Deja Vu

Déjà Vu is a American science fiction thriller film directed by Tony Scott, written by Bill Marsilii and Terry Rossio, and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer.
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The team attempts to follow the fleeing terrorist, who takes Minuti with him, but he moves outside of Snow White's range. However, Doug is able to follow him in the present using a specially equipped vehicle with a mobile Snow White unit. In the past time, the bomber takes Minuti to his bayou shack where he kills him and sets fire to his body. Still needing a vehicle big enough to hold the bomb the terrorist goes to Claire's address, kidnaps her and takes her car. Using a facial recognition system , the ferry bomber is identified and taken into custody. He turns out to be Carroll Oerstadt Jim Caviezel , who is angry at the military after being turned down for joining by both the Marines and Army , because their medical screening showed he was unstable.

Considering the case now closed, the government shuts down the Snow White investigation. Despite the killer having been caught, Claire and the ferry victims remain dead, which unsettles Doug since he is convinced that the Snow White team can actually alter history. Doug persuades Denny to do one last experiment: Doug survives the trip, because he was sent back to a hospital emergency room, where they were able to revive him. He steals an ambulance and races to Oerstadt's shack just in time to stop Claire's murder, while Oerstadt flees with the bomb.

Doug and Claire go to the ferry. Doug boards to try to find and disarm the bomb, but meanwhile Oerstadt captures Claire. Claire is tied up in the bomb car with her mouth gagged with duct tape. A brutal gunfight ensues which culminates with Doug attempting to negotiate with Oerstadt but finally catching him off guard and killing him. He gets into the car to try to free Claire but police surround the vehicle and threaten to open fire. To save everyone, Doug and Claire purposely drive the bomb SUV off the end of the ferry before it explodes. Claire escapes but Doug, unable to get out of the vehicle, dies in the underwater explosion.

As Claire mourns Doug's death, she is approached by an identical Doug Carlin, the one from her present, who consoles her. The idea of a time travel thriller film originated between screenwriters Bill Marsilii and Terry Rossio , who were friends.


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Rossio had a one-page idea for a film called Prior Conviction about a cop who uses a Time Window to look seven days into the past to investigate his girlfriend's murder. As they were talking about it, Marsilii says "I had this explosive kind of epiphany -- "NO! The first time he sees her should be at her autopsy! Rossio later wrote, "The first concept was good, and the second concept was good, too, and together they were great. Ideas and issues and themes seemed to resonate, and in the end the screenplay felt as if it was telling a single powerful story.

Marsilii and Rossio wrote the film together. They communicated via email in attempts to develop the plot due to communication difficulties. Brian Greene from Columbia University was brought in as a consultant to help create a scientifically plausible feel to the script.

What is déjà vu?

Rossio later wrote that Scott was "Completely the wrong choice, in that Tony had stated he had no interest in making a science fiction film, and suggested the time travel aspect be dumped My hope was that we had a screenplay that could be the next Sixth Sense. Tony wanted to make just another also-ran surveillance film. Rossio says at one point Scott quit the project and he and Marsilii had to work on the script so that Denzel would not quit. They reworked the script over two weeks and "the revision was deemed so good that not only did Denzel re-commit, he called Tony and talked him into coming back on board.

Reportedly Denzel made Tony look him in the eye and swear he wouldn't quit the movie again. This dysfunctional neuronal activity can spread across the whole brain like the shock waves generated from an earthquake.


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The brain regions in which this electrical activation can occur include the medial temporal lobes. These neuronal discharges can occur in a non-pathological manner in people without epilepsy.

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An example of this is a hyponogogic jerk , the involuntary twitch that can occur just as you are falling asleep. That is, information bypasses short-term memory and instead reaches long-term memory. This explains why a new experience can feel familiar, but not as tangible as a fully recalled memory. Other theories suggest activation of the rhinal neural system , involved in the detection of familiarity, occurs without activation of the recollection system within the hippocampus.

This leads to the feeling of recognition without specific details. This experience is known to be novel, but has many recognisable elements, albeit in a slightly different setting. Being in a bar or restaurant in a foreign country that has the same layout as one you go to regularly at home. Follow me on Twitter.

One thing that I notice about my deja vu is that it usually involves a feeling of knowing that I said specific words in that particular place before, and that even the response from others was exactly the same. That seems to be different from what you described in your article about just having the sense that you are in a familiar situation. I wonder what explains my sense of having identical conversations and interactions in the exact same scene, with even the minutae of the scene such as a flickering tv in the background seeming identical?

On the first question, the same mechanism could be at work in the kind of deja vu you describe. Basically, you have the initial sights and sounds that lead you to think you have seen this before. You then get the overwhelming sense that you have seen this all before, and you use those initial sights and sounds as the "proof" that you had seen them before. So, these memories feed back on themselves to strengthen the sense that you have done this all before.

How can you know you have seen something you couldn't possibly have seen before?

There are lots of individual differences in how likely people are to experience deja vu. Younger people are more likely to experience it than older people. People who report having lots of vivid dreams also report having more deja vu experiences than people who do not report dreaming a lot. I have to ask you sense you have a Ph. D but is that accurate? It dosnt sound the same as what I go through and I need answers fast. I am not scared I am confused and extremely annoied. I think you need to learn how to string a sentence together, learn to spell and grow up a little before you enter such a discussion You might want to look at your own grammar before you attack someone else that wasn't saying anything out of order.

