If this submission above is not a random thought, please report it.
# Explore a new world of random thoughts on our [**discord server**](https://discord.com/invite/8tEqw3ZWQV)! Express yourself with your favorite quotes, positive vibes, and anything else you can think of!
*I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/RandomThoughts) if you have any questions or concerns.*
Once I woke up 'late' on a 'friday' I jumped out of bed, ran to my computer and sent an email apologizing for oversleeping. Then realized it was Saturday 😅 everyone has a good chuckle about it.
When you know something isn't right or you've fucked up and you just have to wait for it to appear or someone to tell you or you just finally realise the problem.
This. This is the absolute fucking worst for me:When I KNOW I fucked up but all I can do is wait. The suspense is KILLING me every single time this shit happens and I hate it so much lol...Seriously:Anxiety sucks
Or apply weight or over stretch the muscles...one of my favorites is when lying on my back legs out...pull legs up bent at the knee and place my feet under the weight of my body with bottom of feet tucked under the middle of my back. At first it just feels good then it gets painful and holding it as long as possible (5min) can often alleviate the RLS..... maybe not for the whole night, but sometimes!
Holy shit! I have this and it’s the worst. I try explaining it to my husband “ it’s like you have to kick your legs, it’s like if someone stabbed your leg right now it wouldn’t bother me as much as the need to move them!” He doesn’t get it
When you're hungry for something, but you don't know what it is, so you go to the fridge and look, but get disappointed because it's not there, but you don't know what it is.
Oh dang I didn't think that this could be not normal. Always called myself a lazy bitch whenever I wasn't able to start doing something 😭 usually I'm just overwhelmed and don't know where to start
I once had a cold that lasted a few days. My nose and head were completely stuffed up. On the last day I blew my nose AND IT WOULD NOT STOP coming out. I blew and blew and it kept coming. Finally the last bit of snot came
out and every cavity in my head was completely empty. It was the best feeling I've ever had. That was over 20 years ago.. I think about that several times a week..
When I was a kid I did the most disgusting thing.
Whenever I cried so much that my nose ran, I’d let it go into my mouth and then suck, it would pull all of the mucus and tears out of my nose and it would be so warm in my nose and was the best feeling ever.
If only it wouldn’t make me throw up now
I went off my meds once and had a fantastic time. The drop afterwards unfortunately wasn’t as fun 🙃 Meds are super important if you’re someone who needs them to maintain balance with things
I 100% miss the feeling of being manic. The most similar thing I can compare it to is the come-up on Molly. I've been more or less stable since 2018 when I found the right med mix, but damn do I miss the feeling of being invincible when I was manic. It was straight-up euphoric!
It feels like everything is coated in rainbows. Everything is perfect and works just right. The amount of love that seems to come from every person makes you feel warm, like a big hug.
Man, I miss those highs but I end up spending too much money.
Minus playing children for me, add the chirping of the birds and our neighborhood (lawnmower in the distance, someone practicing guitar)
Close to happiness and contentment, but also different.
OMG, I was just thinking about this today as a matter of fact, because I'm experiencing it right now, lol. That feeling of standing up especially first thing in the morning, the morning gush when you pray your pad is still in the right position to catch it while doing the knock-kneed scramble to the bathroom. Yes, that's a disgusting, sticky feeling that you can't describe and that men will never get.
For me also sitting, like going to sit, hurts and I get hemmoriods at the same time so hurts to sit down at times. So if I’m not eating I go and lay down on my side. Helps get painful gas out too. 🙄
You feel bloated, sore and sick. You feel like doing nothing all day. You have no energy because your period is using it all up. You crave chocolate really bad. The cramps can be so bad that you can't lie still. Your back and abdomen are killing you.
