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*Déjà vu —(French pronunciation—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 esearcher, Emile Boirac, (1851–1917) in his book L'Avenir des sciences psychiques ("The Future of Psychic Sciences").

The experience of déjà vu is usually accompanied by a compelling sense of familiarity, and also a sense of "eeriness", "strangeness", or what Sigmund Freud calls "the uncanny".^[1]

Déjà vu suggests your body is 're-experiencing' emotion, which may be repressed behind your defense system's wall of denial.

Had you been my parents, their agony would have been yours.
If you ask what my parents' suffering has to do with déjà vu, I'd reply:  Please read on …

Had you been me, watching the profound nature of my parents loss, their all-pervasive grief may have been so palpable and confounding—over so many months—as to have been absorbed as empathy, permeating my three-year old vulnerability, straight into my core.  Then, had empathy for their suffering been compounded by my own confounding sense of loss, imagine me developing an inability to differentiate between my parents' pain and my own until intuition directs me to learn about the lasting effects of emotional enmeshment, suggesting that for most of my life, my parents' emotional reactions will arouse similar reactions within me.

As you heard tell of Janet's death rather than partaking in the tragedy, you'll feel compassion for my parents—and then resume your busy life.  Does that make you unfeeling?  Not at all, because, try as you might, compassion can’t fathom the pain that Jennie and Jack had endured as hours dragged into days with little sleep.  Then, if endless days blurred into heartsick weeks and months, causing you to experience your own confounding, all-consuming sense of loss in the aftermath of irretrievable loss, your sense of compassion would most likely arouse an empathetic reaction akin to mine.  Thus, the depth of what each one feels is determined by degrees of separation from the experience, itself.

In order for the intricacies of the brain to function in a well balanced state, agony, too long endured, may depress and then repress.  When that's the case, the source of depression must be identified and exorcized or the confounding nature of unresolved pain, along with fearsome misperceptions, will continue to fester subconsciously as the future unfolds.

Once we absorb the fact that déjà vu arouses repressed anxiety, we come to understand how unidentified fear darkens a person's sense of clarity, currently.  You see, just as—what goes up must come down—common sense suggests that what goes in must come out somewhere down the road …

As this train of thought, concerning repressed anxiety and déjà vu,  offers us more than enough to chew on for today, I'll bid you adieu till tomorrow.

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BTW—At those times when déjà vu arouses latent feelings of anxiety, your body 'remembers' the depth of what you'd felt long ago.  It's important to note that déjà vu arouses feelings of pleasure, as well.  For example:  While writing déjà vu followed by adieu, I found myself smiling as memorable feelings of having fun with high school French in Paris were naturally aroused :)