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

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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.

I love this thread! I have all kinds of odd thoughts, i do that thing that other people have mentioned where I suddenly go omg I've got three kids! It's like I fell asleep years ago and woke up like how did you all happen! When I was pregnant with my first I honestly couldn't get my head around the fact that there was an actual human being inside me, even in labour I couldn't believe that a baby was going to come out it just didn't seem possible, can't really explain it but it just seemed too weird! When he did come out I remember grabbing him and thinking wow, it is real! A person!

As a child, I was utterly fascinated by being blindfolded, especially if I was spun round so I didn't know where I was. I would ponder why I couldn't even see the pattern on the scarf over my eyes, which way I might be facing, who discovered blindfolding, and who thought blind man's buff would be a good game. I would sometimes blindfold myself for a long time, and wonder if I'd see again straight away when I uncovered my eyes; why could I see black in front and "nothing" behind. There was a time at primary school when we were doing an experiment to test our directional hearing; and as soon as I was blindfolded, I zoned out so much that I forgot to point towards the sound of someone clapping!

DD2 once said to me “why was I born a human, and not a cat or an ant or something?”
She’s 15 now so was probably about ten then, young for this kind of adult pondering!
Now she’s a bit older she and her sister will occasionally ask if they die, will they come back as a dog or cat or something? At least they’re old enough now for me to say that some people believe in reincarnation and give a basic explanation.

@Papergirl1968 when I was five years old, I was convinced that if I studied my cat and learned how to BE a cat then I would eventually become a cat. There was quite a long period of time where I refused to lay in my bed under the covers like a normal child "because cats don't do that!" I would curl myself up in a ball and sleep in the middle of the bed instead I did eventually realise I was still a human... Disappointing!

When I remember something embarrassing or stupid I did as a teen (flashback usually when I’m about to nod off), I have this expectation that I’ll be able to go back in time and advise young me against it. It’s kind of a ‘when I get a chance, I’ll declutter that cupboard’ feeling, as though it’s just something on my to do list I need to get around to.

I also often feel detached from reality, as though everything is fake and I’m just going through the motions.

@Bwekfusth Isn't this depersonalization?

@boringlyboring same question to you as well I guess!

Every single time I cross the road I have the thought of 'I bet I'm going to trip and smash my teeth out on the kerb'. Starting to think this is an obsessive thought.

When I used to visit my nans I would shut my eyes any time I walked past one of the mirrors in the hallway because I was convinced I would see something I couldn't unsee.

Lol, Mother, I’d quite like to become a cat and I’m 50 - waited on hand and foot, nothing to do all day except eat and sleep. Yep, I could go for that!

I often find my self looking at people and trying to guess what their name is. Some people seem to have a name written all over them.
Of course I'd never know if I was right or not. I can hardly go around asking random people their names because I was playing a game in my head. They'd think I was loopy. Well I am, but we won't go into that.

@awwlookatmybabyspider

Me and my friends do that! We even create massive backstory's. I ruined a lovely date with my DH at a restaurant once because I was convinced the guy sitting opposite us with his two kids was 'Oliver, GP, had an affair with the surgery receptionist, Tania. His wife Denise threw him out and now he only sees his kids every other Saturday but no longer because Tania doesn't like it. Drives an Insignia'

Sometimes I wake up after being asleep for a few hours (I go to bed early and DH late) and have a total blank mind of who i live with. I have to look around the room and put my life together... sort of like "you're married to DH. You have a DD and she's 6"

If I've had a super lucid dream (happens a lot) I have to talk myself out of it. "No, your work colleagues aren't downstairs and you don't have to get dressed to go to a meeting, it's DH watching TV"

Sort of like I'm half awake and half asleep but I can see myself from the outside. This happens to me a lot. I'll know I'm still asleep but will be watching myself from the outside

Every single time I cross the road I have the thought of 'I bet I'm going to trip and smash my teeth out on the kerb'. Starting to think this is an obsessive thought.
I do this with escalators. Every time I step off I imagine getting my toes stuck in the end.

I sometimes wonder how it must feel to be a snail or something. How does it actually feel?!? I also seem to have some very specific childhood memories and they play on a slide show in my head sometimes but it's always the same ones...where did all the other memories go?? There was so much more to my life than what I can remember when I close my eyes and try to remember. It's weird.

I wonder if someone else had fathered my children, would I have the same children? Were their souls destined to be with me? I’ve been divorced longer than I was married and have wonderful adult children and grandbabies. If I had chosen better for a husband would I still be as blessed?

@wanderings As a child I liked to wear a blindfold around the house incase I ever became blind, so I would know my way around. I still close my eyes on occasion and walk around in the dark.

Yes to the making up of backstories for insects and things and what they must be thinking.

Surely most people have had Toy Story thoughts when they were younger? I definitely did and one of my kids at one point used to dress her toys up for whatever she thought they would be doing while she was asleep.

I don’t know if this is along the right lines but at times of upset or uncertainty I used to let my mind wander and see what happened. A few times I have had these kind of perfect visions that have happened as I’ve got older (deja vu I suppose), not specifically places but people I have never met (or if I had they would have been children, not adults), or specific situations. I always get the feeling that I’m exactly where I’m meant to be in my life and it makes everything that has happened make sense. I’ve tried explaining this to a couple of friends in real life but they looked at me like I had 2 heads. 😳

Sometimes if I’ve been in a big hall or anywhere quiet with loads of people I wonder about shouting out something inappropriate and loud and just that thought crossing my mind makes me sweat .

Glad to read of other people having weird spontaneous thoughts though the person who had an urge to push people off tall buildings or murder their ex did worry me

Hundreds of years ago, I started my academic career as an aircraft engineer. I wasn’t very good at it, so I did maths (why????) and eventually midwifery. However, I had to learn quite complex equations and calculations to do with how aeroplanes fly, what keeps them up there, and eventually come back down again. I remember thinking about how birds have a brain about the size of a walnut, and yet they apply these concepts continually and with far greater precision that a human brain or even a computer. How do they know???? It blew my mind then, and still does now.

I sometimes argue with myself in the mirror over made up scenarios. That's something I've never told anyone

Sometimes when my mind is wandering I get the urge to see how my DDs are, if for example they are at school. I start absent mindedly scrolling through my contacts list when I realise that they are aged 4 and 5 and don't have phones. This has happened a few times in my defence I do work nights.

Does anyone else ever wonder about food? Who thought it would be a good idea to eat egg or split the yolk from the white to make custard or meringue? How did they discover yeast would make a nice loaf of bread or that gelatine would make sweets?

@Moanger Did you ask other people to lead you around when you couldn't see, or did you just feel your way about? I like the mystery of something happening around me, and not being able to see it: a favourite game between my DH and me is that when he wraps my presents, I'm there, blindfolded. As I sit in the dark, I have plenty of time to ponder the enigma that he knows what they are, but I don't!

Who discovered cows milk? And what were they doing?

@wanderings I don’t think I would have liked being pulled around by somebody, it was either feel my way or count steps. 😳 On occasion I would get my sister to spin me around so I’d be a bit more disoriented. I don’t do anything else blindfolded - that is one way to milk the present anticipation!

@SushiTime I have often thought of this!! Also who was the first person to eat an oyster and what on Earth went through their mind?