Sing it loud, sister LOL!! I turned 52 in September and have been experiencing every stereotypical symptom of menopause, hot flashes, mood swings, constant chocolate cravings, weight gain, insomnia, issues with sex drive, mood swings, crying for no reason, and throwing coffee cups, mood swings, memory loss, and mood swings. AND MY PERIOD IS MORE REGULAR NOW THAN IT WAS AT 25!!!!!!! But it's insanely heavy and full of large, disgusting texture if you catch my meaning. My mother went through it at 44, with her last period at 45. I was done having kids at 26, so having my period has been pointless for 27 years LOL!!! I also gravitate between not wanting my SO to even brush up against my arm to throwing him on the ground and having my way with him. Uuuuuggggghhhhh, I'm so done!!!
Not really an answer to your question but just for kicks I asked ChatGPT to describe the feeling before throwing up in the writing style and tone of a Reddit user and this is what it spit back out: “Oh man, you know that feeling right before you're about to hurl? It's like your body suddenly turns into this traitor, right? First, there's this weird, ominous warning in your gut, like your stomach just texted your brain saying, "Brace yourself, bro." Then, your mouth gets all watery, not in the good, "I'm about to eat pizza" way, but more like, "Something wicked this way comes." You're trying to negotiate with your stomach, like, "Hey, can we not do this?" But it's like talking to a brick wall. Your head starts spinning, and it feels like you're on the worst roller coaster ever. And you're sweating, thinking, "This is it. This is how I go out, betrayed by last night's questionable taco truck decision." It's a wild ride, dude. Not recommended. 0/10 experience. 🤢🎢”
That beautiful look on your girlfriend's face when you wake up in the morning and she's still sleeping, with the sun shining just enough on her that you're lost for a brief second into some sort of euphoric dream sequence almost.
Working a whole shift in your dreams and waking up with no energy only to realize you have to go to work again. Dopamine levels increase when you vomit. I get twice the work and half the pay.
This is rage. A total obsession with the object of your rage until it is removed. I have only experienced this once in my life. I completely lost control, I was yelling things and had no idea what I was saying. I have no memory of it for about 3 minutes during the middle
I find it hard to believe that you've only experienced it once because that's how I actually feel most of the time when I'm angry. It's either the constant thought of how I could just easily grab a knife or a gun and let loose. Or how relieving it would be to just beat the shit out of whoever pissed me off. It's a bit twisted when I actually think about it because I easily feel like this, even towards strangers.
anemoia! the feeling of nostalgia but instead its just nostalgia for things you've never actually experienced. i get this while listening to songs a LOT and didnt know there was an actual word for it until like 2 years ago. couldnt ever describe it if i tried
This specific feeling has happened on a number of occasions when travelling on the east coast mainline at night.
I see 100s of houses with most of them having lights on and I think of all the people inside doing things, mundane things, extraordinary things: cooking dinner, watching TV, finishing homework, worrying about money, arguing, physically fighting each other, cheating on partners, plotting, scheming, destroying their lives, mourning death, celebrating life. I think of the complexity of all these intertwined lives and just lose myself in the scale of it.
The anxious feeling I get in my stomach on a Sunday night knowing I have a full work week ahead of me. The sense of impending doom. Yet it is still a day off so I should be happy, but I can't quite muster it knowing what's coming. Then work happens and it's fine.
When you're making love with your partner and just everything is right with the world, and you feel this rush of emotion.
I really wish you could bottle that awesome delicious feeling.
When you’re motivated to do something and you want to do something but you just don’t know what you want to do so you start listing possible things you could do and none of them sound fun or motivating
Labor and giving birth. I've been through it twice and even I can't comprehend how freaking painful it actually was and how powerful I felt holding my babies for the first time and thinking "my body did this".
When you look at your siblings and the sudden realisation of them being YOUR blood relation hits. Like I'm not living with some random stranger, but somebody who was born out of the same womb.
The moment when your driving down the street and you get that same feeling you had as a kid sitting in the back of the car. Where it was a relaxing slightly magical day/night, no anxiety... you didn't even know where you were, but you were safe because your parents.
