Why can saying a word repeatedly eventually feel weird, like, it isn’t a real word or feel like it you’ve never heard it before?

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Why can saying a word repeatedly eventually feel weird, like, it isn’t a real word or feel like it you’ve never heard it before?

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This is known as semantic satiation. It is a psychological phenomena where after experiencing the repitition of a word being said over and over your brain starts getting fatigued. Essentially, your brain is getting tired of the repeating and it starts feeling weird.

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