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The lens you forgot you were looking through, coloring everything as fact.
means The temporary mental and emotional state that shapes how you perceive and react to things at a given moment.
from A straightforward compound from 'frame,' in its sense of a structure that holds and shapes something (as in a window frame or picture frame), joined with 'mind.' The metaphor is architectural: your mind is pictured as a window or a picture, set into a particular 'frame' that determines what you see and how it looks. The phrase settled into common English use by the 18th-19th century, with 'frame' having long carried this figurative sense of 'constitution' or 'temper' of body or spirit well before that — so 'frame of mind' is really an old idea of inner structure given a lasting, tidy label.
- not fixed
- Changes with sleep, hunger, and one rude email
- self-fulfilling
- Expect disaster, your brain finds evidence for it
- borrowed often
- Moods are contagious before you even notice
- mistaken for truth
- Feels like reality, is actually just weather