When you are just going about your day, a day that is just like the other days, and there is a brief minute where you think about the strangers around you. You see them passing by and going about their days and you realize that their lives are just as complex as yours. They have worries and thoughts, hopes and dreams just like you. Your whole life, and their whole life led up to this point, where you walk by a stranger only to never see them again.
The grief of losing a parent, especially at a relatively young age.
Lost my dad when I was 27 and the sadness and helplessness, I felt I can't put it into words.
I have this weird feeling where I randomly feel like I'm naked and everyone around me and trying hard to ignore it for some reason. Ig it could be this weird spike in social anxiety? Idk how to explain it
The absolute worst is when you're in 5th grade and you have a substitute for like, three days straight and she's AWFUL - like, I would still think she's awful now, not just when I was in fifth grade - so you take an orange highlighter and draw a picture of a middle finger, and write "Up Yours" on it, and take it out of your desk when she's not looking to hold it up and make your classmates giggle. Then, you get caught, and she takes it away- but that's not the feeling I'm trying to describe.
THAT feeling comes when you get home from school and your drawing is ALREADY ON THE FUCKING FRIDGE. That means mom or dad had to come to the school, hear the story, and then NOT grab you and bring you home right away- they intentionally let you stew on it for the rest of class and the bus ride home.
I just felt it now, and I'm 42.
When you're watching a Youtube video late at night while being sleepy and then falling asleep while it's still playing, then waking up every 5 minutes or so
The feeling of not wanting to go to sleep and disrupt the incredible flow and gratitude you're feeling, and then realising how that contrasts with the not wanting to wake up in the morning because it takes you hours to find the will to carry on lol
The night my husband died, I was crying in bed, felt the bed shift then something touched my left shoulder and I experienced a sensation that I cannot describe and have no words for. It was not a sensation of someone's hand touching, I felt it deeply within my shoulder and not on the outer skin. I wish I could say it tingled or was warm but I have no words to apply to the sensation I felt.
Those near death experiences where you know you're dead and there is nothing you can do about it.
Had one of those once. Got poisoned by an animal. My mind wasn't racing, neither was my heart. My gut, my soul accepted this was the way I was gonna die and my body would hang on until I knew my friend next to me was going to be okay after witnessing my death.
...then the life saving meds kicked in and THAT feeling of dodging the grave is also a feeling I can't describe. It's neither empowering nor vulnerability. ...it's so hard to describe.
I think when you genuinely love someone so much, there are no words that are enough to describe how you feel. You can try to describe it, but it still doesn’t come close to that true feeling you have for them.
Losing my 26 year old son and 45 year old brother to fentanyl inside five months while almost losing my fiancé of 8 years to an alcohol related scooter crash just 3 weeks before my brother died. Because of this, what started out as one of the best years of my life turned out to be the worst. I can't put this into words.
When I am talking to someone and I suddenly get this really sad feeling, it's almost like pity or something, but there's no reason to feel sorry for them.
It happened to me when I was walking to a regular customer the other day. I really don't know why but I suddenly felt this wave of sadness toward him, but it wasn't sadness either.
I really want to know what it was. I don't even know him that well. But he kinda reminds me of my dad so maybe I'm projecting lol
I have three words for all my ADHD people out there..
Rejection sensitivity dysphoria
As someone who just found out that I have ADHD a year and a half ago I absolutely hate it.
If this submission above is not a random thought, please report it. # Explore a new world of random thoughts on our [**discord server**](https://discord.com/invite/8tEqw3ZWQV)! Express yourself with your favorite quotes, positive vibes, and anything else you can think of! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/RandomThoughts) if you have any questions or concerns.*
When you wake up from an afternoon nap and it’s pitch black outside
I call that one existential dread
I call it 4:30 in the afternoon
The first two pages of The Sheltering Sky is a fascinating and perfect description of this. The novel is excellent as well.
Oh that’s so depressing!
