Opposite of Deja Vu ?

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Sometimes I feel unfamiliar and disoriented in places I know. Everything starts to feel distorted. I start to think I'm in other places. It's partly why I can't go out alone. Nobody else I know seems to understand. I get anxious from it and don't want to leave because of it. I will forget things and not know what I'm doing.

Jamais vu

Jaimes Vu

There's also an opposite of Deja Vu in terms of recognizing the first occurrence as being unique at the time, then in retrospect forgetting that it was the first time and just considering it to be an occurrence. I'm not sure what the term is for that, but it seems to be related to the brain's failure to recognize things as being unique, even if the person is well aware that this is new including the feeling of novelty at the time.

This seems different from Jaimes Vu and I'm not really sure what the proper term for it is.

Jamais Vu, which means "never experienced" or "never seen."