Deja Vu

[Angrboda]

I often get a feeling of what I term 'Vu jade' - It means, 'None of this is in the least familiar to me.'

In psychology, jamais vu (/ˈʒɑːmeɪ ˈvuː/; from French, meaning "never seen") is the phenomenon of experiencing a situation that one recognizes in some fashion, but that nonetheless seems very unfamiliar.

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 sometimes associated with certain types of aphasia, amnesia, and epilepsy.

Jamais vu is most commonly experienced when a person momentarily does not recognise a word or, less commonly, a person or place, that she or he knows.

I've never read the scientific explanation. I always thought it was because your brain spuriously generates the emotional "feeling" that is associated with recognizing something familiar, so you confabulate and mistakenly presume you are recognizing something you've already seen on the basis of the feeling.