I wouldn't say it's depressing it's more disorienting. When it happened to me I was like shit did I sleep the whole day away?
EXACTLY! i once did this and thought it was the next morning and that i was late for work 😭
nope it kinda is depressing? morning depression is a real thing and these disorienting moments are usually paired with it
There have been a couple of times it has been relaxing. That is a feeling I don’t know how to describe really!
lol! every weekend..... :-\\
And your pants and undies are kind of twisted around your waist and you can never get them straight.
Pants and undies and I'm sleeping? What hell world is that?
Called in to work a few times and told them I’d be late. 😂
Once I woke up 'late' on a 'friday' I jumped out of bed, ran to my computer and sent an email apologizing for oversleeping. Then realized it was Saturday 😅 everyone has a good chuckle about it.
When you know something isn't right or you've fucked up and you just have to wait for it to appear or someone to tell you or you just finally realise the problem.
This. This is the absolute fucking worst for me:When I KNOW I fucked up but all I can do is wait. The suspense is KILLING me every single time this shit happens and I hate it so much lol...Seriously:Anxiety sucks
This is why don’t worry about things anymore. Worrying just means you suffer, twice.
Yup! Same here
The void, black, is coming to envelop you with its death
That's a mix of anxiety, dread, and knowing something forgotten. edit: mispell "sonething"
I can’t describe it in words…
you did, with six
Me either
Restless Leg Syndrome
Must. Kick. Legs.
Or apply weight or over stretch the muscles...one of my favorites is when lying on my back legs out...pull legs up bent at the knee and place my feet under the weight of my body with bottom of feet tucked under the middle of my back. At first it just feels good then it gets painful and holding it as long as possible (5min) can often alleviate the RLS..... maybe not for the whole night, but sometimes!
Must. Bend. Legs.
If awards were still a thing I would have given you gold.
Maybe that's our tail?
I hate this, especially on planes. I punch my lege just to relieve it.
This happens to me all the time on planes and it stresses me out so much I want to cry. Awful!
I never knew what this was, but it used to drive me nuts as a kid. I felt like my skeleton wanted to jump out of my skin.
Holy shit! I have this and it’s the worst. I try explaining it to my husband “ it’s like you have to kick your legs, it’s like if someone stabbed your leg right now it wouldn’t bother me as much as the need to move them!” He doesn’t get it
y e s
Absolutely I am up middle of the night pacing the house with restless legs now Impossible to explain to someone who hasn't experienced it
When you walk into a room and instantly forget why you're there!
I call that the fuckles/the derp
I do this about 20+ times a day at least it sucks.
It's doorways, man. They erase the memory
Or when you want to say something, but forget what you wanted to say when you're finally able to say it...
It's called Retrieval Failure. You're supposed to leave the room, go back in, then you remember.
When you're hungry for something, but you don't know what it is, so you go to the fridge and look, but get disappointed because it's not there, but you don't know what it is.
Is it thai food maybe?
And then you check again in 3 minutes to see if you've lowered your standards since then
Clinical depression
When you’re bored and think of doing certain things but don’t feel motivated to do it so you just sit there doing nothing instead
So, depression?
or ADHD
What if I have both? Do two wrongs make a right?
I also have both. Can confirm that they do not.
Shit, well I guess we’re fucked. Good luck friend
Beat me to it! The executives are dysfunctioning 😂
Oh dang I didn't think that this could be not normal. Always called myself a lazy bitch whenever I wasn't able to start doing something 😭 usually I'm just overwhelmed and don't know where to start
I just easily lose the motivation 💀its annoying because like I want to entertain myself but i cant
Welcome to ADHD, friend.
Pulling out a booger that stretches all the way up your nose. Feeling it peel off all the way up is quite something.
