6/12/2023 0 Comments Deja vu seizure![]() ![]() Asking the question in different ways can get very different results. Second, people can give very different answers depending on the definition we give of déjà vu. This is a problem because surveys can give us quite different results depending on who we ask. First, we cannot ask everyone in the world so we have to use the results of surveys of small groups of people. We are not sure about the exact percentage for two important reasons. The percentage of people who experience déjà vu is probably somewhere between 30% (about 8 in a class of 30) and 100% (everyone in a class of 30). You will then read about how researchers have investigated déjà vu and what they think might cause it. In this review, you will read about how often we experience déjà vu. Then, the feeling fades away and you wonder what just happened. ![]() You know that although you have seen horses before they should not make you feel as strongly familiar with them as these horses do. In this picture, you see horses and they suddenly feel too familiar. You often notice this kind of over familiarity because the feeling happens very quickly and then also quickly fades to a normal level of familiarity. When something feels too familiar, whether it is a thing you recognize or not, and the familiarity feels wrong, you are probably having a déjà vu experience. Although it is a coincidence that you have seen two such similar things, the feeling of familiarity is appropriate so the sensation you feel is not déjà vu. In this picture, you can see a man riding a horse who looks a bit like the monkey riding the goat that you just watched online. This feeling is entirely appropriate and is not déjà vu. When this happens and our memories are working well, we may feel a sense of familiarity. Sometimes we see and experience things that we recognize or that look like other things we have already seen. In this picture, you are watching a video of a monkey riding a goat for the first time so it feels like a funny, new thing. ![]() Our memories typically work very well and we can usually trust the feelings of memory we experience. We all go through our lives seeing and experiencing things that we may remember later on.
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