BernardR wrote:Sir: I did not make up what I put in my post. I put down what the Dictionary gives as the definition of Deja Vu.
It means- Unoriginal or Trite
Check Page 350 of "The Random House Dictionary of the English Language"- Collge Edition- Random House- New York--1968
Yogi Berra was a great baseball player but his knowledge of English and word meanings was execrable!
As is yours. Or your dictionary's. Or, more probably, both.
• deja-vu
internal sense of a person as though he has already experienced the present situation at some point in his past Wikipedia English - Free Encyclopedia
• Déjà vu
For other uses, see Déjà vu (disambiguation).
The term déjà vu (French: "already seen", also called paramnesia) describes the experience of feeling that one has witnessed or experienced a new situation previously. The term was created by a French psychic researcher, Emile Boirac (1851–1917) in his book L'Avenir des sciences psychiques (The Future of Psychic Sciences), which expanded upon an essay he wrote while an undergraduate French concentrator at the University of Chicago. The experience of déjà vu is usually accompanied by a compelling sense of familiarity, and also a sense of "eerieness" or "strangeness". The "previous" experience is most frequently attributed to a dream, although in some cases there is a firm sense that the experience "genuinely happened" in the past.
The meaning you have lit upon (while sort of functionally onoematoepaeic, given your essence) is a sub meaning.
You find yourself in what is a far more complex word.
Hmmmm...THAT might be an ad hom., but its truth is a sort of defence.
Have you ever heard of projection as an ego defence mechanism ( a very primitive one) ?
You might profit from studying it.
