You’ve all probably heard of déjà vu because it’s a well-known anomaly of memory
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You’ve all probably heard of déjà vu because it’s a well-known anomaly of memory, but it is not the only one. Memory anomalies are relatively harmless (unless they occur really often) and can occur in many people’s lives at some point in time.
Jamais vu is the opposite of déjà vu. It is the experience of feeling a lack of familiarity with a particular situation when you should know it well.
Time-gap experience is the experience of doing a fairly complicated task and once done, the realization that you have no recollection of doing it. A good example is driving the same way home every day and getting home one day without recollection of what you did enroute.
You can think of cryptomnesia as unintentional plagiarism. You truly believe that you are the creator of a work of art or more commonly, a piece of music.
Discuss any instances of these anomalies that you or someone you know has experienced.
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Jamais vu - I work in an organisation from 5 years, but one day when i reached my office, i felt as if i had been their for the first. I felt that i was meeting all the people their for the first time and the office also looked new to me.
Time-gap experience- During my college years, when i was writing my thesis, i had to sit down and write it for one whole week. But, later on i had no recollection of writing my thesis and wondered what had happend during that time.
Cryptomnesia - I was writing an article on my city and wrote it well and thought that it is my original work. But, later on i realized that i had taken almost all the ideas from a few articles i had read about the city even without realizing.
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