The moment you wake up from an immersive dream and have to abruptly recalibrate to the real world — unquitting your job, falling right back out of love, reburying your lost loved ones.

Coined by John Koenig in The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, a project, to create a compendium of invented words for every emotion we might all experience but don’t yet have a word for.


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