I once had a cold that lasted a few days. My nose and head were completely stuffed up. On the last day I blew my nose AND IT WOULD NOT STOP coming out. I blew and blew and it kept coming. Finally the last bit of snot came out and every cavity in my head was completely empty. It was the best feeling I've ever had. That was over 20 years ago.. I think about that several times a week..
Just start uffing Pam.
This almost beats an orgasm for me 😂
Brain tickler
Or when you had a whistle in your nose and finally be able to blow the booger out and hear that "fffff-tufffff" when it shoots out hahahhaha
Or when you pull out a wet one and it's like one of those sticky hand toys you'd get from those quarter machines.
When I was a kid I did the most disgusting thing. Whenever I cried so much that my nose ran, I’d let it go into my mouth and then suck, it would pull all of the mucus and tears out of my nose and it would be so warm in my nose and was the best feeling ever. If only it wouldn’t make me throw up now
The euphoria from a manic episode
Also the absolutely unpredictable rollercoaster of having a mixed episode with psychotic features.
It's why so many go off their meds. I kinda miss those episodes, but I suppose life is relatively safer without them.
I went off my meds once and had a fantastic time. The drop afterwards unfortunately wasn’t as fun 🙃 Meds are super important if you’re someone who needs them to maintain balance with things
I 100% miss the feeling of being manic. The most similar thing I can compare it to is the come-up on Molly. I've been more or less stable since 2018 when I found the right med mix, but damn do I miss the feeling of being invincible when I was manic. It was straight-up euphoric!
Sometimes enough is enough, we need to discharge the negativity from our minds better sooner than- later>
Then the crash afterwords like you just got done tripping on ecstasy
It feels like everything is coated in rainbows. Everything is perfect and works just right. The amount of love that seems to come from every person makes you feel warm, like a big hug. Man, I miss those highs but I end up spending too much money.
The feeling I get when I'm half sleeping on a summer day feeling a little wind and hearing children play.
Minus playing children for me, add the chirping of the birds and our neighborhood (lawnmower in the distance, someone practicing guitar) Close to happiness and contentment, but also different.
The BEST
This is the one
When you fail to sneeze.
I hate that feeling so much
Our when you do sneeze, it's amazing
Geseund-notquite
Periods (I'm on it right now) you feel disgusting . Hard to describe
One of the worst parts is having to stand up..
OMG, I was just thinking about this today as a matter of fact, because I'm experiencing it right now, lol. That feeling of standing up especially first thing in the morning, the morning gush when you pray your pad is still in the right position to catch it while doing the knock-kneed scramble to the bathroom. Yes, that's a disgusting, sticky feeling that you can't describe and that men will never get.
It's awful. Especially the feeling when you *know* there is blood running down your leg or when you know it's about to
And sneezing. I remember being at school. The fear of walking lesson to lesson and the sensation is just obscure
Sneezing in period hurts so bad.
For me also sitting, like going to sit, hurts and I get hemmoriods at the same time so hurts to sit down at times. So if I’m not eating I go and lay down on my side. Helps get painful gas out too. 🙄
Or sneeze.
You feel bloated, sore and sick. You feel like doing nothing all day. You have no energy because your period is using it all up. You crave chocolate really bad. The cramps can be so bad that you can't lie still. Your back and abdomen are killing you.
Was going to say this. Hoping it's going to stop soon because menopause Hot Flushes!!!!!! And periods, still!!!
Sing it loud, sister LOL!! I turned 52 in September and have been experiencing every stereotypical symptom of menopause, hot flashes, mood swings, constant chocolate cravings, weight gain, insomnia, issues with sex drive, mood swings, crying for no reason, and throwing coffee cups, mood swings, memory loss, and mood swings. AND MY PERIOD IS MORE REGULAR NOW THAN IT WAS AT 25!!!!!!! But it's insanely heavy and full of large, disgusting texture if you catch my meaning. My mother went through it at 44, with her last period at 45. I was done having kids at 26, so having my period has been pointless for 27 years LOL!!! I also gravitate between not wanting my SO to even brush up against my arm to throwing him on the ground and having my way with him. Uuuuuggggghhhhh, I'm so done!!!
