DÉJÀ VU: ORIGINS AND PHENOMENOLOGY: IMPLICATIONS OF THE FOUR SUBTYPES FOR FUTURE RESEARCH

摘要

An analysis of déjà vu subtypes is done in accordance with Neppe's universally accepted operational definition of déjà vu (any subjectively inappropriate impression of familiarity of the present experience with an undefined past), the 30 different circumstances for "déjà experience" and the 50 postulated explanations for déjà vu. Neppe hypothesized and then demonstrated 4 phenomenologically distinct nosological subtypes representing 4 different, distinct populations motivating 4 etiologically distinct kinds of déjà vu: subjective paranormal experience (SPE) déjà vu (in subjective paranormal experients), associative déjà vu (in ostensible "normals" or subjective paranormal nonexperients and also in nonepileptic temporal lobe dysfunction and nontemporal lobe epilepsy patients), psychotic déjà vu (in schizophrenics) and temporal lobe epileptic déjà vu in temporal lobe epliptic patients. The approach used serves as a model for phenomenologically relevant analyses in neuroscience, psychology, psychopathology, and parapsychology. This allows standardized, relevant recordings and also requires development of further appropriate questionnaires to ensure phenomenological homogeneity in further research and meta-analyses. Subjective paranormal experience déjà vu has implications for precognition, reincarnation, and dreaming. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]