Had my first "jamais vu" (opposite of "deja vu"), really eerie

After some dramatic incidents in my life and lack of sleep, I walked into my apartment. I recognized it, knew where things were, but it was like it was another person’s apartment, not mine. It was an eerie feeling and i was about to walk out again, but forced myself to watch TV until the feeling of otherness disappeared.

From Wiki:

“In [psychology](h, jamais vu (h: [ʒamɛ vy]), a French borrowing meaning “never seen”, is the phenomenon of experiencing a situation that one recognizes in some fashion, but that nonetheless seems novel and unfamiliar.”

“Theoretically, a jamais vu feeling in a sufferer of a delirious disorder or intoxication could result in a delirious explanation of it, such as in Capgras delusion, in which the patient considers someone they know to be a false double or impostor. If the patient sees themselves as the impostor, the clinical setting would be the same as the one described as depersonalization; hence, jamais vus of oneself, or of the very “reality of reality”, are termed depersonalization and derealization, respectively.”

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Sounds scary. When I was working, I had moments where I couldn’t remember how to do my job at all. I recognized nothing. It was so scary whenever it happened

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Yes, it was scary, so can i imagine your sudden amnesia is.

Deja Vu is mostly a bit fun, but not so with Jamais Vu and it lasted in my case for several minutes.

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Wow. Was it a one time thing?

Yes and i never experienced it before. WIKI says “jamais vu” is somehow similar or in the same family as “depersonalization” where you can’t feel a simple ownership of your own body, and i have got a lot of that at the moment - a distorted sense of self.

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Interesting. I hope it never happens to you again

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Thanks. Me too - even i also find it a little interesting

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