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Jamais Vu: The Opposite Of Déjà Vu

A lesser-known feeling is Jamais Vu or ‘never seen’. It is essentially failing to recognize or remember a situation that should be familiar to us. This is different from standard forgetting, like amnesia, but is a momentary lapse of awareness of the familiar.

What’s intriguing is that it has the same characteristics:

  1. It is a disorienting feeling.
  2. It happens more to young people.
  3. It is more likely to happen when one is tired.

An experiment to prompt the feeling of Jamais Vu involved writing a familiar word like apple or door, constantly on a piece of paper for a few minutes. 70 percent of the participants began to doubt the spelling or the authenticity of the word.

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