In shortReaders who land here meaning Jamais Vu rather than Déjà vu are usually searching for phrases like “my own house felt strange for a second”, “jamais vu meaning”, “opposite of deja vu”.

In shortDéjà vu. 2012 — Anne Cleary's laboratory reports that virtual-reality scenes sharing spatial configuration with an earlier, forgotten scene raise reported familiarity and déjà vu — layout similarity contributes to the feeling rather than reliably causing it.

1. 2012

   Déjà Vu. Anne Cleary's laboratory reports that virtual-reality scenes sharing spatial configuration with an earlier, forgotten scene raise reported familiarity and déjà vu — layout similarity contributes to the feeling rather than reliably causing it.

2. 2021

   Jamais Vu. Moulin, Bell, Turunen, Baharin and O'Connor show it can be produced deliberately in healthy people. About 70% of 94 undergraduates stopped copying a word because it had started to feel peculiar, typically after around a minute and thirty repetitions. A second experiment using only the word 'the' produced it in 55% of participants. The work won the 2023 Ig Nobel Prize for Literature.

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