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Saying my own name out loud in a formal setting feels briefly strange, like hearing a word for the first time
The self-referential strangeness of one's own name is linked to name-identity dissociation. Your name, used by others to refer to you, can feel like a foreign object when reversed — you hear yourself described from the outside. This intensifies in formal contexts where the name carries social weight beyond everyday use.
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Related fact
Semantic satiation — the phenomenon where a word loses its meaning after being repeated many times — is particularly strong with one's own name, which is so overexposed to the self that it can quickly become pure sound.