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 :)

@namechangetheworld how did you explain yourself out of this haha

I always do the escape route thing. Or if I’m out for a walk, imagine what I’d do if someone approached me etc...

But I think the other thing is weirder. I imagine that I’m being watched, In the style of The Truman Show. And I make sure I’m not acting strange 🤣🤣🤣

But honestly- how do we know we Aren’t in some kind of big experiment 🤔🤔

@kimblebee19

I have a backdrop in my head during sex too. Mine was central park recently.

When.im at the gym I pretend I'm in a dance music video.
When im walking home from work and I'm listening to.music I'm always in a music video

No matter what I cook I'm in a TV show, even if it's a pot noodle..."right so you pour on the freshly boiled water, add a pinch of salt and soy sauce and your done"

If I'm working out on cardio equipment such as a treadmill or stairclimber the minutes, calories or distance cant have the number 13 in it.

If I'm listening to celine Dion or a female artist I pretend it's me on britains got talent and no one, not even family knew about my talents...

I run upstairs on all fours, give impassioned speeches about all sorts when I'm alone (with hand gestures and facial expressions), if I'm ever on a high floor in a hotel I stand in front of the window naked just cos I can.

I also make up absolutely ridiculous lies to people I'll never see again (staff in a service station on a long trip etc) as my 'disguise' - i.e. if I were to be being framed for a crime and I was caught on CCTV in that service station, then the person who served me would be all "No that wasn't her, she said she kept horses and had 2 children, and she had a Scottish accent!" (I have an uncanny gift for accents -and lying- and if I can get away with it I will). Not sure why I think I'll be framed for a crime, but I'm always thinking ahead 🤣

I'm obsessed with magick. I read and watch YouTube videos about modern occultism and high magick. I am also a practicing witch. Nobody except my 2 teenagers know any of this, in the daytime I'm a very normal single mum to 2 teens and a front of house manager in our family bistro. I look like a totally normal 43 year old mum. Nobody has a clue

I imagine my DPs funeral and in it I'm really calm and composed and elegant (obviously) I make this really detailed and moving speech. Its all really detailed and by the end of it I have managed to make myself sob.

Also listening to music and imagining I'm a hero who has saved someone in for example a shoot out, but it's all set to music and shot like a film

"Podcasting" in the car on the drive home from work anyone?

I talk in the shower about something that’s happened as though I’m in an interview and am being asked to recall the event.

Also pretend I’m on a cookery show sometimes or when doing my make up I talk like I’m on a YouTube tutorial

If I’m throwing out a piece of paper or a tissue I’ll rip it in two so that they have a soulmate and don’t go to their final destiny alone

@33goingon64 I do this too. I found it really helpful though was somewhat curtailed during lockdown 🤣. I usually do it while folding / putting laundry away!!

I have an imaginary tv show- cooking show very glamorous charming in my head but really i look homeless when i cook. But i narrate what i do to an imaginary camera

OP i do the handmaid thing too not in the bath i do the sitting and looking angry thing 😂 🤷🏽‍♀️

I go to my happy place when my DC scream but i guess every mum does that

Off topic maybe but i have this thing. I have to walk in a certain way depending on the type of ground i walk. Ex. If its square tiles i have to step inside a square, if its line i have to be in between lines! Etc. Similar to when i am in a car, i pretend the car jumps through dotted lines one line, jump, then another line jump (this is common too?)

When I was younger (like 9) I'd assemble all my dolls/teddies on my bed, get in, be all dignified and saintly like and pretend I was dying of consumption or other incurable ailment (likely Little Women and similar book inspired). Nowadays I just talk to myself!

I have always had a secret world going off in my head, it changes every few years, there’s usually a few ups and down in them, never perfect, but I take the lessons learned into real life. I get really annoyed if people interrupt my thoughts. Sometimes I research the real world to add some substance to my make believe world, eg finding a house on right move, schools, clubs, travel routes.

I love the occult, and have spent ages looking into its history. It’s definitely enriched my life and changed the way I look at things.

I used to always do the escape plan thing when suffering from ptsd -but that was a whole other world of weirdness.

