<p style="text-align: justify; ">It was the 3rd of August, 2026. I was in school, having a conversation with a friend, when the thought suddenly crossed my mind.</p><p style="text-align: justify; ">I hesitated for a moment before asking him:</p><p style="text-align: justify; ">“Do you know déjà vu? Have you ever experienced it? And how would you explain it?”</p><p style="text-align: justify; ">He said he had experienced it before, but not often. When I asked him what he thought it was, he couldn't really explain it.</p><p style="text-align: justify; ">Neither could I.</p><p style="text-align: justify; ">Still curious, I searched for an explanation.</p><p style="text-align: justify; ">Déjà vu, which means “already seen,” is commonly described as the strange feeling that you have experienced something before, even though you know you haven't. It is often explained as a brief confusion between familiarity and memory.</p><p style="text-align: justify; ">I understood the explanation, but I wasn't convinced.</p><p style="text-align: justify; ">Maybe because my experience has always felt different.</p><p style="text-align: justify; ">For me, déjà vu isn't simply “I've seen this before.”</p><p style="text-align: justify; ">Sometimes, I'm in the middle of a conversation or an ordinary moment, and suddenly, everything feels familiar. Not just the place or the situation.</p><p style="text-align: justify; ">The moment itself.</p><p style="text-align: justify; ">And strangely, I sometimes feel like I know what comes next.</p><p style="text-align: justify; ">It could be something that happens a few seconds later, or even a minute or two afterward. In that moment, I don't feel like I'm remembering the past.</p><p style="text-align: justify; ">It feels like I'm remembering something that hasn't happened yet.</p><p style="text-align: justify; ">I know how strange that sounds.</p><p style="text-align: justify; ">Actually, I've been reluctant to write about it for that very reason. Maybe there is a perfectly simple explanation for it, and I'm only making it mysterious because I don't understand it.</p><p style="text-align: justify; ">Maybe the brain is simply better at recognising patterns than we realise.</p><p style="text-align: justify; ">Maybe it's a memory glitch.</p><p style="text-align: justify; ">Maybe it's something else entirely.</p><p style="text-align: justify; ">And that's why I'm asking instead of claiming to have an answer.</p><p style="text-align: justify; ">What is déjà vu to you?</p><p style="text-align: justify; ">Have you ever experienced one that felt like more than simply remembering the past?</p><p style="text-align: justify; ">What if déjà vu is exactly what science says it is?</p><p style="text-align: justify; ">What if there's another explanation we haven't found?</p><p style="text-align: justify; ">And if you've ever experienced it the way I described it, what did it feel like to you?</p><p style="text-align: justify; ">I'm genuinely curious.</p><p style="text-align: justify; ">Maybe your experience will help me understand mine.</p>
At the end of the month, we give out prizes in 3 categories: Best Content, Top Engagers and
Most Engaged Content.
Best Content
Top Engagers
Most Engaged Content
Best Content
We give out cash prizes to between 7 and 20 community members with the best insights in the past month.
The winners are picked by an in-house selection process.
The winners are NOT picked from the leaderboards/rankings, we choose winners based on the quality, originality
and insightfulness of their content.
Here are a few other things to know for the Best Content track
1
Quality over Quantity — You stand a higher chance of winning by publishing a few really good insights across the entire month,
rather than a lot of low-quality, spammy posts.
2
Share original, authentic, and engaging content that clearly reflects your voice, thoughts, and opinions.
3
Avoid using AI to generate content—use it instead to correct grammar, improve flow, enhance structure, and boost clarity.
4
Explore audio content—high-quality audio insights can significantly boost your chances of standing out.
5
Use eye-catching cover images—if your content doesn't attract attention, it's less likely to be read or engaged with.
6
Share your content in your social circles to build engagement around it.
Top Engagers
For the Top Engagers Track, we award the top 3 people who engage the most with other user's content via
comments.
The winners are picked using the "Top Monthly Engagers" tab on the rankings page.
Most Engaged Content
The Most Engaged Content recognizes users whose content received the most engagement during the month.
We pick the top 3.
The winners are picked using the "Top Monthly Contributors" tab on the rankings page.
Contributor Rankings
The Rankings/Leaderboard shows the Top 20 contributors and engagers on TwoCents a monthly and all-time basis
— as well as the most active colleges (users attending/that attended those colleges)
The all-time contributors ranking is based on the Contributor Score, which is a measure of all the engagement and exposure a contributor's content receives.
The monthly contributors ranking tracks performance of a user's insights for the current month. The monthly and all-time scores are calcuated DIFFERENTLY.
This page also shows the top engagers on an all-time & monthly basis.
Below is a list of badges on TwoCents and their designations.