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Crystal1414
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12 Dec 2024, 1:52 pm

Sometimes I feel unfamiliar and disoriented in places I know. Everything starts to feel distorted. I start to think I'm in other places. It's partly why I can't go out alone. Nobody else I know seems to understand. I get anxious from it and don't want to leave because of it. I will forget things and not know what I'm doing.



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12 Dec 2024, 2:27 pm

Jamais vu



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14 Dec 2024, 5:48 am

Carbonhalo wrote:
Jamais vu


Love it!!



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17 Dec 2024, 7:25 pm

Jaimes Vu



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17 Dec 2024, 7:54 pm

There's also an opposite of Deja Vu in terms of recognizing the first occurrence as being unique at the time, then in retrospect forgetting that it was the first time and just considering it to be an occurrence. I'm not sure what the term is for that, but it seems to be related to the brain's failure to recognize things as being unique, even if the person is well aware that this is new including the feeling of novelty at the time.

This seems different from Jaimes Vu and I'm not really sure what the proper term for it is.



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17 Dec 2024, 8:36 pm

Jamais Vu, which means "never experienced" or "never seen."


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27 Apr 2025, 7:16 am

Always wondered If Jamais vu, Is when NMDA levels drop suddenly we then end up with a unbiased version of a situation. Still view this Is a Autistic symptom as I would literally never see a place as static, Got extermely annoying when I had NT's expect me to go do a task as spur of the moment style.



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27 Apr 2025, 7:39 am

It sounds like derealization to me.

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Derealization is an alteration in the perception of the external world, causing those with the condition to perceive it as unreal, distant, distorted, or in other ways falsified. Other symptoms include feeling as if one's environment lacks spontaneity, emotional coloring, and depth. Described as "Experiences of unreality or detachment with respect to surroundings (e.g., individuals or objects are experienced as unreal, dreamlike, foggy, lifeless or visually distorted") in the DSM-5

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derealization


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27 Apr 2025, 8:56 am

Could be.


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27 Apr 2025, 9:31 am

TwilightPrincess wrote:
It sounds like derealization to me.
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Derealization is an alteration in the perception of the external world, causing those with the condition to perceive it as unreal, distant, distorted, or in other ways falsified. Other symptoms include feeling as if one's environment lacks spontaneity, emotional coloring, and depth. Described as "Experiences of unreality or detachment with respect to surroundings (e.g., individuals or objects are experienced as unreal, dreamlike, foggy, lifeless or visually distorted") in the DSM-5

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derealization


The lack of emotional coloring sticks out to me in particular as something I've experienced. It's like I can't feel colors. However, I don't relate to Crystal's description, so I can't add to that. I'm sorry you're going through that, Crystal. That sounds scary. I hope you figure it out.


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27 Apr 2025, 9:53 am

Yeah it's like when you wake up and you think you're in a bedroom you used to sleep in 40 years ago

It's confusing

My brain sometimes still thinks it's the 90s and it takes mental effort for me to get back to now

I once woke up thinking I was 14 and I planned out my whole day; clothes, school and even all the different excuses I was gonna make for all the different people

All this took place over the course of only a minute or two but it is confusing and it can also be scary as well, especially if you don't know where you are

Take care Crystal and keep yourself safe


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