Psychological mechanisms of the «deja vu» experience

Abstract

The article is devoted to consideration of essence, conditions, and arising mechanisms of one of inscrutable psychological phenomena - the "deja vu" experience. Various hy­potheses that were proposed for explanation of the nature and specificity of the "deja vu" phenomenon are analyzed, and their disadvantages are marked. The author's conception of psychological mechanisms underlying the "deja vu" experience is offered. The concep­tion is based on new understanding of concepts "psyche", "consciousness", "awareness" and explains not only the arising of experience of the present as already was being in the past, but also a prediction of the nearest future of this present.