Semantic Satiation | Why Words Stop Sounding Like Words
Why do words stop sounding like words? In this video, we will explore semantic satiation and how reactive inhibition and other psychological phenomenon can make it seem like words no longer have meaning.
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So the next time someone says "what's that smell?" and I can't smell it I just say "it smells like my house"
@rosecarter5303
2 жыл бұрын
That made me laugh!
@HerobrineLolz
3 ай бұрын
😂
Why does this only have 2k views!?!? I’ve been trying to figure out this phenomenon for so long! This video was really helpful!
@MindfulThinks
3 жыл бұрын
I’m glad you enjoyed it and found it helpful!
@leeleemedrano3883
2 жыл бұрын
Because people are too busy buying nudes on onlyfans and not actually caring about their brain
@_marshP
2 жыл бұрын
because no one is going to say the words "semantic satiation" in their life unless they're a psychology student or something
@khalilb2350
2 жыл бұрын
Me tooooo I thought I was just overthinking it!!!
What a meaningful explanation about things becoming meaningless 💡 so if you don’t want something to lose meaning, don’t over say/do it 😉
@MindfulThinks
3 жыл бұрын
Pretty much!
Man, you got a good thing going on here. Keep up this kind of quality and you'll be getting more viewers in no time
@MindfulThinks
2 жыл бұрын
Appreciate it! More videos coming soon 👀
This is just like ASMR when I would always have that sensation as a kid but never knew there was a term for it!
Just watched Ted Lasso S01E06. Main character does it with the word plan. Anyway. Just learned a new word and wanted to make sure I didn't forget it. So I watched this video.
@MrWatermelonWarrior
Жыл бұрын
I just watched it today and I'm hooked, I been bingeing it I actually am here because of that episode lol
Damn...I always wanted to know the answers to these questions, and today I finally got them! Thanks a ton!
It's basically a feature our "ego" made for our brain to stop the "Id" from being annoying by repeating the same word over and over again.
Whenever I listen to songs for the first time I wouldn’t find it that interesting but as I listen to it more and more I start to love it
I've had this many many times, and didn't even know it was a constant phenomenon if you will, this video opened a side of me that I didn't know even existed, thanks a bunch!
I thought it meant if you look at a word too many times it stops being a concept and it looses all meaning, so instead of "flower" being a plant, "flower" becomes something that flows a lot
I find that one of the most intense examples of this has been repeating my name over and over again. I honestly felt like I had lost my identity after the 20th time.
This would always happen to me when I was younger, finally found what it was! Great video
@MindfulThinks
2 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
Woow I think I found gold mine of a channel to fuel my interests and curiousity ❤️❤️
@MindfulThinks
3 жыл бұрын
Welcome to the channel!
Great video, helped me understand
Great video. It was a great correlation to how people tend to use words so often that it lost their meaning. Basically the word just start degrading with constant use.
@MindfulThinks
2 жыл бұрын
Exactly!
Sometimes i found someone's name to be meaningless, like when i start to think about my friends name, and suddently i find it rather wrong or foreign, is it the same thing?
I thought I was the only one that experiences these kind of psychological phenomenon, until I got curious enough look it up on the internet. I'm 1 year late but otherwise, great video.
Great Video
The vidéo is realy cool! I had this many times when I was a kid and I always wondered if it was normal but now I never have it again and even when I try to have it I can't, the word still means something
Perfect video
I semantic satiate my own name more often than anything.
this happens to me so much with the word "crazy", and crazy in particular. It sounds so weird!
Cool video 👍
fire vid bruv
A very curious psychological phenomenon indeed
I’m officially too high.
Three words... Genius Invokation TCG
Sky sky sky sky sky sky...this one satiates super fast
Does anyone else have trouble with this? I have never had this experience as best I can tell. I tried "flower" over and over again until I was exhausted, but the meaning showed no sign of deterioration. Is there something wrong with me?
On a related note, has anyone noticed that food tastes different when you go outside? The first time I noticed this was when I was a young kid. I started eating a Hershey bar inside the house and went outside before I had finished it. When I stepped outside, the chocolate had a different taste to it. Like sharper or something... hard to describe.
