Jamais vu involves a sense of eeriness and the observer’s impression of experiencing something for the first time, despite rationally knowing that they have experienced it before.
Jamais vu is commonly explained as when a person momentarily does not recognize a word or, less commonly, a person or place, that they already know.
Jamais vu is sometimes associated with certain types of
aphasia,
amnesia, and
epilepsy.
Experiment A study by
Chris Moulin of Leeds University asked 92 volunteers to write out "door" 30 times in 60 seconds. He reported that 68 percent of volunteers showed symptoms of
jamais vu, such as beginning to doubt that "door" was a real word. Moulin believes that a similar brain fatigue underlies some symptoms of schizophrenia and
Capgras delusion. Moulin suggests that people with these conditions could be suffering from chronic
jamais vu. ==Causes==