AIBU to ask you the weirdest thing that you've caught yourself thinking

[Motherofatruck]

Just walked upstairs and caught myself being a bit of weirdo... There's a mirror in the downstairs hallway, which I glanced at and saw myself looking back (obviously ). Walked upstairs then into the bathroom where there is another mirror. Caught myself pondering about if there was any possibility of there being another dimension where there's a version of myself and everything else in my life which is exactly mirroring everything I do. The more I thought about it, the more I felt like I had watched the mirror version of myself walk up the stairs and go into the bathroom... Like I wasn't watching myself, but a different version of me. Then I realised they were also watching me and felt slightly violated Spent quite a while after that scuttling past mirror's without making eye contact. Kind of hoping I can get some reassurance that I'm not the only one who freaks themself out sometimes.

@BishopofBathandWells that reminds me of when I'm walking home from work late at night and the streetlights are all off. I can barely see in front of my face and I convince myself someone (or something) is going to suddenly appear right in front of me with no warning

When we lived at our old house, our bathroom used to creep me out at night time. I had a horrible feeling if I looked at the bathtub I would see a woman lying there in bloody water like those scenes in films where someone cut their wrists. I would be looking in the mirror and be cringing at the idea of turning around... in case it was ME in the bath! Stupid really, but I couldn't shake the idea.

how am i me?how am i alive.sat here looking at myself typing.how am i a person in the world walking about doing thigns.what is that!going alomst detatched to the universe and then back down to me.how am i me.how am i a living breathing working unit.sat here watching this morning on catchup with eyes!someone whos had a life with memorys and stuff.
oh it gives me the shivers and i have to stop.

I also get the out of body floating feeling often. But something else I have is that I feel like I can tell what people are feeling just by looking at their face very quickly. Little signs and movements. I thought this was completely normal but no one I know seems to be able to do it?

I often wonder if I could genuinely murder someone and get away with it. I plan it all out in my head, the murder weapon would be an icicle or a lamb leg. Icicle melts and lamb leg gets cooked - the evidence is gone either way - winner.

@Omzlas This actually made me laugh out loud

Always believed as a kid that I was a character in a book and someone was just reading my story. Still think it sometimes.

I also was fully convinced we had cameras in our house and everything I did was watched.

I sometimes think what if I was suddendly to become someone else in a Quantam Leap style fashion.. How would I know what job I did, where I lived etc..
Also what if I was the last person alive on earth.. What would I do about electricty etc etc

I have wondered if we are already all dead & this life isn't real, I mean how do we know different?? That's the tip of a very big iceberg of the weird stuff I think about.

@Omzlas Same!!!

Somewhere out there is an anti matter version of our universe, which is exactly the same except everything looks like it's in negative. So like when you look at a negative of a photo.

There's an anti matter version of me out there and if I ever saw her, I should run away because if we touch then we'll both instantly disappear.

@Omzlas would you also feed the cooked lamb to investigating detectives like in Tales of the Unexpected?

Once I freaked myself out for ages trying to work out what direction my eyes look when they're closed. Couldn't sleep properly for a week as I'd give myself a headache trying to stop thinking about it!

The lamb leg "perfect murder" is the plot of a Roald Dahl story called Lamb to the Slaughter written in the 1950s (long before tales of the unexpected).

meow1989; the Buffy episode was "Normal Again"

My dishwasher has a top tray for cutlery where you stack each piece individually. I have to put knives with knives, spoons with spoons, etc because if I mix them up (eg a spoon among many forks) the majority items might pick on the lone different one. The possible exception is teaspoons. The big spoons might feel kind and tender towards the teaspoons, although I'm not sure yet.

All cutlery must face "forward" and if there's only one of something, it has to go at the back (so the other cutlery can't talk about it behind its back...cutlery items can only see what's in front of them and will instantly forget about anything behind them). The exception is chopping knives, which the cutlery items are scared of and will never try and bully.

I didn't consciously formulate this stupid belief system (if I'd made it up on purpose I would probably have made all the cutlery much nicer and kinder, and not awful intolerant bullies). I only realised I have it when I caught myself stacking the cutlery in groups. This is not the only weird anthropomorphic belief I have about kitchenware but it's probably one of the most elaborate.

I have lots of odd experiences like this! Since childhood I have had spells of what I call ‘being detached’ as if I am on onlooker, outside myself and scared I can’t get back.

I sometimes think if i looked at the world from space with a high powered lens, would i see people walking upright on the top of the world and upside down at the bottom.... I would never say that to anyone I know though

@anothernotherone Tales of the Enexpected (the TV show) was created by Roald Dahl, using his short stories. So we are both right on the origin of the lamb leg story

@Ludoole that's actually a pretty cool thought!

When I was little I became convinced that I was actually dead and was spending eternity reliving my life...that freaked my mum out

Motherofatruck wow! I did not know that! Is that something everyone but me knows, as in the threads that pop up from time to time asking what piece of common knowledge passed you by until recently?

@OutrageousFlavourLikeFreesias that's brilliant I do think the majority of the big spoons would look after the teaspoons... I wouldn't trust sundae spoons though, because they don't know whether they're a big spoon or a little spoon and their confusion may make them volatile

@anothernotherone I only know because I run a pub quiz and check all the answers beforehand. There was a question about Tales of the unexpected and when I looked it up I found out that Roald Dahl was the creator of the show. (I was as surprised as you!) He also published a book title Tales of the unexpected which was a collection of sixteen short stories, including Lamb to the Slaughter. I'm a fountain of useless knowledge

If I haven’t seen DH in a few days I start to think that he might not be real and I have to remind myself he exists! I start thinking to myself oh my god how have I found someone who has loved me for so many years surely he’s just not real. And it spirals from there I do this with lots of people to be honest. I forget faces and voices quite easily so if I haven’t seen someone for a while I start to question if they even existed at all.

I often think about how I am me and nobody else and I’ve been born in this country with so much privilege and I could have been born somewhere awful and be starving...