Mine was having the sudden urge to hurl a random toddler who was teetering over the edge of a waterfall.
Whenever i have a knife and see a thick electrical wire i have to stop myself from “just testing” what would happen if I cut into it. I work with 400v ac on a construction site a lot and I know what would happen lol.
Mine has been to slap a stranger. I want to know, what will happen after that?
I did that accidentaly once. We were visiting Scotland and I tried to point out something and accidentally slapped a woman straight in the face. She just cursed and looked at me strangely and walked away.
At least you are a wizard and a pope, so you can lift the curse, right
I was not the wizard pope yet back then.
In college I was enjoying some recreational activities at a house party.
Next to me on a couch was this kid who had like low grade cerebral palsey or something. Like, legitimately, he had those arm crutch things Walter White’s kid had. Never asked what it actually was.
Anyways, he laughs at something and leans back on the couch. And accidentally does one of those back punches like Bruce Lee. Like, where someone sneaks up behind him and he just hits them with the back of his fist without looking.
Anyways, dude gets me straight in the nose, doesn’t stop laughing, gets two inches from my face and screams
You just got punched by a fucking cripple
And just absolutely died laughing.
He was a cool dude, and that was probably the only time he’s punched anyone in his life, and it was absolutely an accident. But it was just hilarious how he rolled with it
I get bad short thoughts about how I could easily end so many personal relationships with a quick random punch to the face. Pick the right person and you could be ostracised from your whole family.
I often get the urge to steer into groups of pedestrians and cyclists or knocking over small road signs
Never did it obviously. my car would not survive that anyway.
Probs just Tetris effect from the hundreds of hours I spent playing GTA when I was younger. I’d always do that shit
Bill Burr had a bit on it.
oh my god I can’t breathe
fucking love billy burr
Thpppppp
At my last workplace there was a central staircase with a gap in the middle through the whole building.
I very often had an intrusive thought of jumping down 4 stories.
It came even more often when one of the lights inside this gap started flickering and I could have taken it down with me.I get that urge time I use a helical staircase with a human (or larger) sized central air gap. I think it’s a niche form for High Place Phenomenon… maybe because I watched too much Batman (TAS) as a kid.
Whenever I pick up my knife my brain says, “what if I just stick this into my belly?”
They say your brain imagines these scenarios so that you can try to avoid them, but the more you learn about trying to wrangle your brain the more I think the brain is just a dick sometimes.
They say your brain imagines these scenarios so that you can try to avoid them
Not quite.
Like, there’s a scary amount we don’t know about the brain and how it works.
But I think it’s a little different than you said. It’s the brain trying to figure out how it would deal if that happened.
Like, you avoid stabbing yourself by not stabbing yourself.
But your brain is evaluating if stabbing yourself so you can practice surviving a stab wound would be a good idea.
Which, sounds crazy, untill you realize most of what humans do for fun involves tricking our brains or bodies I to think we’re in danger. Hell, even the drive to “play” is just tricking us into exercising so we’re stronger if we do have to fight.
Even tickling is just teaching kids what parts to guard in a fight.
Toddler related as well. Wanted to slam his face into the edge of the sink until the screaming stops. It was pretty close a few times.
This is why I will never have kids.
Yuuuup same.
I should just go on a road trip again. Every time I get on the highway by myself, and I see that open road, I think about how I could just go and take another road trip.
Fortunately, I got a trip to the grand canyon lined up for this fall, if all goes well.
Whenever I see game (and some domestic) animals I instinctively look at them as food and trying to find a way to kill them right then and there. Just the outline of the flesh is enough for an instant plan from slaughter to plate.
One of your ancient ancestors is like “this guy’s the one, time to egg him on again”
My most common thought of all time or my most common that appears unprovoked?
My most common thought of all time is, just generally, about how mentally misguided humans are in general. In my experience, people predominantly have an “ask questions later” approach to things, and then when they do finally “ask the question”, it’s “how do I excuse myself”. My whole life, and everything I’ve learned from history, is shaped by this, and they hate pushback. If humanity killed someone for agreeing, in time, would they be remembered as a philosopher or a crazy person since inclination rules?
My most common thought that appears unprovoked is similar, it deals with the situations I’ve been witness to in the name of what I described and trying to think out what the implications actually are and what would be in the best interest of each situation. I recently watched a show about a guy who built 100 houses for people in an impoverished country, and people reacted to this act of charity by complaining he was continuing colonialism. Sometimes “I can’t even” is a perfect mood descriptor.
