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.

Yep, sleep! Sleep is such a weird thing! It's almost like turning the power off for a given period of time and for however many hours you have no awareness! It's like the TV programme, Humans, very strange.

Yes, and the realisation that most people are just winging it! They have high powered, well-paid jobs but actually are just flying by the seat of their pants!!

And how many photographs are we on. In the background of other peoples photographs.
Mind blowing!!

@ExplodingElephants

My one is basically similar to the Grandfather paradox. It blows my mind that, had the people who are your (let’s say) your great-great grandparents hadn’t met, you wouldn’t be here. For me, my maternal grandparents met in the line at a cinema. My grandmother was waiting and my grandpa was walking by, stopped to tie his shoe and they got chatting. Had to not gone out/not walked past the line/his lace not come undone etc, maybe they wouldn’t have met, had three kids and I definitely wouldn’t be here. Crazy!

I thought the grandfather paradox was more that if you travelled back in time and disturbed any sequence of events, then you wouldn’t have been born to be able to go back… so what’s happens then?

If that’s makes sense

My weird moment is watching people who are long dead in films or video clips. They feel so close yet you know they’re basically dust.

Sometimes looking at my skin and imagining what’s actually inside!

Oh and walking down corridors in, for example, stately homes, knowing ‘this was exactly the same corridor that King or Queen so-and-so walked down 300 years ago’. Gives me the chills.

The 90s thread started the other day makes that part of my life seem like it was yesterday. Sometimes I get an intense longing to go back, and wonder what younger me would think of me now.

@cantpooinpeace

This boggles my mind... That I'll be in the background of some strangers photos. I'll never know it or see those pictures but I will be on some somewhere!!!!

When I was in my late teens, we would go to a busy tourist spot, Trafalgar Sq favourite, and try to get in the background of as many tourist photos as possible. Not doing anything to spoil the photo. No idea why we thought thus was fun, but I do wonder how many photos we were in.

I feel sad about all the books, films, events I'll never be able to enjoy in my lifetime and after I've gone. I hate the thought that I could die the day before aliens make contact!

I sometimes wonder when I'm on the toilet having a poo, if at that moment in time, I'm the only person in the world doing a poo. It's not very likely, considering how many of us there are, but I wonder if there's ever been a time when I've been for a poo and been literally the only person having one.

I promise I'm not the poo troll, these are just weird spontaneous thoughts that occured to me while I'm on the toilet sometimes, pondering life.

I got into Catholicism and realized a couple of things about it so far.

1. Catholic guilt shouldn't be a thing. Because you can confess your sins once a week or something and you're absolved of it all as long as you genuinely want to change.

2. If a Catholic says that a certain thing is not ok according to the Bible, it is not necessarily a personal, subjective judgement. It is what God says, that's all, not our decision.

That there is a specific day and time in every year that will actually be the day and time you die!

If I hear a crap song or watch a crap film, I'll often think 'that's someone in the world's favourite song' etc.

That at some point an unborn baby wakes up and has thought, how the heck does that happen. is that when they are a human? could that be the same thing that leaves a body when you die?

The 90s thread started the other day makes that part of my life seem like it was yesterday. Sometimes I get an intense longing to go back, and wonder what younger me would think of me now.

I'd probably think I was a real loser.

The fact that Earth’s core is still molten rock and hasn’t cooled down in all those billions of years since it was created. And also that there are fossils from creatures that lived hundreds of millions of years ago, that totally blows my mind.

Also I often wonder about all the things that have happened on the exact spot where I’m standing since the planet was formed? Did anyone die there?

I really hope that when we die we find out the answers to all life’s mysteries!!

@me4real

The 90s thread started the other day makes that part of my life seem like it was yesterday. Sometimes I get an intense longing to go back, and wonder what younger me would think of me now.

I'd probably think I was a real loser.

Same. Would be horrified to see my mumsy self now!

I doubt the dinosaurs tasted like chicken, lots of modern day birds taste very different to chicken, different textures too. You'd never confuse duck or pheasant with chicken if you were tasting it blind. And some modern birds are basically inedible, apparently swan tastes fishy because of their diet.

@JesusInTheCabbageVan

At any given time, somewhere in the world, while you're quietly going about your day, somebody else's ordinary boring life is changing in a completely unforeseen and horrible way.

My job has really brought this home to me.

I have thought about this in reverse, for example, the weirdness of receiving devastating news and watching life carry on for everyone else. Of course it is logical but the lurch from daily life into trauma makes the world seem so out of kilter.

I’ve lived around west london ,SW and W for 20! Years

But I a couple of years ago I had to go to N1
It was so busy and heaving with people that I felt quite disorientated like I’d gone to a parallel universe ..
This part of london has existed all this Time and these people have been existing here and I never knew !!!!

That a 100 years from now I'll be so long dead, as will my children, that no one will be alive who had actually met me. In 150 years the same will likely be true for my children.

My biggest shock is that there is so much xenophobia and racism in Britain and also how different the 4 nations in Britain are . The way people behave in England is different to the way they do in Scotland wakes or NI .
I never realised this until I moved outside of England

How is it that one individual can wield such power and cause such pain, anxiety, death and destruction and other people just watch, dumbfounded. Yes, I understand that propaganda has warped peoples sense of the truth, but even so, the rest of the world can see what’s coming. This is history repeating itself, and we are all watching as if it isn’t real.

That, for example, (random number) 7 - 9= -2. And 9-2 =7. I know it makes sense, logically, but, still..

The amount of time and mental energy we expend around romantic relationships — gaining them, ending them — as I’ve got older I’ve realised whilst I don’t regret my children, I regret the amount of mental energy spent on starting, maintaining and ending relationships

I think this has already been mentioned, but the fact that one day in billions of years, the sun will die, form a black hole and engulf the whole of our solar system into it. I remember learning about the life cycle of stars in my teens and this blew my mind.

Where does the matter which is sucked into a black hole actually go?? I still don’t get it.

@Narwhalelife

That we all literally just agree what the time is. We all just unanimously agree that it’s nearly 6pm in the UK and if your fly to another county we all just agree that the time is now different 🤣

This always amazes me too! Plus how can one country have different time zones ? How does it work if you commute across the timeline?

That in the daytime, we can look up into the blue sky and we’re looking at the stars and infinity.

That when we came into the world we were completely helpless, with no choice in the matter who our parents were, where, their temperament, what language they spoke or religion.

Intellectually of course we know but actually thinking it through and all the possibilities…good and bad.