If you don’t know, déjà vu is the feeling of “remembering” an event that just happened for the first time, sort of like it’s a scene from a movie you’ve seen before. (If you already knew that, enjoy the irony of hearing it explained again!)
I’ve heard about many people experiencing déjà vu at some point in their lives, and I’ve experienced it multiple times myself, but there’s a detail I haven’t heard others talk about. For those of you who’ve had it, I’m curious: is your feeling of déjà vu itself in the imagined memory? That is, when feeling “I remember this happening before,” do you also think “and I remember remembering that this has happened before?” Is your déjà vu a recursive feeling of “this has happened many times before,” or does the feeling stop at “this has happened once before?”
Because for me, it is absolutely recursive. Every time.
In Search of Secrets 