I don't know if you guy's ever get this, but I have to describe it. Maybe someone else here has experienced the same thing-- hell, maybe it's like the squigglies that float around in your vision and everyone gets it sometimes.
Think of a specific and unique sensation, where a secondary sense is directly associated with a specific sensory cue...
...like the hair raising up on the back of your neck at the sound of nails on a chalkboard, or the feeling of play-dough residue under your fingernails an hour later-- long after you finished playing with it, or that one time in your entire life that you stood up in wet sand when your feet were 'asleep', and they tingled a squished and scraped softly at a thousand surfaces.
Now imagine, like a the faint memory of a song that gets stuck in your head years after you last heard it, only you can't remember the lyrics or the beat but somewhere, deep in your brain, it's faintly playing like the last moments of a dream after waking. You want to remember it, you have nothing to go on, and your brain can't help but to try and match it to an experience and make sense of it. God it would feel good to hear that song, or at least hum it. it makes approximately 0 sense.
You feel that exact way with a secondary sense of a thing you can't recall. you remember the feeling of something chalky, skimming a surface and sending waves from you head to your heels. You remember that it ran through you, a feeling that seemed to engulf your entire body... maybe it was from standing up in sun-dried clothes after swimming in the lake, or running your hands along wood recently sanded in a high grit, or walking up a cold coastline, a chill goes through you and you put up your hoodie and warm sand trickles down you neck and back... it was SOMETHING and it caused a sensation like this-- and you can even remember the emotion you had while feeling it; something electrifying, yet irritating, overlapping exploration? "FUCK, I don't know-- it's slipping away. do I feel it on my back or the tops of my feet? Did I experience it often, and that's why I remember it so clearly? was it that time I... when did..."
And then it's gone. You can't remember the feeling or the cause or the sensation or any of it, except for the rational terms you tried to use while describing it: something chalky, skimming a surface... moments later that sensory experience that bubbled to the surface has fizzled and gone away for now.
-------------------- Exemplify.
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