# Is there a term for the feeling.... **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 10, 2018, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-term-for-the-feeling/813916 "2018-05-10T13:35:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![simply\_cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@simply\_cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simply_cats)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-term-for-the-feeling/813916/1 "2018-05-10T13:35:52Z")
when it is one day (say, Thursday), and it feels like another (say, Friday)? I feel like there must be a term for this feeling. Thanks, Dopers. ---
**Author:** ![mind\_the\_gap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@mind\_the\_gap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mind_the_gap)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-term-for-the-feeling/813916/2 "2018-05-10T15:00:48Z")
WAG? I’d just call it “life”. Seems to happen all the time. In fact, moments after I saw your post, Mrs. Gap inquired as to whether it was Thursday or Friday. Seriously though, good thought, and I’d also like to know if there’s a actual term for this. ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-term-for-the-feeling/813916/3 "2018-05-10T17:11:26Z")
That is a great question to which I don’t have an answer. But to me every day of the week “feels” different, almost as if it were a color. I get all screwed up when there is a holiday on a Monday and then Tuesday “feels” like Monday. When I’m on a long vacation I don’t know what day it, not because a day “feels” like the wrong day but because the feelings just go away. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-term-for-the-feeling/813916/4 "2018-05-10T17:22:20Z")
I’m always busy on Mondays, I’ll have to get back to you later. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-term-for-the-feeling/813916/5 "2018-05-10T17:43:39Z")
Not quite the same, but the term [_jamais vu_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamais_vu), something like the opposite of _deja vu_, means that a familiar situation seems unfamiliar in some way. In this case, you feel a familiar situation is occurring on the wrong day. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-term-for-the-feeling/813916/6 "2018-05-10T17:54:55Z")
I’m going with chronodysphoria. If it wasn’t a word before, I just worded it. ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-term-for-the-feeling/813916/7 "2018-05-10T18:05:40Z")
> [@CookingWithGas](#): > > That is a great question to which I don’t have an answer. But to me every day of the week “feels” different, almost as if it were a color. I get all screwed up when there is a holiday on a Monday and then Tuesday “feels” like Monday. When I’m on a long vacation I don’t know what day it, not because a day “feels” like the wrong day but because the feelings just go away. Yes!! I associate the days of the week with colors too. Tuesday is always yellow. That one stands out the most for me. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-term-for-the-feeling/813916/8 "2018-05-10T18:27:00Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > I’m going with chronodysphoria. If it wasn’t a word before, I just worded it. Yes, the time feels right to coin this word. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-term-for-the-feeling/813916/9 "2018-05-10T18:29:01Z")
> [@TRC4941](#): > > Yes!! I associate the days of the week with colors too. Tuesday is always yellow. That one stands out the most for me. Synesthesia seems to have endless variety. Does it feel like the word is associated with the color, or the experience of the day itself? Or perhaps it’s now possible to untangle the two. ---
**Author:** ![simply\_cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@simply\_cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simply_cats)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-term-for-the-feeling/813916/10 "2018-05-10T18:32:11Z")
I’m going to jump on the chronodysphoria bandwagon. Looks like three of us willing to throw it out to the universe. If we can get several thousand other people on board, I think we’ve got a winner. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-term-for-the-feeling/813916/11 "2018-05-10T19:12:45Z")
And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day, I said Fifty people a day walking in, saying “I feel chronodysphoric today” and Walking out. And friends they may thinks it’s a movement. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-term-for-the-feeling/813916/12 "2018-05-10T19:44:51Z")
The Germans should have a word for this (from the folks who brought you ‘schadenfreude’ and ‘zugswang’!) ---
**Author:** ![DavidwithanR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-term-for-the-feeling/813916/13 "2018-05-10T20:51:55Z")
Unheutzutäglichkeit. 🙂 (Would mean something like “These days, there’s no these-days-ness.”) Not a perfect match, but I had fun making a word. Or “Ohnetag”, a little pun about noon. 🙂 (Noon is “Mittag” meaning mid-day, but mit also means with, and ohne means without.) ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2018, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-term-for-the-feeling/813916/14 "2018-05-11T01:58:49Z")
> [@74westy](#): > > And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day, I said > Fifty people a day walking in, saying “I feel chronodysphoric today” and > Walking out. And friends they may thinks it’s a movement. And that’s what it is, the Chronodysphoric Movement, and all you got to do to join is sing it the next time it comes around on the guitar!