To feel a bit freaked out by the unfamiliarity of my own navel?

[CurdinHenry]

It's at my literal bodily core yet somehow it does not seem like part of me

Sitting there looking all weird

(An innie in case this makes a difference)

This is the very definition of navel gazing and I suppose it might be - briefly - of interest to you but that's about it.

🤣

Is it full of fluff?

Might a tree grow out of it from some fruit you have eaten?

Navels are deeply odd, I agree. Essentially part of us, and yet unknown. I’ve only recently noticed mine, tbh, having lost 5 and a half stone.

They don’t seem to belong, do they?

Why so unfamiliar? Have you not looked at it before?

I know what you mean OP. Unlike practically every other bit of your body (the visible bits anyway) it doesn't do anything, you don't feel it (like say you feel the back of your head when you brush your hair) and it isn't a bit you have to decide about 'curating' (like your legs or armpits) and so it probably doesn't enter most people's heads from one month's end to the next.

(Unless it does those strange twangy things that mine does sometimes)

I need to hear more about the strange twangy things, please. @DierdreDaphne

It’s even weirder if you think about where the vessels have gone… the ones that connected you with your mother in utero.

Also, this

OK i am going to immediately retract that remark by saying I think about it for about 1.5 secs every day when I wash it in the shower. But I don't need to look at it to do that, so it sneaks on along below the radar.

I don't like mine. I really don't . I hate touching it but it needs washing which involves contact.
It became a semi-outie in pregnancy and that was seriously freaky out.

But, the twangy things??!

Just be glad you don't know

😅 @ThisAmpleCritic @SpiralSister well its the gristly bits that kind of anchor it to ... What? ... sometimes just kind of twang.

As you suggest Critic , navels are very mysterious.

I miss my old belly button. I had a really deep innie but after 2 keyhole surgeries on my lower abdomen they have sewed it so it is much less deep and after 40 something years of knowing my belly button it is different and I don't like it.

Yeah see mine doesn't have a bottom that I know of. Never been seen..Even 9 months pregnant there was a sort of fold that concealed....I don't know what

I also find mine very strange. However, as a baby I would sleep with my finger in my belly button and apparently create merry hell if I had a baby grow on and couldn't get my finger to my belly button. I still sleep like that sometimes even though I'm a fully grown adult 😂

When dM had her hysterectomy they removed hers altogether! She's smooth like a doll now!

I am completely phobic of belly buttons. I especially cannot stand the sensation of my own being touched.
I had a laparoscopy a few years ago and they put stitches in it. The removal was HELL.
I don’t look. Ever.
I don’t think this helps but I’m glad to get it off my chest!