“i was haunted and perplexed by an idea that somewhere or other I had seen just this strange spectacle before. the height, the blackness, the dismal void, before my eyes, seemed as familiar as the decorous neatness of my grandmother’s kitchen… it’s that odd state of mind wherein we fitfully and teasingly remember some previous scene or incident, of which the one now passing appears to be but the echo and reduplication.” -nathaniel hawthorn.
nice article looking into the many notions historically held about that most off putting of sensations, deja vu.