Flashforward moments I've heard someone describe having what he calls &quot;flashforwards&quot;: Moments he lives through which he feels like he remembers from before - on some occasions in situations he definitely did not see before. Is there any hard evidence on this or a name for the phenomenon? Is this some elaborate kind of self-deception?
Déjà vu seems to match what you describe.
There are various possible explanations though they are a bit difficult to test since you can't readily activate the feeling in a lab setting. One of them is the idea that in the process of encoding a memory of the event it is simultaneously and erroneously &quot;recalled&quot;.