Anyone experience Jamais Vu - recognizes but unfamiliar?

[CQ:)]

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 always wondered what people meant by jamais vu, so maybe I should've read this post ages ago :roflmao:.

When I 1st told my neurologists about my auras he asked me if it was like deja vu. I said I guess so because the dream I had during an aura was always the same dream, can't remember if it was actually at a place, but think it was always the same people or the same scenario (going somewhere?).

 

[Janus]

That is a great way to state the feeling i have in 'auras' To me, its like a strong out-of-body feeling like a powerful deja vu but not like its familiar at all. Weird, hard to describe.

 

[toro]

The way I describe it to everyone that asks me about it is that I start remembering everything around me after I see it, but I feel really anxious about it.

Before I was diagnosed I thought I was going crazy. What will happen is I will be sitting at my desk, then suddenly I'll get a sort of panic attack. Then whatever I happen to be looking at, listening to, or thinking about seems to be the source of my anxiety and it seems like I knew I was going to do that. If my keyboard seems really familiar and anxiety provoking and familiar, I look at my pants to try and escape the source of anxiety. The act of looking at my pants becomes anxiety provoking and I realize I knew I was going to do that. I then will turn and look at a picture on my desk. The act of looking at a picture on my desk becomes anxiety provoking and I knew I was going to do that. This continues until it passes.

During the attacks (for me anyway), it always appears as though once you do anything, you realize you knew you were going to do that. It is kind of like trying to escape your brain predicting what you are doing after the fact. In the worst instances, it drives me crazy.

De ja vu = brain repetitively remembering
Jamais vu = brain repetitively predicting
tip of tongue/similar non word-based sensation = brain repetitively searching