Weird thoughts other people must think...

[ReenaGee]

Surely everyone has a fleeting thought of the bath falling through the ceiling whilst they're in it?

Does anyone else have this thought?

And other recurring little thoughts people have that other people must also think?

My Dad has to put the cutlery upside down as he worries they will "go up (his) fingernails and into his veins"...

As a child I had to be back in my bed with the duvet over me before the sound of the toilet flush died away or something (unknown) would happen.

If I walk past a fence with any pointy bits (like a wrought iron one) or a nail sticking out of something, I think I will trip and impale my eyeball on it. Even if it’s 8ft in the air.

I'm so sorry

When I'm in a lift , I always panic that I will get stuck and plan where I can pee

OMG !!! I do this as well. I honestly thought I was the only one. I actually use it as a problem solving exercise to help me drop off to sleep....how I would remove a body from the house and where I'd bury it. In my imaginary scenario I've usually killed a burglar in self defence.

I've never killed anyone and I'm not a psychopath, honestly!!!

I thought I was the only one who worried about the bath falling through the ceiling!

I’m so sorry.

I always think about how I’d click my fingers if I had magic powers, and all my housework would be done. I’ll also be showered, groomed and ready for the day.

my other one is if I again had magic powers and could make time stop. I’d shoplift clothes

I always worry that there'll be a fire alarm when I'm in the hairdressers and I'll be out in the street with my foils on and my colour going funny.

This is gutting. I’m so sorry

That’s happened to me once

Loads . Whenever I’m somewhere high I think what if I just suddenly throw my phone off or drive off the edge of a bridge etc etc.

Years ago I read a thing about imagine you have a paperclip. You have 24 hours to hide it in your house. It must be recoverable. A detective has 24 hours to find it. If they don’t find it then you win a million pounds. I spend an inordinate amount of time considering where I would hide a non existent paperclip.

Sending huge sympathies to the lady whose son was run over.

Many of you people have weird bathroom obsessions.

I am often nervous about whether a bus, truck or car might drive into me / us. For visualisation though, whenever I get a minor itch I worry that I have lice, fleas, bum worms, scabies etc... then that thought makes me itch and I have to consciously calm down. It never is, but that doesn't stop me thinking it again.

Another ceiling one here.

Our main bedroom is a loft conversion with a sloping ceiling over my side of the bed. Several summers ago, I kept hearing this strange scratching, rustling sound behind the plasterboard. It turned out wasps had got under a tile, made a nest and the noise I could hear was all the overnight activity of the hundreds of buggers - a couple of feet above my head!

Unfortunately, the exterminator man who came to sort it out mentioned he’d had a client where a similar thing had happened, except the wasps ate through the insulation and the whole nest landed on their bed. Cue instant furniture rearrangement in the bedroom and I still have to press my ear against the ceiling to check for activity!

And my particular random thought is; how do blind people pick up their guide dog’s poo and if they don’t, how do they avoid stepping it it - or are guide dogs trained to go somewhere discreet?

Yes the bath one.. plus going to the loo in the night and thinking what if I'm still sleeping and didn't actually get up and out of bed.. Another one is driving alongside a HGV on a dual carriageway or roundabout that it will tip over on top of my car. Driving over a bridge I imagine it might collapse with me on it.

Whenever I hear a plane or helicopter flying quite low overhead whist I’m in the house I panic that it is going to crash into our house. Same at work which is worse as we must be near an RAF base and they always fly super low - they literally sound like they are coming crashing down. My heart races every time.

Also if I'm home alone and in the shower that someone will have broken in and I won't have heard them and they'll just appear as I open the shower door

Sorry @overtothere that’s so awful.

I often think of a lot of these things. One other is when I’m on the Tube and have to hold the handrail, I wonder if my hand will get stuck because someone has put superglue on it. This actually did happen to DH once. Not on the Tube but on a door handle. Luckily he let go quickly.

I also occasionally think about how many people in the world are doing exactly the same thing as me at exactly the same moment.

Almost every time I hold a kitchen knife I think what if I sneeze or trip and the knife goes right into my eyeball.

My mum and dad have a waste disposal and my mum and I were cleaning the kitchen once and I said “I don’t know what it is but whenever it goes I think about putting a big my hand down it - I never would but I think about it” and my mum said “oh my god Me too!”

I worry that my reflection will stay in the mirror after I’ve walked away

When it is really windy at night I worry that the chimney is going to fall and come crashing through the bedroom ceiling.

And, how do you find anything if you are blind and you drop something. It is bad enough sometimes when you can see but the thing has bounced off in a random direction.

Since I was a child I’ve had the recurring thought on opening a public loo door that I’m going to find a body in there.

No idea why.

Also yes to the bath through the ceiling scenario.

And I’ve often expected to find a rat in my toilet bowl after reading they can make their way up the pipes and bite you on the bum.

Everytime I go to the loo in the middle of the night without turning on any lights i imagine a rat jumping up and biting my bum...