stackyFACTSSyntactic satiation occurs when you stare at a perfectly valid sentence so long your brain declares it illegal. The grammatical processing center entirely short-circuits from over-analysis, making a simple sentence like 'The cat sat down' feel like chaotic, unstructured nonsense.
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