Getting lost in thought can lead to some bizarre revelations, or, on the contrary, just confuse you even more. Those kinds of thoughts especially like to come at night when you are trying to get to sleep or in the shower when your mind is more relaxed. If you really think about simple things long enough, you will start to realize how weird they actually are.
And if you've never pondered how everyday things are so normal but at the same time so bizarre, you will after reading this list of people’s answers to a question asked on Reddit “What’s something you find weird that is 100% normal?” Be prepared to be bamboozled.
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Having pets. I have two dogs that I love to death but when I really think about it, I realize they’re just two random animals that I saw one day and said “yeah I like that one” and put them in my home against their will and I give them food regularly and smother them with more affection than I give to other people. And those two random animals seem to think that’s totally dope and show signs of liking me back.
the dogs be snickering about how u have fallen for their trap....it's the dogs that decided they liked u :)
Reading. Like, there are these random squiggles and we can instantly interpret them into complex thoughts, concepts, feelings, emotions - from people we’ve never met or sometimes even heard of before. It’s weird.
The fact that all those other people you see out in public all have their own lives that they go home to completely separate from yours.
Edit: I have been informed many times that the word for this is Sonder.
Paparazzi: they do everything just like a stalker, yet they’re not incarcerated for it and paid to do the things they do.
i personally find paparazzi extremely invasive....let people live their lives........don't STALK them for bs content
Following celebrities blindly and caring about their opinions
Having kids. Youre just gonna make a person? Youre just gonna snatch an innocent soul out of the void and force sentience upon it? What the hell.
As someone from an Asian cultural background, how American kids can get financially cut off from their families at 18. Like, they’re still a family and on good terms, but my friends have said stuff like “my mom owes me 300$”, or that they’re taking out student loans though their parents are financially able to support them through college. But, their parent’s money isn’t their money anymore so they have to take on debt. It’s so strange to me, as the expectation in (most) Asian households are that parents support you financially when you’re young and then you support them financially when they’re old, and there’s no clear demarcation of my money your money.
I like this idea my kids are still young but I'd always give them help financially if they needed it and I have it I would give it to them it's not even a thought to do otherwise and my family have always looked after the older members it's just how I think it should be
Languages, or just talking in general. The fact that we’ve given meaning to a bunch of random sounds made by our vocal chords is bizarre when you think about it. Like, how did this even start? How were we able to decide what should be called what? For example, how did we decide that a rock is called a rock or that the sky is called the sky?
If you're really interested, read up on etymology. It's fascinating. (And things aren't as random as they seem.)
The fact that a majority of people think in images. Like, think of an apple and see, in the mind, a picture of an apple. So weird to me, I’ve never “seen” anything up there.
This!!! I’m the same way! It’s actually a fairly uncommon but not rare condition called aphantasia!
As a Deaf guy, looking at people kissing musical instruments is quite bizarre
HarmonXifa said:
Clapping, animals must think we're mental. Apart from seals, seals know
sifs_rowan_tree added:
you're literally h i t t i n g yourself r e p e a t e d l y to show appreciation for others-
Birds having a built in GPS system. They can fly south for the winter, then fly back to the exact same tree up north.
The internet. How it works, and also just the whole concept of it. Complete strangers on literally the other side of the planet can interact with me almost instantaneously.
I can remember when international long distance was prohibitively expensive. Now I can set up an internet call for free and talk for hours. It made me realize I don't like talking to people on the phone that much.
As a dog owner and cat owner I sometimes look at them and think, "there is literally an animal living in my house whose ancestors ran free and hunted other animals and it is just laying upside down all cute on its bed beside me and also can't eat unless I give it food". So I guess that.
Some dogs and cats would be able to survive without humans. Cats would have it easier - they're only kind of domesticated to begin with.
the entire concept of laughter. why does our face contort and our diaphragm spasm when certain things happen? and how do our brains decide what things are funny and what things aren’t?
Dreaming. Whole worlds, people following some kinda plot. Coming to same places in different dreams, sometimes years away. Then we wake up and puff! Off it goes
getting a sense of deja vu. i know many people experience it but mine is so vivid sometiemes i know what the next thing that is going to happen or the next thing someone is going to say. it doesn’t happen often, and it’s always the most insignificant moment (never a life changing or major event by any means).
it’s a completely understood emotion/feeling than many people feel and understand it as “simple case of deja vu” but they treat it so minor. it’s weird and no one acknowledges how weird it is
they say that a human brain predicts what someone is going to say even before we actually say it
we can predict the ending of a normal movie or book from the beginning itself, that's why some movies and books like Chris Nolan's or Apeirogon confuse us so much because we actually don't expect it. also why horror actually works and people wish to see horror films
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Deja vu is when transmissions in your brain fire through synapses within the part of your brain responsible for long term memory making it feel like current events are actually a memory. As an epileptic, these feelings are often a precursor to my seizures but everyone experiences this with normal brain activity.
