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But the fear had taken hold, a new, plunging, suffocating feeling I was becoming familiar with.
It's that dreadful, suffocating feeling you get when you know you have something difficult to face, but you don't want to admit it.
Or the suffocating feeling of being stuck on a filthy bus, with ashtrays spilling over with gum and cigarette butts, the air-conditioning "more like a vague gesture toward the abstract idea of air-conditioning" than the real thing.
A specific scene encapsulates that suffocating feeling, in which Ray Velcoro, played by Colin Farrell, shoos away a group of kids playing in the dirty water being spit out by factories nearby.
And the only way to get past that suffocating feeling is to push forward.
What is known about this under-recognized, misunderstood phenomenon is how it produces a robotic, emotionally numb, suffocating feeling in the sufferer.
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This strange, suspenseful thriller stirs suffocating feelings of dread for its appealing young narrator, whose physical disabilities make her a sitting duck for the fiend who is killing children from her smug suburban neighborhood.
The situation may sound hokey, but this canny novel, which takes its knowing air from David L. Koral's translation from the French, evokes suffocating feelings of dread for its appealing protagonist, who has not let her infirmities dim her intelligence or her sardonic sense of humor.
They include: shortness of breath, suffocating feelings, choking sensations, rapid heartbeat, blurred vision, tingling in arms and legs, butterflies in stomach, lightheadedness, shaking, sweating, and, my least favorite, dissociation.
She also wanted to explore the "very, very fine line between being contained and feeling like you're suffocating" and "feeling contained and safe".
Ironically, I wound up suffocating and feeling hungry for air every minute of every day for the next 20 years.
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