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?

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

Ok that has freaked me out

Yes, I probably would, including dog if it tasted nice. I think if you eat animals you eat animals don't you?

I don't think that's a commonly held view, hence dog meat being illegal.

Placemarking, this thread is making me question everything in life!

At the school sports day last year, the mums did an egg and spoon race. One of the mums in DD's class is Italian and had only been in the UK a few months and asked me what an egg and spoon race was. I realised as I explained it, and watched her perplexed look, that it's a fucking weird concept. When I finished explaining she asked "but why?"

This thread is brilliant! Thank you OP and everyone who has posted their weird thoughts!

The smiling one has blown my mind!

Some things that I think are really weird are:

The fact babies in utero can breathe!

The fact I am constantly drawn to kiss and hug my children- why do I need the physical contact and is it for my benefit or theirs ?

The sea.

Ratatouille76 sorry

@pastaparadise

Interesting. Like the Trip Advisor ‘Near Me Now’ but for murderers!! Chilling!!!

@donquixotedelamancha but how can it be measured if it has no beginning or end? And what is it 'in'?

@LegoPeopleEverywhere

Our death anniversary, unknown in advance!

Christmas trees. Every year we get a tree out of a box and put sparkly things on it. A tree, inside, with decorations. Blows my mind

Half of our body is made up of atoms formed beyond the Milky Way. We are basically made of star dust.

That black hole they have ' discovered ' / what is at the bottom of it? How big is it? What is it?
Any space things baffle me. The maths and physics involved getting man on the moon and back again. It is mind blowing really.
My brain isn't that big to know these things!
All those numbers... what does it all mean?

Colours and the whole visible light spectrum thing.

Recently we were going to a party with friends. I asked friend what she was wearing to go and she said an X colour dress. On the day every single one of the four of us saw the dress as an entirely different colour.

I'm basically just a brain. Everything that makes me who I am is in there. If you found a way of removing this organ from my head and successfully transplanting it to another body it would be me still.

If I'm getting into the really deep stuff, I can't think about what happens when we die too much. Like how can we just be alive one minute and then not the next? If there really is nothing after death, what happens? How do we just cease to exist? Where do our thoughts and consciousness go?

Nope.

how can it be measured if it has no beginning or end?

Well, we can only measure the bit we can see with light. That has a fixed size. Even that is an estimate based on extrapolation.

My statement that the universe doesn't have edges is much dodgier, more of a guesstimate based on maths from observations.l about the nature of the universe.

A giraffe will have a baby giraffe. A human a human baby. One won't have the other because of DNA/ genetics etc.

“Once there was nothing. Which exploded”

Space freaks me out, like there's all these planets but then what's after that, just nothing. How can it be nothing?!

Radio waves. They can be produced by the natural universe but we've only been able to detect them fairly recently.

What else could we be missing just because we don't have the right equipment to translate it for our 5 senses.

The beach - loads of people go the edge of a country and lie down!

There must have been ' something ' which exploded to then cause the ' big bang' Probably why people believe in God. ( I don't myself but you can see why!)

There are 7.7 billion people on earth but I am the first one to see inside this orange/potato/apple etc as I slice it open. Even more amazing, no one, not even me, will see the snot inside this hanky that I've just blown out.

I first thought these things when I was about 3 years old and had to say The Creed at Sunday Mass - the bit about "...all that is seen and unseen..." I was told it was quite profound thinking for a 3 year old. Unfortunately, my intellect peaked at the age of 3.

That black hole they have ' discovered ' / what is at the bottom of it? How big is it?

Not a hole. Very squished up (big) star. Point mass, smaller than a spec of dust but heavier than our star and all its planets (and to momma) put together.

Called a hole because if anything gets too close (even light), the gravity will pull it in. So is perfectly black.

Totally agree on the pet thing. I often comment on it.

Hairy creatures that we brought into our family. They don't really have a clue what we're saying or doing.

I love them with all my heart and wouldn't change a thing. I think having the love of an animal is one of the most special things. Really pure love.

But once you think about it. It's weird!

That should be and yo' momma in pp.