Cognitive distortion refers to irrational or exaggerated thought patterns that can negatively impact a person's perception of reality. These distortions often lead to feelings of anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem.
After failing his exam, Jake fell into a cognitive distortion, believing that he would never succeed in any subject, despite his previous good grades.
by Emotional Cruiser September 22, 2025
Get the cognitive distortionmug. 
Get the Distort, disTort, distorTmug. Originating from psychological thriller / sci-fi movies about lucid dream, this term refers the increase of your expectation on the amount of screen time you should be able to have 0.0001 seconds after you lose the self-control not to subscribe 600+ YouTube channels in a row.
After binge-watching those psychological thrillers, my perception of time felt so distorted; I thought I’d only been scrolling for a minute, but it turned into hours!
by Emotional Cruiser September 1, 2025
Get the distortedmug. The effect where time runs uncomfortably fast whilst sitting in front of computer surfing the Internet, in stark contrast to the slower passage of time experienced during a walk
I swear, every time I sit down to binge-watch videos, I experience time distortion—what felt like 30 minutes turned into three hours!
by Emotional Cruiser September 22, 2025
Get the time distortionmug. An alternate universe split between two branches, The main universe being the Iron Assault map, Which takes place in 2000 after artificial intelligence completely takes the millennium by storm by forever changing the borders of the world,
and Distorted Millennium: Winter Night, which has two sub-branches and is a universe based around what if no one won the Cold War in terms of actual victors. These sub-branches are key parts of Winter Night's lore and follow the story from before 1991 to the start of 2000, these being Crumbling Dreams, the implied start of the Winter Night in this alternate history branch, and Heat Death, the completely altered world down to just 80+ nations by the start of 2000. The world might be doomed to being left under the jackboot of the Soviet collapse domino effect.. Unless they manage to reunify
and Distorted Millennium: Winter Night, which has two sub-branches and is a universe based around what if no one won the Cold War in terms of actual victors. These sub-branches are key parts of Winter Night's lore and follow the story from before 1991 to the start of 2000, these being Crumbling Dreams, the implied start of the Winter Night in this alternate history branch, and Heat Death, the completely altered world down to just 80+ nations by the start of 2000. The world might be doomed to being left under the jackboot of the Soviet collapse domino effect.. Unless they manage to reunify
by GammaEpsilonRhoTau December 20, 2023
Get the Distorted Millenniummug. (noun)
a behavior characterized by the act of employing sarcastic or crude remarks with the intention of enticing a person into participating in a joke, followed by using their response out of context and treating it as if it were a serious statement.
This practice involves luring individuals into engaging in a conversation or reacting emotionally, only to later exploit their words or actions to embarrass or humiliate them. Tempting & Distorting commonly employs misdirection and manipulation to achieve its desired effect, often at the expense of the targeted individual.
a behavior characterized by the act of employing sarcastic or crude remarks with the intention of enticing a person into participating in a joke, followed by using their response out of context and treating it as if it were a serious statement.
This practice involves luring individuals into engaging in a conversation or reacting emotionally, only to later exploit their words or actions to embarrass or humiliate them. Tempting & Distorting commonly employs misdirection and manipulation to achieve its desired effect, often at the expense of the targeted individual.
by ahundredovens July 14, 2023
Get the tempting & distortingmug. When a woman appears to be hot with sunglasses on, but soon as she takes them off, becomes tremendously less hot
Ben spots a beautiful girl walking into a building so he followed inside to talk to her, but when he walked in he immediately left because she had removed her sunglasses and revealed the ocular distortion factor.
by Captian McAwesomeville August 15, 2012
Get the Ocular Distortion Factormug.