MetaChat - Jamais vu and deja vu

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11 July 2011

Jamais vu and deja vu When is the last time it happened to you? Let's throw preque vu in for good measure.→[More:] I remember reading somewhere that deja vu was far more common in the young and it has been a very long time since it happen to me. Meanwhile, I am wondering if I've been experiencing jamais vu or if it could just be lapses in memory.

post by: ethylene at: 10:59 | 9 comments

Presque vu is a cognitive phenomenon as well?
Well, I have that all the time. Almost.

posted by jouke 11 July | 13:15

Deja vu -- not for a long, long time. Jamais vu -- pretty much never that I can recall. Presque vu -- occasionally. Last time was about a week ago.

posted by bearwife 11 July | 13:24

I'm similar to bearwife. Presque vu is freakin' annoying and happens way too often.

posted by deborah 11 July | 15:45

Wait, when did deja vu get variants? I've never heard of these.

posted by octothorpe 11 July | 18:19

And let's not forget Voulez-Vous.

posted by JanetLand 11 July | 18:52

I get deja vu pretty often, though not as astonishingly often as I did when I was a teenager.

I've become pretty good at outsmarting presque vu, maybe through the habit of dogged persistence: I can usually nail down that word if it's part of my long-term vocabulary. It might take a few minutes, but I'm rarely left with that maddening nagging sensation that it is right there.

I get jamais vu mostly when I'm sleep deprived. Sleep-befuddlement makes it all too easy for places, faces, voices, and activities to become completely foreign to me, as if I've never seen them before. It can get a little scary sometimes, or it would be scary if a nap didn't put me right again.

posted by Elsa 11 July | 19:05

How about vu ja de? I have never felt this way before.

posted by theora55 11 July | 20:23

Deja-vu - I get it about twice a year. And I do mean seeing something in real life that I have only ever seen in my head. It's disturbing and raises some fundamental questions about the mechanism of time.

posted by plinth 12 July | 07:32

None of those - for me it's usually "merde sacre"
(Sorry, would use accent above if I could find how on this phone )

posted by mightshould 12 July | 10:39

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