什么是"幻觉记忆"?What is deja vu? | BBC Ideas

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你出现过“幻觉记忆”吗?就是那种当下情形似曾相识的模模糊糊的感觉。比如:餐馆里的一幕, 跟你记忆中的一模一样。如果你曾经有过这样的感觉,不妨和一起看看这个短片!对于幻觉记忆没有一个确定的解释。这样的经历很短暂,不能事先预知,所以科学家几乎无法记录和学习这一现象。科学家不能只是坐在那儿等着它发生, 这可能需要好几年。

What can explain that eerie, unsettling feeling we sometimes get that we've experienced a new situation once before?

It might just be the weirdest experience you'll ever have sober, but what exactly is deja vu?

One thing it definitely is, is common.

Two-thirds of us have had it, with younger people, globetrotters, and film fans likely to get it more frequently.

Because of its inherent weirdness, deja vu was long thought of alongside paranormal events like clairvoyance and reincarnation.

In fact, it was parapsychologist Émile Boirac who first named the feeling in the 1870s using the French for "already seen."

The focus on the uncanny has persisted, and in films like "The Matrix," deja vu is a glitch in the computer simulation.

So, what's actually going on?

The truth is, no one is 100 percent sure, but psychologists have suggested dozens of possibilities combining theories of memory, perception, and cognition.

One is divided perception.

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