Emotions, Feelings & Moods
Whether they come from society at large, culture, our specific environment, the people around us, our subconsciousness or a potential higher power, we human all deal with feelings, moods & emotions. They can be absorbed, they can be stimulated by chakras & their generated hormones and they can be created through relationships & art. Some of these are commonly shared and experienced, as also discussed in an earlier post ‘THE FULL SPECTRUM OF HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS’, while some of them are quite rare to experience in our human lives.
It’s also interesting to think about how we people come to name emotions, as the full vibrational spectrum of emotions, moods, feelings, needs, desires, passions & energy is so enormously vast. Then we ultimately decide as a collective species to give a particular name to a certain fractal of that total spectrum. For example, we decide that these experiences, sensations, symptomps & energies make a certain experience ‘joyful’ while others make it ‘guilty’, while in the end these boundries are not fixed and might be experienced completely differently for person one than for person two. So yes! Some emotions we share, but some emotions are completely unique to us as purely unique individuated and distinguised human souls here on earth.
47 Strange Emotions
So what are some of these strange emotions; well here is a list of some of them.
1. Ennui: This is a feeling of boredom or apathy that is often accompanied by a sense of despair or meaninglessness.
2. Weltschmerz: This is a feeling of sadness or melancholy that is caused by the discrepancy between one's idealized expectations of the world and the reality of the world as it is.
3. Sonder: Sonder is the realization that other people have their own complex inner lives and experiences, and that one's own life is just a small part of the larger tapestry of human experience.
4. L'appel du vide: This is the feeling of being drawn to dangerous or risky situations, and is often described as a desire to jump or fall from a high place.
5. Ichnolalia: This is the experience of hearing one's own thoughts as if they are being spoken out loud.
6. Derealization: Derealization is the feeling that the external world is not real or that it is somehow altered or distorted.
7. Euphoria: Euphoria is a feeling of intense joy or happiness that is often described as a "high."
8. Anhedonia: Anhedonia is the inability to feel pleasure or enjoyment, and is often a symptom of depression.
9. Agoraphobia: This is a fear of open or public spaces, and is often characterized by a desire to stay in a safe and familiar environment.
10. Autophobia: This is a fear of being alone or isolated, and is often accompanied by feelings of anxiety or panic.
11. Monophobia: This is a fear of losing one's loved ones or being abandoned, and is often accompanied by feelings of anxiety or panic.
12. Oikophobia: This is a fear of home or familiar surroundings, and is often characterized by a desire to escape or flee.
13. Pareidolia: This is the experience of seeing patterns or images in random stimuli, such as seeing faces in clouds or patterns in static.
14. Synaesthesia: This is the experience of one sense being involuntarily triggered by another sense, such as seeing colors when hearing music.
15. Deja vu: This is the feeling of having already experienced a current situation, even though it is new to you. It is often described as a sense of familiarity or familiarity.
16. Eustress: This is a type of stress that is positive and motivating, and is often experienced in response to exciting or challenging situations.
17. Nostalgia: This is the emotion that is triggered by memories of the past, and is often characterized by feelings of longing and wistfulness.
18. Awe: Awe is a feeling of wonder and amazement, often mixed with a pinch of fear, that is often triggered by experiences that are extraordinary or beyond one's normal frame of reference.
19. Schadenfreude: This is the pleasure or enjoyment that one feels at the misfortune or suffering of others.
20. Dépaysement: This is the feeling of being out of one's element or in unfamiliar surroundings.
21. Kuebiko: a state of exhaustion inspired by an act of senseless violence, which forces you to revise your image of what can happen in this world—mending the fences of your expectations, weeding out invasive truths, cultivating the perennial good that’s buried under the surface—before propping yourself up in the middle of it like an old scarecrow, who’s bursting at the seams but powerless to do anything but stand there and watch.
22. Discombobulation: This is a feeling of confusion or disorientation that is often triggered by unfamiliar or unexpected situations.
23. Occhiolism: The awareness of the smallness of your perspective of being in the world.
23. Altschmerz: The weariness with the same old issues that you’ve always had
24: Liberosis: The desire to care less about things—to loosen your grip on your life, to stop glancing behind you every few steps, afraid that someone will snatch it from you before you reach the end zone—rather to hold your life loosely and playfully, like a volleyball, keeping it in the air, with only quick fleeting interventions, bouncing freely in the hands of trusted friends, always in play.
25: Rückkehrunruhe: The feeling of coming back home after an impressive journey or travel and realizing the memory of it quickly fades.
26. Ellipsism: A sadness that is caused by the realization that you’ll never know how (your) history will end.
27. Opia: The ambigious intensity of gazing someone in they eyes, brutal and vulnerable at the same time.
28: Monachopsis; the subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place.
29. Occhiolism: The awareness of the smallness of your perspective, by which you couldn’t possibly draw any meaningful conclusions at all, about the world or the past or the complexities of culture, because although your life is an epic and unrepeatable anecdote, it still only has a sample size of one, and may end up being the control for a much wilder experiment happening in the next room.
30: Nodus Tollens (noun): The realization that the plot of your life doesn’t make sense to you anymore—that although you thought you were following the arc of the story, you keep finding yourself immersed in passages you don’t understand, that don’t even seem to belong in the same genre—which requires you to go back and reread the chapters you had originally skimmed to get to the good parts, only to learn that all along you were supposed to choose your own adventure.
31. Exulansis: the tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it—whether through envy or pity or simple foreignness—which allows it to drift away from the rest of your life story, until the memory itself feels out of place, almost mythical, wandering restlessly in the fog, no longer even looking for a place to land.
32. Chrysalism: the tranquility and peace that you feel when you're indoors during a thunderstorm.
33. Mauerbauertraurigkeit: an inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends.
34. Alausy: the sadness that there’s no way to convey a powerful memory to people who weren’t there at the time.
35. Amicy: The mystery of what goes on behind the scenes of your social life, wondering about all the back channels and private histories and affiliations that you might never hear about.
36: Ringlorn: the wish that the modern world felt as epic as the one depicted in old stories and folktales—a place of tragedy and transcendence, of oaths and omens and fates, where everyday life felt like a quest for glory, a mythic bond with an ancient past, or a battle for survival against a clear enemy, rather than an open-ended parlor game where all the rules are made up and the points don’t matter.
37. Midding: feeling the tranquil pleasure of being near a gathering but not quite in it—hovering on the perimeter of a campfire, chatting outside a party while others dance inside, resting your head in the backseat of a car listening to your friends chatting up front—feeling blissfully invisible yet still fully included, safe in the knowledge that everyone is together and everyone is okay, with all the thrill of being there without the burden of having to be.
38. Agnosthesia: the state of not knowing how you really feel about something, which forces you to sift through clues hidden in your behavior, as if you were some other person—noticing a twist of acid in your voice, an obscene amount of effort put into something trifling, or an inexplicable weight on your shoulders that makes it difficult to get out of bed.
39: Onism: the frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits only one place at a time, which is like standing in front of the departures screen at an airport, flickering over with strange place names like other people’s passwords, each representing one more thing you’ll never get to see before you die—and all because, as the arrow on the map helpfully points out, you are here.
40: Flashover: the moment a conversation becomes real and alive, which occurs when a spark of trust shorts out the delicate circuits you keep insulated under layers of irony, momentarily grounding the static emotional charge you’ve built up through decades of friction with the world.
41: The Meantime: the moment of realization that your quintessential future self isn’t ever going to show up, which forces the role to fall upon the understudy, the gawky kid for whom nothing is easy, who spent years mouthing their lines in the wings before being shoved into the glare of your life, which is already well into its second act.
42: Paro: the feeling that no matter what you do is always somehow wrong—that any attempt to make your way comfortably through the world will only end up crossing some invisible taboo—as if there’s some obvious way forward that everybody else can see but you, each of them leaning back in their chair and calling out helpfully, colder, colder, colder.
43: Midsummer: a feast celebrated on the day of your 26th birthday, which marks the point at which your youth finally expires as a valid excuse—when you must begin harvesting your crops, even if they’ve barely taken root—and the point at which the days will begin to feel shorter as they pass, until even the pollen in the air reminds you of the coming snow.
44: Adronitis: The frustration with how long it takes to get to know someone—spending the first few weeks chatting in their psychological entryway, with each subsequent conversation like entering a different anteroom, each a little closer to the center of the house—wishing instead that you could start there and work your way out, exchanging your deepest secrets first, before easing into casualness, until you’ve built up enough mystery over the years to ask them where they’re from, and what they do for a living.
45: Rigor Samsa: a kind of psychological exoskeleton that can protect you from pain and contain your anxieties, but always ends up cracking under pressure or hollowed out by time—and will keep growing back again and again, until you develop a more sophisticated emotional structure, held up by a strong and flexible spine, built less like a fortress than a cluster of treehouses.
46: Silience: the kind of unnoticed excellence that carries on around you every day, unremarkably—the hidden talents of friends and coworkers, the fleeting solos of subway buskers, the slapdash eloquence of anonymous users, the unseen portfolios of aspiring artists—which would be renowned as masterpieces if only they’d been appraised by the cartel of popular taste, who assume that brilliance is a rare and precious quality, accidentally overlooking buried jewels that may not be flawless but are still somehow perfect.
47: Keyframe: a moment that seemed innocuous at the time but ended up marking a diversion into a strange new era of your life—set in motion not by a series of jolting epiphanies but by tiny imperceptible differences between one ordinary day and the next, until entire years of your memory can be compressed into a handful of indelible images—which prevents you from rewinding the past, but allows you to move forward without endless buffering.
Conclusion
There are obviously more, also those unique to you! Feel free to leave them in the comment section below and make sure to check out Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows for more definitions of strange &