Déjà vu is the experience of:

a. having been in a situation that is impossible or unlikely to have previously occurred.
b. forgetting from a previous perception.
c. failing to perceive the obvious.
d. being somewhere familiar but not remembering it.


Answer: A

Rationale: It generally begins with an individual entering a new situation or having a subtle shift of attention, and then it sets in—the feeling of I've been here before, of experiencing the exact same event.

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