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?

Colours. Is my red... the same as DHs red... and the same as your red. Blows my little mind

YES!!!

What if your green is like my blue.

And the universe 100%, I hate thinking about it.

Colours. How do I know that the colour I describe as blue is the same colour that you see? For all I know you might see the sky as yellow but call it blue so we both assume it's the same "blue".

I was once at a party of teachers and one woman had 3 fingers sewn onto her inner forearm and they moved!

Whaaaaat

Damn. Missed the earlier colour comment! 🤣

Yes to pets, dancing and sleep! It always blows my mind that I have a basically wild animal, a carnivore, crashing out on my sofa then it wakes up and makes a noise so I feed it and stroke it.

If I was in the forest and a wild cat walked past it would be amazing. But one lives in my house!

Sleep is mad - you lie down and just fall unconscious for hours and hours. I always want to know what it’s like falling asleep but I can never remember that bit.

Quite a lot of food - who decided to smash up wheat to make flour, and then decided to mix it with other stuff to make bread and pasta etc. And who decided it's fine to eat cows and sheep but not cats or horses, for example.

@Thisisthelaststraw Sweetcorn does not go in and come out the same way.
We chew them, the insides come out. We digest them. The skins/husks do not digest. They get refilled in the bowel with poo.
That’s why your DH thinks theyre the same. They look the same. They’re not. Sorry!!

Oysters. Who first thought ‘Golly, I wonder what is inside that rock - I bet it is something interesting, and it might be edible - I’ll chisel it open and find out!’ And then, having had that thought, and chiselled the rock open, looked at the oyster and thought ‘Yes - that looks delicious - it is the very one for me’ and ate it!

Being in a car....I always think of the Flintstones....

Ears, weird things when you look at them. I used to have dainty shell likes but they are huge now - apparently they get bigger the older you get.

Dogs (love them) but how weird we walk around with another species on a lead.

Being on a plane, in a tin box in the sky with lots of other people.

Space, the infinity. It weirds me out.

Staring at screens all the time. Reducing our worlds.

Smiling.
How did that come about?
In most other species, showing teeth is a sign of aggression, why is it the opposite for us? Why do we do it??

*Cooking

Preparing the meal for ages, cooking it, eating it, washing up. What a lot of faff over and over and over again*

And the next day you flush it down the lav ...

@Coldtoes thank you. I can’t wait to tell Dh

Aeroplanes. How can that mass of steel and people stay in the sky?!

Easter we think of new life and lambs, so we go kill it and eat it to celebrate.

space and the universe hurts my brain when I think about it too much, but I also get freaked out by the fact that when you go outside, you’re right there, on the surface of a planet and straight up above your head is space - with just a layer of gas to protect you. Aaaarrgghh!

Dogs (love them) but how weird we walk around with another species on a lead

Yes. And puppies/kittens, they are just babies but another species that you take away from their parents and look after yourself.

And how they can basically be your mates but you can't communicate at all.

The colours thing. I reckon that might be why different people like different colours. What I call green and you call green may look completely different after processing by our individual eyes and brains and your green may be totally different to my green. Hence you like it more than I do.

Moving away for university. If your best friend told you she was moving to a city 100 miles away to live with five total strangers selected by a computer, without even a ten-minute chat and a coffee first, you’d tell her she’s gone barmy and needs to seriously reconsider. Your 18 year-old daughter who’s never lived away from home? You think you’ve failed as a parent if she doesn’t do it.

And when people congratulate pregnant couples. They are basically being congratulated for having sex.

I mean I know everyone is happy because of the baby really but... Still. I used to be upset thinking that when I was pregnant my Dad was finally going to know for sure that I'd had sex 😂

Also talking. We make a noise and flap our tongues and lips around to vary the noise. By doing that we can make things happen in another persons brain and give them all kinds of information, feelings and ideas. Weird!

How anyone can look into their newborn baby's eyes and think 'It's got to be Ian'.

Why are diamonds considered more valuable than other stones? Why is platinum more expensive than gold/silver? Who decides that one is more precious than the other?

The fact that the fart you just smelled were molecules up someone’s bum a few seconds ago,

Or that to someone who doesn't speak it, our language sounds just as random as another language does to us.

I'd love to hear our language through the ears of someone who doesn't speak it.