Odd things you’re fascinated by?

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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?

Ancient civilisations that just died out - where did they go?
The factual bits of bible stories - I love the programmes that look for evidence of the great flood etc
Language - the evolution of common languages when tribes of early man were far apart, how did it happen?!? How before the internet and printing press and travel means how did things like slang words catch on?

The brain here too, but I don't think it is odd .

Dying and death... the whole process. Injuries, gory pictures etc.

Reviews- I spent a stupid amount of time reading reviews for random stupid stuff.

Number stations
Paternoster lifts
Denver airport

Watching aeroplanes take off at Heathrow. There's a garden centre really close to the perimeter road and you can sit on the patio of their cafe and watch and hear them take off or land. They can only we 100 foot off the deck and incredibly close. Kids fascinated too. I love the smell too.

Ball lighting
Abandoned houses
Abandoned gardens

Nuns and hermits - obsessed

Urban exploring of abandoned places especially all the abandoned stations and bits of the London Underground and also the rivers underneath London.
Tunnels also fascinate me

WarmSausageTea
Did you see the documentary on building the new cross rail when they had to tunnel through a gap under Tottenham Court Road tube station with an escalator above and the Northern line below. They called it the eye of the needle.

Wow I did not realise the tube lines were at different depths. Never really thought about it but I assumed they were alongside each other like in the map anything that makes no sense.

I am fascinated by the brain and how we learn. Watching babies develop and their capacity to learn how to put ideas together is just amazing. How it sort of just clicks.

Dreams. I have fascinating dreams and I love thinking about them in the morning. I've had a couple of dreams that were like watching a big movie in the cinema. And a grubby one about David Tennant recently

@Awwlookatmybabyspider lol

Nuclear power stations and especially Chernobyl (well before the TV series - I was already obsessed by power stations and was on school camp in one of the areas of the uk where the radiation was at its worst).

Funghi. The way it sinisterly insinuates itself into everything and then can either elevate your mind to the n'th dimension or can destroy your house or your liver.

I’m another one with a huge soft spot airplanes.. also obsessed with dinosaurs. Probably wouldn’t be as weird if I wasn’t a 23 year old girl that’s into makeup and fashion. Not sure where the love of airplanes came from, loved dinosaurs since watching Jurassic park as a kid.

Fictional magic or map systems - incredible human design

Decomposition. I am fascinated by mould and things that are rotting.
Which everyone finds odd because I am absolutely terrified of....(takes a deep breath) maggots

This is true - I once had an offer from a university & turned it down , because to get to the library I would have had to go to , had paternoster lifts - was not going to do that any way any how. ( It is a great university and the paternoster lifts have been removed I believe. )

Ha Ha @ MrsSiba - that is fantastic - I ( when in London) deliberately choose a route with the higher up tube lines - don't like the deep ones . But the ( iconic ) tube map does not give a good representation of where each line actually goes ( by which I mean the route - not where you can get to a station ) I will admit . Nor depth.

Just googled paternoster lifts, never knew of such a thing!
Music fascinates me, how one note after the other can make a tune, or sound terrible. And also why we all like different arrangements of those notes!

Mathematics, I find numbers and formulas fascinating. I'm surprised it fascinates me, as I was atrocious at maths when I was at school and not particularly good at it now. I really do wish I was good at maths.

I'm fairly good at finding patterns in numbers, but I'm guessing thats because of my love of computers and programming. I'm a fairly logical thinker.

I am a civil engineer!! But I am fascinated by how huge medieval cathedrals and churches etc were built.York Minister, Durham Cathedral and similar.

The siege of sarajevo. How could it have happened so near to us and in such recent history and yet be like something from
WW2... I'm fascinated by stories about it and by the survivors of it.

Awwlook Mother-in-law —> woman Hitler

What people eat in a buffet environment!

DH works at a big tech company with employees from all over the world and they have amazing food three meals a day. If I'm ever in the office for lunch I'm fascinated by what food people choose and put together on their plates - the most weird and wonderful combos!

Games which are not determined by the throw of dice, or the randomness of cards, and yet the results can be so different each time it is played. For instance, chess - every game starts the same way, but after each side has moved once, there are already 400 different situations the board can be in. See also ball games, such as snooker: no two games are the same.

Mine sounds very silly compared to rest of thread 🙄

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