My deja vu is usually me experiencing something that I’m fairly sure I dreamed about years ago. I try not to think about that too much.
I had exactly the same when I was a teenager. From what I remember, scientists say there is a sort of shortcut in the brain, like if the information took 2 different ways and was processed with a slight gap, so the brain tries to interprete this.
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I had dreams that would come to life many years later, they were nothing significant. Something on a chalkboard or a comment made on a bus ride, but I found it strange and wrote a whole book about how if you commit suicide, as punishment, you have to re-live your whole life as if watching a movie and not be able to change anything, and the helplessness you feel was the punishment for taking your own life
I wanna read it, by the way, the feeling is called precognition
Load More Replies... Me, sainted grandma told me that when in a deep sleep the soul will sometimes travel ahead through time, to see what's gonna be up. So as long as your "deja vuing" it your gonna be around a little longer. Some scientists may take a different stance, however you can't argue with grandma-ma.
Also, think about the time it takes for something that happens to reach any of your sensory organs, that signal to travel through your body to your brain and your brain to interpret that signal. You're always experiencing the past, never the present.
IT IS THE MUTLIVERSE. YOU IN ANOTHER TIME LINE DID SOMETHING THAT AFFECETED ALL THE TIME LINES YOU ARE CONNECTED TO AND ARE APART OF IN EVERYWAY. OR NOT. LOL
Yeah I get that intense feeling. My deja vu is dreams I've had that all the sudden I'm living thru. Weird!
Absolutely. I'm starting to think maybe it's like our brains way of warning us as far as the deja Vu/ dreams that (sort of) come true..
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damn, I get deja vus all the god damn time. I will do something, see something, say something and a minute or so later I am like "wait, that seems familiar..."
When I get deja vu I get very dizzy and nauseous. I have to fake daily medication for it now.
yeah. random things are happening then i feel like ive been there/said that/done that/ etc before but i cant change what i said if u know wut i mean.
What if we are just slotting the moment into a memory that is very similar? People tend to follow patterns and if you remember a particular pattern it makes it easier to predict what comes next. I agree though. Dejar vu is a weird sensation.
I think I remember reading that deja vu is just "brain lag", so the thing has actually already happened but our brain was a bit slow on the uptake / only got part way through processing it before starting again... So it feels like the same thing has happened twice. Does anyone know if this is right?
I remembered a dream I had two nights ago, then Very similar things happened that night, and as I was remembering it, I had a deja Vu feeling about something completely different/ off topic.. lol them I see these posts. 🤔🤪. Weird cool stuff that just prove the human body might suck with all it's inconvenient/ painful stuff sometimes but the human mind/ brains pretty cool..
I hate Deja Vu! It's the feeling live I've been in this exact situation before, the same people standing in the same spot, although this has never happened before!
Sometimes I also get this, like I feel like this conversation has happened before or I've seen this before
Agreed. It's always fascinated me. I also get it very specifically with smells and songs. Like sometimes I hear a song and I think oh I know this song but I haven't heard it in years! And then later I find out it's a brand new song.
Teeth.
I don't know why. Your teeth are the only part of your skeleton that you can see. You bleach 'em, you lose em, you put metal racks on them so you remold your bones to the shape that society finds visually appealling. There's a fictional woman that breaks into your house to pay you for these bones. It sounds like a straight up sociopath. We get film on them that calcifies & solidifies & makes other bone-like material. Like teeth are weird, dude.
Dancing. Like people flail around in weird and awkward ways to sounds.
There’s a limitless, boundless void not that far above our heads we have no control or understanding of, and people don’t seem that concerned about it…
Ppl will be like see that star? It’s hundreds of millions of light years away. Maybe it’s already dead. Cool, huh? And then they just go on about their day.
I think the Romans and Mayans had it right. Gotta be more careful around the stars, you never know what could happen.
Crying, why does my body create liquid from my eyes if something is sad
As a left hander, watching right handers write.
Yeah, I get it. I am the odd one out. But still.... Come on, fellow left handers, back me up on this.
We're just jealous they can write in pencil and not have a leaded left hand.
Allergies. Like how the f**k does your body become deathly allergic to something that isn't capable of killing another person. Please someone explain that s**t.
Our stomach naturally produces hydrochloric acid. It's corrosive and can burn through your skin and tissues. Bbuuuuutttr our stomach lining is covered in mucus to prevent us from eating inside out.
Have you seen hydrochloric in a science experiment? That chemical reaction is insane! Makes sense as we eat meat, bones and catrilage sometimes. If not our poop is gonna be bony...
The fact that almost everybody finds somebody's butt attractive.
Earrings. Drilling holes in your body to hang decorations from.
You can be overwhelmed or underwhelmed....but never just whelmed
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They call 'em fingers but I never see 'em fing... ...oh, there they go. ;-)
Finger / Fang. Sinker / Sank. Ringer / Rang. Fingers fang things. Fang is the old word for "catch". Catch is from french.
