Déjà vu

In Freudian terms, there is a subjective falsification of experience leading to belief that current experience has occurred previously. Unreal and dreamlike feelings predominate, and the uncanny sense of predicting each element of the experience as it occurs; or of having been in the same place or situation before, although objectively this is known to be impossible.

A majority of people (67 percent in one poll) claim to have experienced déjà vu. It has been explained as information possibly reaching one hemisphere of the brain faster than the other – double cerebration – or perhaps registering in the sub-conscious faster than the conscious mind. Others prefer the explanation of Jung that it is due to connecting with the collective unconscious or claim that it is a memory from a previous incarnation.