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23 PEOPLE FEEL, BUT CAN' T EXPLAIN
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Sander: The realization that each passerby has a life as vivid
and complex as vow own.
Duh: The ambiguous intensity of Looking someone in the eve.
which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable.
subtle but persistent feeling of being out of
place.
Annulment: The bitter sweetness of having arrived in the
future, seeing how things turn out. but not being able to tell
vow past self.
The strange wistfulness of used bookshops-
The unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat.
The eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that is
usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet.
The inexplicable urge to push people
away, even close friends who vou refile like,
Janka: A hypothetical conversation that vou play
out in vow head.
The amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a
thunderstorm.
The frost ration of photographic something
amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist.
A conversation in which everione is talking, but
nobody is listening
Ellipsis's: A sadness that wt; -‘ll never be able to know how
history will turn out
A state of exhaustion inspired by acts of senseless
violence-
The desire to be struck by disaster " to survive a
plane crash, or to lose everything in a fire.
The tendency to give up trying to talk about an
experience because people are unable to relate to it.
Frustration with how long it takes to get to know
someone.
The feeling of returning home after an
immersive trip only to find it fading rapidly from your
awareness.
Nades Tallow: The realization that the plot of your life doesn‘ t
make sense to vou ammo re.
Dniren: The frustration of being stuck injust one body, that
inhabits only one place at a time.
The desire to care less about things.
Weariness with the same old issues that vou'
always had " the same boring flaws and anxieties that vou’
been gnawing on for veers.
The awareness of the smallness of your
perspective.

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#4 - lean (06/24/2015) [-]

The most eerie feeling I ever had was similar to kenopsia:
16 miles out on frozen Lake of the woods, several feet of snow. No wind, cloudy, maybe an hour to sunset. We took a piss break on the way back to the fish house, and there was absolutely no sound. There was no sky, or landscape or anything. The sensory deprivation made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. You don't realize how noisy things like wind blowing, birds, distant people/ cars actually are until there is no noise at all. It is unsettling.

#96 to #4 - italianfrosttroll (06/25/2015) [-]

Sounds like you had skinwalkeritis.

#98 to #96 - lean (06/25/2015) [-]

nah mate, it was just absolute nothingness.

#5 to #4 - fournum (06/24/2015) [-]

an empty place, what that is, is an empty place!

www.livescience.com/30355-most-pristine-places-earth.html

#51 to #4 - iridium (06/25/2015) [-]

I heard there is a room out there that is so quiet that people can hear their own bodily functions and it makes people go insane.

#60 to #51 - Spitfirex (06/25/2015) [-]

youtu.be/mXVGIb3bzHI

#99 to #51 - lean (06/25/2015) [-]

I could hear my heart beat, the noise of swallowing. breathing was deafening

#83 to #51 - zomitlu (06/25/2015) [-]

It doesnt make people go insane

#56 to #4 - anon (06/25/2015) [-]

I had a similar experience once. I've always had terrible tinnitus, the fervent beeping in your ears that never stops. One night when I was around 16 I was laying in bed, sick, and I had just taken some strong painkillers.

Out of the blue, the ringing in my ears stopped, and everything was so deadly quiet. I felt paralyzed, enraptured by a new world that lacked the high-frequency cacophony that ever accompanied me through daily life.

#77 to #56 - plasticbunny (06/25/2015) [-]

I know that feel. I had a wrestling accident in highschool that gave me tinnitus. For the first three months i could barely hear people over the sound of the ringing in my ears. eventually i got used to it and my brain turned the volume on outside noises and lowered the ringing. Yet, its still there. Everynight while i lay in my bed I can never reach complete silence. Only the slight humming in my ear. I have a few occasion opposite to this too. Where im just sitting at my desk and out of nowhere there is a loud crashing noise in my head that lasts for about 10-15 seconds. it feels like someone pointed a soundwave gun and pointed it at my head.