Go back to trolling your Mother's panties. I agree with you. That answer does not explain how I can possibly know what is going to be said before it's said. I also can't explain it. But I'm not going to loose any sleep over it. Remain open minded and inquisitive. Enjoy life and cherish those experiences.

They happen to all of us. I experience deja vu at least a few times a year same thing exact conversations and backgrounds and have twice actually jumped in and uttered the other person's response verbatim as they were saying it. I am no conspiracy theorist, but I think it is a bit more than familiar memories. As a side note, I dream vividly and intensely most nights and often lucid dream know I am dreaming and can control it. I have visit the same city in my dreams repeatedly and visit the same coffee shops and stores.

I dream right down to the very fine details of items and tastes and smells. The same thing happens to me and a couple other people I know. Our memories come from our dreams, where we dream what will happen a day to a few weeks before it actually happens. The memories are exact, down to the fine details, conversations, etc. They last anywhere from a few seconds to a minute.

They are rarely useful, and often rather mundane. In the few instances when it would have been useful, in the dream I chastized myself for not remembering the situation sooner, which only really made sense when the situation replayed and I did the exact same thing the next day. After a while, you just roll with it. Psychology, just like science, can not explain everything in this world. There are many mysterious things we will never fully understand. Juliette , could you please tell us if u have special habits , u eat certain type of food , e.

Do u have special exercises before you sleep , something like Yoga? I want to experience this I've grown up having large part of my life being 'deja vu' and while it possible there is some way to 'control' it. I doubt many know. When I was a child I would often have dreams that I could never really describe once I woke up and could never fully remember. But then years later an event would happen and the dream would come back to me is full and play out second by second in my mind as it was happening around me.

Deja vu comes and goes for me, but I've got to say that this last month or so has been some of the weirdest. Almost every other day I've had something feel like a deja vu and with has come this sense of 'rightness'. Like even when it's bad, everything is slowly falling into place in a good way.

The only thing that I really connect with deja vu in the way you seem to be aiming to ask is that, of those I know who have had deja vu. It seems to come more often to those that a more spiritually connected or aware of the world around them in some form. And no, I'm not talking of any particular religion. So I won't even try. De ja vu, in my understanding is 'brain trickery', and is to do with the illusion created by multi-tasking in relation to context dependant memory.

As our minds go about encoding and 'recording' both concious and unconcious 'contexts' to short term memory: The neurons interconnect afresh and we 're-live' or 're-visit' that 'moment'; and as we are caught by surprise; as after all this is unexpected and unplanned a feeling of euphoria or perplexion is felt.

Hope this makes some sense! One could say that a recurring dream happens in a similair way, where the stimuli is internally based, rather than external.

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I've wondered if there could be a chemical release such as aminobutyric acid that fools the brain into believing it has seen or perceived the current situation, scenario or conversation before. The same thing happens to me, as what you were explaining. I had one of those feelings the day my dog died. I felt as if something bad was going to happen, but I didn't know when so I ignored it.

About 10 minutes later my dog got out and got hit by a car. You seem quite knowledgeable and well educated so I think you may be able to shed some light on my situation. First though, I don't experience euphoria after a de ja vu experience however I am perplexed. I get a bit angry because it is so elusive and I'm not able to figure out the source of the memory.

Now for the issue that I hope you can shed some light on. I am now 66 years old and when I was 15 years old I was hospitalized for major depression at a very well known psychiatric hospital which was Harding Hospital in Columbus, OH. I took several tests, one of which must have been for ESP. What the doctor told me is that I have the ability to know when something bad is going to happen. I already knew that but question whatever test they based this result on. What happens is that I get a vague feeling that is uncomfortable that something bad or very unpleasant is going to happen.

The feeling is hard to explain but the event does take place but usually not immediately. It can be anywhere from a few days up to about ten days. When the event does occur I am not as upset as I ordinarily would be. I feel as if I was warned. I do, however, get frustrated and a bit angry because it is impossible for me to know how to or even possible for me to do anything to prevent or lessen the coming event. When I get this feeling I don't dwell on it because I have no influence over the outcome. It's hard to deal with as I never know the five Ws. I don't have a clue when, where, what etc and it is too useless and taxing to try to figure out.

Have you ever studied or know someone that has this happen and what's your take on it? Thanks for reading this and I would like to add that I cannot predict every time that something bad is going to happen. I do agree with you I think that one side of our brain is responsible for preparing information and the other is to process it. Sometimes it happens that the first one process information "this is not its role" then the same information is processed again and you think that you have lived this experience in the past.

Yes you have lived it in the past few milliseconds This is what I think. We do not need to hear your theories or anyone else's for that matter. Those of us who experience real Deja Vu as exactly and perfectly written will attest to the truth of it. We see into the future and people like you cannot deal with it.

I have Deja Vu's that have been almost a year out from the occurrence and I remember the dream vividly. Not some encoding trickery. Open your mind up and maybe you will have a chance to experience it too. My deja vu is not based on sights or sounds or an overwhelming sense.

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It is based on knowing that I have had that experienced before. On another note, I do agree that people who have lots of vivid dreams experience deja vu. Many of my family members do not dream like me and therefore, do not experience deja vu.