Things that are actually pretty weird when you think about them?

Walking years ago I had a brain injury and had to pretty much learm to walk properly again. It's really weird now as I have to think about all the movements in my legs and feet before the grey matter went wonky I just did it.

Yes to so many of these. Mine is the sky. I often look at it and think WTF. I mean you couldn't make it up. This giant umbrella of blue that surrounds us with enormous white fluffy things that drop water on us. Rainbows! Lightning!

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Mine is how odd and unlikely it is that we even exist. The likelihood of us even having made it this far is teeny tiny.

If you think of all the sperm from your father and all the eggs from your mother and think that you’re the result of one tiny sperm, from the one time they did it and you’re the result. A different month and different eggs, had a different sperm stuck, even if they’d been with different people you wouldn’t exist.

Such an odd concept and we’ve all already overcome so much just to exist. Baffling.

My contraceptive implant makes me feel weird. 99% of the time I forget it's there but now and again I will accidentally feel it and it makes me feel sick that this piece of plastic is just sitting below my skin. Sometimes it really freaks me out and I just want to rip it out.

@PivotPivotPivottt I had mine taken out because of this! It felt so odd knowing that this foreign object was hiding in the fleshy part of my arm, I got this strong feeling to cut it out when I thought about it too much

The fact that we can be asleep for the same time we are awake in a day (or similar amount). The hours between 9am and 9pm seem long, and I can do a lot in that time, but I find it weird to think I will be asleep for the same number of hours at night (give or take a couple of hours, but you get the idea!). Mind blown!

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I find mirrors weird. Not just that you can see your reflection, but if you lean in or over slightly, you can see most of the room, even though it’s not directly in front of the mirror.

Things that boggle my mind:

1. TV/Radio signals. I can put a tv or radio anywhere in my house and I'll be able to pick up a programme once I tune it in. So every single part of my house has all the tv and radio programmes present in it all the time.

1. Dinosaurs might have lived on my street. It's entirely possible that, many years ago, a dinosaur walked in the ground that would eventually become the street I live on now.

1. Sometimes I imagine what it would be like if we froze time, and removed all the man-made objects, but just left people as they were. There would be people way up in the air in weird poses (lying down, stretching up for something, sitting etc) or on roads you'd have rows of people in driving position all lined up.

1. Every now and then I think of someone who I don't know but who definitely existed, like the oldest third-cousin of the last person who spoke to my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandmother. That that was an actual person, who would become the only non-royal person alive at that time who would be thought of in a few hundred years in the future. And they lived and died and didn't know that they'd be thought of so long after everyone else.

Other lives. Like when I'm in a car or train. And see all the houses, I think every single person in each house has their own life. Worries, love, etc. Blows my mind honestly.

Having children is weird. They're sort of like human pets 😆

Anything to do with modern life

Electricity
The telephone
Computers
Cameras
Email
The internet
Video
big metal heavy planes and ships
The radio
Why people still eat at TGI Fridays.

I expect the answer is that I'm too thick, with the exception of the TGI Friday one.

@eckhart The fact that when I had my dog spayed, I put an end to a genetic line millions of years long. I had a massive ethical dilemma about it. Who the hell do I think I am?

Holy fuck I hadn't even thought of this! I feel bad for my cats now.

I quite often do the ‘I’m the only person in the whole universe to eat this apple, open this tin , wear these knickers’!

We dig up a tree and bring it in doors for Xmas
How another human can come out of your vagina
Periods - you bleed for 5 days and have to use sanitary wear to protect yourself and hide it

The concept of being in love. I've legally bound myself to another person, and sacrificed a lot in the process, just because I have the right chemicals and understanding of this one bloke to want to do so (enough to give him my money and space in my bed whenever necessary). Very odd ... though of course love and marriage have their upsides

Also the fact that you can understand that healthy food is better, and from an external standpoint you'd think "Just eat healthy, it's good for you, it'll make you feel better and you'll live longer". Yet you still reach for unhealthy food solely because the impulse is strong enough to be passively apathetic to your lifespan.

My contraceptive implant makes me feel weird. 99% of the time I forget it's there but now and again I will accidentally feel it and it makes me feel sick that this piece of plastic is just sitting below my skin. Sometimes it really freaks me out and I just want to rip it out.

The fact that when I had my dog spayed, I put an end to a genetic line millions of years long. I had a massive ethical dilemma about it. Who the hell do I think I am?

Meringue. How did somebody decide to do that with egg whites and sugar?!

Eggs full stop: who saw an egg coming out of a chicken’s arse and thought ‘Yum, I’ll cook that in various different ways!’ 😱

Also, poo. How does our body merrily extract what is useful then poo out the rest? How does it do that?! How does it know??

And why are bodies so pathetically useless sometimes? Why can lizards re-grow bits but we can’t? Will we evolve to re-grow bits? Why are bodies so vulnerable to injury? A ‘simple’ accident/back injury screws us! A little bit of nerve damage and we’re buggered! (I speak as someone with a major injury/damage, not minimising anyone who has suffered an injury)

Illustrations in books

How does a baby know that a small circle on top of a big circle with 2 pointy triangles on top represents a cat? A lot of children’s images are very abstract to say the least. Peppa pig hardly looks like a real Life farm animal.

And the fact that I have direct ancestors who lived hundreds and hundreds of years ago. A direct descendant was a cave woman. I so wish we knew the stories of all our ancestors, it blows my mind!