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30 People Share Their Weirdest Habits And Some Are Truly Relatable
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We all have weird quirks that are fairly uncommon, to say the least. For the fear of being judged we keep them to ourselves, however, that doesn't stop us from being curious about what others have to hide. So, to indulge in this secret knowledge, Twitter user @drakesbrother started a thread asking people to share their weird confessions. The thread was quickly flooded with the strangest habits. Some confessed to measuring how long something will take in songs, others said that each time they get in their car, they make sure no one is sitting in the back seat. While some of these things do sound a little bit odd, let's not pretend that you don't relate. Scroll below for the list of confessions and don't forget to share your's in the comments. (Facebook cover image: Nathan Rice)
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This is incredibly common. Everyone does this, actually. Intrusive thoughts. I tend to think “how much can I key this car”.
I think the border between sane and insane is merely to put such thoughts to action. Having them is normal, if not even creative.
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this is related to the so called "call of the void" where you're like "what if i just jumped off this bridge right now"
I hear that call so often these days. Call of the void....now I know what to call it. Thx!!!
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this is a physiological phenomenon called cognitive dissonance, and it has to do with your brain having to deal with ambiguity. known less formally as the high place effect(this is more commonly used to explain why people get the urge to jump off cliffs) explains that when your survival instincts just sort of shut off, also known as anti-survival
Mine is when I'm on a long car trip and I think to myself "I wonder what would happen if I just jerk the wheel to the right as hard and as fast as I can while going 80 MPH"
Same! Not with babies, but when I am driving I wonder what would happen if I just let go of the wheel.
Exactly. I'm doing like 120 km/h and sometimes can't shake off the feeling of: "Like if I just moved my hands slightly to the right I could kill us all." Can't say I like the feeling...
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I have crazy irrational thoughts like that too, like in a work meeting i might think "what if i just threw my coffee at someones head right now",, speeding along in a car and i will think "imagine i just opened the door now" it's odd but i totally get this.
Sometimes I'll be talking to someone and think "What if I just punched them?" Intrusive thoughts, man.
lol I used to have those thoughts about my own baby ! lol Don't worry he's 11 now.
Mine is 18, but I did too....though I've actually had this dark passenger whispering in my ear since I was a child. :-(
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What if turned my steering wheel really hard and drove off this extremely high bridge?
Intrusive thoughts. I never knew what to call this phenomenon, or that lots of people have them. So glad to know this.
Yes me too! like just scrollin' BP on ur phone then ur just like "what if i chucked this into the Misissippi?"
I always think about what would happen if I just randomly raised my hand in class and told my teacher she was fat. The weird part is, she isn't even fat!
Lol same the first thought I have when I meet someone is "how long would it take to strangle them...."
Or knowing for sure, even though you are the only critter with hands in a mile radius around you, that if you stick your hand down the kitchen disposal to retrieve a spoon it will turn on anyway..
This never happens to me...and now that I know how often these things occur to other people, I'm absolutely terrified.....
The call of the void (standing on the brink and contemplating what happens if you jump).
Or I wonder how tight I can hug him/her!! You just want to squeeze them to death!!
I can't carry a hammer through the house for this exact reason! I impulsively want to smash something. But not a baby. Honest.
Thank god and OP! I'm not alone and not a complete psycho, apparently. Never follow through though.
I have these thoughts as well, it just seems so easy to do something in a second or a few seconds with life-time consequencies. And I have the thoughts what would happen if I just put my hand in fire or walk from the audience to a famous person during the interview or just black out in the audience.
I think of doing something crazy like going into a grocery store when it's closed and just make a huge mess. Open stuff, throw it everywhere, slide all around the floors. Just going crazy.
That sometimes happens to me too. Once, when I was at a birthday party there were ice cubes and soda, and I wondered, "If i put an ice cube in the hot tub, how long would it take to melt?"
"What If..." some of humanities best and worst moments. A breath away of just doing the wrong thing. You and every human ever.
Obsessive compulsive disorder is "responding" to these thoughts, either trying to dispel them, or reassuring yourself somehow that you're "good". This leads to completing physical or mental rituals. This comes from having a fundamental conflict with yourself, non acceptance etc. Source: obsessive compulsive sufferer.
During a concert: what if I just fricking scream as loud as I can during the middle of a song??
I can't go out on really high bridges or balconies. I feel the void pulling me and am scared to death I might just jump. And no, I am not suicidal.
I have this weird desire to throw a flower pot from a high building on someone down below. my mom thinks I have violent tendency. so far haven't done it yet...YET.