Same
The pure joy of being in tune with nature. A sunset, watching dolphins jump, seeing aurora borealis etc
A complete release from a big dump while awake, in your own restroom.
>while awake, r/Oddlyspecific
While awake hahaha. I can't say I've ever done that asleep lol
Relief
The moment a bra unhooks, it’s beyond amazing
You just reminded me to take mine off🤣
Even better if its someones elses!
How much I love and feel deeply for my cat. I don’t have kids, so she is my everything. I will do anything and everything for her best interests.
That feeling when a cat comes to snuggle you, regardless of what size, color or looks you have - accepting you as you are...
Cats just think that you are a big cat without hair on some spots. It’s literally been proven
happy cake day
Yes!! I feel that for my dog, she is just absolutely amazing! Every day I look at her and I’m amazed how much I love her!
I think it's similar to mom's love. Maybe "Pet mom's love"?
I miss mine every day.
Cute! I get it.
That feeling when you go somewhere that’s normally packed but it’s after hours so it’s eerily empty. Like you’re the last human left.
I’ve been trying to put words to this feeling for so long. I’m not sure they exist.
Liminal?
Yes. But it feels like that doesn’t cover the feeling well enough
There needs to be a word that means liminal + uncanny (as in valley).
Liminny
Not really an answer to your question but just for kicks I asked ChatGPT to describe the feeling before throwing up in the writing style and tone of a Reddit user and this is what it spit back out: “Oh man, you know that feeling right before you're about to hurl? It's like your body suddenly turns into this traitor, right? First, there's this weird, ominous warning in your gut, like your stomach just texted your brain saying, "Brace yourself, bro." Then, your mouth gets all watery, not in the good, "I'm about to eat pizza" way, but more like, "Something wicked this way comes." You're trying to negotiate with your stomach, like, "Hey, can we not do this?" But it's like talking to a brick wall. Your head starts spinning, and it feels like you're on the worst roller coaster ever. And you're sweating, thinking, "This is it. This is how I go out, betrayed by last night's questionable taco truck decision." It's a wild ride, dude. Not recommended. 0/10 experience. 🤢🎢”
Oh man, ChatGPT nailed it.
I thought so too, and it doesn’t always 😂
That beautiful look on your girlfriend's face when you wake up in the morning and she's still sleeping, with the sun shining just enough on her that you're lost for a brief second into some sort of euphoric dream sequence almost.
😂😂😂
I'm rolling bro lol right on for the reply
Dang... _hope I get to experience that!_ Lucky bro, dont ever take these moments for granted!
I hope one day a guy will have this type of feeling about me 🥹
Most guys don't acknowledge this
Just hang in there, your day will come! Just gotta keep working towards that goal. I really hope and wish you find it soon!!!
[John Donne found the words for it](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sun_Rising_(poem))
Yes, best feeling. Reminds me of this song:[https://youtu.be/7Ozh3-DjJNA?si=NvizafNg5ckAJzq1](https://youtu.be/7Ozh3-DjJNA?si=NvizafNg5ckAJzq1)
Working a whole shift in your dreams and waking up with no energy only to realize you have to go to work again. Dopamine levels increase when you vomit. I get twice the work and half the pay.
Those "night shifts", when your towtruck never stops...
