jamais vu
Known becomes unknown
Jamais vu is the unsettling experience of something familiar suddenly seeming strange or unfamiliar—the opposite of déjà vu.
You might look at a word you've written a thousand times and momentarily feel you've never seen it before: I stared at "the" until it looked like nonsense.
The French means "never seen."
Mental separation from surroundings
- depersonalizationDetachment from one's identity
- derealizationPerception that surroundings aren't real
- unrealityQuality of being imaginary
- surrealDreamlike and strange
disorientation · bewilderment · perplexity · strangeness · alienation · defamiliarization · unfamiliarity · uncanny
Regular sequence of actions
- mundaneCommonplace, lacking excitement
- everydayOccurring each day
- commonplaceUnremarkable and frequent
- ordinaryStandard, unremarkable
habitual · repetitive · monotonous · automatic · mechanical · rote · familiar · known
Mind's retention capacity
- perceptionMental interpretation of stimuli
- awarenessState of perceiving reality
- consciousnessState of sentient awareness
- attentionFocused mental awareness
processing · familiarity · neural · brain · cognitive · psychology · mental · mind
dissociation
Mental separation from surroundings
- depersonalizationDetachment from one's identity
- derealizationPerception that surroundings aren't real
- unrealityQuality of being imaginary
surreal · disorientation · bewilderment · perplexity · strangeness · alienation · defamiliarization · unfamiliarity · uncanny · eerie
routine
Regular sequence of actions
- mundaneCommonplace, lacking excitement
- everydayOccurring each day
- commonplaceUnremarkable and frequent
ordinary · habitual · repetitive · monotonous · automatic · mechanical · rote · familiar · known · accustomed
memory
Mind's retention capacity
- perceptionMental interpretation of stimuli
- awarenessState of perceiving reality
- consciousnessState of sentient awareness
attention · processing · familiarity · neural · brain · cognitive · psychology · mental · mind · semantic
- memory errorsmemory leak, false memory, memory distortion, misattribution, confabulation
- mental lapseslapse, forget, slip, misplace, overlook
- Hallucinationsvisual hallucinations, auditory hallucinations, visual hallucination, auditory hallucination, seeing things
- mind tricksoptical illusion, mind games, magic tricks, riddles, puzzles
jamais vudéjà vu
Illusory prior experience
recognition · familiarity · recollection · remembrance · familiar