Deja vu
Mysteries of Science
Fun Kids
4.6 • 681 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2021
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever felt like you were living through a memory all over again, even though it couldn't have possibly have happened before?
That feeling is known as deja vu, a French term that means 'already seen'...
In this episode of Mysteries of Science, what causes deja vu, and might it have anything to do with ghosts, past lives, and alien encounters?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi and welcome to another episode of Mysteries of Science. My name's Dan and I'm the editor of Science and Nature magazine. It's a monthly magazine from the team behind the week junior. And I'm Kearen the Features Editor. In every issue of Science and Nature we explore the entire universe through in-depth features, news stories, images, interviews with top experts, |
| 0:22.2 | and much more. |
| 0:24.5 | Hi, and welcome to another episode of Mysteries of Science. My name's Dan and I'm the editor. |
| 0:30.3 | Wait a minute, didn't we just hear that? Yeah, that's strange. I'm sure I've heard this |
| 0:34.7 | before. I'll tell you what, I'm getting a feeling of deja vu. What's that? Deja vu is that kind of funny feeling you sometimes get when you're |
| 0:42.7 | absolutely convinced you're reliving something that's already happened. As ever on this podcast, |
| 0:48.6 | we're going to dive deep into one of our favorite mysteries of science this week. These are the |
| 0:54.1 | strange phenomena and bizarre events |
| 0:56.4 | that have left scientists scratching their heads |
| 0:59.3 | and despite all of their best attempts |
| 1:01.8 | remain well and truly unsolved and unexplained. |
| 1:06.7 | Deja Vu is a brilliant example of that |
| 1:08.6 | because it's something we probably all felt for ourselves, |
| 1:11.9 | but the science behind it is still somewhat mysterious. |
| 1:16.2 | Over the years, there have been all sorts of theories about why you might feel as though you've lived through a situation before, |
| 1:22.1 | and we're going to look at every single one. |
| 1:24.5 | That means we're going to have to investigate dreams, ghosts and the inner |
| 1:29.3 | workings of our brains. This is a unique sort of mystery, a kind of one-of-a-kind episode. |
| 1:36.3 | What I'm trying to say is even though we're chatting deja vu, you've never heard anything like |
| 1:41.3 | this before. This is Mysteries of Science. Dejaveu is a term that not everyone |
| 1:48.1 | will be familiar with. So let's take a moment to break it down. It's a French phrase which |
| 1:53.0 | translates to already seen. And as an example of it, a few weeks ago I was sitting on my laptop |
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