Lovelies" I hate that so much now because my mind just goes baloney everytime I say it like its said In my head like love lies and I can't stop it😭
Another good example is gaining temporary color blindness, after you have looked at a color long enough cone cells become 'bleached' and need some time to recover to perceive that color. Also I think this is why things taste strange after you have brushed your teeth.
@mennedeklir5926
2 жыл бұрын
It's from the toothpaste... it takes a while for saliva to occupy the paste
@_marshP
2 жыл бұрын
another cool thing ive noticed in low light conditions, colors like yellow become grayscale if it's in your peripheral vision i found it when i was looking at a white wall and noticed that the curtains had lost their color
@sallysmith6544
2 жыл бұрын
@@_marshP I think that happens because the edges of our eyes have more light/dark sensors than colour sensors.
"Semantic Satiation" is succumbed to semantic satiation
James, where John had had ‘had’, had had ‘had had’. ‘Had had’ had had the teacher’s approval. Now had has no meaning!!!
does that have connection with desensitization
I come from an oilfield working family. Their mouths are worse than sailors So, I swear constantly! And, with songs, I'll hear a new song that I absolutely love, so I'll just wear the song out til I'm tired of it, and it eventually moves to the bottom of my 2,500 liked songs playlist on Spotify.
I first noticed this when i was 4
Is there a version that involves multiple sentences and/or words. I've been dealing with it over the last few days and it's a terrifying experience.
Sometimes, looking at a Chinese character repeatedly makes the character look weird and that sometimes is wrong.
stare at the word Each (with the capitalization) for a while. At one point it looks like its spelled wrong.
This happened to me once with the word “blood.” Weird…
@realMrVent
2 жыл бұрын
Based
The music part is very very true😂😂😂
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Regardles how many times i said the word semantic santiation doesn't happening to me. I know the meaning of the world still i can picture the things related to the word. Do i have a problem
@spacepirate1342
Жыл бұрын
Also i know how my home smell
0:05 yeah, being called a raycis.
Semantic satiation is not fun when it occurs in real work. Take the word total. When you are writing source code this word could come up everywhere. We have a tax total, a shipping total, a fees total, a product total, sub total, and then the total total, which is just the complete total. Which after reading and typing the word total so many times it makes no sense. Total.
February february february...
Kronii ruined my definition to flower and im fine with it
I loose words all the time, I listen to audio books prior to sleeping and have lost meditation needed a fried to explain what that was. More recently novel.... I just thought I was going and 🤣🤣🤣
What is F L O W E R ?
One of the words I've done this to is "Jesse" because I was watching everytime Walter said Jesse in breaking bad went in the comments and someone told me to look this up
Ok
Remember when a kid woke up on some flowers and met a talking flower named Flower the Flower who said "Howdy! I'm Flower! Flower the Flower!" ...wait, that's now how it goes, for starters the flower's name is definitely not Flower...
@abdillahahmad7025
21 күн бұрын
...yeah, now I'm feeling the semantic connection weakening in my brain.
James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher
1:53 just watch it
Spoon hits this feeling Spoon Spoon Spoon
@SewingMink160
2 жыл бұрын
Spoon Spoon Spoon Spoon Spoon Spoon That's a funny word, spoon Spoon Spoon Spoon The more I look at it the less it looks like a word. Spoon Spoon Spo on Sp oo n S p o o n Spoon Spoon Spoon Spoon Spoon There is no spoon.
Cook. If you say it enough it just sounds like a sound effect.
is it safe to say that stoner probably brought this phenomenon to life? (flower flower flower)
Only 18k.
time is no longer a word, doesn't even look like it's been spelt correctly
JackSepticEye with the word Banana
Pregnant lost all meaning to me a few days ago 😭
@Busy_Paws
9 ай бұрын
It’s been 9 months since you commented. 😂
This works very well with cake
Hear me out: Avocado
Flawuh
C418
backpack
f-lower...
The word what. What what what what what what whatwhatwhat. It looks like w hat. Why is the hat winning.