Déjà vu
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Déjà vu was a phenomenon involving the recollection of a memory of something an individual believed they were experiencing for the first time. A number of different accounts give different explanations for how it worked.
Nature
Déjà vu was, according to the Eighth Doctor, an occupational hazard of being a time traveller. He associated it with the ability to remember different versions of history. (AUDIO: UNIT Dating [+]Loading...{"timestamp":"00:35:35","1":"UNIT Dating (audio story)"})
Jack Harkness asserted that déjà vu was an effect of ghosts stirring up human emotion. (TV: Ghost Machine [+]Loading...["Ghost Machine (TV story)"])
The Tenth Doctor believed that if someone was as "well-travelled" as he was, there was a good chance they had actually already been to the location and had forgotten it. (COMIC: Mortal Beloved (part one) [+]Loading...{"part":"One","1":"Mortal Beloved (comic story)"})
History
In UNIT HQ in either the 1970s or 1980s, when caught in a time loop due to an Ogron's malfunctioning time machine, Andy Davidson asked the Eighth Doctor how they could remember previous iterations of the loop; he responded by saying that déjà vu was an occupational hazard for time travelers. (AUDIO: UNIT Dating [+]Loading...["UNIT Dating (audio story)"])
In the mid-to-late 2000s, Jack Harkness explained to Torchwood Three that déjà vu was one of the effects of the presence of a "ghost". (TV: Ghost Machine [+]Loading...["Ghost Machine (TV story)"])
A hologram of John Hart that once appeared to Torchwood Three quipped about déjà vu. (TV: Fragments [+]Loading...["Fragments (TV story)"])
In ELF Storage on 31 December 2021, when the Thirteenth Doctor and her companions were trapped in a time loop, Dan Lewis referenced the phenomenon after the first iteration of the loop following their extermination. (TV: Eve of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Eve of the Daleks (TV story)"])
Undated events
When Majenta and the Tenth Doctor travelled to Stormlight House in the Proxima system, during the largest storm in the universe, Majenta got déjà vu when entering the house. The Doctor then went on a tangent about it. (COMIC: Mortal Beloved (part one) [+]Loading...{"part":"One","1":"Mortal Beloved (comic story)"})
Behind the scenes
- A track from the soundtrack of Eve of the Daleks is named "Deja Vu".
- Some media, such as the comic story Room with a Deja View [+]Loading...["Room with a Deja View (comic story)"], the short story Déjà Donna [+]Loading...["Déjà Donna (short story)"], and the Adobe Flash game K9: Deja Who [+]Loading...["K9: Deja Who (video game)"], are named after the phenomenon.
- Deja vu was the title of the first episode of Pisces, a sequel series to the fan-made Audio Visuals series.
