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I am putting this up on behalf of someone else (I was asked so nobody would get in trouble for bumping while this thread is pinned). This is going to get thread-gamey. Here is how this works. Each person will comment with a feeling. You can go as intricate as you'd like in terms of details, and see if anyone relates. People who relate must reply "+1" to the initial comment, and maybe detail it even more from their perspective or try to explain the feeling for example. Those who don't relate must reply with "-1".

You can look in the replies for examples. There's another thread on another site that serves as the inspiration to this as well, if that helps to provide a basis for how this works.

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[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 3 points 6 hours ago

Feeling nostalgic for a time period you never lived through.

[–] Ludrol@szmer.info 1 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

A feeling when you have conquered Alexithymia and every feeling feels new and exiting to discover.

[–] Alice@beehaw.org 1 points 1 hour ago

Not sure if +1 or -1, because technically I relate, but it's been about 15 years. Nowadays I find new feelings embarrassing and exhausting. Another thing I have to bury so people offline won't find me annoying.

[–] Ludrol@szmer.info 1 points 4 hours ago

-1 as that was how I felt couple of years ago but the exitment wore off. I sadly no longer feel that way but that time was great. (I have one more feeling to discover for 100% completion rate)

[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 2 points 6 hours ago (4 children)
[–] Alice@beehaw.org 1 points 1 hour ago

+1 mentally and physically

[–] JVT038@feddit.nl 1 points 3 hours ago
[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 11 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

Pacing around aimlessly because you feel like you should be doing something, but you have no idea what.

[–] Ludrol@szmer.info 1 points 4 hours ago
[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 1 points 6 hours ago
[–] LazyingHarderThanEver@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

+1 and you feel that you are forgetting something important, but you can't remember and the deadline of said something keeps getting closer

[–] Kyle 1 points 9 hours ago

+1 and you take a nap because it's the only way to make it all go away for a while.

[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 8 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

The dread ~1 hour before a social event you agreed to and wanting to not go even if you know you’ll have fun once you’re there.

[–] Kyle 3 points 13 hours ago
[–] ShiverMeTimbers@lemm.ee 8 points 14 hours ago (6 children)

Paranoia that you will be accused of something you didn’t do, so you arrange your actions around it to avoid being suspicious, only to fear that will make you suspicious anyway.

[–] Alice@beehaw.org 1 points 1 hour ago

+1 spending my youth on Tumblr made me exhausting to talk to because I started adding 1000 disclaimers to everything I say so I wouldn't be accused of random unrelated thought crimes

[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 1 points 6 hours ago

+1 me everytime I make eye contact with the door person at the grocery store

[–] Kyle 1 points 13 hours ago
[–] ShiverMeTimbers@lemm.ee 6 points 14 hours ago (5 children)

Not particularly liking a piece of music but being addicted to it anyways.

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 1 points 6 hours ago

+1 (You can thank years of radio usage for that)

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 1 points 7 hours ago

+1 In general I don't like pop music, of any era, but sometimes a single song will stick in my head and will find itself on my playlist anyway.

[–] Kyle 2 points 13 hours ago
[–] ShiverMeTimbers@lemm.ee 4 points 14 hours ago (5 children)

Writing something before falling asleep midway through it, only to awaken shortly afterwards, and then feeling like you don't understand how to grasp the rest of what you're trying to write in order to finish it.

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 1 points 6 hours ago

+1 (Happens even when I walk away from something though)

[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

+1 and then you’re questioning whether or not your train of thought before you fell asleep was even coherent.

[–] Kyle 1 points 13 hours ago
[–] ShiverMeTimbers@lemm.ee 2 points 14 hours ago (5 children)

Feeling like something you see on TV reminds you of the taste of a food you know of just because of the color of said thing on TV.