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Happy Boxing Day! Growing up it was the traditional sale day. People lined up early to get the best deals on electronics and such. Now, we’ve adopted Black Friday so we have ‘specials’ from Remembrance Day to New Years Day.
And speaking of memory…we've all heard of déjà vu but there’s also jamais vu - when something suddenly becomes unfamiliar. I find when I write the same word over and over it starts to get unfamiliar. Have you ever had it happen?
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The Opposite of Déjà Vu Exists And Is Even More Uncanny : ScienceAlert
Repetition has a strange relationship with the mind.The Conversation (ScienceAlert)
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in reply to CheckIn Posting • • •Spelled correctly, but just noticing that it suddenly didn't make sense.
Why did "they" spell that word, used all the time in spoken conversation without issue.
I would ponder for a moment and verify that I was not in error and continue.
Sometimes entering a familiar room from a door I had never used and wondering if I somehow took a wrong turn.
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in reply to CheckIn Posting • • •It's traditional visiting your relatives today here in Germany since it's a public holiday
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in reply to CheckIn Posting • • •I have experienced both deja vu and jamais vu, but did not know there was a name for the latter.
When we lived in Baltimore, a couple of times we made the obligatory 12/26 crack-of-dawn trek to Valley View Farms to score some marked-down swanky holiday decor. After a couple of years of being disappointed by the selection, we decided to sleep in instead 😏
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in reply to CheckIn Posting • • •Well, it was pretty scary when my mom blanked out driving at night, and insisted she knew where she was and that she was going the right way (she wasn’t).
Anyway… sufagniyot* for breakfast (cause the place was nearby and the library wasn’t open yet). Yummm
*donuts (chocolate filled in this case)
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in reply to CheckIn Posting • •Never heard of jamais vu the term, but I've had that experience. Story time .
On my way back home from uni, using local trains, changed once, and I got off near hone at a station I had never been too. Ofc I'd done the same thing a bazillion times, but I kinda forgot.
It felt like that for many minutes, very alienated while I had a look around.
It dawned on me that.. the square was familiar, the shops were, details were.. yet felt like walking on ice, or almost. Potemkin facades too. Those few minutes meandering towards home it was like visiting for a first time - funny too, lived there at this particular place for two years.
Self-consciousness came back bit by bit, over a half day or longer. My own reasoning told me since my dad with whom I was living at the time had never seen a university from the inside, that I was taking in more knowledge than he ever would. I'd grown mentally adapting to challenges of student life.
The consequence I figured was to move out. Better yet, move far away to the UK or Spain. I needed more change, head first at that. Make good use of the emotional detachment this liberating process had given me.
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