Seeing a word you write it...

[Masychefx2]

and while your writing it, it looks foreign like a different language and then later you see it and it just looks like regular...

i dunno this just happened it was weird

 

[Damaged]

Yeah i get this when you write a word over and over again then i second guess myself if its actually a real word

 

[Masychefx2]

i was typing in the other thread the word 'hundred' i went to google it cos i thought it looked very stange now it looks normal

 

[lunarla]

Yeah, that happens lots! More when I say words, but I know what ya mean.

 

[garry29]

and while your writing it, it looks foreign like a different language and then later you see it and it just looks like regular...

i dunno this just happened it was weird

Ye, I know what you mean. I wouldn't be able to spell if it weren't for the spell checker.

 

[Ashiene]

If sometimes I stare at a person I know for a long time, like parents or sibling, I find they look so strange, like someone I have never seen before. There is a term for such an experience but I cannot remember what it's called.

 

[dooby-duck]

I had that the other day with the word yellow. I often think words look strange and have to write out several versions to decide which looks right, then google them to make sure they are right.

 

[Dronee]

Very interesting thread. Yeah, I've had it too. Sometimes there are simple words that I suddenly felt were odd. Despite having used them hundreds or maybe thousands of times.

 

[chained]

If sometimes I stare at a person I know for a long time, like parents or sibling, I find they look so strange, like someone I have never seen before. There is a term for such an experience but I cannot remember what it's called.

oh yeah this!!!
and trhe word thing.
and with other stuff too..

 

[Spike Lee]

I have that problem with the word "The" for some weird reason.

 

[Dronee]

oh yeah this!!!
and trhe word thing.
and with other stuff too..

There was also a couple of times probably due to extreme stress... that I saw myself in the mirror and wondered who it was (literally). And sometimes I do too much work and suddenly wonder who I am, what I am doing here... as in... even basic concepts like I'm human is gone... It's like a complete mind wipe. Not the 'what is my purpose in life'... but more like... well, even the concept of words are gone.

But that happens only when I'm really stressed.

 

[Eam]

Very interesting thread. Yeah, I've had it too. Sometimes there are simple words that I suddenly felt were odd. Despite having used them hundreds or maybe thousands of times.

Yeah this is exactly the case for me. Been a while since it's last happened though.

I think if you enlarge the text it can cause it.

 

[Dronee]

Is it because of knowing too many languages?

 

[bigrob]

If sometimes I stare at a person I know for a long time, like parents or sibling, I find they look so strange, like someone I have never seen before. There is a term for such an experience but I cannot remember what it's called.

I do that too! I'm REALLY bad.

If I go shopping with my wife and we get separated sometimes I see her and don't realize it's her until she reacts to me.


I do the word thing too...things just don't look right...or maybe I don't remember writing it.

I'm sure it has something to do with derealization/derationalization/depersonalization or some other dissociation disorder.