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“What’s A Weird Little Thing That We All Do Or Experience, But No One Talks About?” (40 Answers)
Traveling teaches you that no matter where you go and who you meet, you will be able to relate to those people at least on some level. Certain thoughts, emotions, and habits are simply universal.
So Reddit user Broken__Defraculator posted a question on the platform, inviting everyone to list the things we all do or experience but, for one reason or another, don't talk about in public.
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#1
When hot in bed, we don’t just throw the covers off. We stick out a single leg….except we don’t just “dangle” it outside the covers, we wrap it around the duvet and kinda clamp it back down.
No one has ever shown us how to do this. No one ever taught us to do this. No one has ever discussed this. We just all do it.
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#2
One weird little thing we all do but rarely talk about is replaying imaginary arguments or conversations in our heads, often coming up with the perfect comeback we wish we'd said at the time.
#3
The farts that roll up your v*gina are pretty weird.
Mama Clare 1 year ago
Unless it gets stuck there and you have to do the hip movements to release it
#4
Pretending not to see someone you know in public to avoid that awkward “hi” moment. We all do it, don’t lie.
#5
Withessing some (random) person doing something really embarassing to themself and actively choosing/doing our best to ignore it and moving on. This is empathy.
RedeRules770:
At work once this lady bent over to grab her purse and whatnot. I happened to be facing away from her and she tooted, just a little one. She said “oh! Excuse me!” I turned around with a confused look and said “for what?” She looked SO RELIEVED and said “oh, never mind”
She’ll never know that I know.
#6
When a random embarrassing/cringe memory floods the mind and the best you can do is try to blurt out some incoherent words, sounds, melody to distract yourself.
#7
Make up excuses to get out of invitations to social gatherings and other events you don't want to attend.
Shark Lady 1 year ago
My parents and daughter regularly use me as an excuse, I'm chronically sick so no one ever questions it.
#8
When you snap out of a daydream while you’re driving and quickly check all your mirrors as if you might catch a glimpse of a huge accident you caused. Then wonder how the hell did I drive this far and can’t remember.
cerinamroth 1 year ago
My mum literally had a TGA event when she was driving to a meeting. She drove there, apparently gave a speech, listened to the comments and it was only afterwards in the kitchen that she realised she had no idea how she got there, or who anyone was. Scary stuff. It was a route she had driven so often that it must have just been autopilot that got her there.
#9
When you're pooping in a public bathroom and strategically plan your exit for when it's empty so no one associates you with the smell of poop or farts you might have unleashed.
cerinamroth 1 year ago
I really couldn't care less. Toilets are there to be used, and everyone defecates.
#10
Anyone else having entire conversations with themselves? Like, full on talking at the 2nd person, like you're talking with someone else and trying to explain something? Sometimes even out loud (but in whispers so you don't look like your insane. Then you realize you're whispering to yourself and you look even more insane). Or am I just really lonely?
Even weirder, for me it happens in another language. I'm not English native, but I start talking with myself and arguing in english.
Also, do you guys/girls move when you're talking? On the phone, for example. I can't stand still. I'm literally walking circles around my own room. Sooner or later I'm gonna start digging out trenches like some Looney tunes cartoon. This also happens when talking by myself. It's like moving my body allows me to think and explain better.
cerinamroth 1 year ago
I do this too, in most of my languages (to date, English, French, German, Japanese, Hebrew). I also talk in my sleep and my husband says it's like the United Nations in our bedroom sometimes.
#11
Picking our noses. I mean, c'mon. Sometimes a tiny, golden morsel is stuck in just that one irritating spot where you can feel it for minutes - or hours - and there's no Kleenex in the vicinity. So up goes the finger and out comes the booger. Flick it, eat it, wipe it on your jeans. Whatever. Gotta get rid of it.
ALittleKnownGoddess 1 year ago
I had no idea how well kids could hide buggers until I had to paint their rooms.
#12
Disgustingly brutal intrusive thoughts. The ones that would shatter your world if it happened.
#13
Look at other people's food as waiters bring it to their table at a restaurant.
