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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why does a familiar word sound unfamiliar after you overly repeat it?
gpt
It is a phenomenon called semantic satiation.

When you hear a word, your brain isn't really paying attention to the sounds, it is translating those sounds into an idea, and is primed to put it together with other words to form a more complex idea.

When you repeat a word over and over, your brain stops recognizing it as a word, and it breaks down into sounds that really have nothing to do with what the word means.