Ever experienced a feeling, emotion or thing you tried so hard to put to words but couldn’t? We’ve all been there. It’s not that we’ve not mapped the world well enough to come up with a describing term for these things, the words just don’t come.
How do you explain colour to someone who’s blind? What do you call that out-of-body experience that comes out of nowhere? The good people of Reddit and Quora have a thread ready for all the things that can’t be explained but should be. May be there’s something in here you’ll identify with.
1. That feeling when your nose is clogged but then you get into the right position and your nose frees up.
—Reddit/I_Finna_Nut
2. That feeling when you stare at the stars and realise how small we are on an astral level.
—Reddit/nah_ima_sway
3. The effect of chronic pain on one’s mental health.
—Reddit/Shieldmaiden4444
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4. A dog’s unconditional love. No expectations.
—Quora/Dhara Thakore
5. Feelings, our inner sensitivity, love and spirit.
—Quora/Johanna White
6. Colour.
—Reddit/Varkoth
7. Dream logic.
—Reddit/naomi_is_watching
8. Nothingness.
—Quora/Dick Colestock
9. Going up the stairs and putting your foot down thinking there’s one more step at the top than there actually is.
—Reddit/korn_flakes_v
10. ‘Hot.’ You can’t explain it to a child. They have to experience it to understand.
—Reddit/wseibert
11. I’m going to say the realisation of your own mortality. It’s always an obscure concept that always seems so far away until one terrifying moment it becomes a crystal clear fact of reality.
—Reddit/Wandererdown
12. It creeps out of nowhere- talking to my sister and in my head a totally different conversation will begin: “which one of us will stare down at the other in a coffin?”
—Reddit/Jennilea
13. Getting old. It just plain sucks and nothing can prepare you for it.
—Reddit/power-cube
14. The pain of losing a loved one.
—Reddit/TheSweetestLemon
15. Nostalgia. It’s a very strange blend of sad and happy.
—Reddit/yabucek
16. Childbirth.
—Reddit/Jodylin1010
17. Lucid dreaming.
—Reddit/Memlieker
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What’s something that can’t be explained, it must be experienced? from AskReddit
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