Deja Vu

The term déjà vu [ also called paramnesia ] is French and means, literally,
"already seen."
Those who have experienced the feeling describe it as an overwhelming sense of familiarity with something that shouldn't be familiar at all. Say, for example, you are traveling to England for the first time. You are touring a cathedral, and suddenly it seems as if you have been in that very spot before. Or maybe you are having dinner with a group of friends, discussing some current political topic, and you have the feeling that you've already experienced this very thing -- same friends, same dinner, same topic.

Humm.. so this is what deja vu is..
Wikipedia sure haz lots more to say..
But lets just take it in layman's term, wihout going in the biological, medical aspects of it all.

Hasn't it happened often, you are amidst a group of friends, someone has cracked a joke, and as everyone is laughing, giving high-fives, suddenly you feel as if you are watching this whole scene as an outsider, and in the scene that is taking place, you kind of know who is going to comment next and what..

Or you are on phone with someone, and while speaking you realise that you had dreamt (or is it the same creepy thing.. Deja Vu?) about this conversation and on afterthoughts ( or should we say fore-thoughts? ) had found such a conversation totally impossible? " Me talking with this person about this? .. impossible.. wot a dream! "

..You are having a routine conversation with mom and BAM! you know what shez going to say next even before she utters it! [ ..nope it ain't abt how predictable / unpredictable moms are! ]

All such incidents have sent chills down my spine.
Even the most trivial, mundane, uninteresting occurrences of Deja Vu..
[ Unlike all the eventful ones in most Bollywood movies; murders,chases, masked faces, haunting places with old mansions,
crooked trees, horrifying discoveries of bodies, weapons, and yeah.. the eternal "barsat ki raat"s ]
[ okie.. am not sure how grammatically correct this use is.. " deja vu happened..", or "deja vu occured" or none of the above! ne-one who is not less sure than me, please oblige with the correct usage]
Even after the consolation that Deja Vu has happened to *almost* everyone around me, my friends, siblings etc etc atleast once, the very fact of pre-experiencing something and re-living it AND having a conscious knowledge of it.. is terrifying.

Deja Vus about unknown places, like temples, or roads you haven't travelled on before are the creepiest of all!
I even had a Deja Vu with my nephew .. simultaneously..(!!?? [ does this word defy the cronology ?] )
I mean what I thought I had experienced before was the same thing that he thought he had experienced before!

This incident really boggled my mind!
Two individuals, with nothing in common, [ apart from the family bondage of-course],
experience the same thing before-hand! *shudder*

What puzzles me is the extent of details! In fact a particular object, or surroundings trigger that "I've seen this before" feeling!
Also what is amazing abt these deja vu's is you recall the familiarity of the incidence, when you are re-living it, unlike the dreams which we have, some of which we recall after waking up, or some we never do but the fog/ghost of a dream always remains in your mind!
And at certain instances, there are dreams which you can watch like a movie, even when you are woken up. It has happened to me sometime.. " 5 more mins mom, sapne mein age kya hota hain dekhna hain! ;-) :-D "
Atleast therez some acceptable[ albeit not totally] justification about dreams that whatever your mind has in its depths, surfaces through some incident in your dreams. [ there are streams of thoughts which don't stand by this explaination]

Wot ever it is that triggers these Deja Vus, I just pray there ain't any spoilers in store for me!
;-D