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#10 - unlithe ONLINE (06/25/2015) [-]

is there one for feeling absolutely miserable and bored every time you talk to or are in the presence of the person who you considered your best friend? tryna figure that **** out right now. i just sorta realized one day that i just don't find anything he says or does interesting or entertaining anymore. i can barely hold a conversation with the guy at this point. it feels even worse because i know i'm one of the very few people that he considers a true friend. i can be having a wonderful time playing a game and then i get the skype call, i'll answer and then suddenly i feel tired and irritable. kinda feels like when you get no sleep or something and anything anyone says just pisses you off.

#93 to #10 - royco (06/25/2015) [-]

This happens to me a lot. Happened with my best friend, with my girlfriend, basically anyone who I'd been inseparable with for a time. But it doesn't just happen with people, but things too. Like video games. It's really disappointing when you don't feel attracted to something that you should adore.

But like some of the others have said, it's healthier to distance yourself from these people and things than to force yourself to like them like you once did. I haven't seen that best friend in months, and I miss him so much already despite how he ******* annoyed me.

#15 to #10 - xtwinblade (06/25/2015) [-]

it sounds like depression

#52 to #10 - iridium (06/25/2015) [-]

I would actively try to distance yourself just a little bit. I find I enjoy the company of people more if I am not in their company every day of the year.

#59 to #10 - anon (06/25/2015) [-]

Perhaps you grew apart? Is he depressed? Are you depressed?

#104 to #59 - unlithe ONLINE (06/27/2015) [-]

not diagnosed but i know i am. got just about all of the symptoms.

#69 to #10 - tastycrisps (06/25/2015) [-]

Weird. I literally had this exact problem about two/three months ago. We were best friends and really each other's only friends. I knew him from middle school so this happened around the end of our junior year. It took me a while to realize that I hated him. I just dismissed it as a perpetual state of irritability with him after the most recent argument but I finally accepted the fact that I literally despised him on every level.

Around that time I also realized that the friendship was unhealthy for me, as all my bad qualities were amplified when I was with him, and I always felt like he was a constant competitor to myself, which is a very stressful mindset to be in by the way. Knowing he would never be one to change if I brought it up (which I had done a few times), eventually I ended the friendship, just like how you would break up with a girlfriend or boyfriend, whatever . He lashed out and tried following me for a while and even started trash talking be to new people I was hanging out with but eventually he got the message and left me alone at least I hope, not two weeks ago he messaged me on the only social media I had forgotten to block me on and tried to get me to stop avoiding him entirely "for the sake of our friends" (That weren't even his friends anymore).

I am seriously a happier person because of it. I'm more confident and less insecure in my social interactions and hell, I even realized since I'm no longer under the pressure to invite him to any social events I might have, I'm more willing to organize them.

I'm going to tell you something buddy, if there is no hope of redemption, end the friendship. Think of it like if you were dating someone you would break up with them. You are never in any obligation to be in a relationship with someone, romantic or platonic. If you think it would be better for you, do it.

#84 to #69 - karlKroenen (06/25/2015) [-]

Thank you. I needed this

#88 to #84 - tastycrisps (06/25/2015) [-]

Friendships are seriously underrated. Not only are they considered to be less than romantic relationships which isn't always true, my best romantic relationship didn't come cose to my top 5 friendships , but they're not taken very seriously. Making, maintaining, and breaking bonds with other people is always tricky, no matter if you're ******* or not.

Never be afraid to remove toxic people from your life, no matter their connection with you. Seriously, anyone. This includes family. Once I was an adult I stopped talking to a lot of people who were only a detriment to my well-being.

#89 to #88 - tastycrisps (06/25/2015) [-]

Once I am an adult*

#35 to #10 - johmi ONLINE (06/25/2015) [-]

wow... I am having this almost exact problem. I had a female friend that I knew since we were 8, and after we graduated high school, we went to the same university and saw each other almost every single day. For a while it was great, but the it became like we had no reason to talk to one another because we already had said everything worth mentioning. I just kept devolving more and more, we started fighting and now we never talk to each other. It just seems like after a certain amount of time or a significant change in who a person is, you're bound to drift apart. This is why I can never really see myself getting married, because even if you are with somone for along time you will always change after enough time.

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#12 to #10 - jolesty (06/25/2015) [-]

I can tell you that isn't unnatural.

Think about it. That's the issue with many present day marriages. People almost always get sick of each other in the same way we get bored of video games we play too often, or when our favorite foods don't taste as good as you remembered them to be.

Just to emphasize how natural this kind of thing is, and so you don't feel so alone. "Sensory adaptation" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_adaptation is the clinical term used in psychology for this kind of phenomenon.

On an ending note, it kind of makes you wonder about how almost sickening human nature is, doesn't it? Within our own perspectives we assume everything, even other human beings, are made to serve us, and when our playthings begin to bore us, we toss them aside like trash and move on with our lives.

tl;dr: Yes there is a feeling for that, and it is called Sensory Adaptation.

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#13 - anonefgthree ONLINE (06/25/2015) [-]

Sonder really messes with me. See any random perso on the street or supermarket or something, and I sometimes just sort of wonder what their life is like.

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#57 to #13 - picamix (06/25/2015) [-]

yeah sometimes in car journeys i like to think that person next to us is on there way to do something important, or they are having a holiday, how are they feeling, that sort of thing

#29 to #13 - torazn (06/25/2015) [-]

i can actually remember the first time i had this feeling, very strange indeed

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#22 to #13 - perso (06/25/2015) [-]

*person

#46 to #22 - imasasquatch ONLINE (06/25/2015) [-]

Does this happen often?

#103 to #46 - perso (06/25/2015) [-]

not really, but i only started correcting people in january.

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#20 - infinitereaper (06/25/2015) [-]

this kinda **** is why we need to evolve brainwave based telepathy

#19 - marymjc ONLINE (06/25/2015) [-]

there should be a specific word for the emptiness you feel after finishing a really good show

#86 to #19 - fukkendragonite (06/25/2015) [-]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudade

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#21 to #19 - infinitereaper (06/25/2015) [-]

emptiness

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#16 - corybufkin ONLINE (06/25/2015) [-]

i only read the first and immediatly had to comment. has anyone else ever just looked in the mirror and couldnt comprehend of existential you life is. youre life is so comlicated. my name is cory. but i dont say that word hardly at all. wtf is cory what does it mean. am i a robot. am i a human and everyone else a robot. was this entire existence created only for me. inb4 " **** you we all feel that"

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#24 to #16 - anon (06/25/2015) [-]

That's called being 12 and thinking you're deep.

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#23 to #16 - satansferret ONLINE (06/25/2015) [-]

Whatever you say Jaden

#43 to #16 - thefunnyside (06/25/2015) [-]

Same. I also have a problem with comprehending what a thought is. Like, is thinking a sense? Where do I 'feel' the thought? How am I contacting it? It's hard to put into words, but man, does it **** me up.

#68 to #16 - anon (06/25/2015) [-]

Do you mean depersonalization? The feeling when you feel very, very, VERY anxious for becoming ultra self-aware about yourself. It is the worst feeling in the world I can describe.

#26 to #16 - dehnoobshow ONLINE (06/25/2015) [-]

I have the "single player Game" theory.
Where you are god.
Where, in your "playthrough" you will never die accidentally, suicide will never work. You can only die peacefully.

However, there is no actual way to confirm nor deny the theory.
As it implies it is only one person's reality.
I'm not saying try to an hero, as in my reality or others, you did die. And then everyone will be stupid to blame me.
But if I were to try.
If I failed, I couldn't tell you it failed, as I would be dead. If it would fail, in your reality, maybe I did.

It just ***** me up.
What if we're our own reality's god? What if we control our reality, but are just unable to figure out the cheat codes.
I don't know man.
But it keeps me up at night.

#36 - kustomforce (06/25/2015) [-]

...now it's a ghost town.

#80 to #36 - presidentmoose [OP](06/25/2015) [-]

What's that from

#85 to #80 - karlKroenen (06/25/2015) [-]

cod of duty 4

#92 to #36 - iamaniceperson (06/25/2015) [-]

when you go back to your favorite server after years.

#70 to #36 - jimihendrixangel (06/25/2015) [-]

Fifty thousand people used to live here......

#72 - ballsmcfrenz ONLINE (06/25/2015) [-]

24. Pepetosis: >tfw no gf

#81 - lyraa (06/25/2015) [-]

"mauerbauertraurigkeit" literally means "wall builder sadness" in german

#8 - cosmiccactus (06/25/2015) [-]

These aren't real words, there was some project by some guy to give names to feelings that didn't have them.

Don't ever use these on a paper

#30 to #8 - torazn (06/25/2015) [-]

Is that not how naming things usually works?

#31 to #30 - cosmiccactus (06/25/2015) [-]

the names are unofficial

#14 - jesusmcbatmanjones ONLINE (06/25/2015) [-]

I think the first time I truly felt awe was at the Lincoln memorial. To look up and see this 100+ foot structure dedicated the life of just one man and the fact that he will most likely be remembered for his accomplishments for the rest of human history just struck me with this almost inexplicable mix of fear and joy. Honestly, I almost cried. It was an odd but very memorable experience. I know awe isn't on the list but I just wanted to share

#47 - snakiter (06/25/2015) [-]

I'll just let this here : blog.maptia.com/posts/untranslatable-words-from-other-cultures

#61 - Awesomecarrot (06/25/2015) [-]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN7sZ2wMg_Q&ab_channel=TheDictionaryofObscureSorrows
Some of these are from 'The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows',
a series of videos by John Koenig.
I honestly can't recommend them enough, they're really interesting.
Here's one of my favourites.

#49 - asomeguy (06/25/2015) [-]

My best friend was explaining sonder to me and he was asking if i ever just stopped and thought that everyone i meet has their own life, hope, fears, etc. And i was like yeah, why wouldn't I? it was rather odd learning some people just ignore the fact that everyone lives their own seperate lives

#53 to #49 - assrocket (06/25/2015) [-]

I feel you. Obviously we're all aware of it, but it's frustrating how many people choose to ignore it.

Like when people walk slowly to their seat on a bus full of people on their way to work, stalling the bus' departure.
Or when kids make comments or get confused when their teachers act like people with families and homes and interests.
Or when people talk to shopkeepers about shop stuff and brush off other conversation about weather or activities or other stuff. Like they're not convinced the person they're speaking to is a real person at all.

***** , that freaks me out.

#74 to #53 - nytor (06/25/2015) [-]

The thing about kids isn't really that weird. I may be remembering this entirely incorrectly, but I remember reading that at the very young age that you actually see children doing that their brains haven't actually developed enough to autonomously comprehend otherwise. It's not like they're just being little assholes. And with shopkeepers some people just are not interested in conversing with a random person, whether due to being in a rush or simply being antisocial. There's a pretty serious difference between not wanting to have idle conversation with someone and not acknowledging them as an independent human being.

#48 - paddywhacker (06/25/2015) [-]

There's a whole YouTube channel dedicated to these things. I really recommend checking it out. They've made videos of feelings in the content, like sonder, kenopsia, nodus tollens, and onism.

Sonder: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkoML0_FiV4

#27 - centraldogma (06/25/2015) [-]

Kenopsia is one of the best feelings imo. Nothing beats the feeling of walking through my college campus alone at 1am, or breaking into an abandoned building and just exploring it for hours. Kenopsia is just this amazing feeling of solitude and tranquility. Looking around and seeing all of the empty places where countless feet should be treading makes you feel like you're the only person in the world, and for some reason I love it. My addiction to that feeling probably goes a long ways towards explaining my addiction to books, movies, and games that take place in a post-apocalyptic setting, now that I think about it

#6 - bulwark (06/25/2015) [-]

Ah yes, Rubatosis, a key factor in most drug related bad trips or general panic attacks.

#101 - chuckbob ONLINE (06/25/2015) [-]

I used to think about something like onism frequently. I would think about how if someone is born, that that person may be me. Not like reincarnation or anything, just someone would be born at any given time and then I would be living it or something.