Have you ever had that weird feeling that you’ve experienced the same exact situation before, even though that’s impossible? Sometimes it can even seem like you’re reliving something that already ...

Have you ever had that weird feeling that you’ve experienced the same exact situation before, even though that’s impossible? Sometimes it can even seem like you’re reliving something that already ...

Just as the magician uses sleight of hand to fool their audience, our brains play mischievous tricks on us — no top hat or wand required. The magic word is not “abracadabra,” or “alakazam,” though; it ...

Most people can relate to the prickly, unsettling experience of déjà vu: When you're in a new situation, but you feel like you've been there before. For some, that eerie feeling has an added twist: In ...

Having déjà vu can be a somewhat disorienting experience, there's no doubt about that. You're in a totally new situation, and yet you get this distinct feeling that it has all happened before. I had a ...

Déjà vu, the eerie sensation that you’ve lived through a situation before, may feel like a glitch in The Matrix or the recollection of a past life. It isn’t, of course, but scientists don’t deny that ...

Déjà vu was first described in scientific literature in the late 1800s, but it took almost another century for the phenomenon to be defined in a uniform fashion suitable for research purposes. The ...

The big thinkers at Aperture explain the phenomenon of déjà vu and why it feels familiar yet new. Kennedy Center Christmas ...

For those who have spent a certain amount of time on the road (and remember that just a year ago, niceties such as travel were considered wearying and a normal part of the work day), there’s a ...

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