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?

Teeth. Obviously I know their purpose, I just find it weird that these random bits of calcified tissue are just sitting in my mouth in two rows and will outlast everything but bones and hair.
Video call meetings for work. They remind me too much of séances.

That humans sleep for about 1/3 of each 24 hour period in order to be able to function for the other 2/3 of the time.
You wouldn't accept a TV or washing machine that only worked 2/3 of the time!

My brain really hurts when I think about the universe and how vast it is and how tiny WE (Earth) are, let alone how tiny we as individuals are...
ouch!! 🤕🤕

This is such a great thread!

Not weird as such, but I often wonder what it must have been like to be intelligent at a time when access to education was so limited. What did people do with their minds if they didn't know how to read and write?
I mean, I must have had forebears who were no less intelligent than I am but who spent their lives never having seen a book.
Did they get bored? Feel frustrated?
I suppose they must have contributed to collective folk knoxmwledge, those who would be engineers today were probably the ones who devised more efficient ways of doing things. Then there would have been the gifted storytellers, the healers and so on.
Off to put my special sleeping clothes on now

Errr....knowledge!

This.

I should have explained that that's what children's skulls are like before they lose their milk teeth. It's a real trypophobia trigger...

Languages, but for a slightly different reason. I get that if I point at a bag and say ‘bag’ and a French person points at a bag and says ‘sac’, I could surmise that ‘sac’ is the equivalent French word for bag. BUT how in the world did people first translate the more abstract things? Say for example I wanted to describe the rain as drizzly, or a diamond as ‘sparkling’ rather than ‘shiny’... just HOW?!!!

I quite like the concept of last thursdayism where we could have been plonked here with all memories intact just last Thursday . Some people are so certain about their beliefs, most people in fact, in reality the complete absurdity of our existence, having a cuppa on a spinning sphere in the middle of infinity is pretty fucking mental. Anything could be true.

@Chicchicchicchiclana

Donald Trump.

“ psycho “

Tomato - tomahto

Eggs. Whenever I cook an egg I think how weird it is that I'm going to eat a chickens period. Same with bacon, I'm going to eat fried slices of actual pig with a chickens period on the side.... Weird.
Dancing. Music comes on and we start to flail our arms and legs around and we stand opposite each other and do it together.
Clapping. Someone does something we like and we smack our hands together frantically

I have been desensitised to trypophobia thanks to the Internet, well done Suriname toad lol

The ocean! It’s deeper than the tallest parts of the earth... that blows my mind!

Nah! I’ve just picked this up before settling in to bed and now I’m in some type of a spiralled descent into a never ending hole of thoughts!
BUT time is also a weird one for me!

That we pay to watch other humans pretend to be other humans.
That a book is made up of 26 letters in different combinations.
I often think of 'firsts' like how and why someone thought of wearing smaller clothes under our normal clothes.

@bemusedmoose

Honey - a jar of bee vomit, yum! (i do love it though)

Personality - what makes you who you are and where does it go when you die?

The universe - if it is infinite how does that work? We have no comprehension of something that never ends. But if it does end - what's on the other side? Because to have an end means that we are contained within something.

The night sky - what we see is so old some of what we are looking at hasn't existed for years.

Religion - that people can believe in an invisible omnipresent being so much they shape their lives around it. Yet won't believe covid exists.

We could be in a digital simulation (a la Matrix) and we will never be able to know it. Maybe the one we call God is just a teenager playing Sims in their bedroom and the Big Bang is the computer booting, and the end of the world will occur when their mum will ask them to come down for diner for the last time because it's not a bloody hotel here.

And even our god-teenager might be part inside a digital world. And so on.

Sorry didn't mean to quote!
(But I originally wanted to react on the universe bit, blew my mind when someone said to me "well Einstein, if the universe isn't infinite, whats on the other side".

I don't get the time thing, if everything is happening at once and its just our brains perceiving time moving forward, then surely we don't, have free will and whatever will happen has already happened? Then again I don't think anyone really understands the nature of reality.

YKK zips. They are on everything! No idea who they are but they must be making a bloody fortune. I wonder how many YKK zips there are in the world?

How something that has been filtered through glaciers or volcanoes for thousands of years gets put in to a bottle with a best before date!
The best before date is for the bottle, not the water inside. That’s when the bottle will begin to deteriorate and leach chemicals into the water.

@Nottherealslimshady it was the roman emperors Julius and Augustus added in July and August. I useless bit of info I remember from 25 years ago but can't remember why I went to kitchen lol

That we have our own sun and moon that is so perfectly aligned to earth to sustain life. A fraction out either way would make life impossible.
That’s called the Anthropic Principle. There are probably billions upon billions of worlds out there that aren’t quite right to support life. But nobody asks why because there is nobody.

Anaesthesia/surgery. Someone gives you a cocktail of drugs that renders you temporarily unconscious
How do you know that’s what happens? Maybe you’re awake throughout and in terrible pain, then they give you a drug that wipes your memory so you don’t remember anything.

The fact that there are millions of people in the world, and yet apart from identical twins etc, there isn't another person who looks like you. We're all the same and yet so different.

How you don't really wash your hands. They wash each other while you stand there watching them like a lemon.

Going to the cinema. Sitting in a pitch black room with a load of randoms all staring in the same direction.

I often think how weird it is we choose to have a cat live in our house - she just wanders around and shouts for food and goes to the toilet in a box in the corner of a room and we act as though it’s a normal thing.

And photos - I’d happily believe it’s magic (or a small creature painting it in the box a la terry pratchett)