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Publish Not your original work? Add source We all have some things about ourselves that might seem weird to others. Maybe we have peculiar eating habits, and we see or do some things differently. And these things might seem like a norm to us. But what if one day you realize that what you thought to be a regular thing is actually a pretty rare occurrence for others? Reddit user @u/ComfortableMess3145 was curious to know what were some things that people thought to be normal until they realized that they aren't. The question that received 1.3K answers got some interesting responses. A lot of people shared that for the longest time, they didn't know they had a certain condition such as astigmatism, ADHD, or some kind of allergy. Other users revealed that their "not normal thing" usually came from their household. The examples included being expected to always ask for every little thing instead of just taking or doing it, or being used to big family fights. Do you have something to add to this list? Don't forget to leave your thoughts in the comments down below! More Info: Reddit This post may include affiliate links. #1 Subconsciously adapting my speech patterns to whoever is around me. I'll start picking up their accent, words they use frequently, etc. Turns out, this is a common thing neurodiverse people, and it's more seen in women if I'm not mistaken. It could cause me issues, however. Thing is, I'm much more self conscious about this when I talk to black people, bc I'm white... And I swear I'm not trying to do a "blaccent" on purpose. It just... Kind of happens. Upbeat-Quality1421 , j dunlap Report 489points POST Deborah Harris2 Deborah Harris2 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 week ago I'm the same x 161 161points reply View More Replies... View more comments #2 I have astigmatism so I see light in streaks. For the longest time I thought that was how everyone saw it. Onirity , lgbsneak Report 446points POST Ms.M. Ms.M. Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 week ago Me too! 106 106points reply View More Replies... View more comments #3 Not everyone struggles to concentrate on a task or have the mental energy to take care of things. Apparently I have ADD. I found out two years ago life didn’t have to be a daily struggle when I started taking a medication for a sleep problem and one of its off label uses is to treat ADD.
I was actually told repeatedly as a kid I had ADHD but they always told me it was my fault and treated it as if the issue was voluntary. So I grew up believing I was just a lazy day dreamer who gets overly stressed by having too many tasks. I’ve lived my life thinking everyone else was better than me because they can get things done. Nope, I’ve just need meds my entire life. Now I wonder how different my childhood would have been if I had been treated back then. DeaddyRuxpin , fotologic Report 364points POST Lisa H Lisa H Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I need to get tested for this once and for all. My school failed me hard for this. They said that I'm "too smart to have a learning disability." How messed up is that? Not only are they implying that people with learning disabilities are dumb, but it's also like they wanted me to just tell them that I'm lazy even though I worked my a*s off and told them as much. Twenty years later and it still makes my blood boil. 160 160points reply View More Replies... View more comments #4 having a good relationship with your own parents. wasn’t until i made good friends that i realised how lucky my relationship is with my parents bc so many of my friends did not like family life. wankybabyy , Jean-Simon Asselin Report 334points POST Robert B Robert B Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Sigh. “You too?” 4 31 31points reply View More Replies... View more comments #5 Having to hide when you’re parents are fighting, I only found out this was not normal when I went to a friends house and their parents had a argument that I expected to turn into a screaming fit just like it does with my parents. I got up expecting to have to hide with my friend before they started full on fighting. I was then informed by his concerned parents that it’s not normal to have to do that. Ok_Pressure_4462 , B. Report 321points POST Dumpsterbaby Dumpsterbaby Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I lived my life like that also. I had a friend who told his parents to stop yelling. I thought, omg heads are going to roll, but they didn't. His parents stopped and apologized to him. I was floored. 155 155points reply View More Replies... View more comments #6 Hearing music play even when you aren’t listening to anything. And no I’m not talking about when you have a song stuck in your head and it’s just your thoughts singing the lyrics, I mean actually hearing music when nothing is there.
I use to think my house was haunted by a ghost that loved to play music. Later on as I got older I thought it just happens to everyone. Until I read about “Musical Hallucinations” online and found out how rare it actually is.
