[Sundae]

As well as deja vu, there is also jamais vu and presque vu. They're all described in Catch 22 funnily enough.

Jamais vu is literally "never seen" and is the feeling that everything and everyone around you is unknown and unfamiliar. It can be really intense - to the extent that all of a sudden the words coming out of people's mouths don't make any sense. Oddly, I find I get it more in the winter.

Presque vu is "almost seen" which refers to the feeling that something is about to happen, something almost tangible but not quite there. It's like reaching for a name or a memory that you can't quite get.

Rexmons, my experience of deja vu is exactly as you have described it, but I have always accepted the explanation that it is a trick of the mind rather than real life suddenly falling into line with something I have dreamed previously.