Oh, yeah, that’s the immediate acute form.
I went through something with my name about ten years ago, where it didn’t seem to be mine. Everything else was the same, but writing my name was like writing somebody else’s name.
It passed.
It happens to me more with expressions. When I am writing (especially here) I will sometimes put in a perfectly good and well known expression that I use in everyday life and it just looks wrong. I start doubting that I use it correctly in speech. I usually have to change it to a much more formal turn of phrase.
See it just happened. Turn of phrase. I wouldn’t even think of it when speaking. Seeing it written makes me uncomfortable.
The thing is, sometimes this happens, and other times you can repeat a word endlessly and it still seems perfectly normal.
Back when I was at high school, an friend and I tried to make it happen on purpose. We picked a random word (I forget what now) and kept saying it back and forth to each other for quite some time, waiting for it to become weird and meaningless.
It didn’t work.
Eventually we got hold of another friend, who we agreed had a slightly weird voice (I think maybe he had a very minor speech impediment), and got him to say it.
Still nothing.
Another friend happened to be nearby and we got him to say it.
Just once.
That was it! We fell about laughing. The word in the fourth guy’s mouth had suddenly become a daft, quite meaningless sound. I have no idea why.
It’s called ‘Familiarity breeds Dyslexia’.
I have the same problem, but only occurs when I write it or type it repeatedly (the ELSE in a program I keep writing starts to look…strange. Like, did I even spell that correctly?)
This phenomenon is mentioned in Friends - “The One with the Stoned Guy”: