bodysometimes

Bodysometimes is a neologism used to describe the idea that a person's sense of their own body can vary across time and context. It refers not to a specific medical condition but to the fluidity of embodied experience, including shifts in perception, sensation, and bodily boundaries that can occur with mood, health, fatigue, temperature, or situational demands.

Origin and scope: The term emerged in online discourse and some interdisciplinary discussions on embodiment during the 2000s and 2010s, without being tied to a formal diagnostic framework. It is used to draw attention to the fact that bodily experience is not always constant or unitary.

Conceptual use: In psychology and philosophy of mind, bodysometimes is used to illustrate how interoceptive signals, proprioception, and body image interact to produce a changing sense of self in the body. In art and performance, it can describe deliberate shifts in bodily experience through movement, breath, or environmental variation.

Relationship to related terms: It intersects with concepts such as embodiment, body image, interoception, proprioception, and the body schema, but remains distinct in emphasizing temporal variability rather than a fixed state.

Limitations: The lack of formal definition can lead to ambiguity and methodological challenges in empirical research; some critics caution against overgeneralizing about "the body" from a subjective term.

See also: embodiment; body image; interoception; proprioception; body schema.