjà Visité, each with their own unique Déjà Vu implications.

Déjà Vécu is usually what most people generally understand as Déjà Vu. It is the experience when more than sight is the sensation determining the "recall", usually calling for an eerie feeling of knowing what would be said, or what would happen next. It is more common for those aged 15 to 25 years old, as the mind is still observant to noticing change in environment, during these times. An ordinary event or situation, is remembered to something that has already happened, even though the event or situation is relatively new and impossible to have taken place in the past.

Recently, the term Déjà Vécu is used to describe a type of Déjà Vu, which happens as a symptom of a memory disorder.

Déjà Senti, another type of Déjà Vu, is one with focuses on something "already felt". It differs from Déjà Vécu in the sense that it is something that happens in the mental arena with no precognitive implications. These "already felt observations" rarely linger in a person's memory once they have happened. Temporal lobe epileptics are known to experience this type of Déjà Vu.

Déjà Visité is the type of Déjà Vu which deals with the logistics and lay out of a place. Translating to "already visited", it isn't as common as the other two Déjà Vu types, as it involves the incredible knowledge regarding a place one had just visited.

Dreams and out-of-body experiences are oftentimes related to Déjà Visité moments. Other theories include the accumulation of information regarding a place, via reading or television.

All in all, when it comes Déjà Vu, no one really knows what they are, and where they come from.

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