What Déjà Vu Actually Is

You walk into a room you have never seen before, and for one second your brain insists: this already happened. This video explores déjà vu as something stranger than a “false memory”: a collision between familiarity, spatial memory, and the brain’s constant attempt to predict reality before it fully arrives. From temporal lobe epilepsy to virtual reality maze experiments, déjà vu may be a tiny window into the machinery your brain uses to build the present. Research / further reading: Anne Cleary & Alexander Claxton, “Déjà Vu: An Illusion of Prediction” https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0... Colorado State University: spatial configuration and déjà vu https://newsmediarelations.colostate.edu/2... Alan S. Brown, “A review of the déjà vu experience” https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12784936/ Déjà experiences in temporal lobe epilepsy https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3... Andy Clark, “Whatever next? Predictive brains...” https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/be... #DejaVu #Neuroscience #Memory #Psychology #Science