A few people referred to anaxithemia or overcoming it, I think most people don’t realize how precise most expressions around feelings are.
“My arms are falling” is an expression in french to explain that you’re shocked. I experienced myself my arms becoming impossible to move, as if filled with concrete, after going through some relational shocks (the same is true of “being blinded by X”, some extremely intense emotions have literally made me blind for a few secs)
While I’m at it, some mental shocks literally feel like a physical shock! One of those felt for me like an egg being broken against my skull.
“Making nodes in one’s head” means overthinking something. “Untying things” means getting helpful insights. However, it’s literally what I went through during therapy. There is a literal feeling of untying an invisible “force field”, and those nodes are almost always correlated with mental schemes that are uselessly complex. Some people are genuinely worried that you could actively harm your own mental health through overthinking, they’re not just finding an excuse for switching topics!
“Vibes” and “vibe” are extremely concrete things for people who got into very special states of consciousness. The french equivalent for that, “ondes”, felt so radio-communication related I thought it had to be some telepathy pseudoscience BS. Actually, people are talking about components of subjective perceptions, and some of those (e.g. color, or mood) literally feel/behave like waves when under altered consciousness, and engage in resonance effects as well. To the detriment of the image, however, there seems to be a real contingent that extends this observation to “and we can use them to do telepathy or influence fate”.
A few people referred to anaxithemia or overcoming it, I think most people don’t realize how precise most expressions around feelings are.
“My arms are falling” is an expression in french to explain that you’re shocked. I experienced myself my arms becoming impossible to move, as if filled with concrete, after going through some relational shocks (the same is true of “being blinded by X”, some extremely intense emotions have literally made me blind for a few secs)
While I’m at it, some mental shocks literally feel like a physical shock! One of those felt for me like an egg being broken against my skull.
“Making nodes in one’s head” means overthinking something. “Untying things” means getting helpful insights. However, it’s literally what I went through during therapy. There is a literal feeling of untying an invisible “force field”, and those nodes are almost always correlated with mental schemes that are uselessly complex. Some people are genuinely worried that you could actively harm your own mental health through overthinking, they’re not just finding an excuse for switching topics!
“Vibes” and “vibe” are extremely concrete things for people who got into very special states of consciousness. The french equivalent for that, “ondes”, felt so radio-communication related I thought it had to be some telepathy pseudoscience BS. Actually, people are talking about components of subjective perceptions, and some of those (e.g. color, or mood) literally feel/behave like waves when under altered consciousness, and engage in resonance effects as well. To the detriment of the image, however, there seems to be a real contingent that extends this observation to “and we can use them to do telepathy or influence fate”.
“Making nodes in one’s head” → probably meant knots?