Things that are really weird when you think about them

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Someone said to me today that balloons are like a plastic bag of someone's breath...

I'd never thought of it like that before and to be honest it made me feel a bit nauseous!

Do you have anymore examples of things that are actually really fucking weird when you think about it?

animaginativeusername the thing about mum and dad sounds is that they are among the least complex sounds to produce. So the baby can easily make these sounds and they get attached to the parent. Also papa - as "p" is an easy sound to produce.
I suppose it's weird that all the "m" ones are for the female parent though.

Doppelgängers!!! Don't know if true, but I was told everyone has one

Everyone has 6! Even more strange!

@HamCheeseHamnCheese 6!!!! Yikes.

And it's even weirder that we have freedom to do so

Especially when you consider it makes absolutely zero logical sense, and yet people still cling to their bizarre beliefs.

head hair

Yes, and eyebrows. Why do we have random strips of hair on our face?

Yes, and eyebrows. Why do we have random strips of hair on our face?

They are for stopping sweat dripping down into your eyes. And your eyelashes are for catching tiny bits of dirt/sweat that would otherwise irritate your eyes. I know this because a couple of years ago I lost both!

Head hair is kind of weird though - I lost that too and the only thing was that my head got very cold!

@YemenRoadYemen

I don't think I'm clinging to anything! But I am free to have musings, beliefs, thoughts, concepts and you are free to have yours without either if us having to defend anything.....weird isn't it

As I said, yes it is weird.

I don't think this thread is really about people's bizarre, illogical beliefs and musings. More about actual, tangible things.

I mentioned something that wasn't in keeping with the thread. My bad, apologies. Sorry I done that in your thread YemenRoadYemen

LOL, it's not my thread!

The thing about living each year through an anniversary of your future death I read as a child in one of Astrid Lindgren's books, but I'm sure it wasn't the first book to mention it, though I don't know if it'd ever occur to me without that book and until this thread :)

Hmm, mine would be how is it that humans, being earth bound animals, have always had this mad striving for flying. Man was never as focused on conquering water or inners of the earth, or not on the same scale as anything to do with air and space.

Nearly everyone dreamed in their life that they are flying and can imagine the sensation. People don't regularly dream of being earthworms or fishes. Surely it's a hint to us, a link with a different reality?

@Julietee,

But surely you are only aware about difference in your eyes if you look at stuff with one at a time? Does your brain combine a warmer and colder version into something in-between?
And what's the explanation to your condition? Did you always see like that? Do you know which one shows you the tru-er version of reality?

Cassandra
Yep, it’s only obvious when I look one eye at a time. Otherwise everything combines into an amalgamated reality
I don’t know what causes it, it started about 10 years ago. I’ve been told by my optician that it’s likely fine.
Truer version - I think what it demonstrates is that everyone sees colour slightly differently depending on the way our eyes receive and translate light and colour. So there is no true version, but likely blues will always be on the spectrum of blue and etc, rather than yellow bring purple or something. We’re just all walking around with our levels tweaked very slightly differently.

@Julietee my eyes are the same! The left eye is my "warm" eye and the right is my "cold" eye. It's been that way since I can remember - I used to amuse myself looking at things with one eye then the other as a young child.

Daniel
Ooh, interesting! I’ve never met anyone with the same thing before.

I'm really intrigued now as to what causes it. It's always just been normal for me, but there must be some cause like the brain getting different signals. And like you say, do people see different spectrums, like some see everything like my left eye does and others like my right? Really interesting.

I also have a warmer eye and a cooler eye. When using both eyes, I see a colour in between the two.

It will be a difference in the relative number of colour receptors. It could be caused by a mutation when forming the eyes, possibly similar to daltonics but not from birth.

Here for eye colour receptors:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cone_cell

There are three, normally, although some people have more or the colour (wave length) that is detected by each type can also vary.

I was thinking this today while sitting in the sun, looking at my shadow- how incredible that that ray of light has travelled 150 million kilometres and I'm the first thing to get in its way.