Full text: “We often have experiences whose novelty is unclear and have been led to ask such questions as, Have I read this book before? Is this an episode of Inspector Morse I’ve seen before? This place looks familiar; have I been here before? Yet, these experiences are not accompanied by an uncanny feeling. We may feel a bit confused, but the feeling associated with the déjŕ vu experience is not one of confusion but of strangeness. There is nothing strange about not remembering whether you’ve read a book before, especially if you are fifty years old and have read thousands of books over your lifetime. In the déjA vu experience, however, we feel strange because we don’t think we should feel familiar with the present perception. That sense of inappropriateness is not present when one is simply unclear whether one has read a book or seen a film before.Déjŕ vu is an uncanny feeling or illusion of having already seen or experienced something that is being experienced for the first time.”
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