thedarkperidot:

Feelings you may not know the name of

Onism

The awareness of how little of the world you’ll experience, or how small your home is.

Mal de Coucou

A phenomenon in which you have an active social life but very few close friends-people who you can trust, who you can be yourself with.

Sonder

The realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and thoughts.

Chrysalism

The amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm, listening to waves of rain pattering against the roof or window.

Altschmerz

Boredom with the same old issues that you’ve always had—the same flaws and anxieties you’ve had for years.

Ambedo

A kind of melancholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details—raindrops skittering down a window, tall trees rustling in the wind, the blades on a fan.

Kairosclerosis

The moment in which you realize that you’re currently happy—consciously trying to savor the feeling.

Vellichor

The aroma of old bookstores, filled with thousands of ancient books, each of which is itself locked in its own era, bound and dated.

Nighthawk

A thought that only seems to strike you late at night—an overdue task, a nagging guilt that won’t go away.

Pâro

The feeling that no matter what you do is always somehow wrong.

Silience

The unnoticed excellence that carries on around you every day, hidden talents that go on ignored.

Fitzcarraldo

An image that sticks in your brain, and you have no idea how it got there.

Anecdoche

A conversation in which everyone is talking but nobody is listening, words are layered upon each other like papers.

Anemoia

Nostalgia for a time you’ve never known. Wishing to be living in another era.

Kenopsia

The atmosphere of a place that’s usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet—a school hallway in the evening, an unlit office on a weekend, vacant fairgrounds, the afterimage.

Jouska

A hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head, a debate, a conversation, something where you can connect more deeply with people than in reality.

Lachesism

The desire to be struck by disaster – to survive a plane crash, or to lose everything in a fire

Exulansis

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

Rubatosis

The unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat.

Mauerbauertraurigkeit

The inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends who you really like