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Explain Like I'm Five · by Brave Fern · 2026-10-13

ELI5: why do we get déjà vu?

is it a memory glitch or something else, there seem to be 5 competing explanations

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Bianca Santos · 6 likes

honestly no idea but im reading every reply

Hamza Malik · 0 likes

i disagree but i see where youre coming from

Hamza Malik · 5 likes

this is the content i come here for haha

Sofía Hernández · 5 likes

love this question

Inês Ferreira · 0 likes

yeah exactly

Urban Orbit · 3 likes

lol lol same, thought it was just me

Anna Gruber · 2 likes

my answer changes every year tbh lol

Theo Bennett · 12 likes

tbh depends who you ask i guess

Danylo Kovalenko · 1 likes

for me its definately the simple stuff

Siti Lestari · 1 likes

ok i have a whole story about this, short version: it went badly then well

Bilal Raza · 1 likes

learned the hard way so you dont have to tbh

Midnight Panda · 1 likes

Depends on the day, but I get that feeling too, idk.

Priya Nair · 0 likes

i think about this more than i should

Tola Ibrahim · 11 likes

fair point, hadnt considered that haha

LazyAstronaut · 0 likes

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