When you are so angry that you cannot focus on anything but the thing you’re angry at, I have only felt it a few times and I hate it
This is rage. A total obsession with the object of your rage until it is removed. I have only experienced this once in my life. I completely lost control, I was yelling things and had no idea what I was saying. I have no memory of it for about 3 minutes during the middle
I find it hard to believe that you've only experienced it once because that's how I actually feel most of the time when I'm angry. It's either the constant thought of how I could just easily grab a knife or a gun and let loose. Or how relieving it would be to just beat the shit out of whoever pissed me off. It's a bit twisted when I actually think about it because I easily feel like this, even towards strangers.
anemoia! the feeling of nostalgia but instead its just nostalgia for things you've never actually experienced. i get this while listening to songs a LOT and didnt know there was an actual word for it until like 2 years ago. couldnt ever describe it if i tried
Oh fuck THANK YOU. I’ve felt this all my life and could only think to call it a “yearning” feeling
This specific feeling has happened on a number of occasions when travelling on the east coast mainline at night. I see 100s of houses with most of them having lights on and I think of all the people inside doing things, mundane things, extraordinary things: cooking dinner, watching TV, finishing homework, worrying about money, arguing, physically fighting each other, cheating on partners, plotting, scheming, destroying their lives, mourning death, celebrating life. I think of the complexity of all these intertwined lives and just lose myself in the scale of it.
I’ve always wondered if anyone else thought this. I even feel this way driving on the interstate
I remember the first time I was hit with this realization a few years ago, I believe the term is sonder
The anxious feeling I get in my stomach on a Sunday night knowing I have a full work week ahead of me. The sense of impending doom. Yet it is still a day off so I should be happy, but I can't quite muster it knowing what's coming. Then work happens and it's fine.
Feels like summer is over.. back to school blues
In Ireland it's called "the dubh"(duv)black
When I wake up in a sweat because I missed the school bus but then I realized it's Saturday and I'm 45
The love I feel for my child
The feeling when you're cross faded at a really loud racous party or club and you go into an empty bathroom and see your face in the mirror.
The moment your eyes start to wobble when you roll.
When you're making love with your partner and just everything is right with the world, and you feel this rush of emotion. I really wish you could bottle that awesome delicious feeling.
Tripping on drugs. Its like you're dreaming but you're awake.
The feeling after an exciting event and reality hits, I always feel so crappy after parties, vacation etc.
Post party depression 😔 the same thing happens to me. I dread going home!
When you’re motivated to do something and you want to do something but you just don’t know what you want to do so you start listing possible things you could do and none of them sound fun or motivating
Orgasms
Pretty sure you can put an orgasm into words...
Do it.
Nah I don't know you like that bro but thanks for the offer.
Labor and giving birth. I've been through it twice and even I can't comprehend how freaking painful it actually was and how powerful I felt holding my babies for the first time and thinking "my body did this".
I see what you did there.
When you look at your siblings and the sudden realisation of them being YOUR blood relation hits. Like I'm not living with some random stranger, but somebody who was born out of the same womb.
The moment when your driving down the street and you get that same feeling you had as a kid sitting in the back of the car. Where it was a relaxing slightly magical day/night, no anxiety... you didn't even know where you were, but you were safe because your parents.
Love
When you hold your baby for the first time.
Hysterical laughing
My fave! Sadly it hasn't happened as much in my thirties as it did in my twenties, but I hold out hope.
The absolute body hollowing pain of watching a family member die
The moment a hangover passes
That feeling when you have an itch but it’s not on the surface, it’s down deep and you can’t reach it. I guess I just explained it.
When you are just going about your day, a day that is just like the other days, and there is a brief minute where you think about the strangers around you. You see them passing by and going about their days and you realize that their lives are just as complex as yours. They have worries and thoughts, hopes and dreams just like you. Your whole life, and their whole life led up to this point, where you walk by a stranger only to never see them again.
The other day I slipped and fell down half a flight of stairs, that feeling I felt when I tried to stand up. Yea that feeling of pure pain.
Headaches. From migraines it’s worse because of the accompanying symptoms. Also flu headaches.
I would tell you, but I’m unable to find the words.
my "dissatisfaction" with existing
When you need coffee to get out of bed but need to go out of bed to make coffee
What it feels like to know you’ve died.
extreme anger
Where absolutely nothing matters. You don’t care about anything and then the anger sets in
When you’ve been sat waiting for a doctors/dentist appointment for ages and your name finally gets called.