When I'm on my bike and vehicles pass me I recite the reg number to myself using the NATO phonetic alphabet.

I often imagine how I would conduct a spree killing/mass murder - who would I target first, where would I place explosives, my escape route. Normal sort of stuff like that

@SnackRussell

I sometimes gallop up the stairs on all fours, like a pony.

I have laughed helplessly at this and had to go to the loo incase I wee'd. I woke DH up by making shake laughing.

Oh gosh so glad you do this so do I. Im in a different life in my head sometimes I find I'm speaking out loud and think fuck, what if they hear me.

Oh god where to begin, people who know me actually say I’m weird and they don’t know half of what goes through my head!

I often day dream about how I could commit the perfect murder and get away with it but also where I’m a victim but get revenge, and get away with it.

I also come up with scenarios for being on a talk show like the Jeremy Kyle show and play it all out in my head. If I’m cooking I often pretend I’m on a cookery show, if I’ve tidied my house I’ll walk from room to room pretending I’m showing an estate agent round and sometimes I’ll imagine a social worker has come round to assess my parenting and living standards and I’ll over parent for half an hour just to show the non existent SW how amazing I am or open the cupboards to myself to show off all the food

That is literally the tip of the iceberg and the ones that came straight to mind as I do them quite regularly

Oh I often also break into a canter across the living room and jump the stair gate pretending I’m at Badminton horse trials

I have an escape plan for leaving DH and DCs (no intention of ever doing it). It involves me winning the lottery - not tens of millions, just enough to start again. I don't tell anyone or claim the money. I change my name (secretly) by deed poll, open a bank account in my new name, then claim the money and buy a house in Ireland and a new car which I keep away from our house in a rented garage.
I tell DH I want a separation and move into a flat nearby .We get divorced. Then I tell DH I am going to visit a friend from university for the weekend and off I go. I leave my phone at home, swop my car for my new car and I am off. I put a note in the post as I leave saying I am going to live abroad and will not be contacting him again and I never return. I take the cats.
He gets to keep the house, the children, all our savings and hates me so feels free to meet someone else. I can do what I like, live on the West coast of Ireland in an old house overlooking the sea- am entitled to an Irish passport anyway- and be eccentric, have a bookshop, be a photographer. We never meet again.

Then there's the fantasy that I am approached by MI5 to be a spy...........

That equine link was a bit . How does she do that?

I often have a sort of internal narration going on about myself as though I'm a character in a book or TV show. Like 'she opened the back door and looked at the sky, pondering whether to risk hanging the washing out.'
Sometimes it's actually quite annoying when I just want to think about something, instead of thinking about myself thinking about the something!

I also do the time traveller guest thing, or alternatively I'll have travelled back in time and be trying to keep it hidden from my companions, usually medieval/Tudor/Regency periods.

@Sevo7 I love the performance parenting you for the non existent SW, I also do variations of this, mine is a little deeper than this though, I haven't seen my birth mother since I was 13, we was raised in foster care and I pretend she is watching me and can see how well I have done on my life and how my kids are happy with me as their mother and I imagine her thinking wow hasn't she done well for herself considering how badly I fucked her up when she was little, I'm sure a shrink could have a field day with me.

@MrsJackRackham

I have conversations with time travellers from the past, often Anne Boleyn, where I explain how the modern world works. We go to the pub and the cinema etc. She right likes me.

I frequently explain the workings of a Ford Fiesta to Henry VIII. He is hugely impressed by my mastery of this technology and rethinks his whole attitude to women.

I try to make up the longest possible word from car reg plates I walk past

So TOC would maybe be stethoscope

@Rainyrain

I count stuff ALL the time, anything and everything. It’s a constant in my head that I don’t even really notice any more. It’s happened forever.

Me too. Sometimes just to see if its an odd or even number - just out of ‘interest’

I also tap/ knock things to see how solid they are/what they are made of.

My children noticed me doing this and gently too the piss. Then the, now adult, eldest confessed - she has found herself doing the same.

Oh I do lots of things very similar to these! @Megan2018 I do the widow planning scenario too!