Déjà rêvé is an experience in which an individual feels that they are living an experience that they had dreamed of at an earlier time. Sometimes, they even believe that they’re actually in a dream. In simple terms, déjà rêvé is French for “already dreamed”. It is basically déjà vu, but for dreams and it is not as uncommon as you would think. It is also a far more complex and more mysterious process than déjà vu. Researchers believe that déjà vu might be a miscommunication, a distortion of a memory we do actually have, or something else – in short, a trick of the brain. However, déjà rêvé could occur because of a recollection of something similar in the way we remember - or think we remember – a dream in the past.
There are three types of déjà rêvé which were identified by scientists: episodic-like – in which the individual remembers a specific dream and is able to identify the exact events of the dream and when they had it -, familiarity-like – where an individual recollects events from a vague dream, not being able to pinpoint with certainty when it was dreamed – and dreamy state – which describes an experience in which the subject feels like they are dreaming.
When thinking of déjà rêvé and déjà vu alike, what comes to mind is psychic abilities, the paranormal, events which cannot be explained, but these phenomena are simply strange events caused by our brain. Although this particular event cannot yet be explained, researchers have proved that epilepsy patients who suffer from seizures, after being induced with electrical brain stimulation (EBS), or people who might have a temporal lobe dysfunction are highly likely to experience déjà rêvé. However, this phenomenon is not limited to them and every individual has or will probably experience this at least once in their lifetime.
To sum it all up, déjà rêvé is a process very similar, yet more complex than déjà vu and has yet to be deeply studied and fully explained.
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