Just as the magician uses sleight of hand to fool their audience, our brains play mischievous tricks on us — no top hat or wand required. The magic word is not “abracadabra,” or “alakazam,” though; it ...

Scientists have finally put a name to a strange phenomenon you might have experienced before. It’s called déjà rêvé, and it’s like the trippy, scary version of déjà vu. Instead of feeling like you’ve ...

Have you ever had that weird feeling that you’ve experienced the same exact situation before, even though that’s impossible? Sometimes it can even seem like you’re reliving something that already ...

If you’ve ever been unable to get a song out of your head, written down a common word that suddenly looks misspelled, or walked into a new building and felt as if you’d been there before, it’s all in ...

Have you ever had that weird feeling that you’ve experienced the same exact situation before, even though that’s impossible? Sometimes it can even seem like you’re reliving something that already ...

The phenomenon of déjà vu—where individuals experience a striking sense of familiarity during novel circumstances—has long intrigued both neuroscientists and psychologists. Central to this enquiry is ...

A few days ago, I was visiting a new coffee shop in an unfamiliar neighborhood. In line to place my order, a polite stranger in front turned around, nodded at me, and said, "Hello." In that otherwise ...

Many of you know the feeling: You'll be going about your day, minding your own business, folding some laundry—nothing out of the ordinary—when suddenly a sensation of familiarity washes over you, and ...

When pro tennis player Diane Van Deren was diagnosed with epilepsy, the only thing she found that helped stave off the seizures was running. “As I had an onset, a feeling of déjà vu that a seizure was ...

Seconds after Ricardo Vasquez went into his first seizure, bystanders pulled out their cell phones and called 911. The skinny 37-year-old had been attending an AIDS awareness rally on the Southern ...