To ask what your weird secret behaviour is?

[GunpowderGelatine]

You know, the kind of behaviour only you know about which is unusual, and would make people go but you love doing?

For example, I binge on three different Netflix programmes at any one time in what I call a "3-2-1" sequence, which goes like this:

• I will watch a long series (currently Peep Show) 3 episodes at a time
• then I will watch 2 episodes of a shorter series (Santa Clarita Diet at the mo)
• I'll then watch one episode of a weekly-type series after that (Jane the Virgin season 5 at the moment)
• Then it starts with the 3 episodes again, and so on and so forth

I can't deviate from the 3-2-1 sequence, and if for example I've finished the Santa Clarita Diet episodes but the next episode of Jane the Virgin isn't on until 2 day's time, I'll wait to watch anything more until then. I can't just skip it and watch the next 3 Peep Shows, or the world will probably end or something

I don't know why I do this or when it started, but it works for me

Please make me feel normal and tell me your secret weird behaviour

People generally think I am sweet and quiet which couldn’t be further from the truth.

I have a very strong imagination and frequently enact revenge on people who have wronged me in my head! One person who I hated died (think workplace bullying) one person broke a limb, another, their beloved cat died. Poor cat.

Obviously all coincidence. Thoughts cannot cause another person harm. Now about my current, soon to be ex line manager...🤔

@paranoiamumma I also do this and cannot just "fall asleep" without the story.

I clear out the sock fluff from between my toes and then smell my fingers. Better than cleaning out my sock fluff is clearing out my DS sock fluff. If he doesn't let me, I feel really cross and have to stop myself from begging him

I have imaginary relationships with other people. Currently it's a 23yr old hunk from the gym. I don't even know his name. I daydream about this a lot. It was with a racing driver a while ago.

I spend a lot of time wondering what I'd look like if I was slimmer, and plan how to lose weight, yet never seem to actually put those plans into action. Same as I'd like my skin to look nicer but I hate moisturising so don't bother.

I have a comforter. I take it with me on long car journeys and sleep with it. My DH knows about it as I also have it with me from when I get home from work too. I ache for it when I'm at work, but I can't handle the idea that I might forget to take it home again.

I feel I need to grow up a bit

This is morbid but I often listen to really sad songs and pretend it’s my funeral

I like to watch the washing machine when I first switch it on. If I catch the pod burst ... Bonus!

I've often wondered what being arrested is really like, all you wannabe murderers! Recently I satisfied my curiosity in a way, and found myself securely locked up: in one of the little cubicles in a custody van, at a crown court which was having an open day.

@chillychicken I do that losing weight thing too, get really detailed in my head and excited and can visualise it all, how exciting! But despite it being the only fantasy I have that I could actually influence, here I am, still fatty bumbum....

I have dermatillomania so pick at my skin obsessively. I lose hours to it.

When I am in a room full of strangers I pretend that they were in a plane crash on a deserted island. I work out who would servive and who would pair up etc.

I will imagine what I would do if my whole family died. How I would survive and what I would do.

ScrambledToe I know who to PM if I ever do find myself with an inconvenient corpse

@chillychicken I am So glad I am not alone , i also do the weight thing , I visualise going into shops buying outfits looking my best and going to see ppl that have hurt /upset me j. the past and flaunt it ( I don't get out a lot 😂)

Hard to explain but I count the letters in words or sentences and try to add them up to a number that can be divided. If it can't be divided I try to find a way to make it so.

For example my username - YouBelongHere - bad as it has 13 letters. But if I change it to YouBelongHere! it's fifteen because on the exclamation mark I count the stick and the dot as two separate things and that's fine then 'cos it divides by three and five. I count the dot's on i's as well and capitilise the words if I need to make it work. For example sink would become SINK so that it can divide by two and four.

I dig my finger tips into sharp things - not like really sharp like a knife but into my fingernails, the edges on my phone case etc. I probably should stop as it's made the tips of my fingers a bit gross.

I do the daydreaming to music thing too, it actually annoys me if there's a day where I don't have time to listen to music e.g. I'm on holiday with my friends or something. I need my music time!

So there's a name for what I've been doing all my life!! "maladaptive daydreaming." Mind you, considering how many of us here are admitting to it I have a feeling that pretty much everyone with half an imagination does it... so not so "mal" adaptive perhaps, rather just adaptive? Nothing wrong with a rich imagination I think personally.