#14
I feel like deja vu isn't discussed often enough. Not the "this feels like something I've been through" but legitimate "I had this exact dream and now it's happening". We all have that s**t and no one talks about it.
Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
There is a scientific explanation for it. Your long term memory is registering the event from your senses, rather than going via the short-term memory; the process that compares current senses with memory (to facilitate recognition) is fooled into thinking that it's happened before, because it's in your long-term memory. You are not seeing the same thing again, but seeing it for the first time twice in effect.
#15
Before going to sleep, check how much sleep time you have.
David 1 year ago
I used to when I routinely got up at 4:30 am. It wasn't "weird", it was practical. But retired me got up at noon today so how much sleep time I have is how much I want to have. In theory anyway. In reality I sometimes still wake up after 6 hours or less. Things ache, have to go potty, I'm congested, whatever.
Colleen Glim 1 year ago
4:30 am is what I call O’f**k thirty. I swore when I lost the job that had me up at that ungodly hour, that I was never getting up that early again
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Upstaged75 1 year ago
My phone alarm happily tells me how long until it will go off. Every night I'm like "4 hours and 12 minutes from now I have to get up for work - damn it!"
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
When I had bouts of stress, anxiety, or insomnia, I'd do this. Now, in retirement, I sleep when I'm tired and wake up when rested.
Enlee Jones 1 year ago
As a lifelong raging insomniac, I don't do this. I don't even have a clock in my bedroom. I have enough anxiety without worrying about how much sleep I get too.
Steve Robert 1 year ago
I'm retired. I have as much sleep time as I want! It's just like college, except there are no papers or finals that are due.
Daddy’s Girl 1 year ago
One of the lovely things about retirement. Hardly ever checking the clock.
Bonnie Alcorn 1 year ago
I do that a lot and I have no reason to. I’ll think to myself, if I fall asleep right away, I’ll get 8-1/2 hours of sleep tonight. I’m retired…it doesn’t matter how many hours I do or don’t get!
Magdalena 1 year ago
I started doing it to stop being anxious. The secret is to check your alarm clock early so you're like "omg, I've got 9 hours and 20 minutes of sleep ahead of me, I'm gonna be soooo rested tomorrow". And you don't check your phone when you go to bed, even if it's 4 hours later. Your brain will think you've had enough sleep and you will feel rested in the morning
cerinamroth 1 year ago
I definitely don't do that. Not after having babies! Way too anxiety-inducing.
#16
Picking our underwear out of our a*s crack.
Michael P (Perthaussieguy) 1 year ago
After wearing boxers for many years now, I seem to have eliminated that event.
#17
The gross feeling of sitting on a toilet seat after someone else warned it up.
#19
The things we smell sometimes. Our own farts. Our hands after scratching an itch in your pants....we all do it when we are alone. It's actually biologically ingrained in us to "like" that smell. Our brains give us a little dopamine for checking....if the smell is off we know something is wrong.
SirWriteALot 1 year ago
I knew a guy who'd rub behind his hear and then smell it. Like constantly. During meetings. He's talking, rubbing, sniffing. Trying to do it low key but it was just so disturbing to watch.
#20
The little shake we do when we get under a cold cozy blanket.
Such a privilege.
ColdSteelRonin 1 year ago
I have heated mattress pads that i put on preheat while getting ready for bed. So in winter, instead of the shake it's a contented sigh.
#21
Wiping your a**e then looking at the paper.
#22
Putting the last chunk of deodorant back on after it falls on the floor.
#23
When we accidentally spit on someone when talking and all act like nothing happened.
potsgotme:
And you can still feel it on your arm and you wait til they look away so you can wipe it even though you both know they just f**king spit on you while locking eyes.
Raluca Neacsu 1 year ago
that... never happened to me. either im really lucky or i never noticed.
#24
The secret thrill of being the first person to use a new jar of peanut butter, and sliding in the butter knife with grace and care to carve out a perfectly-formed morsel of legumic joy.
#25
Hearing a weird brief tone in one ear.
galloping_spider:
The aliens tuning in.
UncoolSlicedBread:
When I was little, I would pretend that it was my spidey sense picking up on bad guys somewhere.
