The blue sky through a gap in the trees
A momentary lapse in background noise so it’s unexpectedly quiet
The feeling of wind tugging at your clothes
Rain on the roof
Kids running home from the school bus
Starlings in the tree out my office window singing
The sun on my back, the wind on my front
Sore muscles from hard exercise
The twist in a short story I read, and the wow moment
My room being tidy
Joy? Happiness? Peace? Gratitude? What are those?
This is probably stupid, but I stopped at a local farm/nursery today to pick up strawberries and saw some super cool looking annuals. I should have taken a picture/written down the flower because it would look awesome potted in my little garden.
They were tiny, super tight balls of color.
That’s not stupid it’s lovely
I’ve recently been working longer hours than usual away from home. My dog has been much more physically affectionate when I’m around because he misses me (cries). For example, at night he sleeps against my leg so that he’ll know if I get up. Things have been tough recently but knowing that this furry monster that lives in my house loves me has been helping.
Dogs are so great for therapy like that. My dog tells me dozens of times a day how much she loves me, and sometimes that snaps me out of my self-defeating mood.
yeah i have exactly zero of those
That’s what gender euphoria is like.
Oh, so like any time I see a happy dog.
They are technically triggers but for good things, right?
no, i think a trigger is something that gives you the urge to be angry about something right now.
a glimmer would give you a feeling of content-ness, but it lasts longer. like maybe a few seconds or hours.
I have already explained myself so simply copy pasting:
How hard is it to accept that OP messed up instead of throwing objectively wrong word salad? Your whole argument is like someone trying to claim that cents are not money because they can’t be used to buy big things.
Triggers are anything that initiates a reaction or event, regardless of their intensity. They are independent of how they are perceived, whether positively or negatively. Triggers have developed a tendency toward negativity due to their rising connection to negative events.
Glimmers are, at best, a specific type of positive trigger with added context.
Another example can be reading my reply. If you were curious about this whole thing, you would be TRIGGERED to feel happy or excited that you learned something new, and this would become your GLIMMER. On the other hand, if you were argumentative, you would be TRIGGERED to feel bad that some random person on the internet does not agree with your definition, which would fulfill your definition of triggers.
This thread can be a glimpse of Orwellian doublethink horror.
No. A trigger is a link to a negatives experience. This is noticing good things.
So you mean like a trigger but for good things?
I mean I think we are joking here and I did chuckle, but I would agree that there is a clear distinction.
A trigger is a conditioning you have that brings up negative past experiences and associations.
These glimmers are basically you conditioning yourself to check-in with yourself and appreciate a moment and be more conscious of positive emotions or associations. So yes both conditioning, but one is a totally involuntary conditioning and the latter is a trained conditioning.
And I would say in their intensity they will also be very different. We are just very wired to feel negative emotions incredibly visceral to immediately change our behaviour. The same is not really true for conditioning ourselves to appreciate a moment or perspective.
How hard is it to accept that OP messed up instead of throwing objectively wrong word salad? Your whole argument is like someone trying to claim that cents are not money because they can’t be used to buy big things.
Triggers are anything that initiates a reaction or event, regardless of their intensity. They are independent of how they are perceived, whether positively or negatively. Triggers have developed a tendency toward negativity due to their rising connection to negative events.
Glimmers are, at best, a specific type of positive trigger with added context.
Another example can be reading my reply. If you were curious about this whole thing, you would be TRIGGERED to feel happy or excited that you learned something new, and this would become your GLIMMER. On the other hand, if you were argumentative, you would be TRIGGERED to feel bad that some random person on the internet does not agree with your definition, which would fulfill your definition of triggers.
This thread can be a glimpse of Orwellian doublethink horror.
For what it‘s worth I think you are correct. Even if I feel triggered in feeling that you came in hot, but you are speaking truth and in a mental health forum I think that is most important.
I think in my response I should have rather touched upon that what the other poster is touching upon is that for a Glimmer we sometimes have to learn to experience them fully, which is not a clear distinction between the two. There can also be negative triggers you do not catch up on.
So yes, I drew a false dichotomy and should have approached this differently, thank you for correcting it.
Walking in an unkempt field with my dog on a late spring evening, no one else around, listening to the crickets.
i recently discovered i’m better at basketball than i thought i’d be after years of not practicing
Watching my 1 year old daughter rock in her little rocking chair and be perfectly content.
When I’m girlmoding and I see my silhouette from my shadow or a glimpse of my reflection in something, it makes me feel so nice. Then I see my face in the reflection and it ruins it
nice. i’ve had some in this week, while spending time with other people mostly.
Dappled sunlight does this to me - it’s almost a euphoria and pretty reliably reproducible. Morning light works the best.
And yes, I did get a CAT scan just to check.
Is this related having goosebumps as a physical reaction?
Ooh I learned the word for this recently: frisson.
If you like having goosebumps
If not then it’s back to being a “trigger”
… so related either way!?:-)
