deja vu
Uncanny recognition feeling
Deja vu is the eerie sensation that you've experienced the present moment before—a feeling of familiarity without actual memory.
The French phrase means "already seen." Everyone experiences it occasionally; neuroscientists attribute it to brief misfirings between perception and memory.
I walked into the room and had the strangest sense of deja vu.
Distorted or false recollection
- temporal lobeBrain section for hearing
- epilepsyBrain disorder causing seizures
- neurologyMedical science of nerves
- psychologyStudy of mind, behavior
cognition · brain · consciousness · perception · illusion · phenomenon · research · theory
Recalling past experiences
- flashbackInvoluntary past memory
- recollectionRecalled mental image
- recallMemory retrieval act
- rememberingRetaining past information
nostalgia · retrieval · mnemonic · retrospection · fragment · trace · association · past
Knowledge through experience
- recognitionPerceiving something as known
- sensationPerceived stimulus or phenomenon
- feelingSensed inner state
- impressionEffect on the mind
uncanny · eerie · strange · moment · occurrence · trigger · vivid · intense
Advance sense of future events
- precognitionParanormal future awareness
- psychicOne claiming supernatural perception
- intuitionInstinctive immediate understanding
- sixth senseExtrasensory perception ability
past life · reincarnation · spiritual · prophecy · clairvoyance · synchronicity · fate · destiny
Marmot weather prediction tradition
- MatrixNineties cyberpunk franchise
- time loopRepeated span of existence
- parallel universeHypothetical coexisting separate reality
- multiverseHypothetical set of universes
paramnesia
Distorted or false recollection
- temporal lobeBrain section for hearing
- epilepsyBrain disorder causing seizures
- neurologyMedical science of nerves
psychology · cognition · brain · consciousness · perception · illusion · phenomenon · research · theory · study
reminiscence
Recalling past experiences
- flashbackInvoluntary past memory
- recollectionRecalled mental image
- recallMemory retrieval act
remembering · nostalgia · retrieval · mnemonic · retrospection · fragment · trace · association · past · faint
familiarity
Knowledge through experience
- recognitionPerceiving something as known
- sensationPerceived stimulus or phenomenon
- feelingSensed inner state
impression · uncanny · eerie · strange · moment · occurrence · trigger · vivid · intense · fleeting
premonition
Advance sense of future events
- precognitionParanormal future awareness
- psychicOne claiming supernatural perception
- intuitionInstinctive immediate understanding
sixth sense · past life · reincarnation · spiritual · prophecy · clairvoyance · synchronicity · fate · destiny · cosmic
Groundhog Day
Marmot weather prediction tradition
- MatrixNineties cyberpunk franchise
- time loopRepeated span of existence
- parallel universeHypothetical coexisting separate reality
- French Wordsbaguette, femme, croissant, enfant, champagne
- memory errorsmemory leak, false memory, memory distortion, misattribution, confabulation
- French Loanwordsa la carte, ballet, a la mode, au revoir, bon appetit
- memoriesmemories, remember, recollections, childhood memory, childhood memories
- Romance Loanwordsamor, amour, au revoir, bonjour, ciao
- dream imagerymelting clocks, nightmare, daydream, distorted faces, soft focus
deja vujamais vu
Familiar seeming suddenly strange
unfamiliarity · alienation · estrangement · strangeness · derealisation