Arnaud officially proposed its use at a meeting of the Societe medico-psychologique.
In a 1991 study titled “The deja vu experience: Remembrance of things past?”
So what exactlyisdeja vu?
This is what’s really going on when you experience deja vu.
What Wells learned is that the man’s anxiety and his deja vu seemed to be intertwined.
panic attacks)," the study noted.
While the man’s anxiety may have triggered his deja vu, it also worked the other way around.
The deja vu wasso stressfulfor the man that the experience of it led to higher anxiety.
Similarly, Brown wrote that the media can have an effect on our sense of memory as well.
“Television and photographs can breed a false sense of familiarity later on,” he said.
“Our brain is always searching for connections,” Brown explained.
“As a result, we can sometimes make links that simply aren’t there.”
Some of the oldest deja vu theories have to do with dual processing.
Then there’s dual consciousness.
But it isn’t just travel that affects one’s chances of a deja experience.
Southern Methodist University psychology professor Alan Brown listed a number of other contributing factors inThe Deja Vu Illusion.
Turns out, though, that the strange experience can actually happen because of certain drugs.
Asecond studyin 2007 found a correlation between recurring deja experiences and serotonin-producing medication like 5-HTP, as reported byVice.
“I had the same feeling of having seen and done all of this before.
Long began suffering from epileptic seizures after the surgery, which began with an “aura.”
They vary from person to person, and, for Long, they presented as deja vu.
If you experience frequent deja vu, be sure to tell your doctor.
