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?

@WonderMoon

Sometimes when I'm stuck in traffic, I look around and start smiling to myself , just thinking about how we all just drive around in these little metal things with wheels on.

And how we're all sat down as well on a chair. But going fast.

@Crystalknobs definitely. I was "is this it?"
Like we work to retire to live in the homes we worked to buy to not work and enjoy the life we should have had but we are too old to do much/don't have the money/have health issues then die. Bizarre

I think it's hard to think everyone else sees everything in a completely different way to me. Even slumping to a lower height or standing on a stool to be taller gives you a different prospective of the world.

Records.
As in, how does a noise (something intangible) get to be on a piece of vinyl (tangible) then when touched with a needle put out noise (intangible)??!! Why can't you see it on the vinyl??
Just blows my mind.

@Igotthemheavyboobs

I think it's hard to think everyone else sees everything in a completely different way to me. Even slumping to a lower height or standing on a stool to be taller gives you a different prospective of the world.

And that brings me to the colour thing I think a lot of people mention. Does everyone see the same colours? Is your purple my green?

Handwriting! How we make marks on a page with ink or pencil and it can be understood by everyone who can read our language, even though everyone's writing is completely different.

Also recognising handwriting - often after years of not seeing it a card will pop through the door and I know who it's from and I have no idea how I remember to recognise it, it's not like a face is it?!

And books - someone said it's amazing how reading a book is like hallucinating while staring at some pulped wood. I adore reading and easily get lost in books and this made me laugh and also 🤯

That the human race will die out and the earth won't exist. The sun is about half way through its life so in 5 billion years (give or take) the sun will get so hot it will start to kill our planet. Then there will be nothing.

@FastFood

I was listening to Verdi's Requiem the other day, the very dramatic Dies Irae and thought: it's basically air being moved around metal, wood and human flesh.

Also:
how do you get into ski jump? How do you even start?

How do you make a living as a philosopher?

Why having 12 months of 30,31 or 28 days rather than 13 months of 28 days?
Will we ever update the calendar system?

Why no one cares that September, October, November and December are respectively the 9th,10th, 11th and 12th months when their names clearly indicate that they should be 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th?

September, October and November did used to be the seventh, eighth and ninth months - the year used to start in March. Then the calendar changed.

Guitar design. Why are the strings tuned like that? It seems so random and confusing. There must be a reason but I just can't imagine why anybody would make it like that on purpose.

That there were actual people like you and I who just happened to be born during other parts of history.

I mean, we're quite fortunate really that we weren't born during medieval times for example. But for some people, just like us, that was their reality, not just something we learn about in history lessons.

Or there was a time when the queen/king could literally just decide to cut your head off if they wanted to. Imagine the uproar now if Liz tried that. But it happened and it was just normal.

@dayswithaY I remember going for breakfast on my first morning in Bali and being agog that rice dishes were being served! What?! Where was the cocopops? Same in India and I assume most of Asia? That's when I too pondered on how weird it was to have certain foods at certain times of the day. Now I eat what I want, whenever I want - it's my little rebellion against the system

My previous post also makes me wonder how we used to be so brutal in comparison to how reasonable (somewhat) we are now.

How do we know we're seeing the same colours? We're taught that something is red but my red might be my yellow in your head, we've just been told red.
I'm not explaining this very well am I?

Food. As in, every item of food that you can possibly think of, had to be eaten for the first time at some point, without the eater knowing whether it would be nice/disgusting/safe/able to kill them.

I mean, we're quite fortunate really that we weren't born during medieval times for example. But for some people, just like us, that was their reality, not just something we learn about in history lessons

Also, we will actually be the subject of history lessons, and all our modern technology will be laughed at like the first planes with wings that flapped.

And another one - accents! Blows my mind..

Why do people from one area all sound the same, but people 100km away sound completely different, but the same as their neighbours? And why, for example, to Italian people speak English with the same Italian accent and German people speak it with a German accent etc?

I live in Australia and I'm sure most foreigners think we all have the same accent, but I can tell what State an Aussie is from, just by their accent. Having said that tho, I've lived in SA my whole life and when I go to Melbourne, I get asked "are you from New Zealand?"

If the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into?

Is the colour blue you see the same as the colour blue I see??

Snap @Tillygetsit. I get it!

@Veescience

That if your brain were simple enough for you to understand you would be too simple to understand it. Mind blowing.

This has made my brain hurt 😂

@Spelunking came here to say the same thing about eggs.
Who saw that oval thing fall out of a chickens arse and thought “mmm, that looks delicious.”

In fact, most foods and cooking I find bizarre. Who decided to put those things together? Why do we eat things that fall out of some birds’ backsides but not others? I pity the people who tried to eat something that just didn’t work.

But then I read about colours not actually existing.

That’ll be me up all night now.....

@PutItInYourPocket the amazing thing about dogs is that they have evolved with us. So we now share communication that we didnt start out with. A good example of this is that dogs dont look at dog faces, but they look at human ones, cause they learned over generations that it's how we communicate

That stretching out behind me is an unbroken line of mothers, right back to the beginning of the human race.

I remember looking at DS1's hand when he was a newborn and
I was breastfeeding him and picturing all the tiny bones, the veins, the nerves, everything that makes up a human.... How on earth did I manage to build all that inside me?

Good to know trees are checked. But what about in the woods and forests or.....the ones in my garden....I have five pretty big trees!

About the living in other periods of history. It’s when you visit historically important, but quite small, houses. Like the bronte parsonage or Queen elizabeth 1st hunting lodge orsomewhere, and you think, fucking HELL, I just walked up the same stairs that X person once walked up. The same ones. I have a shared experience with the Bronte sisters, and with Queen Elizabeth 1st. And to QE1, the Bronte sisters would have been incredibly futuristic....

@joeysapple

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.

Totally this!