Jamais vu

Jamais vu is a term in psychology (from the French, meaning "never seen") which is used to describe any familiar situation which is not recognized by the observer.
Often described as the opposite of déjà vu, jamais vu involves a sense of eeriness and the observer's impression of seeing the situation for the first time, despite rationally knowing that he or she has been in the situation before.
Jamais vu is more commonly explained as when a person momentarily does not recognize a word, person, or place that they already know.

The sequence of strange events in my life seems to continue. Yesterday I met Hobbes for coffee after dinner and he had told me prior to the meeting that he wanted to share something with me. Hobbes had returned from an eye surgery a day before and so I was seeing him after a few days. We were driving around town when I asked him about the thing he wanted to talk about.

I first talked to Hobbes about 7 years ago when he was dating someone I knew in the past and we never got to meet each other just some long phone calls. Yesterday he asked me about certain situation or places I might have been in early last year. It turns out that he had spotted me twice once in the market and the next time in a cafe. He could describe my clothes and the person I was in great detail!! It was then that he told me that he had fancied me when he saw me in the market!! But he didn't know that I was the same person he once spoke too and I obviously was lost in my world to realize that a cutie pie was checking me out!

The weird part is that it didn't hit him when we met a few days ago that I was the same person. But while he was out of town for the surgery the realization dawned upon him during one of his dreams. I found it all very strange and amusing!!

Picture Credit : Cirgy