![]() ![]() The job that they faced, then, was one of trying to catch lightning in a bottle. They were faced with an immediate problem: déjà-vu experiences can be so transitory and short-lived that they are almost impossible to recreate in clinical conditions. Discovering that there was very little credible literature describing the causes of déjà vu, Moulin and colleagues at the Language and Memory Lab at the Institute of Psychological Sciences, University of Leeds, began to study epileptics and other sufferers of profound memory defects in order to draw conclusions about déjà experiences in the healthy brain and explore what déjà vu means for the workings of consciousness generally. ![]() On being introduced to Moulin for the first time, the man even claimed to be able to give specific details of occasions that they had met before.Īfter his first encounter with AKP, Moulin began to become interested in the causes of déjà vu and how subjective feelings can interfere with day-to-day memory processes. AKP was resistant to the idea of visiting the clinic because he felt as though he’d already been there, despite the fact that he never had. “His wife said that he was someone who felt as though everything in his life had happened before,” says Moulin, now at the Laboratoire de Psychologie et NeuroCognition CNRS in Grenoble. As a result of gradual brain-cell death caused by dementia, AKP was now suffering from chronic and perpetual déjà vu: déjà vécu.ĪKP claimed that he had given up watching television or reading the newspaper because he knew what was about to happen. In 2000, Moulin received a letter from a local GP referring an 80-year-old former engineer known as AKP. Professor Chris Moulin, one of the foremost experts on the déjà experience, describes a patient he encountered while working at a memory clinic at a hospital in Bath, England. ![]() People with déjà vécu have been known to lose this ability completely. On encountering déjà vu, the brain runs a sort of sense check, searching for objective evidence of the prior experience and then disregarding it as the illusion that it is. A defining feature of the normal déjà-vu experience is the ability to discern that it isn’t real. ![]()
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