Weird thoughts other people must think...

Ok so here is mine… you learn that you ‘see’ images upside down then your brain flips the images right side up… so are we all just upside down and we don’t know it because our brains have compensated?

Maybe we see things the way they are (upside down) and our brains just say “nah they can handle the truth and make so we think we are right side up… or upside down.” I will admit I get a little confused in this train of thought.

I used the paper clip one as part of a team building/gift giveaway thing for team once… it was fascinating to read their answers. The one that stood out to me was a team member who said she’d hide in her antique typewriter because the average person wouldn’t know all of its nooks and crannies.

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This was for Christmas with my newly formed team who worked in 5 locations including different countries. . I came up with 10 really random questions like this one and sent out a questionnaire,

Then I found equally random gifts, one for each plus a few extra…did not buy them at this point. After the results were in I bought the gifts and they were a combination of good, but odd, and fun… think psychedelic salad garden kit

Then I created a poll for each question that included everyone’s answers and the poll question was what gift would you choose based on the the answer and why.

Then at our virtual team lunch I put together a presentation that matched the chosen gift with the most votes and the reasons given for choosing that one.

The one who answered with the typewriter answer had a lot of votes for the 3D puzzle antique clock kit. She sent pictures to the team of it completed 😁

I have hideous intrusive thoughts about DS getting hurt and me falling horribly down a staircase as well as other appalling thoughts too awful to write.

Same!!

Yes, it does. You might find reading about the concept of qualia interesting.

Oh I love floating away on a flying bed as I fall asleep! Especially with DH, and best of all used to be with our two late cats as well.

On walks in the country I notice places I could make a home in if I was as small as a mouse. Not so many comfy-looking options on urban streets, but you can still find a few.

That’s called intrusive thoughts and it normally comes from anxiety . Unfortunately I have the same bath one plus a million more . As a child I remember having a fear of waking up blind so I used to need something with a light even if small to focus on if I woke up and it was dark .

When my babies were tiny, if I was sitting in the living room, holding them, I could see myself absent mindedly throwing them on the fire. It was horrible. I would have to get up and leave the room, taking the long way round so I didn't walk past the fire. Ditto near open windows. The throw that I envisioned was a very exaggerated rugby pass. I also can't go near the edge of a bridge, high building, viewpoint etc unless there are railings that come up to my armpits so that I can't tip over the edge.

I hate being behind a car transporter. I reckon they design them like that to deter tailgaters.

when staying in a hotel I think what if the fire alarm goes off at 3am and I have to go outside in my pjs

Not the same, but someone pointed out that in a sky scraper like The Shard, if someone goes to the loo on a top floor, their poo has to wend its way down the building.

I got a papercut on my eyeball when I was at school!

Mine is that I feel that I'm breathing in the dark when it's night-time, like the dark is a physical element in the air.

That's what the dog is for.

I had a fear of open riser/floating stairs when I was a child. Kept thinking that I would fall between the gaps.

Even though I'm now too big to slip through them, I still think the same thing walking on them.

Yes, aware I'm a weirdo!

Not bath, but I often thought the lamp post might suddenly fall on me or a (parked) car may reverse into me.
I walk a lot.

Years ago when we had our kitchen refitted, someone accidentally drilled through the gas pipe. 🙈
It was all sorted quickly and safely but every night until I moved out years later, I would wake up glad the gas wasn't secretly leaking into the house and we were all still alive.

Me too!
Also logging lorries shedding their loads and crushing me under tonnes of wood, or the last vehicles on car transporters falling off - they always look precarious.

I've had a paper cut on my eyeball. I was sticking up posters and one bit of paper moved weirdly and my blink reflex was fractionally too slow. It stung but eyeballs must be more robust than I thought because it didn't bleed or anything. When I had an eye check months later though the optician mentioned there being a small scar.

When I’m driving behind a lorry of beams or scaffolding I always think about being impaled by them sliding off the lorry and have to overtake or drop back asap

There’s a particular spot on my usual dog walk that I am convinced every day there is a dead body there. No idea why!

also lots of other ones that other people have said. I also think when I’m in bed how weird it is that all the other people in my street/town/county etc are probably doing the same thing. Lying in a big box on a smaller box to turn their brains off!

Two things mentioned here have happened.
Just this week the fire alarm went off at the gym while I was soaping up in the shower. A staff member came roaring in to tell us to get OUT, NOW. So I ended up outside in nothing but a bath towel for 20 minutes.

A few years ago a work colleague had been on a heavy night out in the pub. Got back to his apartment block and into the lift, which got stuck. He had to wait 45 minutes in the lift with a bladder fit to burst while engineers sorted the problem.

Every time I drive across a railway crossing, I worry that the lights and gates have failed to activate. I always glance to my right, almost expecting to see a huge train bearing down on me and I breathe a sigh of relief when I get to the other side!

When I was in my teens my older brother (who is an aeronautical engineer) told me that you could be killed by being sucked out through the toilet on a plane. Now I know that this is impossible but I still think about it every time I fly and only go for a wee if I'm desperate!

@takealettermsjones I do exactly this too! Especially after watching an episode of Stalker after some chap in a latex suit, had curled himself up in the spare wheel space I think it was! Gave me nightmares for ages after.

Another one I often think of, well panic about, is being buried alive, never to be found again 😱

I have a new fear about finding a rat or a snake in the loo.