And no it’s not fun. VisitSecure , bradleypjohnson Report 311points POST barn owls ️ barn owls ️ Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago wait that isn’t normal? i thought everyone had that. another thing to add to the list of “things i might have to get tested for” 86 86points reply View More Replies... View more comments #7 The ability to make a roaring noise in my ears by tensing a muscle. Jmen4Ever , David Report 306points POST BubbaLouie BubbaLouie Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago (edited) I can do this, and I can also do a really high pitched beep. (EDIT: I forgot, I can also click.) (Edit 2: I do the beep by... tensing up my jaw/chin? I don't know how it works.) 117 117points reply View More Replies... View more comments #8 I always thought when you try to talk to someone about something they do that bugs you or is just something that you feel the need to bring up because it effects you, that its normal for the person to get upset when you bring it up, and for them to disagree with you, resulting in yelling and fighting. I always thought this until I was talking with my friend about something they do that really pisses me off, and they just sat there, and thanked me for bringing it to there attention, and was completely chill about it, no yelling or argumenting. It was a weird feeling because I just kept waiting for the disagreeing and yelling to happen, and when it didn't I felt like something was missing? lol. _yUkO_IDK , Jean and Fred Hort Report 299points POST Robert B Robert B Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I’m gonna give this one an extra bump 7 39 39points reply View more comments #9 Picturing things in your head. I have a friend with aphantasia and she was flabbergasted when she realized people could visualize things in their brain. Imperfect_Beluga , Andres Alvarado Report 298points POST olx olx Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago same i was like??? so u can just see what u want when u want?? it makes me wonder how phantasic people dont instantly have a great memory 60 60points reply View More Replies... View more comments #10 Being able to blur and unblur your eyes on command evanwantsyourtoes , Dario Report 280points POST Stardust she/her Stardust she/her Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago This isn’t normal? I do it all the time 277 277points reply View More Replies... View more comments #11 I always thought the after effect for eating fresh cherries was a scratchy throat, with this weird tight feeling. Mild though but it would last about 30 minutes.
After eating 2 cherries earlier this year I ended up having a severe allergic reaction and discovered that cherries aren't meant to do that and I've just been allergic to them this whole time. ComfortableMess3145 , Luke Jones Report 272points POST Michelle Reynolds Michelle Reynolds Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Pineapple, kiwi, cantaloupe, walnuts, pecans, bananas-they all do that to me but cherries are OK luckily, 58 58points reply View More Replies... View more comments #12 I was joking around with my friends in 8th grade History and we were trying to see how many pencils we could stick into my friend's afro (with his consent) and right as I was trying to lift my arm and put the pencil in his hair one of them cracked a joke that sent us into a fit of laughter. My arms went limp and when my friends started coaxing me to put it in I told them I couldn't.
They were noticably confused, so when I regained my composure I explained that everytime I laugh, my muscles go limp and I am not be able to move them. It ranges from droopy head and weak knees, to full body collapse.
Because of the term "roll over laughing" and portrayals of people in media falling over in laughter I thought this happened to everyone, and they were just better at controlling it. My friends all agreed that it in fact did not happen to them, and that I should get it checked with a doctor.
1 year later I was diagnosed Type 1 Narcolepsy: a sleep disorder characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness, and Cataplexy. Cataplexy happens when a trigger, such as strong emotions like laughter or fear, trigger a sudden loss of muscle tone, making it difficult to move, stand, or even breathe.
I was lucky to be diagnosed as early and quick as I was, since the condition is widely unknown outside of the context of Narcolepsy patients and specialists. The symptoms of Narcolepsy are so common, in both puberty where it starts to present more heavily, and other diagnoses such and depression and anxiety. Its estimated that around 1 in 2,000 people have this disorder, and the lucky few that actually get diagnosed usually only do so later in life after 5-10+ years of multiple tests and misdiagnoses.
The takeaway from this is that if you think that other people "deal with it better" or "suck it up" or "control it better" chances are that's not normal, and you should speak up about it. Savannahisded , Melissa O'Donohue Report 270points POST Natalie H Natalie H Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago This happens to me when I’m laughing. 29 29points reply View More Replies... View more comments #13 Having to deliberately learn all your social skills. I assumed other people just got more practice, because I didn't have many friends growing up. Years of work did help me a lot, but I only recently realized most people learn these things without thinking much about it.
I'ts like the difference between glancing at a sentence and immediately getting its meaning, vs. figuring out each word letter by letter. Sterna-hirundo , S.C. Axman Report 256points POST CelticElff CelticElff Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 week ago autism spectrum? 88 88points reply View More Replies... View more comments #14 Apparently most people can't reach their entire back with their hands. I never knew backscratchers had an actual purpose. dm-me-appletun-pics , ricky montalvo Report 245points POST Chucky Cheezburger Chucky Cheezburger Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I can do this too. Apparently I'm a bit more flexible than most other folks. I can turn my feet around almost all the way backwards,put my feet behind my head and contort in a few odd ways. I thought everyone could do this. 66 66points reply View More Replies... View more comments #15 Not being able to watch Movies/Shows without Close Captions or subtitles. Also never understanding what they are sayin on the radio. Turns out, I have an Auditory Processing Disorder. If I don't see peoples lips moving my brain doesn't recognize they are words more than half the time SugarLily0420 , Cats by moonwhiskers Report 241points POST CelticElff CelticElff Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 week ago Sensory Processing Disorder (avoider) here. If two people talk to me at the same time (classical scenario: I'm on the phone but my toddler demands my attention) the voices overlap and become nonsensical noise. Drives. Me. Crazy. 112 112points reply View More Replies... View more comments #16 That most people aren't constantly aware of their heart beating, and dont get numb legs just from walking a few metres uphill, and don't lie in bed at night wondering whether they'll die in their sleep because their heart does funky things when they lay down.
