To find being a person really weird

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I know that sounds odd, but every now and then it hits me how weird it is just being a person and having a mind. Does anyone else ever get this?

Erm...no.
Quite often in my life I've been overwhelmed by the futility of it all, though.

Weird compared to being a tree or...?

Yeah it's odd. The universe arranged bits of itself into thinking meat and now the universe can contemplate itself.

Yes.

See also the vastness of space.

And imagining that there are 7 billion people on the planet, a good number of whom are probably also thinking the same thing.

I mean, why are we here? Why are we conscious? How?

I hear you OP.

Yes super weird I get that. Especially seeing people with no clothes on .. like myself in the mirror I'm like .. I'm a bag of meat just going round thinking things I do and think matter. Weird. Animals look more 'on purpose '

Yes. It's the ability to think so much more than any other creature, and all the thinking and rituals and control that I find weird.

I've been in a very stressful situation where all the humans behaved incredibly reasonably and politely and it blew my mind how controlled we all stayed.

I'm grateful for the veneer, but worry it is thin!

Yes, I hear you!

Tiring, too!

I sometimes find it weird looking in the mirror and thinking that is me. Like I'm suddenly aware I'm inside my own head. I don't know how else to explain it, but it is all very weird if you think too much about it.

I hate that we think we are entitled to destroy another's habitat , like why did Americans(and others) build homes to intrude on bears space ?

Yes! Having watched Earth this evening I'm so mind blown by the fact that in a few centuries man probably won't even exist and the planet will be home to animals that don't care about our lives, technology etc. I can't begin to comprehend it all!

Absolutely and totally all this when I watch it also

I often think why am I THIS mind and person like why is this the body and mind that was chosen for me to be conscious in and experience ? Weird to explain haha

Yes. What actually are we? Where is the “I” that is thinking this?
What is our consciousness and where is it?

Also why does anything exist at all? Why even does existence exist? Why is there something instead of nothing? And what actually is nothing? What is it?

I’m having a full blown existential crisis now. Well done.

Are you stoned OP?

Yes it's weird. The weirdest thing though is some people are still so sceptical of anything unusual, like aliens. The afterlife etc.
I think those people just don't think that deeply.

Existentialism? It’s normal.

I sometimes get a sort of sickly feeling that hits me when I suddenly realise I’m just a dot in the universe - the same sort of homesick feeling you got when you were at school and home time seemed a long way away or you were in unfamiliar surroundings.

It would be weird not to be completely flummoxed by what it all means / why we’re here occasionally!

It would be weird not to be completely flummoxed by what it all means / why we’re here occasionally!

But what is the answer?

Yes. And I find it even weirder that humans have strong personalities and likes, dislikes, interests, favourite foods, families, friends etc etc then like a light switch being turned off one day we won’t exist anymore. I do wonder why humans have been gifted self awareness and all of this character just to in the end die. And then when you think of the chances of even being born in the first place.

Well, this is the reason many people turn to religion - it’s hard for anyone who wants proper answers based in scientific fact to understand but the bible and other religious texts have the answers that many people desire to all these questions i.e. God made us in seven days!

This is what I was told growing up, but then I always wanted to know “but who made God?”

I think about all this a lot. I never used to, and now I can’t stop thinking about it.

Yes I can see why people turn to religion.
Exactly if a creator is needed to explain why everything exists, who created the creator? It’s not logical is it. I don’t know how you can be a logical person and believe in god. Or believe for sure there isn’t.
There is no explanation.
Perhaps god can be a word for ‘everything’.