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

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PutItInYourPocket · 28/10/2020 20:33

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?

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joanna183 · 31/10/2020 03:08

Music: why do certain notes played on certain instruments in a certain order evoke different emotions in us? And when will the songs run out?

Colours: imagine if there was another colour discovered that we never knew about. Hurts my head thinking what it would look like 😂

Bassarid · 31/10/2020 03:20

Really struggling with the ITStuff!

HarryHarryHarry · 31/10/2020 03:23

There is quite a compelling theory that we ARE Sims. That we are living in a simulation controlled by higher beings because we cannot do anything outside of our programming.

Regarding space... I used to lie awake at night worrying about it. I couldn’t decide which I found more disturbing - the idea that it went on forever or the idea that it might end somewhere.

I also used to be convinced that air travel was an elaborate con. As a child I always wondered if when you got on the plane, they just played a video of the sky moving past your window and did some sound effects and turbulence for a few hours and then said you had arrived at your destination when you were actually just down the road from the airport you started off at. Like maybe Australia was actually right next to where you lived but they pretended (for whatever reason) that it was miles away. I still think about this when I look at the map - are all those countries really where we think they are in relation to us?

Graphista · 31/10/2020 04:56

That one day I’ll (hopefully) be an adorable cute old lady like my gran and friends’ grans were

One of my oldest close friends is now a grandma to several.

So weird for me matching up this crocheting, baking, grey haired lady (I'm greying too) with the wild child I knew in our teens and twenties and even well into her 30's!

If we ARE sims - my player/controller can fuck right off! - but then they just made me write that?! Too confusing

sashh · 31/10/2020 05:29

SleepOhHowIMissYou

That was my point, we use the French word for the small marrow, the US and Australia use the Italian, both words mean 'small marrow' in their respective languages but we don't have an English word for a common vegetable.

Another thing on the language, if you have learned languages then if you get dementia you may lose your languages in reverse order of learning them.

As for dreaming, I think that's when you know you are competent, when you dream in the language you are learning.

SmokeMirrors · 31/10/2020 05:58

That we don't have to think about things like walking, it just happens. Sometimes I haven't even thought about where I'm going but there I am wandering round the house for no apparent reason. Absolute madness!

Hair only growing from certain parts of our body, I understand why but it's still weird, and that it just keeps growing from our heads, why not just stay at a certain length like most mammals.

Snogging's really fucking weird when you think about it, as much as I like it I definitely have to avoid thinking about it too deeply while it's happening.

SmokeMirrors · 31/10/2020 06:05

That if you keep saying the same word over and over again it temporarily loses all meaning.

PurpleFlower1983 · 31/10/2020 06:43

I always think about perception - when I smell something is it the same as what you smell? When I see red is it the same as what you see or is your version of red different to mine?

Mamanyt · 31/10/2020 07:25

@PurpleFlower1983

I always think about perception - when I smell something is it the same as what you smell? When I see red is it the same as what you see or is your version of red different to mine?
I have a friend with synesthesia. That's a disorder where the senses become confused. When he sees the numeral "5," he tastes peaches. Luckily, since his house number is 555, he like peaches.
musicalfrog · 31/10/2020 07:25

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.

If such a thing existed they would give that to you for other traumatic things too.

wannabebetter · 31/10/2020 08:36

Waking up to storm Aiden & now thinking about wind - very strange how it blows up into a right hooley and wrecks all round it then completely disappears!Confused

ThunderSkies · 31/10/2020 08:52

@Mikki69

Bottled water. 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!
Because after a while chemicals can leach in to the plastic/ if opened and drunk out of its 'stagnant' water and bacteria can grow.
FlingingFlangingHardToOpen · 31/10/2020 09:06

Who knew eggs, milk and writing blew so many people’s minds 🤣

Mine is period related. Maybe it’s just because mine are quite heavy but if I happen to be somewhere with lots of women of my sort of age, I often think how about a fifth of them could be internally bleeding.

I used to work as a waitress and sometimes while taking orders I would feel a clot come out or something and think how violent that seemed compared to my surroundings. If it was coming out of another orifice like my ears or nose people would be quite alarmed, encourage me to sit down, get me a glass of water. But really they had no idea.

MadameBlobby · 31/10/2020 09:17

Another thing on the language, if you have learned languages then if you get dementia you may lose your languages in reverse order of learning them

Yes. My best friend’s aunt and uncle were consultant geriatricians and they told me this!

SleepOhHowIMissYou · 31/10/2020 10:03

@joanna183 some animals can see different colours. We are only capable of seeing our own spectrum and it's impossible to imagine a different colour as we have no way to perceive it!

Also, some animals use radar, pretty weird!

joanna183 · 31/10/2020 12:02

[quote SleepOhHowIMissYou]@joanna183 some animals can see different colours. We are only capable of seeing our own spectrum and it's impossible to imagine a different colour as we have no way to perceive it!

Also, some animals use radar, pretty weird![/quote]
Oh wow! Never knew that. Thanks for educating me.

Also on the egg theme - are they just chicken periods?

JJsDinerWaffles · 31/10/2020 17:07

[quote SleepOhHowIMissYou]@joanna183 some animals can see different colours. We are only capable of seeing our own spectrum and it's impossible to imagine a different colour as we have no way to perceive it!

Also, some animals use radar, pretty weird![/quote]
Not to be dim but - how do we know animals can see different colours from us?!

BlueThursday · 31/10/2020 17:18

Not read the full thread but for me it’s earrings

Why are things dangling from our ears through a hole made by a needle seen as decorative? And normal?

Eckhart · 31/10/2020 17:19

@JJsDinerWaffles

Rods and cones!

@joanna183

Yes - periods in a neat and portable shell.

Eckhart · 31/10/2020 17:25

Hair only growing from certain parts of our body, I understand why but it's still weird, and that it just keeps growing from our heads, why not just stay at a certain length like most mammals

Yes, and how it starts going wrong as you get older. Like, why don't all my eyebrow hairs know they're eyebrow hairs any more? They think they're head hairs, and just keep growing.

On the subject of hair, I marvel at the dog, who has seams, like a cuddly toy. You can see, especially on the chest, where the two sides were sewn together, and where the front was sewn onto the two sides. It's like how I can see the knot in my belly button, but on a bigger scale.

Ironytheoppositeofwrinkly · 31/10/2020 17:55

Concerts. I find it beyond bizarre the thought of having to explain to an alien that we go and stand around listening to other humans bellow at us, but some people are better than other people at this noise making.

Gwenhwyfar · 31/10/2020 21:32

@MadameBlobby

Another thing on the language, if you have learned languages then if you get dementia you may lose your languages in reverse order of learning them

Yes. My best friend’s aunt and uncle were consultant geriatricians and they told me this!

Yes and you can also regain a language you thought you had lost.
alibongo5 · 31/10/2020 21:46

Eating. So often. If I'm not eating, I'm clearing up, or thinking about what to eat next. Why do we need to eat so often?

wibblewobblex · 31/10/2020 22:10

@PurpleFlower1983

I always think about perception - when I smell something is it the same as what you smell? When I see red is it the same as what you see or is your version of red different to mine?
i think this all the time
villanova · 31/10/2020 22:27

@JJsDinerWaffles a combination of anatomy (depending on what sensors they have in their eyes), and practical investigation (you can test those cells on different wavelengths of light to see which they respond to). Many animals can see into the infra red, others sense ultraviolet, for example. This article talks more about it: www.sciencealert.com/birds-can-see-uv-light-now-scientists-can-show-us-what-that-looks-like