Anyone experience Jamais Vu - recognizes but unfamiliar?

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I experience this and it is so weird...anyone else experience this? I guess it is the start of a simple or complex seizure.
 
 
Jamais vu is sooooooo disconcerting. Mine has lasted only lasted maybe only 15 seconds or so before I have a more typical seizure but it sure isn't pleasant.
It has only happened a handful of times to me but that is enough for me.
Do yours last a long time?
Does it happen by itself or does anything occur afterwards for you?
 
I have those as well. Usually somewhere that I am familiar with, but it has happened at the mall a time or two. I actually had to ask someone once where I was! You can imagine the look I got from that :)
 
do ya mean dja vue think that spelling...it horrible my understanding is brain few seconds behind or appears to be,i have that then i jerk followed by stinking head ache...sometimes it the constant smell or that
 
Jamais vu is more or less the opposite of deja vu:

With deja vu, a completely unfamiliar location feels familiar, as if you've been there before. With jamais vu, a familiar location feels new and strange, as if you've never been there before.
 
i have former,thanks i did not know about jamais vu,can't spell it either
 
I've experieced both of these and they can freak me out totally. The latter tends to happen when I go on trips, even though the destination can be the same, I often feel like it's not familiar but yet familiar. Knowing I've been there but don't remember much about it.
 
I feel strange in a familiar place and can't recall where I am. I just know something is happening to me. I can't time it or anything as it just hits me but I don't think it's for very long.
 
I have read that some people can have a conversation and function but I get sick, feel weak from the knees down and can't speak or comprehend anything...it's like listening to someone speak in the background but you don't have a clue what they are talking about. When it goes away I feel bewildered. Seems to come in clusters sometimes and is very irritating.
 
were everybody looks familiar, but you cant name them
even if you dont know them.
or everyone looks the same
 
Yes, when I have my weird spells, sometimes they have jamais vu. I had no idea there was a word for it until I started reading more about deja vu. I have these very strange episodes that I believe are seizures, and I feel like I have no idea who my husband is or where I am, yet I logically know. It is very bizarre and scary.
 
Electra said:
I experience this and it is so weird...anyone else experience this? I guess it is the start of a simple or complex seizure.
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I get jamais vu all the time. No additional symptoms, just that odd feeling that this place, which I think should be familiar, isn't, it's strange. It's funny. I mentioned this to a neurologist I had a number of years ago, and he just shrugged it off. Like it was no big deal. I'd done a ton of reading about temporal lobe epilepsy and simple partial epilepsies at the time, and knew it could be a simple partial seizure, but got no validation from him. I've never mentioned it to my current neuro.
 
This happens to me EVERY SINGLE TIME I go to Wall Mart!!!! I had no clue wth was going on until now!!
 
My friend would drive me around at one point when my I wasn't doing so good. My town is pretty small, yet I would totally forget where I was. I knew I was on certain street, but I was totally lost mentally. It's a weird feeling, and I had no idea it had a name. Thankfully it hasn't happened for quite some time. I still get Deja Vu like crazy. Id prefer deja vu over suddenly not knowing where I am, in a very known place.
 
MuayThaiFighter said:
My friend would drive me around at one point when my I wasn't doing so good. My town is pretty small, yet I would totally forget where I was. I knew I was on certain street, but I was totally lost mentally. It's a weird feeling, and I had no idea it had a name. Thankfully it hasn't happened for quite some time. I still get Deja Vu like crazy. Id prefer deja vu over suddenly not knowing where I am, in a very known place.
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I agree, but deja vu sucks bad! I get it so much its sick! Lol ... The other one is HELL, so scary!!!
 
Since my brain injury, I get Jamais vu. It's horrible... I can be walking along all normal, and then next minute, I get the strange feeling in my head, and suddenly I don't know where I am And don't recognise the place - even if I've been there a billion times before. I get really scared as everything sounds muffled and almost like being in a tunnel.

Does anyone get a rising feeling with it? And mouth watering like crazy, like you're going to get sick?

Rarely, I get a kind of Deja vu??? I get an image in my head - it's always the same image, though I don't remember it after, only bits of it. But when it's happening, it's really intense, and I feel like I want to find out what happens if it continues. But it never continues as it always ends at the same point.
 
I think I had my first REAL experience with this a couple of weeks ago. I was feeling a little funny and went out for a run and everything just looked... strange, like I didn't recognize it. The sounds seemed different too. There were kids playing but it seemed like they were in a different location than they were... I get a rising feeling with the deja vu, but I was running this last time, so I don't remember if my stomach felt funny or not.

I've had similar experiences, but this seemed different.
 
i am very grateful to have read about this in this forum,it explains lots of problems my daughter and me experience...
 
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