deja

Known as deja vu literally "already seen", an early explanation was that the feeling arises from a delayed signal arriving from one of the eyes after a scene has already been processed by the brain.

The science behind memory glitches 2012

Especially in the stadium where Yankee great Yogi Berra coined that immortal phrase deja vu all over again.

Starr Gazing: The Anxiety Of The Relief Pitcher 2007

MCEDWARDS: Actor Denzel Washington is starring in a new movie about the mysterious phenomenon known as deja vu.

CNN Transcript Dec 7, 2006 2006

THREE He came to it with the oddest feeling of remembrance; what Susannah and Eddie called deja vu.

The Dark Tower King, Stephen 2004

To say that I knew the peculiar feeling of repeating an experience, which the French call deja vu, would give some idea of what I felt if multiplied many times over.

The Skrayling Tree Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 2003

There was a familiarity to it all, sharper, keener than anything that could be called deja vu.

Black and Blue Quindlen, Anna 1998

A weird, feeling-he supposed it was the one people called deja vu'swept over him, and he found himself staring fixedly at the spur, which looked like a badly shaped doorknob.

The Waste Lands King, Stephen, 1947- 1991

EVERYONE has, at one time or another, experienced the mysterious mind-trick known as deja vu.

Whitehaven News headlines 2008

(voice-over): The movie is called deja vu, and Washington plays an ATF agent chasing a killer.

CNN Transcript Mar 20, 2006 2006

And Governor, before I ask you about those reforms, let me just ask you how this was kind of deja vu all over again for you while you were on travel, and then hear another state and their miners are dealing with something very similar to what your state dealt with, Sago mine.

CNN Transcript Aug 8, 2007 2007