It is strange and unsettling, leaving a person feeling confused and puzzled. It could be a sound, a sentence spoken or a place visited that leaves people feeling like they have been in the same situation before or even having felt the same kind of emotion at a particular situation before.
Déjà vu, a French term literally means, “already seen”. But jog down the memory lane and one can’t remember ever having been to that place before, even though there is this eerie feeling of familiarity with a current situation.
To make it simpler, though it is a highly complicated thing to understand, you are visiting a famous building or any new place, suddenly you feel like you have been in the exact spot before even though you haven’t.
Or even when one is in a certain situation with a group of friends or family, and someone utters a sentence; it feels like one has heard the same kind of sentence in the same group before at the same place. It is a fleeting feeling, and leaves one wondering what is happening? this feeling comes in seconds and before you know it, it is gone leaving you perplexed.
The easiest answer that comes to mind for this complex phenomenon is that one has had a past life and has thus been in the same situation or seen the same place before and somewhere in the memory bank, this leftover piece from a long forgotten experience has resurfaced. And surprisingly, quite a few people, even researchers are happy with the explanation. But déjà vu is much more intricate to understand than that.