ABSTRACT
This category of déjà vu explanations centers on a brief break in one’s ongoing perceptual processing that gives rise to an impression of two separate and duplicated experiences. With the glue of normal continuity missing, the two experiences appear disconnected from each other by an indeterminate period of time, suggesting that the presently perceived stimulus is repeated. More important, we are unaware that this sense of “oldness” derives from the correspondence between the present perception and a previous, semi-aware duplicate impression received only moments before.
