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The feeling in déjà vu, 'I have experienced all of this just this way before', is better understood if it is thought of as 'encore vu': 'I am experiencing all of this again; I am having a second chance'. It is an illusory fulfilment of a wish that one could
repeat some previous experience so that one could make the outcome accord better with a desire: 'If it be true that I am reexperiencing this, then I can hope that I will have a second chance to realize some other more important unfulfilled wish'. Latent déjà vu wishes occur at various levels of awareness; some are readily available to consciousness; others, more primitive, are deeply repressed.