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This matches my experience. Deja vu is not something I remember from a past event, but from something happening right at the moment. If I understand the article

by jat850 10y ago

This matches my experience. Deja vu is not something I remember from a past event, but from something happening right at the moment. If I understand the article correctly, and a candidate theory for deja vu encountered on Wikipedia, this might make sense. I think the theory is that occasionally there are slight issues with the timing/synchronization of the memory being stored in certain parts of the brain. Since the research shows that memories are written twice, if such a desync occurred, maybe deja vu is some perception of disagreement between short and long term memories? For some reason, I find the experience of deja vu somehow quite ... pleasing. I am not sure if this is true for everyone.

kylebenzle 10y ago
As a kid I found deja vu pleasing as well and "practiced" it for a long time, "giving myself" deja vu. I would practice by doing the same thing I did the day before or a week before, then try to focus on the feeling and enhance it as soon as it started to show up, then kind of "let myself live in deja vu" for longer and longer periods. Now I can give myself that feeling anytime. I first relax and look around, take in as much as I can. Then go back to doing something else, then relax again and pretend I have already been where I am.