<p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0_vu" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Déjà vu</a> seems to match what you describe.</p>
<p>There are various possible explanations though they are a bit difficult to test since you can't readily activate the feeling in a lab setting. One of them is the idea that in the process of encoding a memory of the event it is simultaneously and erroneously &quot;recalled&quot;.</p>

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<p>I've heard someone describe having what he calls &quot;flashforwards&quot;: Moments he lives through which he feels like he remembers from before - on some occasions in situations he definitely did not see before. Is there any hard evidence on this or a name for the phenomenon? Is this some elaborate kind of self-deception?</p>

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# Flashforward moments

(Asked by: username_0 on 2021-05-22)

I've heard someone describe having what he calls "flashforwards": Moments he lives through which he feels like he remembers from before - on some occasions in situations he definitely did not see before. Is there any hard evidence on this or a name for the phenomenon? Is this some elaborate kind of self-deception?

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### Answer by username_1 on 2021-05-22. Score: 2

[Déjà vu](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0_vu) seems to match what you describe.

There are various possible explanations though they are a bit difficult to test since you can't readily activate the feeling in a lab setting. One of them is the idea that in the process of encoding a memory of the event it is simultaneously and erroneously "recalled".


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