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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_satiation?wprov=sfla1
My first experience with it was when I made up a little lawn mowing business to fund an electric guitar in high school. After a couple hours of mowing, I'd find myself repeating
graaassss. grasssssss..... What a weird noise
Saved this post because I know I'll want to refer to this later... holy shit
"Jamais vu" is another term for it.
Is it?
Wikipedia says:
which is quite different.
Effectively it's a more general version of it. Not specific to words and not specific to the why we feel this way. You're right it's not the same thing. But I meant that it's another way to name the effect you're experiencing.
Stick stick sticksticksticksticksticks ticks...