What is deja vu?

The term déjà vu is French and means, literally, "already seen." Those who have experienced the feeling describe it as an overwhelming sense of familiarity with something that shouldn't be familiar at all. read more

One thing that I notice about my deja vu is that it usually involves a feeling of knowing that I said specific words in that particular place before, and that even the response from others was exactly the same. That seems to be different from what you described in your article about just having the sense that you are in a familiar situation. read more

Déjà vu is most strongly associated with temporal lobe epilepsy. [medical citation needed] This experience of déjà vu is a neurological anomaly related to epileptic electrical discharge in the brain, creating a strong sensation that an event or experience currently being experienced has already been experienced in the past. read more