A desperate sense of powerless that causes paralysis, internally.
A state in which one is restricted to watching their life without explicit control or influence, typically induced by forms of hypnosis. The person is inhibited from acting or speaking, thus unable to change their reality and instead watches like a spectator.
The feeling of sinking comes from the feeling of their life progression declining, slipping from their grip, going downwards. This causes such severe internalised distress that part of their conciousness becomes frozen/paralysed.
The term was made popular by Jordan Peele's 'Get Out', though often associated with the mirrored moral problems such as racism and slavery.
A state in which one is restricted to watching their life without explicit control or influence, typically induced by forms of hypnosis. The person is inhibited from acting or speaking, thus unable to change their reality and instead watches like a spectator.
The feeling of sinking comes from the feeling of their life progression declining, slipping from their grip, going downwards. This causes such severe internalised distress that part of their conciousness becomes frozen/paralysed.
The term was made popular by Jordan Peele's 'Get Out', though often associated with the mirrored moral problems such as racism and slavery.
Jack's been using Meth for so long that he's powerless to change his own life. It's like he's been brainwashed, although no one can tell... He's in the Sunken Place.
by Max Derange August 20, 2025
Get the Sunken Placemug. "Man let's put a dick on fire and insert it into a woman's extremities "
"Oh, you mean a fire in the fire place"
"Oh, you mean a fire in the fire place"
by WeinerSchnitzelThe3rd December 10, 2022
Get the Fire In The Fire Placemug. "The place" is the mental state where one simply wants to curl up under a blanket in a dark room and sleep for hours. To be in "the place" is to be that special kind of demotivated, tired and anxious that makes you want to avoid responsibility and the rest of the world in favor of a cozy cave.
Friend - "It's 7am, let's make coffee and go on a hike!"
Me - "That sounds great but I'm in the place right now, can we do it tomorrow?"
Me - "That sounds great but I'm in the place right now, can we do it tomorrow?"
by you know December 20, 2020
Get the The placemug. An oftentimes sarcastic phrase used to mockingly state how great somewhere is when in reality it is the opposite.
‘Hey man, how was your trip home?’
‘Oh you know how it is, nothing going on back there’
‘There’s no place like Gibraltar amirite’
‘Oh you know how it is, nothing going on back there’
‘There’s no place like Gibraltar amirite’
by Alex Horne September 12, 2023
Get the There’s no place like Gibraltarmug. A large open air seafood and vegetable market in seattle made famous in the movie "sleepless in seattle". 2 a woman whose "lady bits"smell like seafood.
1 the tour of seattle included a visit to "pikes place market". 2 bill: would you do angela? Skeet: you kidding? She's pikes place market man!
by 4realazitgits March 18, 2021
Get the Pikes place marketmug. Hym "And by 'The proper place' what do you mean? Where is it? Is the beneath Elon Musk? The retard who's know (explicitly) for treating the people beneath him like shit? Is it hierarchically beneath Jordan Peterson? Where's the proper place and if I don't want to be there what exactly to you plan on doing to keep me there?"
by Hym Iam October 31, 2023
Get the 'The proper place'mug. by kmaddesa May 8, 2014
Get the potato placemug.