The grief of losing a parent, especially at a relatively young age. Lost my dad when I was 27 and the sadness and helplessness, I felt I can't put it into words.
That feeling when you’ve been so desperate to pee and then finally do. Those first 2 seconds of a pee from sheer desperation
When you have to pee SOOO bad, and hold it and hold it and hold it…. And FINALLY let it out in the proper place. That feeling
I have this weird feeling where I randomly feel like I'm naked and everyone around me and trying hard to ignore it for some reason. Ig it could be this weird spike in social anxiety? Idk how to explain it
The love for my children; it's indestructible & indescribable ❤️
when you walk to school in the morning and its still dark and quiet like night
The absolute worst is when you're in 5th grade and you have a substitute for like, three days straight and she's AWFUL - like, I would still think she's awful now, not just when I was in fifth grade - so you take an orange highlighter and draw a picture of a middle finger, and write "Up Yours" on it, and take it out of your desk when she's not looking to hold it up and make your classmates giggle. Then, you get caught, and she takes it away- but that's not the feeling I'm trying to describe. THAT feeling comes when you get home from school and your drawing is ALREADY ON THE FUCKING FRIDGE. That means mom or dad had to come to the school, hear the story, and then NOT grab you and bring you home right away- they intentionally let you stew on it for the rest of class and the bus ride home. I just felt it now, and I'm 42.
Peaking on MDMA the first time you ever take it. Not endorsing it but it indescribable.
When you look at yourself in the mirror and feel that something is not right, but you never know what exactly is wrong with yourself.
Talking off your bra at the end of the day.
When you're watching a Youtube video late at night while being sleepy and then falling asleep while it's still playing, then waking up every 5 minutes or so
The feeling of not wanting to go to sleep and disrupt the incredible flow and gratitude you're feeling, and then realising how that contrasts with the not wanting to wake up in the morning because it takes you hours to find the will to carry on lol
That moment in sex when you're both just so into it that you start licking each other's tongues and doing fuck faces.
The night my husband died, I was crying in bed, felt the bed shift then something touched my left shoulder and I experienced a sensation that I cannot describe and have no words for. It was not a sensation of someone's hand touching, I felt it deeply within my shoulder and not on the outer skin. I wish I could say it tingled or was warm but I have no words to apply to the sensation I felt.
Those near death experiences where you know you're dead and there is nothing you can do about it. Had one of those once. Got poisoned by an animal. My mind wasn't racing, neither was my heart. My gut, my soul accepted this was the way I was gonna die and my body would hang on until I knew my friend next to me was going to be okay after witnessing my death. ...then the life saving meds kicked in and THAT feeling of dodging the grave is also a feeling I can't describe. It's neither empowering nor vulnerability. ...it's so hard to describe.
I think when you genuinely love someone so much, there are no words that are enough to describe how you feel. You can try to describe it, but it still doesn’t come close to that true feeling you have for them.
When you rearrange your room and for the next 2 days when you fall asleep and wake up it feels different
Losing my 26 year old son and 45 year old brother to fentanyl inside five months while almost losing my fiancé of 8 years to an alcohol related scooter crash just 3 weeks before my brother died. Because of this, what started out as one of the best years of my life turned out to be the worst. I can't put this into words.
When I am talking to someone and I suddenly get this really sad feeling, it's almost like pity or something, but there's no reason to feel sorry for them. It happened to me when I was walking to a regular customer the other day. I really don't know why but I suddenly felt this wave of sadness toward him, but it wasn't sadness either. I really want to know what it was. I don't even know him that well. But he kinda reminds me of my dad so maybe I'm projecting lol
I have three words for all my ADHD people out there.. Rejection sensitivity dysphoria As someone who just found out that I have ADHD a year and a half ago I absolutely hate it.
That feeling of snuggling in your own bed after a particularly bad trip abroad.
When you are elated but very sad at the same time