jamais vu - never seen
deja vu - already seen
linguistic cousins
we claim deja vu as our memory playing tricks on us, a past life trying to peak through our consciousness, our consciouness remembers. we claim jamais vu when we can't remember conversations, they never happened our consciousness doesn't remember them. both are tricks of the mind, tricks of the sense of sight, but attributed to the mind. linguistically they both refer to sight as the culprit, but mean the mind. we make so many connections between our consciousmind and the sense of sight, especially in the language we use to describe what we experience.
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