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A new study reveals the psychology behind the phenomena No matter how many times you experience déjà vu in your life, it never ceases to be a bizarre occurrence. While science has pretty much explained all the mystery out of awesome and strange things like the Northern Lights, eclipses, and those Magic Eye posters, it has failed to come up with a thorough explanation for déjà vu. Anne Cleary, a psychologist at Colorado State University, decided to put to the test that strange feeling where you could swear you had already experienced a present situation. Cleary's theory is that déjà vu is connected to human recognition memory, which allows us to recognize that something happening right now has also happened before . There are two forms of human recognition memory : recollection and familiarity . As you may have guessed (or could you almost swear somebody had told you this before?) Recollection memory means you know why a particular moment seems familiar —you can pinp...