To ask for weird realisations you’ve had about life?

[goergia]

Things about mundane life that you’ve never given much thought but suddenly think “Now I think about it, that’s weird.”

I had one of these today. I live in a mid-terrace, neighbours are nice and quiet and we don’t hear a peep. A few days ago I had a snoop at one of the next-door neighbour’s house on Rightmove after seeing it was for sale, and realised that they have their bed right up against our party wall as I do mine. So even though I sleep in bed alone every night, there’s actually 2 people who I don’t really know just a couple of inches away from me! I don’t know why but for some reason it creeps me out. I’ve realised that in terraced houses you’re actually sharing one building with lots of people, many of whom you will NEVER interact with.

That one day we will all be those people that our future generations will try and find out about on Ancestry.com as we will all likely be footnotes in the history of the world

When someone is pregnant they have an entire tiny human skeleton floating around inside them. My DSis likened it to a giant parasite.

Pets - another species of animal, living in our family, just to make us happy.

Triple decker sandwiches - somewhere a complete stranger is eating the other half of my sandwich.

I remember walking to school at age 6 and stopping and leaning on a brick wall on the corner of my street and thinking, "the world is so big".
To me, at 6, just the walk home from school, all of three streets, felt huge. I couldn't see over fences, there were cars whizzing past en route to so many different places...
and I knew that there were many other streets in our city, and other cities in our country, and other countries out there.
It blew my tiny mind. Still does, actually 😂

It's not really a realisation just something that stumps me sometimes, and something I've thought since I was a kid. That it feels like time doesn't actually pass and it's all just the same day. You go to bed, you wake up, rinse and repeat. But it's actually just the same day over and over and over for infinity.

@MuchTooTired

This is true.
Im currently sotting in a major towns hospital carpark, Near A&E and iv watched hundreds of people coming in and out of the outpatient department in that time (2 hours) thinking about all these peoples health conditions they are there with…
Watched Ambulances on sirens coming into and leaving the hospital grounds.
With the current waiting time in A&E being 8 hours, im thinking that right now that im lucky i dont have to be waiting there although i do have some major medical conditions myself
Also watching the staff and wondering what they have seen today and what they have dealt with over the last 2 years+

I agree, it is odd when you think about other peoples lives

Someone is probably writing a book or a play, or creating a piece of music right now that to future generations will be like Shakespeare or Mozart. Then they stop doing what they're doing for a bit to pop out for a pint of milk and no one knows anything about them. And they might watch the same TV programme me later tonight, whilst begging their partner to do the bins tonight because they've already put their PJs on. And people will study their work and proclaim it as genius when I'm long forgotten!

Couple of years ago I went to get in the shower I realised my male neighbour was in his shower naked and a few inches from me, no just no I couldn't cope and took my shower later in the day 🤣 stupidest thing ever but still never realised just how close our bathrooms were before

Vaguely recall the baby does act like a parasite beyond the taking of biological resources from the mother. The subversion of the immune system and various changes to the mother and actions that arne't in the mother's immediate survival interests mirror/reflect an evolutionary arms race between host and parasite.

That one day someone will be looking through all the past owners of this old house and my name won't be there, because I don't own/part own it, my DP does. It'll be like I never existed here.

That in 100 years, there will be even more scientific progeess, and people will look back at things that we think are totally normal with horror

Also, when a boy band sing a song about a girl, are they all singing to the same girl, or are they each invididually singing to different girls? I think this every time I hear One Direction or the Backstreet Boys

I know this is ridiculous but….

One day about 12/13 years ago, I was in Debenhams with my newborn and it occurred to me that I am going to die. One day I will die.

Now of course I knew that. But it hit me.

I had to go home, I was so traumatised!

If I change my car every 5 years til I die, I will be lucky to drive 8 more cars.

You only get about 4,000 weeks to live

@MrsPetty

That even though I’m not aware of it my brain is taking in so much! I had a dream the other night and there was a man in it who I absolutely did not know at all! I can’t help but question was I just standing next to him in the tube fourteen years ago and stored his face???

Computers can generate fake faces so it’s pretty likely your brain can too.

this-person-does-not-exist.com/en

That's marriage is really werid and if you or your spouse change through your life you are supposed to still like them

@MardyOldGoth

Thank you *@Calafsidentity*!

I'm definitely glad we don't know, because my aunt died on my 40th birthday so if I'd known in advance I never would have enjoyed a single birthday. It is weird though that every year we wander around on what will be our death date without knowing it.

Mine too, happy 40s eh

I MIGHT have been in within feet of my partner at some stage, but neither of us knew or noticed each other.

I found out that DH used to park on my school car park in the holidays (same county but different town) not sure teenage me would have noticed him.

When I was in agonising back to back labour, it flashed into my head that there were people having a lovely drink in a pub somewhere and they had no idea that I was trying to push a baby with a football sized head out into the world - and I was really cross with them.

@Katkincake

Love all these and had similar thoughts myself, especially the people you see all having their own lives going on.

I learnt something recently at the grand age of 45 that made me stop & think.
I knew that tides are controlled by the moon’s gravity & move in and out in sequence down coastlines. But what happens to do this is that the water stays in one place pulled continuously towards the moon and the earth rotates under this fixed hump. I never thought about the physics of it till then.

We watched the same TikTok blew my mind too

With languages, how did we first learn to translate? Like how did the first translators find out what words in different languages are, if there was no one to translate?

@DontStopMeNow7 that struggle is now we ended up with a lot of rivers called Avon (Avon is from the Celtic word for river, so essentially the Romans came and asked the locals what’s that called, and they said ‘it’s a river, dummy’ or words to that effect)

All the people and before that animals have had to get together throughout the history of life for me to be here exactly as I am. If one of those hook ups hadn’t happened/happened the next day I would likely be very different.

All the people in cars on motorways all going where in their own lives.

One day in the not too distant future apart from potentially a few very diluted genes it will be like I never even existed so why worry about so much!

Sex -really weird when you think about it

Thoughts in my head/pictures/stories etc. what is actually happening?

Work, mostly pointless shit made up by humans to facilitate pointless shit.

Another weird thought - who decided that it would be good to grind grain into flour, mix it with yeast, sugar and water and bake it into bread. Where did that idea come from? Or thought of how to make soap?

@DontStopMeNow7

With languages, how did we first learn to translate? Like how did the first translators find out what words in different languages are, if there was no one to translate?

People went to the country and lived there quietly till they could join in with the conversation. Like a child learning first words at kindergarten. Best way to learn a language is pretend to be 3 years old.

Also if they got past stabbing each other on sight, money and commerce will have focused their minds on learning what the guy with the bag of silver was talking about.

One thing that gets to me is whether ancient or prehistoric people were as sophisticated in their thinking as us?

I think they must have been, to come up with ideas and art they did. It always seems really reductive when you see a re-enactment of an ancient or prehistoric scene/people that everyone is very earnest and serious, and kind of emotionally one-dimensional. But people must have been witty, sarcastic or cynical and made each other laugh, maybe not when language first developed but at some point long ago.