I did that but thought what if I set him on fire. I was holding my nephew
I know exactly what you mean. Like someone else said, it's like getting a weird urge to jump from a high place - it's not like you actually want to, but your mind likes to play out the worst outcomes of situations as a primal survival technique. I still don't like these weird thoughts, but at least I know I'm not crazy lol
You need to google Joe Lycett. He is not only hilarious he has a stand up (can't remember which) where he says his spirit animal tells him to do things like, kick that toddle. His spirit animal is a Walrus. He is hell funny.
I get thoughts like that all the time. When I see a truck or bus I imagine jumping in front of it. I don’t actually want to though.
The difference is reason, logic and morals they mean you think it, but don’t do it
exactly, i have ocd and even if consciously I would never do such things, my mind keeps going on with "yeah ok but what if...."
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"The call of the void" is when you want to turn into oncoming traffic, but you don't.
OMG. I can TOTALLY relate. My whole life is like Ally McBeal (who's old enough to remember it?) where I behave perfectly appropriately whilst imagining completely random behaviour. The most routine vision is sitting through an excruciatingly dull (normal) business meeting only to then leap onto the board room table, make animal noises and kick everyone's paperwork and laptops off, before running out of the room OR, sitting back down and acting as though nothing happened. Hmmmm. Maybe shouldn't admit to that.
there are other people("adults") i'd love to push out a window/off a balcony/down some stairs/into traffic,etc.
Call me boring I head deamons on things not "clearly killing others",also I cannot wrap around it. I have strong thoughtsand disbelieves in myself, others have to figure out by themselves. Even if I keep question why they are alive. Don't get me wrong, I also hate everybody's else kid and annoying grannies, but there are limits to everything. Even stretch has it's limits
My girlfriend does this a lot. I end up answering her and she just replies "nobody is talking to you, talking to myself. mind your own business." LOL
I have to stop the microwave 1 second before it stops so it wont do the annoying beeps at the end
this is like driving with loud music, but then turning the volume down to look for parking or for an address.
When I was 4 in Florida we had no A/C in our house. I had 6 spots on my pillow that I could move my head around on until I had to flip it & have 6 more.
I do have things to hide, and my reaction is the same... I mean... dude, that's my phone, it's sacred
That's pretty high stakes for just trying to hit the trash can with some garbage. Go big I guess.
I used to do that, now I've learned to be more discreet (unless I'm in nature, then you can let go)
Does anyone else feel guilty or like a criminal when walking out of a store without buying anything? :)
I do every time. And when I pass a cop. Even if I’m completely innocent!
Same, I walked in a train station with cops and drug dogs everywhere and I was freaking out even though I was 100% innocent of any wrongdoing.
They brought drug dogs into my school and I nearly had a heart attack.
Been there, done that. But...where did that option on BP go to add entries to the list? It is fine to have them pre-populated with social media stuff but it used to be much more fun when it was possible to add stuff. Like your shopping experience.
That's a great idea.
Yeah same as coming through airports, i know i haven't got anything illegal but tell that to me who has completely forgotten how to walk normally.
I am not alone :-)!
I tend to be a scatterbrain... sometimes when I'm shopping, i worry that i'll see something interesting and accidentally put what I'm already holding i n my pocket to check out the new something. Terrified i'll get busted for accidentally shoplifting. 😱
Me, one time my daughter had to go to the bathroom at the park so we ran to a starbucks right across that park's street and we both just walked in there quickly ran to the restrume area and I felt 100% guilty about that. But, a parent has to do what a parent has to do.
I always say goodbye if there's an employee near the front. I guess I figure if I don't look sneaky, I won't get stopped for stealing something (which I never do).
Always. Every single time walking out of store without buying anything. I also feel I must keep my hand where they are clearly visible to store people that way they know I am not shoplifting.
I sometimes get really scared that the store alarm will go off as I leave a store. Knowing I haven´t stolen anything I still fear that alarm.
Me too, I get nervous that something may have somehow fallen into my bag.
Only if it's a food store. I dunno, people don't go eye-shopping for food.... Neither do I. But sometimes the shop just doesn't have what you need.
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Yeah!!!!
No, only when I walk out of a store without paying for anything.
when I bang something with another object I will almost always say “Ow” even though it didn’t touch or hurt me.
I will apologise as well. ♥
So nice :)
OMG same! Like I hit my violin case against something, I will say ow for my case. Then immediately say but that didn't hurt me. Usually out loud.
I apologize! to the object!
If something almost hits me or is about to, I say ow whether it hits me or not. And if it’s about to hit me, I say ow WAY before it hits me😂
Haha, that is really cute.
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I had to think about your comment for a second to get the real meaning. At first I thought you meant, well...you where I'm going with this ;-)
I sometime ask my husband a question about a conversation I have been having in my head. He looks at me weird and I realize he did not hear the first part. I apologize and then fill him in so he can answer the question.
You are not alone, my boyfriend does that. We got used to it... "Have I been talking to you in my head again?"
