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  Do you remember the first time you experienced déjà vu?

Déjà vu is the strange sensation that something one is now experiencing has happened before.

VotesAnswer
17Yes
38No
0I don't understand what déjà vu is
0I've never experienced déjà vu
0Other

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jettles Survey Central SubscriberSurvey Qualifier
posted 27-Jan-2001 11:31pm  

specifically no, but i know i experienced it sometime in grade school.
SueBee Survey Central Subscriber
posted 28-Jan-2001 2:15pm  

I remember my first time well, because it was so bizarre to me. It was in art class in third grade, and I felt like I was reliving a dream. It seemed to go on for several minutes. I went home and talked to my mom about it, and she told me what is was. I just wondered if anybody else recalled their first experience.
mandy
posted 28-Jan-2001 3:29pm  

Hasn't this been done before?
*laughing out loud*
SueBee Survey Central Subscriber
(reply to mandy) posted 28-Jan-2001 7:39pm  

No, and now I can see why! *raspberry*
juliw
posted 28-Jan-2001 7:57pm  

I have experienced it, though.
juliw
(reply to mandy) posted 28-Jan-2001 7:59pm  

lol
Richard
(reply to mandy) posted 28-Jan-2001 10:36pm  

*laughing out loud* Hare Krishna! *smile*
bill Survey Central Gold SubscriberSilver Star Survey Creator
posted 29-Jan-2001 7:01am  

The chaplain character in the book Catch-22 had a fixation with three kinds of 'vu': déjà vu, jamie vu, and presque vu . I forget what the distinctions were though, and I'm having trouble finding definitions for them on the net.
daver
(reply to bill) posted 29-Jan-2001 7:23am  

Déjà vu: Already seen.
Jamais vu: Never seen.
Presque vu: Almost seen.
jkiehart
posted 29-Jan-2001 10:04am  

Yeah! I was at my aunt's house. I was about 10 or 11. Weird!
Jemmy
posted 29-Jan-2001 10:40am  

Nope. I have experienced it though, all the time.
bill Survey Central Gold SubscriberSilver Star Survey Creator
(reply to daver) posted 29-Jan-2001 10:43am  

those are the translations, but the meaning? I suppose extrapolating, it would be...
Déjà vu - the uncanny feeling that you've already seen (experienced) something before.
Jamais vu - the uncanny feeling that you've never experienced something before. (that doesn't seem right to me)
Presque vu - the uncanny feeling that you've almost experienced something before.

Did you read Catch-22? It was a few years ago for me, so my memory is fuzzy, but in the book these 3 concepts were explained fairly well. Great book.

There was a book called The Jamais Vu Papers that I think I read, but I've forgotten the relevance of the title to the book.
romkey Survey Central Gold Subscriber
(reply to bill) posted 29-Jan-2001 11:20am  

I was just going to remind you about The Jamais Vu Papers. The book is about a woman who lives in a state of perpetual deja vu and is trying to regain the normal state of jamais vu that most people live in.
daver
(reply to bill) posted 29-Jan-2001 11:31am  

I've read it. Your interpretations are pretty close. I'd add a nuance to jamais vu: it applies to things that should be familiar to you but aren't. I didn't want to bloviate.
msgman
posted 31-Jan-2001 9:39am  

I have a strange kind of feeling that I've seen this survey before *smile*
ASexyBabesToy
posted 2-Feb-2001 3:13pm  

Yes it was like deja vu all over again.
sexygirl
posted 6-Feb-2001 10:45pm  

i cant remember the 1st time but i had an hour and a half of deja vu when i was high once....
nasale
posted 25-Feb-2001 3:39pm  

I was just a kid. We went for a drive in the country and I knew where a certain house was before i saw it. (I'd apparently never been there before.) It's happened a few other times as well with other incidents. Do I believe in precognition? I don't know. I keep my mind open 'just in case.' It's never been disproven either.



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