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?

When I’m driving behind a lorry of beams or scaffolding I always think about being impaled by them sliding off the lorry and have to overtake or drop back asap

I've had a paper cut on my eyeball. I was sticking up posters and one bit of paper moved weirdly and my blink reflex was fractionally too slow. It stung but eyeballs must be more robust than I thought because it didn't bleed or anything. When I had an eye check months later though the optician mentioned there being a small scar.

Me too!
Also logging lorries shedding their loads and crushing me under tonnes of wood, or the last vehicles on car transporters falling off - they always look precarious.

Years ago when we had our kitchen refitted, someone accidentally drilled through the gas pipe. 🙈
It was all sorted quickly and safely but every night until I moved out years later, I would wake up glad the gas wasn't secretly leaking into the house and we were all still alive.

Not bath, but I often thought the lamp post might suddenly fall on me or a (parked) car may reverse into me.
I walk a lot.

I had a fear of open riser/floating stairs when I was a child. Kept thinking that I would fall between the gaps.

Even though I'm now too big to slip through them, I still think the same thing walking on them.

Yes, aware I'm a weirdo!

That's what the dog is for.

I got a papercut on my eyeball when I was at school!

Mine is that I feel that I'm breathing in the dark when it's night-time, like the dark is a physical element in the air.

Not the same, but someone pointed out that in a sky scraper like The Shard, if someone goes to the loo on a top floor, their poo has to wend its way down the building.

when staying in a hotel I think what if the fire alarm goes off at 3am and I have to go outside in my pjs

I hate being behind a car transporter. I reckon they design them like that to deter tailgaters.

When my babies were tiny, if I was sitting in the living room, holding them, I could see myself absent mindedly throwing them on the fire. It was horrible. I would have to get up and leave the room, taking the long way round so I didn't walk past the fire. Ditto near open windows. The throw that I envisioned was a very exaggerated rugby pass. I also can't go near the edge of a bridge, high building, viewpoint etc unless there are railings that come up to my armpits so that I can't tip over the edge.

That’s called intrusive thoughts and it normally comes from anxiety . Unfortunately I have the same bath one plus a million more . As a child I remember having a fear of waking up blind so I used to need something with a light even if small to focus on if I woke up and it was dark .

Oh I love floating away on a flying bed as I fall asleep! Especially with DH, and best of all used to be with our two late cats as well.

On walks in the country I notice places I could make a home in if I was as small as a mouse. Not so many comfy-looking options on urban streets, but you can still find a few.

Yes, it does. You might find reading about the concept of qualia interesting.

Same!!

I have hideous intrusive thoughts about DS getting hurt and me falling horribly down a staircase as well as other appalling thoughts too awful to write.

I used the paper clip one as part of a team building/gift giveaway thing for team once… it was fascinating to read their answers. The one that stood out to me was a team member who said she’d hide in her antique typewriter because the average person wouldn’t know all of its nooks and crannies.

More info for those who care….

This was for Christmas with my newly formed team who worked in 5 locations including different countries. . I came up with 10 really random questions like this one and sent out a questionnaire,

Then I found equally random gifts, one for each plus a few extra…did not buy them at this point. After the results were in I bought the gifts and they were a combination of good, but odd, and fun… think psychedelic salad garden kit

Then I created a poll for each question that included everyone’s answers and the poll question was what gift would you choose based on the the answer and why.

Then at our virtual team lunch I put together a presentation that matched the chosen gift with the most votes and the reasons given for choosing that one.

The one who answered with the typewriter answer had a lot of votes for the 3D puzzle antique clock kit. She sent pictures to the team of it completed 😁

Ok so here is mine… you learn that you ‘see’ images upside down then your brain flips the images right side up… so are we all just upside down and we don’t know it because our brains have compensated?

Maybe we see things the way they are (upside down) and our brains just say “nah they can handle the truth and make so we think we are right side up… or upside down.” I will admit I get a little confused in this train of thought.

@saltinesandcoffeecupsinteresting, my current favourite hiding place is by having thousands of paper clips hidden / in plain sight so that they get distracted and slowed down. .

But how would you prove they didn’t find the right on?

solve for that and I think you’re on to something!

When I'm unloading the dishwasher and holding a pile of heavy plates, I often think how the cupboard (above the bench) is strong enough to hold them all, and one day it's just going to break and the entire contents of the plates cupboard is going to come crashing down on the bench.

When I'm on the underground, I try to imagine that I'm deep under London. However, it's not easy, because the stations and trains are so brightly lit, it doesn't feel like being deep underground.

I had the childhood fears of the dark (I needed the landing light on at night), and getting lost; I was terrified of both until I was about seven. However, as I got older, I found them both weirdly fascinating. I loved getting lost in mazes, and that moment in "pin the tail on the donkey" when I had just been spun round, and didn't know where I was. I loved it when we did a science experiment at primary school testing our directional hearing, in which we took turns to be blindfolded and spun round. We were told to point at where we thought the door was, to prove that we were disorientated, and then one person would clap, and we had to point at the sound. I then tried all sorts of experiments at home: I asked my brother to blindfold me in the garden, and to spin me round, and then to lead me to a chair in a random place, so I could sit in it and try to work out where I was, simply from what I could hear: I told him to leave the garden as quietly as he could, so I wouldn't hear him go. All I had to go on was distant traffic and birds flying around, and after ten minutes I guessed, and looked... and I was completely wrong about where I thought I was!

Oh that’s another one of mine. How come we all go into a different room, lie down on a piece of furniture and MAKE OURSELVES UNCONSCIOUS?!!

And one last one from me - dancing. Why do we think it’s perfectly acceptable ( but only in certain places) for people all to stand in one room and move their arms and legs around in a funny way?

Yes I have the bath one frequently. 😅

Also I'm getting on with my daily life and then the thought "Ooh I haven't fallen over in a while" pops into my head.

Then I usually trip over the doormat or something.