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

The moon - mind blowing enough on its own but then with the tides? How?

Similar to planes, why do massively heavy cruise liners not sink?

Agree re social eating, factories as pp described, phone lines, telegraph poles, vinyl records, internet, MRI and CT machines......

Sleep. It’s like, falling unconscious for 8 hours a night. It’s just so weird!

That in order to go to sleep you have to pretend to be asleep. Weird.

@PutItInYourPocket

I think of that when I drive down the motorway. All these full lives with their entire life stories, individually (or in little groups), encased in distinct and totally discrete cans on wheels. And then in service stations, we get to make eye contact with some of them...

And on the food front, I think the fact that animals scavenge for eg eggs, would mean we’d quite naturally try for the same food sources in a pinch. And when you are properly hungry and see something else eating, even if it’s a suckling calf, you are going to think, I could eat/drink that. Or fi you had an infant and it needed milk.

What blows my mind when it comes to food is when I chop into an apple, melon, orange, cabbage, I’m the first person ever to see the inside of it. And maybe the only one. I’ve just harvested the apples from my apple trees and I chop into them, perfect white insides and I think, bloody hell, that grew because I decided it should, on a tree that I planted, and I can chop into it and be the only one ever to see that perfect slice, how bloody weird.

Pets. Such a strange concept.

Loads of different foods, who tried the first of something, or how someone was probably the first to add this or that to something else and do something else to it and it made something.

Love this thread! So many things I find absolutely mind boggling, like:

• growing an actual person in your own body and bringing this brand new little person into the world who starts off knowing how to do nothing but then learns how to do all sorts. Like talking, that is so weird.
• that everything around you and in your house is man made or has undergone some sort of manufacturing process. In fact how humans just make so much stuff and seem to "need" so much stuff but animals don't.
• tap water - it's undergone so much chemical processing and yet we think of water as being so natural, clean and pure.
• phones, internet and any telecommunications - it's just amazing and I have no idea how it works

That the conscious part of my brain can't speak to the unconscious part. Imagine if we could tell it to not store so much fat, or that it's being excessive in snot creation when we have a cold, so could it tone it down a bit.

Or even, I really want to get pregnant so please tell me when I'm ovulating.

Surely the brain must know these things are happening. If I can control my fingers why cant I control my organs?

That 99% of crisps have a best before date that’s on a Saturday. Whether you’re eating Walker’s, Hula Hoops, Tyrrell’s or Royster’s it’s always a Saturday. M&S crisps seem to be the only exception to the rule. I’m obsessed with checking. The security guard at Sainsbury’s must think I’m round the twist.

Good to know trees are checked. But what about in the woods and forests or.....the ones in my garden....I have five pretty big trees!

About the living in other periods of history. It’s when you visit historically important, but quite small, houses. Like the bronte parsonage or Queen elizabeth 1st hunting lodge orsomewhere, and you think, fucking HELL, I just walked up the same stairs that X person once walked up. The same ones. I have a shared experience with the Bronte sisters, and with Queen Elizabeth 1st. And to QE1, the Bronte sisters would have been incredibly futuristic....

That stretching out behind me is an unbroken line of mothers, right back to the beginning of the human race.

I remember looking at DS1's hand when he was a newborn and
I was breastfeeding him and picturing all the tiny bones, the veins, the nerves, everything that makes up a human.... How on earth did I manage to build all that inside me?

@PutItInYourPocket the amazing thing about dogs is that they have evolved with us. So we now share communication that we didnt start out with. A good example of this is that dogs dont look at dog faces, but they look at human ones, cause they learned over generations that it's how we communicate

But then I read about colours not actually existing.

That’ll be me up all night now.....

@Spelunking came here to say the same thing about eggs.
Who saw that oval thing fall out of a chickens arse and thought “mmm, that looks delicious.”

In fact, most foods and cooking I find bizarre. Who decided to put those things together? Why do we eat things that fall out of some birds’ backsides but not others? I pity the people who tried to eat something that just didn’t work.

Snap @Tillygetsit. I get it!

If the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into?

Is the colour blue you see the same as the colour blue I see??

And another one - accents! Blows my mind..

Why do people from one area all sound the same, but people 100km away sound completely different, but the same as their neighbours? And why, for example, to Italian people speak English with the same Italian accent and German people speak it with a German accent etc?

I live in Australia and I'm sure most foreigners think we all have the same accent, but I can tell what State an Aussie is from, just by their accent. Having said that tho, I've lived in SA my whole life and when I go to Melbourne, I get asked "are you from New Zealand?"

I mean, we're quite fortunate really that we weren't born during medieval times for example. But for some people, just like us, that was their reality, not just something we learn about in history lessons

Also, we will actually be the subject of history lessons, and all our modern technology will be laughed at like the first planes with wings that flapped.