Anyone else do weird stuff they wouldn't admit to in real life?

[Lorddenning1]

Go easy on me, I know MN can be a hostile time at the minute,,,,
I am currently obsessed with The Handmaids Tale, cant stop watching the series on Prime, and I was lying in the bath having a soak and I started to mimic the lead characters facial movements, and then I though since I have been watching it, I pretend I'm in it, pretending that I am also an oppressed woman and answer to men only etc, is this weird?

I do this with other things like books or other series, it doesn't affect my life, in a crazy way but more like a day dream sort of way and when the kids ask for a snack, i snap out of it. Am I the only weirdo around here, or do have weird things you do that you would never admit to in real life or do I need some professional help :)

@FenellaVelour I used to do this when I was little, I sleep quite well as an adult so I don't need the help, but I imagined I was left out in the cold, with no coat and me bed, I would lie on my bed with no blanket or pillow and pretend I'm cold, and then I would imagine some one would find me and wrap me up warm so I could sleep, and then I would get into bed all cuddled up in my quilt

If I've had an argument with someone I often act out the argument in the bathroom mirror and use what I should've said. My OH caught me doing this once and said wtf?! I think he thinks I'm mental

I've done this! My BF at the time caught me having a right imaginary silent go at someone once and looked confused as hell. I'm still mortified by that memory.

@Imissmoominmama

I make escape plans in my head. I used to do it when I worked in school; I’d work out where to take my class if someone came into school to try to harm them.

I do it on walks too; I imagine a big cat stalking me and how I’d deal with it.

I plan disaster strategies all the time.

I’m really weird (but surprisingly cheerful considering all the terrible things I’m imagining).

Me too! No idea why because it's never happened

On the TV programme Shameless each episode starts with whichever character is going to be the lead in that episode doing a monologue - on the drive to work each morning I do my own little monologue - I am always the lead character.

I have a playlist of 'theme' music (eg the music from Broadchurch or instrumental film soundtracks) and I play it in the car and imagine I am in a film and part of the plot is me driving and I pull all the appropriate faces to match the imaginary plot I have constructed.

Im currently watching Jam and Jerusalem on a loop pretty much cos I want to live in Clatterford and be vaguely in the WI.

I recognise that im stressed as certain work things are uncertain and potentially about to get REALLY intense... so thats why I want to escape to Clatterford!

I put my AirPods in and kind of dance / run around the house to loud music when I’m home alone and have too much energy. I’m the last person you’d expect this of if you met me in real life.

I don’t do any of these but think maybe I should...! It sounds so fun. I think it would actually help my mental health

I'm currently not only a very successful singer it also waiting to be called to appear on strictly as a non celebrity celebrity contestant who will then become the nation's sweetheart.

I write stories about one particular thing and do this repeatedly until I get bored and obsessed with something else. It started when I was about 8 and obsessively wrote a story about Pompeii. Same story. Many many times. I'm currently obsessing about being invited to a party and everyone loving me as a wit. Kind of Elizabeth Bennet.

I talk to myself a lot.

I am making myself a cardboard Wonder Woman outfit for Halloween which I will wear even though I can't take the kids guising. I'd happily wear it out to the co-op even though it's not going to look great. I just want to be able to wear it and pretend I am wonder woman.

I genuinely had no idea I was as weird as I am until one of my oldest friends said it was something she loved about me

I've never fitted in. I'm just beginning to hide it less. I think I'm going to emerge from Covid restrictions even less constrained and will let more weirdness out.

I'm a Gamer, a Star Trek fan, a Wrestling fan and I write smutty fanfiction.

Only my closest friend knows that about me.

I'm a bit weird, but fuck it. Better weird than boring as fuck.

Oh god yeah I'm weird, I talk to myself way too much. I love spending time on my own chatting away to myself, dancing round with my headphones on and singing badly.

I'd be so embarrassed if anyone saw me they'd think I was a nutter. It's amazing what really goes on in everyone's heads and own little worlds that no one knows about.

