Weird thoughts other people must think...

I think this when I’m in high rise hotels!

I wonder things like that sometimes, but sort of connected to wondering if I'm actually old with dementia and not really doing what I think I'm doing.

Also occasionally panic I might have forgotten to put my trousers on when out and about. (Just as me now, not potential dementia related!)

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5309228-hypothetical-question-about-giraffes?page=9&reply=143563112

Thus thread is right up your street.

Yes I've often thought this whilst stood in the shower over our bath as if you ever see under a bath there is a gap between the bath and the floor your literally sat/stood on a piece of plastic and this makes my head hurt

Walking upstairs in the dark so as not to wake the kids with the landing light. I always imagine someone crawling fast up the stairs behind me 😬

I always worry about the people living in the very bottom flats of high rise buildings as they have every one else’s heavy furniture (and baths) all on top of their ceiling.

Just when I'm going to bed after a horror movie. My brain goes ..oh, gosh, wouldn't it be awful if I imagined a hand grabbing me out of my bed... And then it's all I can think about and going to the loo in the middle of the night feels like a Herculean act of bravery.

@InsaneInTheMamBrain · Today 21:27

That a hand will shoot out from under the bed and grab my ankle as I am getting into bed.

OMG I used to get this too - again, moreso as a child!

This did happen to me in front of a class...and I did also fall over on a separate occasion 🤣

The kids didn't know whether to laugh or not. Obviously it was a tad embarrassing but I made a joke out of it

😮

That a hand will shoot out from under the bed and grab my ankle as I am getting into bed.

Something will get my foot if it is out of the cover at night.

Rats/ snakes slithering up and out of the toilet.

An invisible someone will push me down the stairs as I am going down or that someone is lurking waiting to chase me up the stairs as I am going up.

One thing that puzzled me as a child was: when I was blindfolded, why couldn’t I see the pattern on the scarf? I was once so fixated on this, I forgot what I was supposed to be doing (pointing in the direction of someone clapping, when testing directional hearing).

This happened near when I live on a playground slide. Luckily no one was hurt but I think about what could have happened. Makes me shudder.

At least you have sensible reasons to consider this!
I think it's unlikely where I am in UK suburbia.

My mum once said to me 'do you ever suddenly halfway through having a wee panic and think "what if I'm sat on a random chair, not a toilet"?!'. I hadn't ever had that thought before but do all the time now - thanks mum!

used to have a video as a child where dolls and stuff came alive raggedy Anne?

Anyway that gave me nightmares for years my wardrobes where going to come to life and jump on me in bed killing me. Henry Hoover the bastard would chase me and suck me up hose nozzle, even reaching around the doors.

Still can’t not side eye a Henry to this day.

Mum had to actually cut up that video tape in front of me to stop those nightmares.

not fear/risk related, but I spend far too much time wondering whether I've ever drank the same water molecule twice

I sometimes worry a snake is going to come up out of the toilet and bite my bum. I have been known to check, although I know this is ridiculous.

I live in the desert and am scared every time I sit on the toilet that a rattlesnake is going to bite my bum when I sit down 🫣🫣🫣🫣🫣

I’m also a perpetual “shoe shaker” because scorpions 🤮

Oh no, I'm so sorry! Nightmare On Elm Street vibes! 😱

Just remembered I was at the top of a waterslide today and suddenly panicked that someone might have imbedded razor blades in the slide. Used to be a regular fear but haven’t had it for a while until today.

Dh as a child/teen used to have a fear that a snake would come out the toilet and bite him while he was going to the toilet.

Apparently there had been such an incident in the paper around that age of his.

@SendBooksAndTea I was worried to write mine incase it took the thread to a darker place but you are literally me 😅 Everytime I go somewhere new I’m checking out the exits 🫠 Always planning for the maniac entering the room or the next natural disaster! I remember sitting in uni lectures asking my classmate “if someone was to burst in that door in the corner…do you think we’d be faster trying to get out that door or that door?” 😂 How to make friends, huh?

@ReenaGee Also very much with you on the bath thing.

During take off (which I hate!) on a flight I have also been known to ask DH “what would you do if the engines were to cut out right now?!” as the plane is climbing 😂🫠

I’m not a very relaxing person to be around!

I have a few of these. Getting a papercut on my eyeball. No idea what scenario would lead to that happening but still something I think about.

Since I dislocated my knee I often think of being able to grab the knee cap of my other knee and pull it off. It makes me wince a bit but I think it's because the dislocated knee has never felt right since it happened so I think about damaging the other to balance things up a bit.

I also think about various disasters happening when I'm at work (natural or terrorist) and how I would get to safety.

Whenever my son scoots home from school I can see him falling into the road and his head going under a car tyre. Scares me witless and I have to try really hard to not let my anxieties be known to him.

Obviously sharks are more of an everyday risk that you think!