strange facts about ourselves

[omdorastrix]

I just had a good 15 minutes of laughing at how many of these I do.   Thanks, I needed that...

I do pick up things with my feet, and I too also love the smell of a good, freshly sharpened pencil.

My strange thing (among many) is I dream lucidly.  It is soooooooo frustrating when the dream isn't behaving well, or realistic (within the dream narrative) and I have to stop it, and start the dream all over again. I've literally said (in the dream) "That can't happen!", the dream rewinds, the "right" thing happens I say "That's better!" and move on... Sometimes I 'watch' the same dream a half-dozen times until I get it right.  The upside is thinking into existence a giant machine-laser buster gatling gun in the dream where I was a giant mecha, the downside is running through the woods being chased by something then tripping and waking up so hard you bounce in the bed and wake up your partner and scare the cats...

[Pica Pica]

Last night I dreamt of a stall in Borough Market selling Owl Burgers. I had a Barn Owl one, but Tawny and Snowy were also available.

[Kaelin]

I'm irritated that the US still uses pennies.

I don't just mean that I think it's inefficient that we do it, but that it's a bother that transactions and prices are overly precise like that.  In fact, I'd really prefer we step up to ten-cent or 25-cent increments.

[ativan]

I have often wondered what it would be like to just hang out with Pica Pica for a day or two.
Owl burgers. 

And the penny thing is way past it's time. I'll go with quarters.

Ativan

[wren-bird]

I think the strangest thing about me would have to be that I dream very specific things that later come true, and in one instance only came true because I had had the dream in the first place. I also once foretold the death of a classmate in high school while reading his palm.

[ativan]

Another good thread that is still fun.
Ativan

[Natkat]

Strange fact about me: =)

1, I always sleep with my right arm and clothing over my head to cover my eyes no matter if its dark or light.
2, I like almost raw meat, but cant eat mc handburgers.
3, I eat oranges every day (im too lazy and poor to make food)
4, scrathing and biting random things is my bad habbits. (specially pencils)

[ford]

I have a velcro obsession. The noise and feel of tearing velcro kind of puts me into a trance. My husband has been known to purchase me packs of velcro for christmas/birthdays...such an enabler.

[Dace]

I'm obsessed with body modification, Mudkip and JCBs.

I have 2 scarification cuts, a tattoo and 10 piercings... So far.
I have 4 Mudkip toys, 36 cards and a Mudkip tattoo coming soon.
I have a JCB phone, t-shirt, socks, beanie hat, forklift toy, dump truck toy and even an Easter egg

So yeah, there are my obsessions... I also love The Devil's Carnival and Repo! The Genetic Opera, mostly because Terrance Zdunich (who I have named my pet gecko after). Weird things. Awesome things. Dace things.

[Mayonnaise]

Ever since I was a child, I have regularly practiced for the eventuality of loosing my thumbs, by performing tasks with them tucked behind the first knuckle of my forfinger.

8^/

[DanaRSS]

I have a weird compulsion with symmetry.  Sometimes if I touch something with one hand, I have to do the same thing with the other hand or it feels wrong.  Yesterday I was on a walk and reached up to touch a leaf on an overhanging branch, and then I had to back up a few steps so I could walk down the same bit of sidewalk and do it with my other hand.  I'm also really bad with left-right hand coordination.

I once danced the can-can with a scary clown.

[ativan]

I have a detachment disorder that makes reality feel like it isn't real.
So everything seems strange. It lasts for a few hours, then slowly goes away.
Reality is a subjective thing for me because of it.
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[DanaRSS]

I have a detachment disorder that makes reality feel like it isn't real.
So everything seems strange. It lasts for a few hours, then slowly goes away.
Reality is a subjective thing for me because of it.
Ativan

Hey, I used to have episodes like that when I was little!  It was really strong and distinct, happened maybe two or three times a year at most.  It went away when I was 13 or 14, and then a year later is when all the gender identity/dysphoria shenanigans started up.

[ativan]

Mine doesn't seem to be related to being non-binary.
It's not that uncommon, a lot of people report that it happens when they were young.
Mine just never went away.
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[hazelspikes]

All the sudden, I start viewing things differently and don't seem all that...Real.  Or, neither I nor everything around me exists. 

On a better note, I still sleep with the stuffed bunny that I've had since I was a kid.  Originally, its name is Bunny. A recent addition is a bear named Cap because it's blue with white stars.

[Taka]

i have one really weird irrational fear. my mind seems convinced that any engine is going to break down upon me when i least expect it, so whenever i sense an odd burnt-like scent when driving, i panic instead of realizing it's from the car i just met or the one right in front of me.

[DanaRSS]

i have one really weird irrational fear. my mind seems convinced that any engine is going to break down upon me when i least expect it, so whenever i sense an odd burnt-like scent when driving, i panic instead of realizing it's from the car i just met or the one right in front of me.

That reminds me...I have a huge pet peeve about talk shows on the radio using sound clips from car horns, car crashes, and traffic noises in general.  I always think it's an actual car near me.

[Taka]

still better than being terrified of the vacuum cleaner. those also have engines, and it took me until high school before i managed to convince myself that it won't blow up in my face just because i turn it on. i've never been as scared of things like the dark or spiders or other harmless things.

[Nero]

I have often wondered what it would be like to just hang out with Pica Pica for a day or two.

I have wondered the same thing. 

Probably the strangest fact about me is my alektorophobia. I guess because it affects daily life (though there are no chickens around). It translates to extreme nausea at the sight, smell, and sound (you know the sounds) of eggs. Which, horribly it seems like every individual on the planet eats.
Also, it's made me frightened of anything with feathers. Which are everywhere. Regular birds are pretty from a distance but... any closer and they give me the creeps. Totally terrifying. But I'm pretty sure it all goes back to chickens.

[DanaRSS]

still better than being terrified of the vacuum cleaner. those also have engines, and it took me until high school before i managed to convince myself that it won't blow up in my face just because i turn it on. i've never been as scared of things like the dark or spiders or other harmless things.

That does sound pretty intense...did you ever have something mechanical blow up on you when you were young?