As an adult, I prefer that it’s my spidey sense picking up on bad guys somewhere.
#26
Pulling your phone out and fake checking it to act as a cover story for turning around because you forgot something or started walking the wrong way.
#27
Don't pee in the dream bathroom.
Cee Cee 1 year ago
Ha. I must have been about 5 and living in Uganda. The soil is often red. Dreaming I knew I wanted to wee but was engrossed in climbing this big red mountain. Decided to wait until I reached the top. Summit reached and there it was. A beautiful gleaming white porcelain loo. You can guess the rest! Never forgot that dream and I'm now 72.
#28
Trying to catch your reflection in a window as you walk past to see if your hair is ok.
ColdSteelRonin 1 year ago
Also a good way to covertly check your surroundings and see if you're being followed.
#30
Weeing in the shower.
Jan Rosier 1 year ago (edited)
Weeing WHILE showering would be more accurate. It rinces away with no worries and you donot need to flush. To all women finding this gross : what do you do with menstruation blood when showering?
#31
Finally loosening that bit of food stuck in our teeth and either getting sweet revenge by biting down on it and swallowing it or getting it loose and awkwardly rooting around in our mouth until the frustrating realization hits that we already swallowed it and there will be no vengeance.
#32
That weird smell you get from your childhood but can never find or replicate if you wanted to. Mine reminds me of white school floors with little black dots all over.
#34
Cuddle with pillows.
Traveling Lady Railfan 1 year ago
The pillow you put between your knees is even better (for side sleepers)
#35
Well I think its so weird if you just say goodbye and then walk in the same direction.
#36
Slowly closing the fridge door to see when the lights turn off.
ObsidianAce_ 1 year ago
I found the triggers on mine! I can hold the door wide open, and when I push the trigger down, the light turns off!
#38
Knowing when someone is looking at us.
Mike D 1 year ago
Similar, I seem to have a weird ability for finding my wife at the airport. I go to pick her up, sometimes circling several times, and then I will glance over for no conscious reason and there she is, usually in a crowd. She is dressed normally and standing there looking back at me, not doing/wearing anything to draw attention, I just go from looking forward to exactly where she is. Reinforces that we were meant for each other!
#40
The sheer joy of talking off a pair of jeans when getting home. (I guess it doesn’t apply to people who enjoy wearing jeans inside, though..).
#41
Look at the tissue after blowing our nose.
#42
When some of us yawn, water/spit squirts out. Nobody wants to talk about it, but there are those among us who do it.
TIL this is called "gleeking" and some of you can do it at will!
#43
That weird little tingle in the back of your jaw when taking the first sip of a drink/first bite of something tart. Doesn't hurt, just kinda... buzzes for a bit, I guess. I mostly get it eating dried cranberries or the first sip of a can of lemonade.
Lost Panda 1 year ago
What about when you get the sensation just thinking of something? Like I like sour candies, so when the thought randomly pops in my head, my salivation glands instinctively kick in.
#44
Sneezing and having snot hang out of your nose afterwards that you have to quickly wipe away and hope no one saw.
Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
I have to check to make sure I am alone before doing the "farmers blow" (expelling snot sans Kleenex). Not in the living room or anything, but outside. HEY! the "farmers blow" that qualifies as 'something weird everyone does'.
#45
When you are making out with a person and your teeth bang together.
Jan Rosier 1 year ago
there are worse places on the human body to bang your teeth against, though
#46
We all see our nose out of both eyes in the center of our vision, but our brain has been trained to ignore it.
#47
When you poop and sometimes the backsplash goes right up your bum.
#48
Not being bothered by the smell of your own farts.
#49
When you pick a booger or a scab or something off your body and roll it into a ball.
#50
Men, when you’re just chillin your hand is in them pants. Yet it’s nothing sexual.
#51
I wear adult pull ups for my periods and sometimes in place of underpants. I know a lot other women do as well for us that heavy periods. You don’t feel any blood or wetness at all and the smell is non existent. They are kinda expensive which is the only downfall.
#53
That violent shaking and blinding sensation you get ocassionally when standing up too rapidly.
