Gayja Vu occurs when
one realizes that not only are they in
fact homosexual, but they may have acted in a homosexual way or perhaps have been a homosexual their entire life, giving that person an eerie sense of homosexual familiarity.
If we assume that the experience is actually of a remembered event, then Gayja Vu probably occurs because an original homosexual experience was neither fully attended to nor elaborately encoded in memory. If so, then it would seem most likely that the present situation triggers the recollection of a fragment from
one'
s homosexual past. The experience may seem uncanny if the memory is so fragmented that no strong connections can be made between the fragment and other memories.
Thus, the feeling that
one has been gay before is often due to the fact that
one has, in fact, been gay before.
One has simply forgotten most of the original homosexual experience because
one was not paying close attention the first time. The original homosexual experience may even have occurred only seconds or minutes earlier.
On the other
hand, the Gayja Vu experience may be due to having
seen homoerotic pictures or
heard vivid homoerotic stories many years earlier. The experience may be part of the
dim recollections of a homosexual childhood.
Deion watched his head coach
kiss and caress his tender calves and thighs with an eerie
yet distinct sense of Gayja Vu, as he realized that he had been enjoying similar situations throughout his entire life in school locker rooms.