Our prompt from the meeting on September 21, 2018: Integrate these indescribable emotions into your story.
Prompt by: Amelia Burke
sonder: the realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own.
opia: the ambiguous intensity of looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable.
monachopsis: the subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place.
énouement: the bittersweetness of having arrived in the future, seeing how things turn out, but not being able to tell your past self.
vellichor: the strange wistfulness of used bookshops.
rubatosis: the unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat.
kenopsia: the eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that is usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet.
mauerbauertraurigkeit: the inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends who you really like.
jouska: a hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head.
chrysalism: the amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm.
vemödalen: the frustration of photographic something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist.
anecdoche: a conversation in which everyone is talking, but nobody is listening
ellipsism: a sadness that you’ll never be able to know how history will turn out.
kuebiko: a state of exhaustion inspired by acts of senseless violence.
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.
adronitis: frustration with how long it takes to get to know someone.
rückkehrunruhe: the feeling of returning home after an immersive trip only to find it fading rapidly from your awareness.
nodus tollens: the realization that the plot of your life doesn’t make sense to you anymore.
onism: the frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits only one place at a time.
liberosis: the desire to care less about things.
altschmerz: weariness with the same old issues that you’ve always had – the same boring flaws and anxieties that you’ve been gnawing on for years.
occhiolism: the awareness of the smallness of your perspective.