Odd things you’re fascinated by?

[NotARealAvery]

Mine is the human brain. How a few chemicals can dictate so much about who we are and how we act/feel etc.

What other things do people get fascinated by?

Tumble dryer fluff. You can’t look at a load of washing and guess what colour the fluff in the filter will be at the end.

Babies. Sometimes so human, others so crittery/mammally. Do they think in words before they learn to say words?

Time zones. How does that all really work then? O once lived the same day twice by flying to Singapore. Never did get my head around it.

Stock photos. How they're made. What are the people in them doing now? Why are some of the photos so strange, How do they feel about some of the companies and campaigns that used their photos.

TV Casting. How do they cast the smaller roles in shows? Do they all have to audition? Do they see them in other shows and films and contact their agents?

Traffic lights. Just one set out can bugger up a whole chain. It's amazing really.

Identical twins - how one person becomes two perfect copies. I have a pair, and am endlessly fascinated by them

Space
Disasters

Stock photos. How they're made. What are the people in them doing now? Why are some of the photos so strange, How do they feel about some of the companies and campaigns that used their photos.

There are websites you can sign up to as a photographer to sell your photos to the stock agencies, I've signed up for a few and sold a few pictures of places.

Definitely the human brain. Especially how there are so many conditions that can affect it in different ways depending on the person.

Cemeteries.
The meaning of the stones, the people in the graves, who were they? What did they do? How did they die?
Fascinating.

The London Underground. All those lines at different depths, newer ones being created over and under existing ones. The whole thing cross-crossing and moving thousands of people around the city.

Huge bridges and tunnels where construction has started at different ends and met in the middle. The skill involved boggles my mind.

TV Casting. How do they cast the smaller roles in shows? Do they all have to audition? Do they see them in other shows and films and contact their agents?

Depends if it’s an important role (extras wise). Most extras are cast through agencies as they don’t have their own agents as they are not famous enough to have them.

Honestly everything about the world, life and death. Its all absolutely mind boggling. My ds asked how humans were made the other day (not how babies were made, but how the human race began) while I was explaining evolution, even I couldn't imagine how it happened.
I think about death a lot aswell. How can the mind just cease to exist. How is every mind different. Every single living thing is different 🤯
I'm going on to a rant now. Had a few gins 😂

My colleague's fingernails.

She has the most perfect nails. I don't know how she does it. I break at least one nail a week, no matter what I do

Time zones. How does that all really work then? O once lived the same day twice by flying to Singapore. Never did get my head around it.

Last year I was on a cruise going east from Japan to Canada. We crossed the international date line, and had two 20 May 2019. It still hurts my brain if I think about it too hard.

Oh and the past. How do we know so much about it. I know we have discovered things buried from ancient times, but to paint a full picture of how people lived their day to day lives just fascinates me.

Dinosaurs!

Stigmata. I’ve been fascinated by it since I was a teenager!

Cults. The psychology behind what makes people set them up and what makes people join them. I am fascinated in a horrified kind of way though, not in an impressed way obviously as they harm a lot of people.

Holes . The opposite of trypophobia!

Aeroplanes - I know scientifically how they fly but my mind is blown as to how something so big can take off and land!

Do you take any supplements Mintjulia?

I have b12 injections (Health not vanity reason) and a pleasant side effect is incredibly hardy talons. I have a nightmare trying to keep them down.

Lights
Just rainbow lights, disco lights all that shiney

Factories !
How the machinery perform a few teeny tiny actions and a loaf of bread comes out. Perfectly. Times a million !
My personal favourite - the loaf drops from one belt to another and in that split second a bag gets pulled around it and sealed.
Amazing 🤯

Space. It takes 7 months to fly to Mars from Earth, I cannot comprehend how something can be that far away... 7 months

Serial killers. I'm fascinated by what makes people like they are.

Hospitals. I am fascinated by the whole logistical side of it (staffing, rotas, ensuring some departments run 24/7) as well as the actual lay out of hospitals / what they specialise in / how many patients they can have in any given ward or dept / how many staff are needed to run said depts.

All the info is accessible online and having unfortunately spent quite a bit of time in several large London hospitals, it's become a huge source of interest to me.