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How some people do jobs they are clearly not qualified to do, or are really bad at and, everybody in the team knows it. My boss is lovely, but she’s honestly the thickest person I’ve ever met and terrible at her job. Yet we all just pretend she’s great!
It's called the 'Peter Principle', from a psychiatrist who noted: 'People get promoted because of their skills and knowledge until they get one step above their skills, then stay there, promoted to incompetence.' And then we get to work for them.
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it's weird that sometimes you can feel someone looking at you. You look up from your book or whatever, and this person is staring at you. What?
Weddings. Dear lord, weddings. Basically forcing your friends and family to watch an official declare that two individuals will operate as one unit until one or both die. And one family literally giving their daughter to another family.
Fire: To have something in your home that you consider cosy yet if it got out of control it could destroy your house and kill everyone in it. Music: How random sounds sound beautiful to some but ugly to others. How the sounds are made and how we perceive them.
Who decided that humans should drink a cow's lactations? Why cows? Why goats? Why not other mammals? I haven't had a glass of milk in decades. Turns my stomach a bit.
I watched a documentary on how unhealthy it is for human consumption...they even called it cow puss!!!...I've been cooking with and drinking almond and soy milk since then lol nasty!
Load More Replies... Breathing and swallowing, they’re weird and if I start thinking about them the actions feel awkward.
That we find naked humans attractive, but naked animals we find almost universally repulsive.
I loved this! I learned a few things, laughed a lot at the comments, and had never really thought about some of these. More to come in future post, I hope.
I read all of the submissions and came up with a few of my own. I've always thought water, H2O was weird. Water, ice, steam, vapor, dew. It expands and contracts. Weird. Another thing that I think is weird is the concept of free advice. If you follow it you'll pay a price. One more thing, how our minds work. That one is the weirdest and best one of all. If you think that you can do it or you think that you can't do it. You are correct. My momma taught me that! Oh rats, I've thought of one more. Laughing at yourself. I find myself doing this often and it just cracks me up. I'm done folks. Exit stage left.
Telephone's: from back when they were wired to now telephones seem wierd to me. We are talking to an object and that object is delivering your voice and all the background sounds it picks up to someone that could be on the other side of the world.
So, attempt at humor? I’m guessing because what else could this have been…
They call 'em fingers but I never see 'em fing... ...oh, there they go. ;-)
Finger / Fang. Sinker / Sank. Ringer / Rang. Fingers fang things. Fang is the old word for "catch". Catch is from french.
Load More Replies... How some people do jobs they are clearly not qualified to do, or are really bad at and, everybody in the team knows it. My boss is lovely, but she’s honestly the thickest person I’ve ever met and terrible at her job. Yet we all just pretend she’s great!
It's called the 'Peter Principle', from a psychiatrist who noted: 'People get promoted because of their skills and knowledge until they get one step above their skills, then stay there, promoted to incompetence.' And then we get to work for them.
Load More Replies... it's weird that sometimes you can feel someone looking at you. You look up from your book or whatever, and this person is staring at you. What?
Weddings. Dear lord, weddings. Basically forcing your friends and family to watch an official declare that two individuals will operate as one unit until one or both die. And one family literally giving their daughter to another family.
Fire: To have something in your home that you consider cosy yet if it got out of control it could destroy your house and kill everyone in it. Music: How random sounds sound beautiful to some but ugly to others. How the sounds are made and how we perceive them.
Who decided that humans should drink a cow's lactations? Why cows? Why goats? Why not other mammals? I haven't had a glass of milk in decades. Turns my stomach a bit.
I watched a documentary on how unhealthy it is for human consumption...they even called it cow puss!!!...I've been cooking with and drinking almond and soy milk since then lol nasty!
Load More Replies... Breathing and swallowing, they’re weird and if I start thinking about them the actions feel awkward.
That we find naked humans attractive, but naked animals we find almost universally repulsive.
I loved this! I learned a few things, laughed a lot at the comments, and had never really thought about some of these. More to come in future post, I hope.
I read all of the submissions and came up with a few of my own. I've always thought water, H2O was weird. Water, ice, steam, vapor, dew. It expands and contracts. Weird. Another thing that I think is weird is the concept of free advice. If you follow it you'll pay a price. One more thing, how our minds work. That one is the weirdest and best one of all. If you think that you can do it or you think that you can't do it. You are correct. My momma taught me that! Oh rats, I've thought of one more. Laughing at yourself. I find myself doing this often and it just cracks me up. I'm done folks. Exit stage left.
Telephone's: from back when they were wired to now telephones seem wierd to me. We are talking to an object and that object is delivering your voice and all the background sounds it picks up to someone that could be on the other side of the world.
So, attempt at humor? I’m guessing because what else could this have been…
