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The head cinema or better the cinema in your head.

Germans use this word to describe those vivid imaginative scenarios you play out in your head when you're thinking about something.

Maybe when a certain word triggers a memory and it all plays out in your head.

Or if you think about an upcoming holiday and you already see yourself on the beach with crystal clear water, a milkshake or other drink in your hand.

See, the images you just had in your head, those were Kopfkino.

You can use it for positive or for negative imaginations.

Like, for example, in this sentence.

Ich google keine Krankheiten, sonst geht sofort mein Kopfkino los.

So I don't Google or look up illnesses.

Otherwise, my imagination goes wild.

Our third one is die Geborgenheit.

So a sense of security and cozy and comfort.

This word is really just beautiful because it combines all the elements of feeling safe, comfortable, emotionally secure, cozy.

We could call it maybe emotional warmth, a feeling of being where you belong.

It might be a place that gives you that feeling, or it might be a group of people.

It's often used together with the word Gefühl, feeling.

So, for example, you could say, Ich liebe das Gefühl von Geborgenheit.

So I love the feeling of belonging, safety, comfort, emotional warmth that I have here.

Our next word is all about going out there and seeing the world.

But it's not Wanderlust, which is by now well known and used by many English speakers too.