This is an accessible, mobile-friendly version of the “List of Physical Sensations” by Oren Jay Sofer.
Partial list. Sensation is a subjective experience and can include synesthesia: physical sensation experienced as or with color, image, smell, taste… (dark, bright, sour, bitter, sweet).
Pressure / Weight
- Breathless
- Floating
- Light
- Lifting
- Soft
- Spacey
- Supported
- Touching
- Uplifting
- Crushing
- Hard
- Heavy
- Pressing
- Pulling
- Pushing
- Sinking
- Suffocating
- Weighed down
Temperature
- Chills
- Clammy
- Cold
- Cool
- Freezing
- Frozen
- Icy
- Boiling
- Burning
- Warm
- Inflamed
- Fiery
- Sweaty
- Hot
Texture
- Bumpy
- Even
- Itchy
- Jagged
- Metallic
- Prickly
- Rough
- Sandpapery
- Soft
- Silky
- Smooth
- Uneven
Movement / Direction
- Bubbly
- Buzzy
- Dizzy
- Downward
- Draining
- Electric
- Energized
- Erratic
- Effervescent
- Flowing
- Fluid
- Fluttery
- Inward
- Nauseous
- Nervy
- Opening
- Outward
- Pounding
- Radiating
- Releasing
- Roiling
- Shivery
- Straight
- Shaky
- Streaming
- Tickling
- Tingling
- Throbbing
- Trembling
- Twitchy
- Queasy
- Upward
- Vibrating
- Vital
- Wobbly
Speed
- Brisk
- Easy
- Fast
- Moderate
- Slow
- Still
- Quick
Tone
- Agreeable
- Bitter
- Pleasant
- Comfortable
- Disagreeable
- Neutral
- Soothing
- Sour
- Sweet
- Unpleasant
- Uncomfortable
Density
- Airy
- Empty
- Expansive
- Hollow
- Light
- Loose
- Open
- Solid
- Steady
- Spacious
- Blocked
- Closed
- Clenched
- Congested
- Constricted
- Contracted
- Dense
- Full
- Knotted
- Tight
- Thick
- Tense
- Viscous
- Wooden
Painful
- Achy / Aching
- Bruised
- Numb
- Sore
- Sharp
- Sensitive
- Stabbing
- Tender
- Twisting
Size / Shape
- Big
- Blob-like
- Circular
- Flat
- Huge
- Large
- Lines
- Minuscule
- Round
- Small
- Tiny
Degrees
- Cellular
- Deep
- Dull
- Gentle
- Gross
- Immense
- Large
- Mild
- Microscopic
- Shallow
- Slight
- Subtle
- Teeny
- Tender
- Tiny
- Vast
Absence
- Blank
- Disconnected
- Empty
- Nothing
- Numb
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