1. 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 inherited craziness.

2. Liberosis

The desire to care less about things, to loosen your grip on your life.

3. Chrysalism

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

4. Ellipsism

The sadness that you will never be able to know how history will turn out.

5. Vemodalen

The frustration of photographing something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist (the same sunset, the same waterfall, the same closeup of an eye), which can turn a unique subject into something hollow and cheap.

6. Paro

The feeling that no matter what you do is always somehow wrong, and that any attempt to make your way comfortably through the world will only end up crossing some invisible taboo, as if there’s some obvious way forward that everybody else can see but you.

7. Opia

The ambiguous intensity of looking someone directly in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable.

8. Semaphorism

A conversational hint that you have something personal to say on the subject but don’t go any further (an emphatic nod, a half-told anecdote, an enigmatic ‘I know the feeling’), which you place into conversations to warn others to go no further.

9. Mimeomia

The frustration of knowing how easily you fit into a stereotype, even if you never intended to, even if it’s unfair, even if everyone else feels the same way.

10. Jouska

A hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head (a crisp analysis, a cathartic dialogue, a devastating comeback), which serves as a kind of psychological test run where you can connect more deeply with people than in the difficult reality of everyday life.