feel oneself

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feel oneself (third-person singular simple present feels oneself, present participle feeling oneself, simple past and past participle felt oneself)

1. To feel comfortable or normal; to be in one's usual mood or state of health; to feel like oneself.
   • 2018, “Clout Cobain”, performed by Denzel Curry:

     I just wanna feel myself, you want me to kill myself / Man, I been on my own, Lord, I'ma need some help

   I hope you don't mind if I cancel our date this afternoon – I just don't feel myself today.

2. To feel particularly good (especially about oneself) or particularly into oneself.

   Coordinate term: feel one's oats

   • 2005 07, Collen Dixon, Relative Secrets, the FIN group, →ISBN, page 97:

     Madison called her when she returned from California, and Ashley was upbeat and really feeling herself. She was ready to get out and hang, and if Madison hadn't been in her present condition, she would've been ready to roll too. But, she needed her friend's unconditional support, and Ashley shocked her with […]

   • 2021 April 20, Stephanie Phillips, Why Solange Matters, University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 208:

     She even began to share her selfies and videos of herself taken during the moments when she was really feeling herself. Sharing a collection of video selfies, she tweeted: “No mo digital hoardingggg taking up spaceee i luh yallll.” No longer lingering on her phone, we can see Solange's personality hang out in all its goofy, sultry, thirst-trap-ready form.

3. To touch oneself.

• 2020 March 3, Katie Roiphe, The Power Notebooks, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 138:

  I've noticed girls her age say, "She is really feeling herself," about a girl who seems too exuberantly confident, too into herself. "She is really gassing herself."