today in random polling...

[eruthros]

Poll #6766

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I call the endorphin rush or euphoria that some peope sometimes get from kink:

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subspace
11 (50.0%)

headspace
13 (59.1%)

domspace
3 (13.6%)

flying
9 (40.9%)

floating
8 (36.4%)

diving
1 (4.5%)

My favorite term is:

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subspace
5 (27.8%)

headspace
8 (44.4%)

domspace
1 (5.6%)

flying
3 (16.7%)

floating
1 (5.6%)

diving
0 (0.0%)

No, wait, I call it something else!

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Yeah, we're doing kink_bingo stuff, and it's time for dealing with terminology again.

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[sassbandit]

What? Whoa? To me, the question you're asking here indicates a serious mismatch between your model/terminology and mine.

To me, I call an endorphin rush an "endorphin rush". It's a physiological/neurochemical response, and has little to do with "headspace", which I think of as primarily psychological. ("Subspace" and "domspace" I think of as role-specific subsets of the general "headspace".)

ETA: sorry, that sounded kind of cranky or something... apologies for the infelicity of my phrasing. I was just surprised at how different our terms seem to be!

[stewardess]

I think I know what you mean. When I took a class on sexuality, kink, and D/s from Midori, she referred to the end result as a "state change." D/s was what brought about the state change, but it wasn't the state change itself.

Can one term be found for both the state change, and what brings it about, for the purpose of creative prompts? Not sure.

[eruthros]

Yeah, I'd also say "altered state," or "going under," in conversation, but I don't think either of those are particularly common or descriptive.

We're trying to come up with two related phrases that between them would get the idea across - "subspace/flying" sort of thing - so we don't have to figure out just one word, but we do have to figure out how people differentiate between different feelings and experiences!

[eruthros]

No, no, it's okay! It's one of those confusing terminology things I think - I was googling and wikipediaing it right before I made this post and it was intriguing.

For me, I'd call it flying for just the endorphin rush, and subspace for endorphin rush + psychological factors (or domspace for same for doms). I don't know what I'd call a psychological state where the associated physical feelings weren't euphoria/endorphin rush/trance/fight-or-flight/whatever. I think mine is an online-kink-community-usage, though.

"Headspace" to me is generic and doesn't imply ... anything, really, except "the mindset people are in," which could be just about anything. But from googling, I think people use it sometimes to mean what I mean by "subspace."