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?

Was talking about the madness of organ transplants earlier

(Just from TV portrayal not seen IRL)

Rip an organ from a dead body
Stick it in a freezer box
Travel to another hospital

Stick it in a completely alien dying body

It works

Baffling

That we think sports & film stars deserve more money than keyworkers, doctors, teachers... I know they're in demand internationally, and earn lots of money for their clubs/ studios, but there's no way they're really worth £60k per week!

How does something as massive and heavy as an aeroplane stay up in the air?

Because very clever people use very powerful computers to design wings which generate lift which exceeds the mass of the aircraft and its cargo.

Space again. When you go outside on a clear night and look up at the sky and think we are so tiny and insignificant. And there's billions of us buzzing round this planet with our own worries which seems like the most important thing in the world. Because we have our own little worlds, billions of individual worlds on one big world which is actually tiny in the context of the universe 🤯

Also time, just the massive age of the earth and the fact that actually a T-rex is closer in time to me right now than it was to a stegosaurus

Another vote for dancing from me. I just don't get it. Looks ridiculous yet other people seem to enjoy it. Not me

How everyone has different taste.

I will hear a song and think god I hate that but then loads of people love it.

How I can’t bear baked beans but it’s apparently the only thing my son will eat.

And the fact that we go to sleep by basically pretending we are already asleep.

@TheFutureIs

Balloons, here have a rubber bag of my breath

That made me laugh

@whitewineandmagnums

Sleeping. It's funny when I think of all our neighbours in our close lying in their respective beds at the same time.

AHH this took off whilst I was gone! Catching up but yes, this!

And the brain thing definitely. How our brains are essentially 'us'. Everything that makes me, me is in my brain. If it were possible to transplant a brain, I could still be me but in a completely different body.

Religion, all kinds - utterly bonkers.
People who voted Tory - who the AF does that? The list of completely criminal things that party is doing to the country just gets longer and yet.... and yet...
I remember when my friends daughter was young she could not get her head round the fact that her gran was her mums mum.

Photographs from old style cameras, or any camera really. Click, and a moment in time is somehow stuck to that bit of paper!How? On a similar vein, printers and fax machines, absolutely mental.

Also - the fact we have a smell memory!

We can smell something years after first smelling it, and it reminds us straightaway of a place, person or time. BONKERS.

History. The idea that so many billions upon billions of people have lived whole, full lives and then died and been completely forgotten. They’ve had real feelings and they wasted time picking their noses and having 5 more minutes in bed. They farted, they got headaches, they stubbed their toes and did that thing where your drink goes down the wrong way and you choke and it spurts out of your nose. They’ve loved so hard it hurt, cried until they couldn’t cry any more, been furious, been on top of the world, been terrified, and brave, and selfless and ashamed. And now they’re dead, and all the people who knew them are dead, and, aside from a few individuals, their names are forgotten and everything they felt so strongly is gone, and the things that made them angry and happy and sad and scared are gone and forgotten and of no consequence any more. I find it paralysingly terrifying.
I’m a historian.

Also, the idea that one day someone decided to give someone else an item of value in return for them performing a useful task, and now I have to get up and go to work every day, and waste this momentary flash in the pan we call a life in answering pointless emails for money.

Is the bottom of the sea full of fish poo? 🤣🤣

Following on from the beach thing mentioned by pp:

I often think about explaining to an alien how for humans it's perfectly ok to wander about semi naked, even to a shop, as long as you are within a few meters from a largish body of water. It has to be bigger than a pond.

Once you get too far from it it's deemed not ok to be dressed like that.

@dayswithaY I am THAT person who will mix up meals. Happily have a "dinner" for breakfast, maybe a breakfast for lunch.

@missmouse101

How does something as massive and heavy as an aeroplane stay up in the air?

Also, how on earth did sponge cake get invented?! Whoever thought 'if I mix flour, butter, milk and eggs and bake it, it will turn into a delicious soft sponge...' You'd never guess those ingredients would do what they do! What other combinations haven't been invented yet?

Definitely cooking. Why would you think to split the white and the yolk from an egg? Why would you even try an egg or think to cook it?

How they invented space travel before they invented colour television.

How do we know that what I see as red , is the same colour as you see ? and what food I taste has the same taste to you? It irritates me that we’ll never know!

Camping ...lying inSide what is essentially a canvas bag in the middle of a field , with other people in their own canvas bags .....

The wild idiosyncracies and diversity of species.

e.g. Beavers. That building drive and instinct. Whats that all about.

I spend way too much time thinking 'what if I was born a little beaver who couldn't be arsed to build dams and wanted to be an astronaut instead'.

@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?

Just wait till that wriggling belly -blob is 6ft tall with a beard and huge feet, and you think to yourself "Wow, I made that, not bad for a first try; but how the hell did it ever fit? "