I’ve experienced deja vu and after a while remembered the previous experience that made me have it. So why can’t it just be that you have already experienced the situation, or certain aspects of it, but can’t quite remember it?
I’ve always wondered whether there isn’t a brain center or pathway from which the normal sensation of “oh, yeah, I remember this” originates. In other words, the sensation or feeling of remembering something is independent of memory, although normally it does get activated when we experience something that has the same characteristics as something we’ve experienced or witnessed before.
If the center or pathway for the “I remember this” feeling is truly independent of memory, then it’s also easy to imagine how it might be triggered or get stimulated independently of memory. This is consistent with the above-mentioned phenomenon of déjà vu being a common component of certain types of epilepsy.
Again, all this is me just wondering, speculating. In the vernacular of the Board - a WAG!
Possibly although many times it is associated with a place a person has definitely never been before such a foreign country. That doesn’t rule out subliminal familiarity through TV or magazines however.
I am fairly certain that some of mine were triggered through dreams that I barely remembered but were similar.
Oh brother, are you in the wrong place.
I’ve had something like this… I guess. A thought or event that triggers a strong deja vu but not back to one event… rather just back to another time that I had deja vu over the same topic (as in, the topic isn’t really what the deja vu is so much about, rather the several deja vus I’ve had over the years are).
I sometimes can even kinda tell when the deja vus were from… When I get it I have distinct feelings and memories from the mid to late 90s… though they aren’t really much of the deja vu, just floating memories around it… and again from 2002 or so. The thing is… like a dream from last night I can’t remember the trigger.
Since there is likely no “correct” answer to the OP, let’s move this to Great Debates.
And I’m sure that we’ve had this question before. Oh, well…
samclem
[sub]Too easy[/sub]
If I may, this particular board is full of people who are in active competition to see who can be the wittiest. The result can be extremely funny, kinda like natural selection for smart-alecking (or as I like to call it, Darwitticism). I think you’ll find it much better than, say:
Guest: [asks question]
Respondent 1: Its becuase your a noob!
Respondent 2: Lol. Yeah, noobtown.
R1: 5’s R2
R3: I bet the noob is only asking because he misses his mommy!
R4: U R so right!
R3: ROFLMAO
R5: Can we try answering his question, please?
R1: Shut up, noob-lover!
R2: Yeah, you and the noob should get married and have noobkids!
R3: LOL!
…and so forth.
Dorkwinism?
My thoughts ferzackly 
Also good.