The term "déjà vu" describes the experience of feeling that one has witnessed or experienced a new situation previously.
The experience of déjà vu is usually accompanied by a compelling sense of familiarity, and also a sense of "eerieness", "strangeness", or "weirdness". The "previous" experience is most frequently attributed to a dream, although in some cases there is a firm sense that the experience "genuinely happened" in the past. Déjà vu has been described as "Remembering the future".
The experience of déjà vu seems to be very common; in formal studies 70% or more of the population report having experienced it at least once.
You have a very detailed article in the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deja_Vu