Already Seen
Do you ever experience the illusion that you've lived a moment in time before? I think everyone has. At least everyone knows the sensation is called déjà vu. Like it just now happened to me as I left my office to go buy a Coke. Obviously I've done that many times before. But this time that eerie déjà vu sensation came along with it. It lasted only a few moments.
I experience déjà vu what I think of as frequently and I absolutely, positively hate it.
My déjà vu sensations only last a few seconds. But for me, every time I get one, a great sense of anxiety - dread almost - accompanies it. This vague memory of some unpleasant or disquieting event is there along with the déjà vu... lurking just beneath my consciousness, far enough away that I can't quite grab ahold of it and remember what the unpleasant or disquieting event is, but close enough to feel apprehensive about it. I never get déjà vu for happy or fun moments. It occurs during the most random, mundane activities but always with this fleeting, ephemeral memory that something bad is about to happen.
Because it's impossible to turn on and off, I don't think déjà vu has been studied much. But I wish they'd find a cure. For me, déjà vu is really unpleasant.
K-
I wish I knew what it means. I get it too. But, not as often as you. Usually, it lasts just long enough for me to realize that whatever it was could not possibly have happened.
It gives me pause when it happens but not much more than that. I shrug it off. Like you, it always happens to me during the most routine, unexceptional things.
I hate deja vu when its last name is Bush. The Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young variety I find tolerable though occasionally disquieting, as you say.