I pretend I’m on a cooking show, and talk out loud to the audience, who are my dogs! Also promote certain kitchen gadgets I simply cannot do without whilst cooking! I’ve been caught out so many times, my DP and both grown up kids aged 18 and 22 just roll their eyes at each other, they all know I’m a bit tapped!

When my children are being annoying I pretend I’m Super Nanny giving advice to myself to manage them. And I do the facial characteristics thing too. Because my face sometimes just feels like someone else’s looks. IYSWIM

When I listen to a song I imagine my own dance moves and how I would behave in a music video, miming etc. It all comes flooding back when I hear the song, even if i last heard it hears ago.

Sometimes I pretend to be a Spanish waiter when i'm serving up tea.

When i'm driving I make up names for people who are driving annoyingly and urge them by some sort of psychic power to turn off from the road i'm driving on. E.g 'Come on Doris in your Nissan Micra, isn't it about time you turned off right here, you really don't want to go where i'm going' Or 'Come on Derek, take that flat cap off and go and do something useful' Etc etc

I talk out loud to myself when i'm in the car or in the house alone. Normally about things i'm annoyed about.

If i'm talking to someone who has a lot of repetitive 'go to' phrases in everyday conversation, or annoying traits - I tick them off in my head like a bingo game each time they do it.

I have conversations with my cat and I do the speaking 'for her' and imagine what she'd be saying if she was human.

I have what is called maladaptive daydreaming, but I also think there is a form of it that is not necessarily maladaptive. Some people call it immersive daydreaming. People who truly suffer from maladaptive daydreaming find it very hard or impossible to control and it takes over their life. I am able to control my daydreaming though I have to keep it in check, otherwise it could easily become maladaptive.

So, if talking to yourself is weird, how do people who don’t talk to themselves practice conversations? I just wish I could do it without moving my lips as then I’d get fewer funny looks. Most are useful conversations but also police interviews and for when I am famous for some unspecified thing I’ve done.

I’m glad other posters have mentioned apocalypse planning. I used to work in an office around a courtyard. I had a complete plan for the zombie/plague future where I became self-sufficient with water/heat/food. Handy that B&Q was next door. Spent a lot of times in meeting planning that!

I lie down and mentally rearrange the furniture on the ceiling.
And, not so bad anymore, but count every step when walking.

I love porn. I watch it alot. Only my DH knows about this, he fine with it, I'm fine if he closes to watch it. to my friends I agree that its not nice. I also smoke socially, my friends don't know as I only do it with DH who smokes socially too.

I like to pull out a few loose hairs on my head when I go anywhere new in case I’m murdered. I think it will help the police track my movements beforehand.

I also lie in bed at night imagining I'm in hospital ill. I'm lying in the hospital bed with a monitor on me, my friends and DH are midly arguing by my bed over whose fault it is that they all rely on me so much, ask so many things of me, take me for granted and just generally take take take that I collapsed. They are all worried and feeling guilty. I eventually fall asleep in RL.

I recently found an app that plays heart monitor/hospital sounds - I sometimes play it with my headphones in, to make things seem more real

I love this thread.

Glad to know I am weird. I also break the fourth wall like Fleabag. I have done it all my life.

My boyfriend and I recently realized we both share the same fantastic daydream of being 'rewarded by an eccentric millionaire for an act of kindness'. I pretend I am on a cooking show when I cook. I play silent music scales, drumming my fingers on my legs - don't know why as I was a crap pianist. I eat food in strict order, leaving the thing I like best til last. I enjoy making inappropriate jokes to gauge other people's weirdness.

I actually love being odd.

When I was a kid my first boyfriend was a fir tree. Which is really just the tip of the weirdness iceberg.

@LomasLongstrider

I think we're all a bit "weird" some people are just better at hiding it

I think this is true. Which is comforting.

I had a conversation with my manager along these lines. It went like this.

Me: actually, I’m really weird. I just hide it.
Him: not very well.

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