Jamais vu is considered to be the opposite of the more known “Déjà vu”. In psychology, it is described as experiencing a particular situation that although seems familiar and rational in some way it’s foreign and unfamiliar. This happens more frequently when a person cannot recognize a certain word and to a lesser extend to not remembering people or places. Jamais Vu is sometimes associated with amnesia or epilepsy.
Chris Moulin, a cognitive neuropsychologist once held an experiment that involves the concept of Jamais Vu. Moulin asked 92 volunteers to write the word “door” 30 times in 60 seconds. Almost 70% of test subjects had shown simptoms similar to Jamais Vu like doubting that the word “door” actually exists
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