Have you ever experienced an intense, nameless emotion?

Germans prolly have a name for it.^
Yes, emotion and feeling have seemed to transcend mere lingual pigeonholes on more than one occasion in my life… And I try sustain myself as long I can in those dovecote moments.

Some people call that a sad/mad/glad moment when the overlap gets ridiculously intertwined.

Emonigma

I think I know what you mean @linguaphile. Emotions overlap frequently. I don’t think the brain has a good sorting system for them. Perhaps that’s why we laugh when we’re severely frightened or sob when unexpectedly delighted?

I like @RealEyesRealizeRealLies term. I like that a lot.

There really isn’t a name for the feeling of extreme joy after taking an incredibly satisfying crap.

I’m usually in this mode I call “just here”. I’m just here as this animal, roaming around, not feeling any particular emotion or mood. It’s like I’m a rock, tree, bear, or any random organism; I don’t feel like a human or anything. It is an Emonigma as RealEyes stated.

Well, yeah, but I was on MDMA.

If you want to share your joyful and sorrowful moments there are a lot of good listeners here.

I usually get a strange feeling at times of uncertainty when there is a mixture of very negative occurences mixed in with some positive ones. I’m not sure what to call this feeling/emotion myself. It is like a mixture of happiness, sadness, anger, anxiety and fear all rolled into one. Maybe the correct term for this feeling is just plain uncertainty, I don’t know.

Lately, when I don’t want to go out to do an errand, or to a doctor appt or do laundry, I get a very unique emotion of stubborness and refusal. Its new to me and I think I’ve had this feeling all my life but wasn’t aware of it.

@nikipedia I’m still really raw. The devastating moment has taken over so that polarized mix of emotion isn’t there anymore like it was yesterday. Right now, I’m just wandering around in a fog.

This is what happened. Like I’ve said on numerous posts, I’m a teacher. I was one of the first people he contacted when he got home for the break and had plans this weekend to catch up with him. This student was truly the epitome of what every teacher wishes for in a student. He was a fun, positive, nonjudgmental person, came from way, way behind and out of the sheer virtue of hard work and dedication, made his way into college, was doing excellent, and…

He was on Fluther for a short time as LukeFonFabre.

Yep… happens to me all the time. I have alexithymia. If it’s beyond the basic and simple (i.e. ‘I feel angry’, ‘I feel sad’, ‘I feel happy’), I don’t know what it is and have to go away, think, tease things apart, and figure out exactly what the hell it is I’m feeling.

@linguaphile – That’s truly tragic and quite a loss. I’m sorry to hear that. and sorry I missed it the first go-round.