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Jamais vuEdit
Main article: Jamais vu
Jamais vu (from French, meaning "never seen") is any familiar situation which is not recognized by the observer.
Often described as the opposite of déjà vu, jamais vu involves a sense of eeriness and the observer's impression of seeing the situation for the first time, despite rationally knowing that he or she has been in the situation before. Jamais vu is more commonly explained as when a person momentarily does not recognize a word, person, or place that they already know. Jamais vu is sometimes associated with certain types of aphasia, amnesia, and epilepsy.
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 the Capgras delusion, in which the patient takes a known person for a false double or impostor.[41] If the impostor is himself, 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 (or surreality) feelings.
The feeling has been evoked through semantic satiation. Chris Moulin of the University of Leeds asked 95 volunteers to write the word "door" 30 times in 60 seconds. 68 percent of the subjects reported symptoms of jamais vu, with some beginning to doubt that "door" was a real word.[41]
The experience has also been named "vuja de" and "véjà du".[42][43]
Déjà vécuEdit
Déjà vécu (from French, meaning "already lived") is an intense, but false, feeling of having already lived through the present situation. Recently, it's been considered a pathological form of déjà vu. However, unlike déjà vu, déjà vécu has behavioral consequences. Because of the intense feeling of familiarity, patients of déjà vécu may withdraw from their current events or activities. Patients may justify their feelings of familiarity with beliefs bordering on delusion.[44]
Presque vuEdit
Presque vu (French pronunciation: [pʁɛsk vy], from French, meaning "almost seen") is the intense feeling of being on the very brink of a powerful epiphany, insight, or revelation, without actually achieving the revelation. The feeling is often therefore associated with a frustrating, tantalizing sense of incompleteness or near-completeness.[45]
Déjà rêvéEdit
Déjà rêvé (from French, meaning "already dreamed") is the feeling of having already dreamed something that you are now experiencing.[46]
Déjà entenduEdit
Déjà entendu (literally "already heard") is the experience of feeling sure about having already heard something, even though the exact details are uncertain or were perhaps imagined.[47][48]
Déjà vousEdit
Deja vous is a pun on the English pronunciation of déjà vu. The French pronunciation of the vowel U in vu, [y] audio (help·info), does not exist in English. Therefore déjà vu is pronounced with a /uː/ in English. When pronounced this way, /ˌdeɪʒɑː ˈvuː/ (listen), it means "already you" in French, rather than "already seen" and is written "déjà vous".[citation needed]
