Summary
"Do we know what causes déjà vu?" asks Floyd Kitchen from Queenstown in New Zealand.
Drs Rutherford and Fry investigate this familiar feeling by speaking to world-leading reseacher Chris Moulin from the University of Grenoble in France and memory expert Catherine Loveday from Westminster University. Plus, they find out why early investigations classed déjà vu as a type of paranormal phenomenon.
For most of us, it's a fleetingly strange experience, but for some people it can become a serious problem. Lisa from Hulme in Manchester started experiencing déjà vu when she was 22 with episodes that could last all day. The origin of her déjà vu has been the key to helping psychologists investigate its cause.
Presenters: Hannah Fry, Adam Rutherford Producer: Michelle Martin.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Dr Adam Rutherford. And I'm Dr Hannah Fry. And you are going to send us your everyday |
| 0:10.8 | mysteries. And we are going to investigate them using the power of science. Science. |
| 0:16.5 | I like it. Okay, hello, Curios. Another excellent... Oh, I can't see. Just big ourselves |
| 0:25.5 | out like that. Another average episode of the Curios cases. |
| 0:29.2 | Media, Curios, you're just trotting out the same old stuff. Hello, Curios. |
| 0:33.1 | No, we're using that clip. Okay. And this is an episode which is all about |
| 0:37.7 | Dejal Vue, which means that we spent most of the writing process making... |
| 0:42.1 | Guess what? Guess what we did. Making one joke over and over again. Just repeatedly. |
| 0:46.9 | Michelle has extracted almost all of them, but some of them have snuck in as you are about to find out. |
| 0:52.3 | Indeed you are. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:55.7 | Welcome to the Curios cases of Rutherford and Fry, where we have yet another mystery that we'll be |
| 1:04.7 | attempting to solve using the power of science. You know, this is also something strangely familiar. |
| 1:10.6 | Yeah, that's how we always open the show. I don't... But this particular question was sent in |
| 1:15.8 | to Curios cases at BBC.co.uk by Floyd Kitchen from Queenstown. Okay, he says, |
| 1:20.8 | I am from New Zealand and currently traveling through Japan. The other day just after checking |
| 1:25.6 | into a hotel that I've never been to before, in a country that I've never been to before, I had |
| 1:30.7 | Dejal Vue. Do we know what causes it? And that question was sent in by Floyd Kitchen from Queenstown. |
| 1:36.5 | You literally just said that. Did I? Okay. Anyway, I asked world-leading researcher Chris Moulin from |
| 1:43.5 | the University of Grenoble in France. What Dejal Vue is and when it's most likely to strike? |
| 1:50.3 | It's really that eerie sensation that the last few seconds where you might be convinced |
| 1:56.2 | that something is familiar. But then it passes and you realize, no, that was strange, that was not |
| 2:02.8 | right, that was not familiar. You get that amazing thing in Dejal Vue where you've got like almost |
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