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

On reflection, I think it wasn't lava I imagined, but some sort of poisonous liquid, hence the name.

@sleepraptor I'm an "in my head leap from lamppost to lamppost" person too.

There’s a cafe above a shop near me, and it has a large window that looks down to the main shopping street of the town. I always try to get a seat right at the window, and I play a game where I’m not allowed to leave the cafe until I’ve seen at least one person I know. I don’t have to know them well, just their name. If I’m with my partner we play against each other. 1 person = 1 point.

startalovetrain I do that too! I tuck my top into my bra to stop it falling down again. I have no idea why I do it.

Pretend dead composers have come back from the grave and I'm showing them around the modern world.

Every time I go into a shed or unusually large walk in cupboard/storage area I imagine how I'd make it into a little house. I think where the bed would go, what kind of heating, where I'd keep the food. (I love George Clarkes Amazing Spaces!)

@vampirethriller

I do this!
It started when I was a little girl and used to visit a great-aunt with my parents. I was often bored, so would go to her loo and pretend it was my house! I planned where I would keep the food etc.
I have even done it in my own bathroom (at many, many years older).
I do it with sheds and all tiny spaces.
I wonder where it stems from!

I also pretend Iv had a bad accident or comatose or sometimes just dead to get to sleep. Everyone is visiting and DH is Bereft about it!

I have a ‘funeral’ playlist for when I really do die. Songs to really get the tears flowing!

I also imagine very in-depth music videos often with lots of slow mo, I was listening to my iPod on a jog once and didn’t hear or see a dog walker behind me until long after I’d taken part in slo mo running and shocked faces 😅
My favourite scenarios are dystopian nightmares where I’m the protagonist and my moral compass shines throughout !

I am a brilliant director

@Namchange8471 @JasperSin I do this too. It’s mostly just with music now and darkness but I’ll often carve out time to myself to indulge it. My DD does it with running up and down. It feels a bit compulsive for her at times but she’s getting a bit more flexible with it.

I really hope it’s not just a response to trauma because she does it a lot!

I thought I was soooooo weird until I found this thread?! I pretty much do everything that's been mentioned apart from the 3 2 1 show watching!

@SailorJerry13 Yes! I often go for a plane crash and I rescue pretty much everyone.

@m4rdybum DS does the excited hand flapping, so bloody endearing

Wish I had the imagination of everyone on this thread, my life is so dull!

I have to tuck the duvet into the footboard on my side of the bed. Dh doesn’t like his side tucked.
If I’m asleep before he comes to bed he could sing and dance an play the drums, I wouldn’t hear a thing.
The second he yanks up that duvet and untucks my side I’m wide awake and up remaking the bed.
Drives him crazy

I’m a toilet paper peeper too🤣

I can’t eat off the spoon I use to mix what I’m going to eat. I have to have a new one

I can only eat yogurt/desserts with a teaspoon.

I can’t walk around the house without socks on

I quite often get dressed before I’m fully dry after a shower. Doesn’t bother me a bit. One drop of water on my sock? Off they come immediately.

I am a weirdo

@vampirethriller
@Lovesabadboy
Omg I do this.
Also if I was a tramp (not pc I know) where I would build a little home. I often say to myself If I see a space, oh I would live there if I was homeless, that would be a prefect spot.

Basically this thread shows that we are all pretty boring and all the same! Even my weird shit is not unique

I play in an imaginary band. I’ve been known to say to DH, ‘if you feel the bed rocking, I’m not wanking. I’m doing air guitar.’
Sometimes drums...

@SweatyUnderboob

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I obsessively think about a scenario where I wake up one morning and everyone has died but myself and my son. I plan how we use whatever car we can find to make trips to abandoned supermarkets for the first couple of years. Eventually, we learn to live off the land and collect rainwater. I even find a gun on a local farm and learn to hunt. Despite having the pick of any house, we choose to stay in our own, though removing anything unnecessary like the washing machine which we can't use as there's no electricity. Sometimes we make a special trip to the seaside, camping along the way. Everywhere is just abandoned. We manage well for over a decade, until suddenly people appear. It turns out that it's only Britain that was affected. The rest of the world quarantined Britain until whatever virus died out. DS and I were the only people immune to it. The world is astounded and let us choose a country of residence where we are given a wooden lodge in the middle of nowhere to continue living off the land.

I pretend that I am on a tv show about super mums when I’m at home each evening with the kids on my own. In my head it’s Gordon Ramsey, Gregg Wallace and Phillip Schofield doing a commentary about how fantastic my spag Bol is and how well I’m juggling cleaning, with cooking and looking after the kids. Sometimes I even win a prize.

I'm a maladaptive daydreamer too.

My 'other life' has been going on for years. I have different versions of it depending on how I am feeling. At times I'm more in my fantasy life than my real life.

I've been like this for as long as I can remember.

I also sometimes look in the mirror and make really weird faces at myself. Or crackle at myself like a hyena. I don’t know why. I’m weird.

My DH pointed out that when I'm talking to someone I squeeze both my hands rhythmically, like I'm inflating a blood pressure cuff. He says the more animated I get, the faster I squeeze.
I am horrified by this but never realise I'm doing it and cannot stop.

@MagicKingdomDizzy Mine too. I sub different people in and out but I recognise the archetypes now so it’s pretty easy.

^^squeeze then separately, not together. Am not a house-fly.

@LorelaiRoryEmily I can only eat cereal with a teaspoon too

Tinkoschminko it's a relief to know others do it too!

ScrewyMcScrewup When I'm lying down I occasionally have to stick my left arm straight up in the air and hold it there for a minute or so. It's surprisingly comfortable.

Can be either arm for me but yes, surprisingly comfortable, almost meditative.
This thread is making me feel weirder by the second. Good job I've got lots of company 😁