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?

Purposefully making ourselves go silly by drinking or taking drugs.

Why we go mad for eating prawns, mussels, oysters etc but wouldn't eat spiders, earwigs, leeches (for example) They're just insects of the sea!

None of those things (except earwigs) are insects of anywhere.

We have two mites on each eyelash
www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150508-these-mites-live-on-your-face

Glass. Who thought, ‘I know, I have some sand so I’ll heat it and see what happens. Now I’ll call it glass so we’ll put it into the walls of our houses so we can have light and see out’. Just wierd.

A row of people in bed are all lying there staring out...

That thought makes me uneasy somehow!

"Kissing is another thing that baffles me. “I like this human therefore I shall smush my face into theirs and swap saliva”"

There are apparently lots of countries in the world where kissing is either not a thing or even considered disgusting. It's the case in many east Asian countries from what I gather.
One theory for the origins of kissing is that mothers would chew their babies' food and then pass it by mouth.(yuck!)

Honey
I wonder how people discovered that.

The fact that when we die our organic matter will decompose and eventually turn into something else. What thing will I become next? (Beyond a pile of smelly goo or dusty ashes).

Just by existing this means one day we will cease to exist.

Haha Utterly, you're probably right. No licking for me

Re the colours thing: I'm absolutely certain that my Dh and I see colours differently. I see them more vividly, and can see their opposites and others in the same tone in my mind when I look at them (and in my memory- I can pick out items in shops that are exact matches) whereas Dh cannot see that level of vividness. We had an argument about an orange picture on a dark green wall because he couldn't get that the orange and green completed each other. He thinks all shades of blue are the same. My ds has a baby bunny thing which is turquoise green and Dh calls it Blue Bunny it's goddamned green ffs. It does make sense though that the amount of Receptors in your eyes would vary from person to person so it stands to reason really. (But still gives me the rage!)

AintNobodyHereButUsReindeer
Literally exactly what you said about space.
It blows my mind!

Conception! is another for me. I find it more amazing than weird. I've birthed 4 children and EVERY time have been in awe that my body (and also the male contribution) has done that.

thenewaveragebear1983 we have these arguments regularly in our house, DH saying something is pink when I say it's purple etc...

There used to be an old block of flats I often drove past and it got knocked down as the whole area is being rebuilt.

I had a weird time trying to get my head round the fact that what is now just mid-air 40 or 50 feet above the ground, was someone's home where they walked around, ate their tea, slept, had a poo etc. Is that empty space the "place" where they lived? Or is the "place" really just the bits of wall and floor etc. that have now been knocked down?

Tv soaps. We sit and watch people pretending to live day to day life in pretend houses, have pretend arguments and dramas for our entertainment.
I was saying to DH recently how weird it is to watch Casualty. Humans watch a programme that involves other humans pretending to be ill or hurt in a pretend hospital being made better by pretend doctors.

How mirror images are reversed from left to right but not top to bottom.

This is a bit of a nonsensical one but I read an academic paper on it years ago and it still bothers me sometimes.

Flying. Obvs

Babies. They make us fat, ill and tired for 9 months, rip our vadges to pieces coming out (and in some cases nearly kill us) and then cry, don’t sleep and don’t do anything useful for many, many years.
Why do we love them in such a crazy, all consuming way?

"Ok this is a real weird one that I realised today, but none of my DD's generation will have grandma's with the hair rollers 1940s hair style. When I was younger I felt like everyone's granny had that hairstyle."

One of my grandmothers did. My great-grandmother had long hair in a bun, a bit like the grandmother in Beverly Hillbillies. That's still a recognised 'old woman look' I think.

I wan't too bothered by planes flying until I first saw a 747 (that I was about to fly on). They're huge and have TWO STOREYS and then they just trundle along for a while then just move up into the air. It looks so impossible. I do know how it works etc. but it seems so bizarre.

How humans have decided that we should all force ourselves to go to these things called jobs even though we don't want to, every day until we are (usually) too old to do it anymore, all for bits of paper that are apparently worth something.

Like obviously it's a lot more complex than that now but we did that to ourselves.

Like what if I want to just go build a hut in my local forest and live there instead?

@ooItsAoBeautifulDayNow mad isn't it? In my head they're roughly the size of otters.

I blame Wind in the Willows.

3D printing

The air we breathe has already been inside countless other people and animals and plants.

There are more microorganism cells on and in us than there are cells of our own body these microorganisms interact with us and affect even our brains. So we are like a collective, really...

What's so wrong with licking an envelope, it's just glue, like liking a stamp. What germs are involved?

I am going to be corrected now that the glue was licked ON to the envelope by people wearing bum bags.

• that everything is basically sucked towards the centre of the earth by gravity

• that each year we pass what will one day be the anniversary of our deaths

• dreams! I mean what the fuck. We go to sleep and our mind tricks us into thinking we're awake and doing other things and we rarely notice it's a dream. And we just accept going on these mad trips every night.

• why did we decide some animals were for eating and not others? You see this across different cultures too with some favouring eating certain animals and others different ones. Or even in the same country across time e.g. rabbit not being a popular meat in the UK anymore. Likewise milk! Why do we think it's ok to drink cow milk but would think it disgusting to drink cat milk?

• the colour thing for sure! Even more so now I've read that it seems different people do see things differently.