Why do we sometimes say a word or look at a word so many times that it sounds foreign/doesn’t look like a real word?

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I hope this makes sense

Like when you’re taking notes and you write a word and it just doesn’t seem spelled correctly no matter what or it just seems strange, or when you say a word and it feels weird coming out and you have difficulty comprehending that it’s an actual word.

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I think this could be what some refer to as emptiness.

It’s seeing the color blue, without thinking “blue” in your head.

Everything we interact with has an “essence” attached to it. Essence of blue might be: ocean, depression, tie I wore to prom, high school colors, etc. In my mind, those things all jumble up and are attached to the sight or thought of “blue”. If I cloud look at the color blue without thinking those things, I would just be experiencing the visual of it, without any further understanding or assessment.

If you hear the word “blue” and your mind doesn’t attach the usual “essence of blue” to it, then you’re only experiencing a sound. No further understanding or assessing. Just someone making a sound. And that can feel weird.