What is deja vu?
Deja vu is is a French word that literally means “already seen.” It is the strong familiarity that an even currently being experienced has already been experienced in the past, even if it has or hasn’t happened.
Have you ever experienced it? Did it cause you to hesitate or affect your perception? I have experienced it before and it definitely caused me to hesitate and think about where and when I last saw that scene. It occurred when I was rereading a novel and the scene that I thought that should’ve been there wasn’t. So I kept rereading that one scene over and over, but I couldn’t find it. I eventually gave up and continued to read. And I could not find the scene anywhere in the book, but there was still that nagging feeling that I thought I had.
Describe the main character’s experience with Deja Vu. How did the main character’s experience with Deja Vu affect his perception?
The main character’s experience with deja vu seems to make him lost and confused throughout the whole movie. At the scene where his superior says it’s case closed, the agent Doug Carlin wants to save the victim, a woman named Claire, but his superior says no and states to Doug that she’s been dead and that four days ago he went to her funeral. Another …show more content…
We stopped at the part where he’s about to travel back into the past, and I think that at this point, when he actually travels back into the past, that he will experience deja vu. But I still don’t see how this is deja vu because Doug is not experiencing a strong sense of familiarity or “deja vu” if it has already occurred and remembers it. Unless, his future self combines with his past self and therefore has no memories of what his future self saw, but still have these nagging feelings that he has experienced these experiences before, then that can be called deja