What can't you wrap your head around?

[RosieLemonade]

For me it's how colour works. The whole part with reflecting light. Just how can that be true? (I know it is)

Babies practicing breathing movements in utero ready for the outside world. I see it every day at work and it never ceases to amaze me. The whole process of reproduction and fetal development blows the mind if you really think about it.

How people bought the lies the media and politicians fed us leading up to the Iraq war. And yet even today they take the western media Westminster narrative at face value when it comes to countries like Russia and China. Most people seem to have no idea how subtle yet insidious Western MSM propaganda is.

How people can honestly think we’re the ONLY planet with life. The universe is infinite. Every star you see is a sun with its own solar system, and we only see a few of the stars. No way are we the only forms of life.

Computer code for me too, DH is a coder and I just don’t understand how what he writes can turn into what it does?

Why people waste their life in a rat race if it makes them miserable.

Business finance - it's been explained to me several times, but I will never grasp it and I'm an intelligent person!

Physics. I'd really love to understand them but it just blows my mind.
Other sapiens spices. How come we're the only ones left? Why were there groups of other huminoids previously and only one now? Where did we all come from?!

Also things like tribes that thought they were the only people in the world until someone invaded them in, say, the 60s. World wars, industrial revolutions etc going on around them and they had noooo clue. Just amazing! Envy them in a way! Sad they were disrupted really.

That many years ago someone made up the word door for a door and lots of other things that we take for granted.

Algebra!

Another is how the pyramids were built! It wasn't slaves, so who?! How?! The lightest of the stones is 2 tonnes!
And how did they paint the whole interior of Khufu's pyramid so intricately without light? They can't have used fire torches - they'd have all died of carbon monoxide poisoning!

how we have ended up in a world where the opposite sexes of each species fit together and make new versions of themselves. all a bit perfect, no?

also fax machines. dark magic, i tell you. no idea how they work.

Depth, height, width, space, reproduction, time, age, factories.

How television and radio work. And sound and vision. Essentially I don't know if what I am looking at looks identical to what the person next to me sees. Same with hearing.

Why any of us or this exists. Having read plenty of science, philosophy, astronomy I know with 99.999% certainty that there isn’t a why. There isn’t a reason. It’s a meaningless question. Well why shouldn’t it exist? Or maybe it exists in this strand of the multiverse. Or perhaps it’s all just a simulation.

But anyway, my monkey still wants an answer to the question of Why even though the question is a meaningless and stupid one and will almost certainly never ever be understood much less answered by any kind of human.

^ Not my monkey: my monkey brain. I don’t have a monkey yet.

Space… it’s majestic but bloody hell 🤯

The length of our organs can wrap around the world or something like that… like how?

Maths .. just don’t get it

How people can eat offal 🤮

@RosieLemonade

For me it's how colour works. The whole part with reflecting light. Just how can that be true? (I know it is)

This!! I am always saying exactly the same! I've even studied the physiology of how seeing colour works, and the light frequencies/refraction etc etc, but I still refuse to believe it (yes, even though I know it's true 😂) How can a pot of paint not have a colour until you open the lid?? I have a colour blind partner, and am still fascinated with that as well. And also like another pp mentioned, how do you know you're seeing the same blue as someone else? I particularly find this interesting re the colour blindness. But, still, IT'S NOT TRUE!! 😆😆

How do fax machines work?

Why do we speak different languages? If humans are one species why do we have different languages?

Why is an orange called an orange but a lemon isn’t called a yellow?

The universe. I just tend not to think about it.

The economy, property market etc. Like it seems to be an entity all of its own. Stocks, trading etc. I have no clue what people who work in finance or banking actually do on a day to day basis.

The lack of basic common sense

You don’t need to be smart arse as I’m certainly not so don’t understand - believe people can be so stupid when comes to lack of common sense.

The 50 billion gender identity’s, just stop because you ain’t that special and you still just box ticking label only with made up nonsense words.

How backwards into some parallel universe women’s rights have gone.

That people eat Blancmange and trifle

How huge planes manage to take off

How the first humans discovered that grinding wheat made flour that could make a dough, then cook it to become bread that was edible. Or how they discovered cotton growing could be spun and turned into clothing rather than be eaten

Love this.

Languages: how can my ear pick words, meaning, nuance and emotion from a stream of babble. When I hear other languages, or another complex stream of sound like a river or thunder, I can't even pick out individual bits of it.

How the evolution of knowledge works. I use a kettle every day but I can't fathom how I don't have to personally understand how to invent and generate energy, how to develop resistance in an element etc in order to do so.

Where the edge of the universe it. Mind blown whenever whenever think about it

Time and space. So when I'm looking at a distant star, I'm actually looking back in time, and if anyone were to be standing on that distant star looking at Earth, they'd be seeing Earth millions and millions of years ago, possibly when the dinosaurs were roaming around. Or perhaps when humans were in their infancy and living in small clans making the first primitive tools. It boggles the mind

The fact that no 2 human beings have exactly the same voice. And that the human ear is such a precise instrument it can tell apart the voices of all the people we meet, even though the differences are so small.

How long ago and strange the 1930's seemed to me when I was in my teens, is the same as teens now envisage the 1980's.

Who discovered if you cooked corn kernels you got popcorn?

Who first thought to milk a cow?