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?

Me and DH were saying yesterday actually, after the midwife told me that baby can sleep for around 40 mins at a time, do they dream? Like I know they don't know anything yet so can't dream like we do but, is anything going on? Like maybe noises or something? I don't know.

To clarify, I mean my unborn baby!

Surprised more people haven't said "eating". Especially as a social activity.

I know, let's all sit together and use our teeth to mush up our food so it can go down our throat.

Why is that sociable but (except in Roman times) going to the toilet/bath isn't?

The one about being made of the same atoms as was once a star blows my mind. Also thinking that the glass of water I drink came out a dinosaur!

Also ironing, given how advanced we are we still have to use a hot stone to get creases out of our clothes. I thought by the year 2000 we'd be wearing silver spacesuits.

That people still believe in religion

@MadameMeursault

Why am I in this body and in this life and not in someone else’s body and someone else’s life? My mum had a miscarriage before she had me, what if she hadn’t, would I have been that baby, or the person born in the world just before I was born, or my younger brother, or never existed?

You wouldn't have been that baby.

@dayswithaY

Meals. Who decided that you have three a day. Why do breakfast, lunch and dinner always vaguely stick to the same theme ie, cereal, sandwich, meat and two veg. Why is it not ok to have a chicken salad when you get up in the morning? I know anyone can eat whatever they like but really most people don't do they? Why don't people have apple crumble for lunch and cornflakes for dinner. Who made these rules? I want to know whose idea it all was!

I had apple crumble for breakfast today. It was left over and was only going to go to waste otherwise.

I love your OP, I can relate to both.
When I first found out I was pregnant with my first baby, after I got over the shock and wow I had an almost rejection feeling because I felt like someone else was living inside me and it felt alien and very wrong.
It's not someone else's blood, but it was their jizz and it made a parasite!

On a serious note I've always thought I'd be both eternally grateful and squeamish at the idea of a blood transfusion, if I had one.

Life in general. Like we are worker bees. We work to pay for a home we aren't in (because we are working) and a car to get to work (that then sits at work all day)
Sometimes I'm a bit "what is the point of it all?"

Won't lie, in my younger days I did used to eat last night's left over takeaway for breakfast. Curry at 8am 👍

Sleep: being unconscious for hours is weird.

Cooking: who thought of the idea to cook stuff and plant/grow stuff? Why?!

Babies: they ARE like parasites, taking everything from the mother. And why is it often so difficult to get them out? Why is it so hard to reproduce? Surely it should be easy?

Instruments: who ever thought up putting strings on wood and twanging them? Bizarre.

@The3rdWatermelon that really hit something in me. I recently did my family tree (back to about 1500) and it was fascinating
Every so often I get a memory like today in the shower, I smelt a shower gel and bang, back in time. Had to ring my dad and ask if grandad grew tomatoes. Dad was confused but yes, and the shower gel took me back to that smell of warm tomato

@raspberryboom absolutely with the factories!
And also, is there a factor that makes factory machines? And how are they made? Surely there's only one factory machine needed for (say) wrapping the marzipan around the battenburg. So by default the person who invented this amazing machine has then lost their job as it's not a high demand machine and so once one has been made then that's pretty much it until it breaks. But then what machine makes the machine? And where? And how????

Adult children.
My son is a man and I sometimes look at him and think " You used to live inside me"
So weird

QueenPaws I agree, we’ve made our existence so complicated , which is why I’d like to be a cave woman and just concentrate on living.

Time. Why are we continually propelled forwards through it. Life wouldn't exist without it but what is it actually?

Eggs. So many of them. Think about your nearest supermarket and how many eggs there are there. Then think of all the supermarkets all over the country. Then add in the corner shops, petrol stations, milkmen even butchers. All of them have eggs. Then think of all the countries that have all these shops full of eggs.

So. Many. Eggs. And they keep being replaced. Mind blowing.

@QueenPaws

Life in general. Like we are worker bees. We work to pay for a home we aren't in (because we are working) and a car to get to work (that then sits at work all day) Sometimes I'm a bit "what is the point of it all?"

Yes I get this.

Like really, we've done it to ourselves? We've created this society where we all go to somewhere we don't want to be (mostly) where we need to complete mundane tasks for the majority of our lives so we can get bits of paper which we can then exchange for things. All these rules and regulations and things we aren't allowed to do. Like if I just wanted to take myself off and live in the woods somewhere I probably couldn't because I'd be breaking some section something of some random law or be on land owned by another person etc...

Sleep. You’re unconscious for a third of your lifetime. While you are, you’re completely vulnerable.

French kissing - we smoosh lips together and lick each other on the tongue and... we like it?

I also find it fascinating that theres something about it that is a way of exchanging pheromones but we arent even aware of it

Was recently sitting in a deckchair whilst camping and looking at the sky - and then it blew my mind that in 6 months time, we'll be the same distance from the sun, but on the other side of it - as in, we're on a planet moving around the sun, even tho the sun appears to move across our sky each day (it doesn't ;)

Videos of automated processes are completely fascinating to watch. Like how a toothbrush is made. Sounds utterly boring, but some incredibly clever person made a machine that cuts the bristles in exactly the right shape. How did they think of that?!

I wonder which two people first kissed? Was it an accident that they fell over , clashed lips and thought ooh this is nice?

On the pet thing... How am I so connected to this other species that I can't even speak to?

I can't talk to my dog but he still feels like company? How I'm genuinely happy to see this little creature that I can't speak to and who doesnt really do anything and he's also happy to see me, even though we have no idea what the other is thinking/saying. We can't properly communicate but we sort of can on some weird level. Do I just sound like a crazy dog lady or do others understand? 😂

Weird that someone ever thought it was a good idea to fly like a bird in massive metal dome things with triangular wings. I need a rope and be physically attached to something if going up. I don't like no safety net.

That we build houses on top of houses (flats/apartments), makes sense in terms of space but let me king the castle your home as you squire away in the servants quarters? Also, earthquakes, upstairs is totally smushing downstairs.

I remember reading a previous thread on the very same topic and one of the first replies has stuck with me ever since, brilliant in its brevity.

“Trees. Fucking massive plants.”

Sadly I don’t remember who wrote it. But I think it every time I walk up my leafy avenue with all these trees pushing up the pavement. Fucking massive plants, like giant broccoli heads stuffed in the ground, but with root systems going under all the houses. And how nobody checks that trees are just going to stay up, where they are, I mean there are millions of trees just stuck in the ground right next to houses and play areas and schools and we all just basically assume it’s not going to crash tonnes of branch and trunk randomly down upon us.

Ditto most buildings, especially old ones. Who checks they are going to actually stay up? How can they check that? Do things actually not just randomly collapse? Bridges. How do we know they’ll stay up? Tunnels! I could go on. Who checks? The railway tunnels near where I am are over 170 years old and we merrily drive trains through them with much greater speed and frequency than was ever intended!

The loss of life on projects like the above tunnel are mind boggling too. There are plaques to the dozens of people killed building them. Can you imagine now? And yet we have more people than ever before.