People think I'm very non sequitur but it makes sense if you knew my train of thought before hand.
Have you ever spelled out a word and then thought it looked like you spelled it wrong, and if you keep thinking about it too long you start to wonder if that's even really a word at all?
Yeah, me too. Also when you repeat a word too many times. I think this is called semantic satiation.
Yes!
when I walk into an elevator, i step immediately in front of the the buttons as best as i can, because that's usually where the surveillance camera is. i'm trying to establish a last known location in case i go missing or am a victim of a crime of some kind. maybe i just watch too many crime shows....
I used to catch myself counting my steps or the degrees on a stairway while walking. I sometimes counted to 15 or 20 without even noticing. Took me years to realize that I did it much more when I was bothered with a problem in my life or disturbed by something. SO, now, when I catch myself doing it, I am disturbed by searching what is disturbing me... (facepalm) Luckily, hasn't happened in months, but it's really annoying when it comes back.
I count stair steps...everytime especially when going down
Same, 17 in my house. I don't like it because 17 is a prime number.
I count everything, all day by 4s. I mentally trace windows, doors, carpet tiles, etc with my eyes and always in pattern of 4. I struggle eating off round plates because I need them to have 4 sides. Traditional sandwich bread is great, round rolls are torture.
I count everything by 5s also! Every step I count has to end on five or a multiple of it, I count shadows and cars that way too as I pass them. When I eat I try to do so by ending it by a bite that ends up being a multiple of 5. It drives my friends crazy cause I'll they'll notice when I do that stuff but I can't help it.
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When I realise I don't have a song stuck in my head I make get stuck in my head.
My gosh I always have music in my head non stop and it's such a random assortment of different styles and genres.
Aaaah yes, the mental jukebox ! Had forgotten about that one. Sometimes it starts playing before I even wake up...
God damnit! Now I have to too.
When I'm cooking and cutting vegetables I count the cuts. I'm not trying to get to a specific number, I just count. When I catch myself doing it I realize it's silly, but I keep counting.
I do exactly same which always confuses my bf :D
That seems like a fun quirk though!
When Iam left alone in the kitchen or in my room in dark and I hear some strange noises( lie cats meoww) I think like if i run and touch my mother that demon will stop chasing me!:)
If I can feel my clothes (like if I can feel the band of underwear or something) it freaks me out. If one sleeve or pant is tighter, it freaks me out. I’ve had crying fits because it bothers me so much. Guess I’m just weird :)... Also, if someone breathes on me, I have to “breathe out” the feeling caught in my throat. It feels like there’s something in my neck! I consistently chew my nails if I see the White ends, because that’s not symmetrical.
Sounds like you may have sensory processing disorder, especially since your reactions are excessive. My mom is the same but with foam and cotton wool is the worst. Someone thought it was funny to chase her with some and she ended up running across 6 lanes of traffic. Don’t worry she didn’t get hit by any cars thankfully.
Oh shit! I’m glad she’s okay. That’s a horrible thing to do to a person.
That happens to me sometimes when I am wearing a coat.. if I can't get it off quick enough or I have an itch, I get mega aware of how the coat feels and start legit panicking trying to get it off. It's happened while driving before. Super freaky.
Clothing in general is horrid. We should just burn it all.
Bonus: I avoid mirrors at night because I feel like if I look in, I’ll see some kind of demonic creature. I lived with my grandfather for a while. He had seven mirrors in his restroom.
Some of these are kind of quirky while others feel like people should see a psychiatrist for OCD or anxiety.
I talk to myself. But it couldn't just be CLOSE TO NORMAL IN ANY WAY. I have to IMAGINE a version of me that looks different and is WAY more sarcastic next to me and talk to HER.
Sounds like she would be fun to hang out with ! :-p
I check the news to make sure zombies aren't running rampant before taking the dogs on a walk.
most of the items here are the compulsions associated with OCD
I rehearse conversations and scenarios out loud and with physical mannerisms when I'm on the toilet.
Most of these are not strange. In fact many of them are normal human behaviors. Why do people think they are the only one who, for example, over thinks stuff.
It is called pluralistic ignorance because of the fact people usually hide are little idosyncracies we don't realize how common they are. That is until the internet which vastly increased are knowledge of how we all share these things.
most people do not have conversations with people within their world view, let alone strangers about their personality quirks. So, when you develop a habit or start doing something, and you decide "that's odd" but continue doing it, you don't think about other people doing it as well, and how common that quirk might be. *shrug*
I remember things in numbers and not list. If, say, I need bread, milk, eggs, I just remember I need 3 things. I only do this if it's about 6 items or less. Anything higher then I do make a list. I'm also a huge procrastinator so if I accomplish just one thing in a day, I view it as a victory and don't look at it as a defeat that I didn't finish all my to do list. Mini victories; it works for me.