The eerie feeling that you've experienced the exact same situation before, even though you know you haven't. It's that moment when reality feels like a glitch in the matrix, familiar yet impossible.
French déjà vu literally means 'already seen.' The term was coined by French psychic researcher Émile Boirac in 1876, though the phenomenon has puzzled humans for millennia. From French, it entered English in the early 20th century and became one of the most recognized French phrases in English, perhaps because it names such a universally mysterious experience.
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