I'm probably forgetting half a dozen weird things that I do everyday but one thing is to get obsessed about the opposite season to the one we are in. For example, right now I will happily spend hours on Pinterest searching out Christmas decoration ideas but come November, I will be researching hot summer holiday destinations and looking at summer/beach clothes and swimsuits. Obviously I do this in secret

@ooItsAoBeautifulDayNow

Haha no way 😂😂😂

I do the Fleabag, fourth wall thing, all the time.

I once kept our Christmas tree up till April and then cried when we had to get rid of it because I felt so bad about it decomposing in the garden. I also cried one time when buying a tree because I felt so sad about them all being in pots and out of the forest. Now I have kids I feel I have less energy left over to use over-empathising with inanimate objects. Having said that, I do still sleep with cuddly toys at the top of my bed and often in bed with me. I know they're not real but they truly feel like company to me.
I used to have daydreams to send me off to sleep, usually about meeting some film star, becoming their best friend and being invited to the Oscars with them and meeting Daniel Day Lewis. But I hardly do any more. I don't know why not.
I usually feel like the weirdest person I know and after having read this thread I feel positively boring. I'm wondering whether a) everyone else is as weird and we all hide it or b) only VERY WEIRD people are commenting on this and others are thinking What a bunch of weirdos and backing off the thread hurriedly. Meaning that in RL it's possible I do still only know the normal ones. I like you guys better though

I also do a lot of the counting/stepping things and some of the foodie ones too. Also used to imagine living in bathrooms. Love the comment about eating cream cakes in private. Indulgent food is only ever really enjoyed in absolute privacy, for me. Definitely get the urge to jump off bridges/throw my handbag into the sea. Have arguments with people in my head. Have never hidden a body or gone on the run. That daydream would definitely be too stressful for me

I eat dried spaghetti

Oh yeah, I often imagine waking up and being the only person on earth. I imagine what I'd do. I always figure I'd take a car and find a small farm etc to live on as I'd need a plan for when the food in supermarkets went off.

I then imagine trying to cross the channel to mainland Europe to find other "survivors".

I like to smell my cats little sweaty toe beans when they’ve been asleep all day, they smell so cute 😂

*Tawdrylocalbrouhaha the Little Chef part was real - a weekend job I had briefly whilst at school. The part where Les Dennis comes in for a fry up and sweeps me off my feet, not so real!

It’s a strangely comforting imaginary life though, and we've had lots of happy times together.*

I can totally see that. I mean, whatever else happens in your life, you will always have Les!

I've never mentioned this to anyone but I've done it since I was a child... I mentally fill in blank spaces on walls and floors with my hands, feet and limbs. So where there's an empty bit of wall next to a bookcase I'll think oh my thumb would fit along the top of the bookcase and my fingers along the side so the wall would be covered.

It's just me, right? Please tell me someone else does this bizarre thing!

My TV and car radio volume have to be on an even number!

I put my flat hand between my collarbone and my bra strap when I'm sat down, at work, at home or in the pub.... I also like to rock slightly from side to side when I'm sat down but I'll only do that when I'm on my own!

I've been married to Jerome Flynn in my head since Soldier Soldier days.
We have a lovely life...

Polarbearflavour
Made me think of this

I regularly have tea or lunch with The Queen and she recognises what an amazing person I am and invites me to ride her horse when she is busy. We have long & detailed conversations and I am clever, witty and informative - whilst always observing protocol and never leading the conversation myself!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I also have long conversations with myself in different accents as I love doing accents.

I also replay conversations in my head and then I can't remember what I actually said and what I meant to say. I have to force myself not to do this, as I get in real muddle.

Ideally, I like to sniff all food before I eat it, but often have to do this in a stealthy way, as taking a great sniff of food in a restaurant or at someone else's house isn't really the done thing (so HM tells me ), so I surreptitiously try to do it by holding the fork near my nose before I put it in my mouth or casually wafting a biscuit around.

I am obsessive about tanning evenly and get really stressed if I think that one part of me is more exposed than another. I have to rotate myself evenly and angle myself towards the sun evenly. I annoy myself doing this and know that my family think I am barking.

I am also obsessive about putting the same amount of product on me symmetrically. I can't relax unless I know exactly the same amount of cream went on both sides of my face, or both arms and legs etc.

I am also obsessive about ensuring that my bag is distributed across both shoulders when I'm out and about, so I'm constantly moving it from one shoulder to the other to ensure I don't get "bag shoulder".

I need to stop now, because I'm feeling too weird!!!!!