#54
When you’re imagining something and the thing you’re imagining keeps doing something you don’t want to do and you can’t control it (i.e i’m imagining a game of pool and all the balls keep flying off the table without being touched).
#55
Pee shyness. Sometimes if someone is talking to me i’ll be standing at the urinal for a solid minute before i can start a stream.
#56
When running or cycling and a car is behind you on the road you might think "I gotta get to this next point of the road before the car or ill die"
Idk if everyone does it but was surprised to learn how common it is :D.
#57
That leg wobble when your balls stick to your leg on a hot day while wearing boxers.
#58
We rub our feet together randomly, still have no idea why.
cerinamroth 1 year ago
I do this with my husband. I also have this thing where I rub the side of my face on the pillow a good few times before I settle down to sleep. He loves it. I never knew I did it until I met him.
#59
See what food other people have in their cart at the grocery store.
#61
I think it's a women thing, but that one stitch or more like a little electric shock that you can get in yout b******e. For me, just on period but it's always a little stroke to the whole body.
#62
When your relaxed hand makes contact with the barber's/dentist's body. If you flinch, then they'll know.
ALittleKnownGoddess 1 year ago
Or does anyone else have trouble with their tongue being a nosy Parker when you're at the dentist?
#63
Imagining what people look like naked.
cerinamroth 1 year ago
I don't think I've ever done this because I couldn't care less. Sometimes I'm surprised if I see someone I know in the sauna (naked, because Germany) and they have a tattoo I didn't know they had. That's it.
#64
When you pull out a nosehair and it feels like you can breath through it like you never could before.
#66
When you're playing a videogame and you can't understand the other person cause of their mic, and you either keep asking "what did you say?" or just say "ye" and hope it made sense.
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BrunoVI 1 year ago
Anyone else get the temptation to contribute something seriously deranged just to freak someone out? Like "watch dogs poop" or "eat dust bunnies from under the refrigerator" or "say 'Yes, Mrs. Harris' whenever I see my FBI agent, just to freak him out."
Traveling Lady Railfan 1 year ago
Although there's some really weird things in here, for the most part, I think it's great to read this stuff. We all have bodies. They all do weird things. Some of us are too shy to discuss our experiences with other people and then you never know if these are things that other people experience, how they get around the problem, or whether other people suggest maybe you should get this checked out. Communication is so important. Sometimes it's easier to open up to a bunch of random internet strangers and get their opinions and advice. I embrace my weird body, and glad to know there's other people out there with oddities like mine :-)
Heras buddy 1 year ago
No one mentioned holding a conversation with their dog or any other pet.
UKGrandad 1 year ago (edited)
When you are conscientious about picking up dog poo in the park, but you haven't got a dog...or poo bags. EDIT: Why do I get the feeling that people think this was a serious comment?
Tom Hardeveld 1 year ago
What about how we put (too much) toothpaste on the toothbrush and then put water on it for some reason? There are no instructions you should do that but we all do it
BrunoVI 1 year ago
Anyone else get the temptation to contribute something seriously deranged just to freak someone out? Like "watch dogs poop" or "eat dust bunnies from under the refrigerator" or "say 'Yes, Mrs. Harris' whenever I see my FBI agent, just to freak him out."
Traveling Lady Railfan 1 year ago
Although there's some really weird things in here, for the most part, I think it's great to read this stuff. We all have bodies. They all do weird things. Some of us are too shy to discuss our experiences with other people and then you never know if these are things that other people experience, how they get around the problem, or whether other people suggest maybe you should get this checked out. Communication is so important. Sometimes it's easier to open up to a bunch of random internet strangers and get their opinions and advice. I embrace my weird body, and glad to know there's other people out there with oddities like mine :-)
Heras buddy 1 year ago
No one mentioned holding a conversation with their dog or any other pet.
UKGrandad 1 year ago (edited)
When you are conscientious about picking up dog poo in the park, but you haven't got a dog...or poo bags. EDIT: Why do I get the feeling that people think this was a serious comment?
Tom Hardeveld 1 year ago
What about how we put (too much) toothpaste on the toothbrush and then put water on it for some reason? There are no instructions you should do that but we all do it
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