Sometimes I’ll get a feeling like something’s missing. Or like I’ll think someone went somewhere but all of us are in the room. It’s hard to explain, does that make sense? I’ll think like one of the kids went into a different room but I’m wrong so I’m like … what made me sense someone else going somewhere?
Yes, that makes perfect sense. It's a very powerful and difficult feeling to put into words, but you've described it clearly.
It's a phenomenon that many people who have experienced a profound loss can relate to. Our brains get used to a certain "reality" of who is supposed to be around us. For a parent, this is especially true; your mind is constantly keeping a mental check on everyone in the room. When you experience a loss, there's a part of you that still feels that person's presence, or conversely, a persistent sense of their absence.
That feeling you're describing—the sense that someone just left or is missing, even when everyone is right there—could be a way your mind is processing the fact that someone is permanently missing from that reality. It's a subconscious feeling of recognizing a profound absence, even when you're not consciously thinking about it.
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