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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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30 Completely Normal Yet Weird Things, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group 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.

yuxngdogmom , Park Van Ness Report

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ShriSha Kamboj
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

the dogs be snickering about how u have fallen for their trap....it's the dogs that decided they liked u :)

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30 Completely Normal Yet Weird Things, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group 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.

Wishyouamerry , Christine Report

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AtomKat
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Basically looking at a piece of a dead tree with some ink and vividly hallucinating.

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30 Completely Normal Yet Weird Things, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group 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.

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30 Completely Normal Yet Weird Things, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group Paparazzi: they do everything just like a stalker, yet they’re not incarcerated for it and paid to do the things they do.

MotherAgnes , Brian Gratwicke Report

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ShriSha Kamboj
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i personally find paparazzi extremely invasive....let people live their lives........don't STALK them for bs content

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30 Completely Normal Yet Weird Things, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group Following celebrities blindly and caring about their opinions

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30 Completely Normal Yet Weird Things, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group 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.

Holys**tspace , Erik Przekop Report

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joel_
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Be fruitful and multiply" I am glad that my parents followed nature and made me. Sure, sometimes my life sucks, but I really do love this life! And I want to be able give that opportunity to another soul at some point in my life....

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30 Completely Normal Yet Weird Things, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group 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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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30 Completely Normal Yet Weird Things, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group 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?

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Rose Romano
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you're really interested, read up on etymology. It's fascinating. (And things aren't as random as they seem.)

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30 Completely Normal Yet Weird Things, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group 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.

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Emerald Ocean
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This!!! I’m the same way! It’s actually a fairly uncommon but not rare condition called aphantasia!

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30 Completely Normal Yet Weird Things, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group As a Deaf guy, looking at people kissing musical instruments is quite bizarre

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30 Completely Normal Yet Weird Things, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group 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-

HarmonXifa , Paul Sableman Report

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#13

30 Completely Normal Yet Weird Things, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group Birds having a built in GPS system. They can fly south for the winter, then fly back to the exact same tree up north.

DeathSpiral321 , Martyn Fletcher Report

#14

30 Completely Normal Yet Weird Things, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group 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.

Wishyouamerry , AJ LEON Report

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Jef Bateman
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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30 Completely Normal Yet Weird Things, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group 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.

Tacticalbiscit , reader of the pack Report

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Luther von Wolfen
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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30 Completely Normal Yet Weird Things, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group 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?

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30 Completely Normal Yet Weird Things, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group 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

redditoruser3021 , Oleg Sidorenko Report

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Rijkærd
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My dreams are sometimes so vivid they could put LSD trips to shame...and then boom! Cant remember s**t 3 minutes after waking up.

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30 Completely Normal Yet Weird Things, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group 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

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ShriSha Kamboj
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

they say that a human brain predicts what someone is going to say even before we actually say it

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30 Completely Normal Yet Weird Things, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group 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.

DaniJHollis , Esteban Alvarez Report

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30 Completely Normal Yet Weird Things, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group Dancing. Like people flail around in weird and awkward ways to sounds.

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#21

30 Completely Normal Yet Weird Things, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group 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.

liberty285code6 , steve p2008 Report

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Piet Puk
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ow man, this gave me existential dread when I was a little kid. I understood how insignificant everything was and had couldn't sleep for days.

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30 Completely Normal Yet Weird Things, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group Crying, why does my body create liquid from my eyes if something is sad

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Amy S
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's been suggested that crying is a way to dump out excess chemicals and hormones to help us physically calm down, but I'm not sure this has been proven.

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30 Completely Normal Yet Weird Things, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group 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.

inksmudgedhands , kellywritershouse Report

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Joel Hopkins
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We're just jealous they can write in pencil and not have a leaded left hand.

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30 Completely Normal Yet Weird Things, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group 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.

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30 Completely Normal Yet Weird Things, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group 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...

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Viviane
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm blown away that I have a universe of micro-organisms in my gut. I can't charge them rent; on the plus side, they're really good about being on call 24-7 and they work for free. I can't complain much about my roommates. :)

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30 Completely Normal Yet Weird Things, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group The fact that almost everybody finds somebody's butt attractive.

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CJ M
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I (as an aesexual person) find human attraction in general ridiculous and kind of gross.

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30 Completely Normal Yet Weird Things, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group Some mold is edible. No matter how stinky it is.

Mood_Kaonashi , Jeremy Keith Report

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30 Completely Normal Yet Weird Things, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group Earrings. Drilling holes in your body to hang decorations from.

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Rijkærd
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yep. We drill holes on walls to hang decorations so what better place than the one point made of material without lots nervous tissue so we cant feel pain. Just like a wall...drill away

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30 Completely Normal Yet Weird Things, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group Being alive, in this world…

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30 Completely Normal Yet Weird Things, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group You can be overwhelmed or underwhelmed....but never just whelmed

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