*Déjà vu —(French pronunciation: [deʒa vy](
li), literally "already seen") is the experience of feeling sure that one has already witnessed or experienced a current situation, even though the exact circumstances of the prior encounter are uncertain ... . The term was coined by a French psychic researcher, Émile Boirac (1851–1917) in his book L'Avenir des sciences psychiques ("The Future of Psychic Sciences"), which expanded upon an essay he wrote while an undergraduate. The experience of déjà vu is usually accompanied by a compelling sense of familiarity, and also a sense of "eeriness", "strangeness", "weirdness", or what Sigmund Freud calls "the uncanny". The "previous" experience is ... frequently attributed to a dream, although in some cases there is a firm sense that the experience has genuinely happened in the past.[1]
Had you been my parents, their agony would be yours.
Had you watched my parents and—shared in their loss—with loss of your own—this sense of all-pervasive grief may have been so contagious, so palpable, so confounding—for so long—as to have stirred your sense of empathy to the point of permeating the vulnerable state of a three-year old mind, right down to its very core.
Had you become aware of this story, years later, you'd feel compassion, no doubt. And then, you'd resume your busy life. Does that make you unfeeling? Not at all. Because, try as you might, you can’t fathom the pain that Jennie and Jack must endure as hours drag into days and days blur into weeks and months—unless empathy, from having experienced your own torturous, all-consuming grief, following a confounding, irretrievable loss, has been aroused.
Thus, the depth of that which each person feels is determined by degrees of separation from the tragedy, itself.
In order for the parts of the brain to function in a well balanced state, agony, too long endured, must be understood or the confounding nature of that pain may subconsciously repress and continue to fester, along with fearsome misperceptions, as the future unfolds.
If what goes up must come down, then common sense suggests that what goes in must come out somewhere down the road...
More about agonizing misperceptions, which play havoc with self confidence and the ways in which fearsome memories distorts clarity—later.
When it comes to understanding the ways in which the powers of *Déjà vu influence a person's sense of clarity, today ... this train of thought offers more than enough to chew on for right now, wouldn't you say?
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