Things that are actually pretty weird when you think about them?

[PutItInYourPocket]

I've just been thinking about this as I've been lay in the bath.

I'm currently pregnant and baby goes mad when I'm in the bath and I was watching him kicking and squirming inside me and just thought... This is actually pretty odd when you think about it. I have a living thing that's moving around inside me!

A friend had to have a blood transfusion not so long ago and she can't think about that for long without feeling squeamish that someone else's blood was inside her!

What other things do you find strange when you really think about them?

"that man pulled my tooth out! And I let him!". My daughter has had lots of surgeries and I mildly freak out when I think that someone has literally touched her heart, or seen inside her brain

This just reminds me of the surgery I had a while ago where some guy stuck a pessary up my arse. I fucking hate the thought of it. There's some guy walking about somewhere who stuck something up my bottom whilst I was asleep as part of his day job. It makes me cringe 😂

The sky. Its blue, with fluffy things, but sometimes it's grey and red and orange and purple. And we mostly ignore it. But it's fucking weird! We're living under a big blanket of colour. If you came from a dark planet, our sky would seem so trippy!

[quote trashaccount]@eckhart The fact that when you die you often shit yourself, only to slowly decompose in the ground yet a few days earlier your partner may have fancied the pants off you [/quote]
Aw talking of a few days earlier, it makes me incredibly sad on the thankfully rare occasions where I've been friends with someone on SM who's passed away and you see all the stuff they posted like a few days before

It's very scary though really how we just have no idea what's coming one day to the next.

@cyclingmad

Also only recently realised babies are born with their adult teeth, so what's the point of having baby teeth

They develop over time they are not born with them as such.

@Isteamagoodham

Along the same lines, (sorry this is slightly grim), I remember reading a quote (I think from Tess of the d'Urbervilles) where it says about the important days of the year, birthdays etc. It points out that the day you're going to die is in the year somewhere. and every year you pass over that date without realising/ thinking about it. Which is true, if quite creepy and weird when you think about it! That quote always creeped me out and stayed with me.

I love that idea too, but I didn’t know it came from Tess. I thought I read it in “One Dat” by David Nicholls. Did he nick it from Hardy?

Oh wow I never knew!!!! OK but still why where we designed this way and female animals too! Do female cats have periods, guess the cats that roam my garden are make ones then.....

Also the fact that my body tells me so many vital things about my health and well being, but I have absolutely no idea when I need to drink water. I think I'm in a perpetual state of dehydration but I feel absolutely fine!

And also babies/pregnancy

That if I hadn’t got pregnant the months I did but say the next month, the babies I would have had would have been completely different to the ones I had, and my own kids wouldn’t exist, but these other ones would be my world

That time, that most straight flowing of things, is linear at all. Our whole way of living, planning, doing is based on the assumption that one thing happens after another. But actually because of space/time continuum, events that occur at the same time for one observer, could occur at a different time for another.

Also when you watch Brian Cox explain about the universe and how big it is.

I mean where does it end? It can’t do it must go on forever but how’s that even possible? 🤯

On the subject of periods. This is just my favourite description of them.

@cyclingmad you’d probably never know if an animal bleeds unless it’s a pet living in your home.

I've probably just woken the neighbours laughing at that description of periods!

I've attached some funny / semi-deep Tumblr questions for your amusement. (crosses fingers that it loads)

Dancing in a nightclub, everyone crammed on a dance floor doing strange movements to music, it's really odd when you think about it.

Place marking as this thread is amazing and I am loving reading it but must now go to sleep......by pretending to be asleep

@tara738

I always think it's weird, on the brain theme, that brains can control some things and not others. Like why can I move my arm when I want and not burn off all the calories from a croissant just by concentrating extra hard to burn them

I always thought it was weird that your body obviously knows you are pregnant because it knows that you have a baby growing and reacts accordingly but at the same time doesn't bother telling your brain so that you consciously know! Ditto illness such as cancer. Your body knows it's there as it tries to react - why not tell your brain so you can take yourself to the doctor?

@Teddy1970 In that vein, we can also take drugs that totally change our perception of the world. I read a screenshot of a thread that was making a joke how oxygen keeps you in a state of being high and when you stop breathing it in you black out

The fact that this exact second right now is the youngest you've ever been and the oldest you've ever been

We can't just exist for no reason. An ant has no concept of what we are, so I think space is just a small cell of something much bigger that we can't see or understand. We are cogs of something else. Great thread op but I likely won't sleep now

Intrusive thoughts (like throwing your car keys over a bridge as reference by the OP) I’d imagine are the same thoughts that lead to a lot of the thing we wonder about here. Like cracking an agb and eating it or or combining this and that and baking it. Why? Because we can, and because it is interesting to see what would happy, and because humans are intensely curious and hugely inventive, if nothing else. We all sit there each day thinking it know what happens if I do that, I know what happens if I do this, but what would happen if I did THIS’ intrusive thoughts to one person, inventive thoughts to the next, depending on the result.

The fact that we are living on a cooling down fireball. The centre hasn't even finished cooling yet.

Hair. We make such a fuss of the hair on our head but shave other hairy areas. Underarm pixie cut or minge bob anyone ? 🙈🤣

Conception. That every time a child is conceived there was a million other possible children it could have been. Its just luck as to which one gets to the egg and there's a full life there. And all the cells just know what to do. I conceived my second son when I left work early with a tooth infection (consider it pain relief) and if I hadn't have had an infection he wouldn't have been here. An entire life would not exist. The whole knock on effect if every action has a reaction and how far that reaction spreads.

Technology always gets me, I can Google anything, all the info has bounced up to satellites in space and back down to little old me in secs blows my mind 😅

Hair. We make such a fuss of the hair on our head but shave other hairy areas. Underarm pixie cut or minge bob anyone ?

On the subject of hair, eyebrows.

I've got random patches of hair on my face above my eyes. I wouldn't want patches of hair to grow anywhere else on my face. It sounds like it would be gross but we'd look so weird without them.

Imagine if that just hadn't happened when we were evolving and we were all just getting about eyebrow-less and it was normal.