Thursday 25 June 2015

// 23 Emotions People Feel But Can't Explain //

1) Sonder: The realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own.

2) Opia: The ambiguous intensity of looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable.

3) Monachopsis: The subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place.

4)  Énouement: The bittersweetness of having arrived in the future, seeing how things turn out, but not being able to tell your past self.

5) Vellichor: The strange wistfulness of used bookshops.

6) Rubatosis: The unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat.

7) Kenopsia: The eerie, forlom atmosphere of a place that is usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet.

8) Mauerbauertraurigkeit: The inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends who you really like.

9) Jouska: A hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head.

10) Chrysalism: The amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm.

11) Vemödalen: The frustration of photographing something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exists.

12) Anecdoche: A conversation in which everyone is talking, but nobody is listening.

13) Ellipsism: A sadness that you'll never be able to know how history turn out.

14) Kuebiko: A state of exhaustion inspired by acts of senseless violence.

15) Lachesism: The desire to be struck by disaster - To survive a plane crash, or to lose everything in a fire.

16) Exulansis: The tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it.

17) Adronitis: Frustration with how long it takes to get to know someone.

18) Rückkehrunruhe: The feeling of returning home after an immersive trip only to find it fading rapidly from your awareness.

19) Nodus Tollens: The realization that the plot of your life doesn't make sense to you anymore.

20) Onism: The frustration of being just stuck in one body, that only inhabits one place at a time.

21) Liberosis: The desire to care less about things.

22) Altschmerz: Weariness with the same old issues that you've always had - The same boring flaws and anxieties that you've been gnawing on for years.

23) Occhiolism: The awareness of the smallness of your perspective.