Does anything mundane still TOTALLY amaze you?

[TheLightSideOfTheMoon]

Mine is laundry.

When I lived with my parents my stuff would go into the washing basket, it would be there for days to 'make up a load' (my parents CRAM their washing machine full), it would be washed, hung up to dry either on the line or on an airer, ironed, had to go into the 'airing cupboard' for at least two days and THEN would finallt be allowed to be put away.

So about a week, possibly more, before I'd see favoutite items.

Now I do a load a day, stick it in the washing machine, stick it in the drier, put it away. That's it.

Times have changed. I know this. However, it STILL blows my mind when I'm putting away the pyjamas I wore the previous night a few hours after I took them off.

Every. Single. Time. My little brain judt xan't comprehend that a few hours ago they were dirty and now they're clean.

Am I odd?

[PinkTonic]

@Eckhart it really does! Seeing the southern night sky for the first time blew my mind but it never ceases to amaze me.

[MrsGrindah]

Ghosts are real and we’re conjuring them as we read.

@WitchWife I’ve never thought of that before! Such a good way of thinking about it

[HelplessProcrastinator]

Glasses, as in spectacles. My DD has had them since she was 3. Without them she squints, has a permanent headache and can't see well (+6 and +4 prescription). With two bits of shaped plastic in a frame she can play football, trampoline, dance, hang upside down from climbing frames. Can can participate fully in pretty much anything. Before specs she would have been squinty and unable to see, before the current plastic lenses she would have had glasses like milk bottles and would have been excluded from physical activity. Such a normal thing but I am so grateful for this life changing technology.

[NoGoodPunsLeft]

3D printers! My brother has just bought one & sent me a video of it printing, it blew my mind 😆

[LadyEloise]

Text messages
Emails.
Unbelievable

[TooTrueToBeGood]

Evolution. I get the theory and it would seem quite simple. When nature has had such a phenomenal amount of time to work with it seems fair enough that constant mutations, natural selection and survival of the fittest has produced such a diverse range of life forms. So I can look at the giraffe, the octopus, the platypus, even the human race and see how their existence seems to make sense. But then, every once in a while, David bloody Attenborough appears on my TV and tells me about something that throws my trust in the theory of evolution completely out the window. You know, like a plant that has evolved to grow a leaf that is a perfect copy of a certain insect and that attracts that insect thinking it's found a potential mate and in the process it pollinates the plant. Oh and just to make it even more mind bending that plant and that insect only exist in one very small part of the world. How the hell did evolution as we think we understand it make that happen? And no I don't believe in god or any of that, I believe solely in science, but it is so blitheringly amazing sometimes and we really do know so very little.

[sueelleker]

@Moonbabyskalimba

Phones. I mean really think about it for a minute. They are amazing even at their most basic level

When I got my first mobile phone, I phoned my SIL from Italy. Standing on the Dolomites and she was in Kent. It sounded as if she was next to me!

[OverTheRainbow88]

Bubbles... how they just pop

[CrazyBaubles]

So much.

What made someone look at a potato and think 'I'll eat that?' Then 'I'll cook it in water / cut it into pieces and cook it in oil?' Same thought with all food.

How nostalgia is a thing. How I can get a waft of a certain smell and I suddenly remember something random (stale cigar smoke and toast = my grandparent house on a weekend).

Books and how random squiggles can take you to another world entirely in your imagination.

The internet.

I often find myself doing everyday things like driving my car or sitting in my tidy house and it hits me that I'm an actual adult 😂

Also, like others, my dog. The same little creature whose nature made him think he could catch a bird earlier is the same one who trusts me to feed him and look after him in his old age. He's losing his sight and he sticks to me like glue if he's uncomfortable.

[DollyMixtureLulus]

Traffic lights! One out and it causes chaos.

[MakeWorkYourNewFavourite]

Déjà vu. Coïncidences. Intuition. They're all weird.

Also, we think we have these unique personalities, but I don't think we do. We're all just types. We're all computers made of meat. And our brains can malfunction and then that "personality" is gone. My DF had a car accident. He didn't die, but his character was never the same. Something broke or shifted or was damaged. If it was a broken leg, he'd have been the same person, but it wasn't... and that person wasn't there anymore. So... that "person" was just a function (like a bone or muscle) and nothing else. I don't know if I'm explaining myself properly. I just think we're just "matter" and all that ",matter" wans to do is pass on its genetic code. We romanticise the rest of it.

[ChristmasUserName2020]

The idea that if one person, let’s say your great-great grandfather had decided not to go out one day, he may not have met your great great grandmother and therefore you wouldn’t be here.

Another vote for planes ✈️

It took me ages to work out painkillers but I’m good on that one now. I couldn’t work out how a paracetamol would know if you had a headache or a belly ache!

[BabyLlamaZen]

That a newborn baby looks just like they do when they're in the womb minutes before.

[jambeforeclottedcream]

Motorways

I love motorways they are always so busy with cars transporting people. And where they are all going and why?

Similar thing with the underground paths of the tube stations everyone going in all these different directions but really having to follow the same paths because you'd hit a wall.

[jambeforeclottedcream]

@OverTheRainbow88

Bubbles... how they just pop

As a kid we had a professor of bubbles visit school. The science behind bubbles blew my mind. Like if you touch a bubble with a wet soapy finger it will pierce it not pop it .

[OverTheRainbow88]

@jambeforeclottedcream

Ooh I will give that a go tomo...
That’s Tomos home schooling complete 🤣

[OverTheRainbow88]

@BabyLlamaZen

Omg that’s so weird, I’ve always imagined them to loom like their scan .

That’s actually blown my mind

[GreenLeafTurnip]

How some people (like my mum) don't know if they dream in black and white or colour!!

[Icenii]

That I laugh when my cat is being a complete arse hole, breaking things I Iove. How do they even exist? Fluffy, whiskered things that are actually real.

[theseriousmoonlight]

That I'm apparently an adult and an almost middle aged one when I was 16 only 5 minutes ago.

And that every house has people in it. People I don't know. With families and secrets and happiness and memories that have nothing to do with me.

And my children. I grew them and gave birth and now they're people, well a toddler and a 6 month old but still, they have personalities and everything. They are part of me but they're completely separate and that's what happened to my mum too. And her mum. Mental.

[amusementPark]

Space amazes me. When I look at the sky in the night where there's no overcast, I just sit there imagining about other universes and how small we actually are in the universe, in our planet and as people. Then I think about my personal problems and how small it is just like a sand grain in a deep blue ocean and it means nothing. Then I think of the less fortunate people and how lucky I am and then go back inside and continue with my daily struggles.

[LonnyVonnyWilsonFrickett]

DS - now 15 - has just walked in and I've remembered him learning to read. It was like watching a miracle.

[theseriousmoonlight]

@LonnyVonnyWilsonFrickett I'm a teacher but I've never taught a student to read (I'm secondary) so I'm really looking forward to seeing my own children learn. It seems like magic - marks make up letters which will make up words which create images and feelings. A whole world in a movement of a line.

[ivfbabymomma1]

• reproduction. I look at my son every day and think how did I create that from the tiny embryo I saw on the screen getting put in me!? (Ivf)
• planes. I feel like I'm taking my life my hands when I take off
• space/iss

[missmouse101]

Take a bit of flour, sugar, butter and egg and cook them and hey presto you have a fluffy sponge cake! Whoever invented that? How on earth did they find out?

Where are all the factories? So many items, components, parts, products, foodstuffs, toys, clothes etc made, but you don't see masses of factories all over the place in any country!