Turns out I have a heart condition lol. I feel so at peace now that I'm on medication for it ceo_of_dumbassery , Bastian Greshake Tzovaras Report 237points POST alias D. alias D. Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 week ago This hits hard for a dude with brugada syndrome 34 34points reply View more comments #17 I thought it was normal for every friend group to have one person that everyone picked on for no reason. I don't mean light roasting, I mean legitimately bullying them and putting them down. My brother's friend group had one, with my brother being a primary instigator. I was the punching bag in my middle school friend group. It took until the end of high school/the beginning of college for me to actually be treated like a person and realize that friends aren't supposed to make you feel like s**t about yourself. yeetgodmcnechass , Thomas Ricker Report 231points POST Stardust she/her Stardust she/her Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I feel this. I was constantly shunned and yelled at growing up untill recently when I made actual friends who treated me nicely 70 70points reply View More Replies... View more comments #18 I’ve played violin since I was 3 years old. So, I learned the letter names of each string and the finger numbers. And, whenever I heard a song, I always thought of a letter or number with each note. To me, it was plainly obvious what each letter and number was, and my brain even expanded the letter/number system to work with cello and the entire piano range.
Turns out, not every violinist has this, let alone absolute pitch (frequency in Western countries: 1 in 10 000). When I was 20, I discovered it was synesthesia, a harmless linking of senses/concepts in the brain.
That seemed to check out since people’s faces often have smells/tastes associated with them. Mine tastes like white sugar out of the packet. My brother’s is hard boiled egg. And whenever someone mentions a particular date on a particular year, I envision a giant number line.
Also, letters have emotions. E is happy, but lowercase e is even happier. Capital N is happy but lower case n is sad. And the months of the year go in a giant counter-clockwise circle, with my birthday in October being at the bottom. 2 is sad. 3 is happy. throw_aaway7777 , Ministerio de Cultura de la Nación Report 225points POST Bird Mom Bird Mom Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago For as long as I can remember, every time i think of a date or month, this giant circular calendar pops into my head 55 55points reply View More Replies... View more comments #19 Having a whole complex of rooms in your head and about 16 people in there chilling and having convos with them
It’s all positive, they’re kinda my way of getting things out and processing thoughts and emotions
I do all sorts in my subconscious mind palace and it’s very entertaining but everyone else finds it kinda wierd. martthethird , london road Report 217points POST Construction site Panda Construction site Panda Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago (edited) I hate to reveal this secret but when I am under stress, to relax myself I make up all sorts of cringe stories in my mind but I dont write them down. But ik I will never get the most number of upvotes so my comment will be the last one in order so no one will know my secret hehe 173 173points reply View More Replies... View more comments #20 When I’m on my period, I can numb my lower half of my body so I can’t feel cramps. After talking to my friend I realized she couldn’t do it and I was just confused as I have been doing it for years. QueenBee_Here , Nenad Stojkovic Report 194points POST Tash Tash Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I would quite like this one 190 190points reply View More Replies... View more comments #21 Not everyone hears their own thoughts audibly. I only learned that last year after describing to my husband that when I’m thinking I literally hear my thoughts as if they’re being spoken outside of my body. LittleFlowers13 , GAby Report 188points POST Rod McCabe Rod McCabe Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I routinely talk to myself. When you're alone for 54 years with not one at all in life talking to yourself is almost inevitable. No family, friends, work associates, no social media contacts... no one. well I've been talking to myself ever since I could talk. And yes, I answer myself as well. Its fun. 85 85points reply View More Replies... View more comments #22 Being able to give myself goosebumps on command.
I only realised last year (I’m in my 30s) when watching Taskmaster and one of the tasks was “Give yourself goosebumps, fastest wins”, and I wondered why they didn’t all just induce them like I do.
Turns out it’s a rare ability that only 1 in 1500 people have. Dvdsmith2002 , Flóra Soós Report 185points POST TheAquarius1978 TheAquarius1978 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago That's easy, listen to a song from Eluveitie, that works everytime lol ( for those of you not in to folk metal, try " 2SFH " ( 2 steps from hell ) its Impossible to hear their músic and not getting goosebumps ) 33 33points reply View More Replies... View more comments See Also on Bored Panda Woman Shows How "Harry Potter" Characters Were Supposed To Look According To Book Descriptions (35 Pics) 50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective #23 "Man, I am having so much trouble finding out which colors to use for these letters!"
"Just... use the colors from your head."
"The what?"
"That's what I did! The head colors? Y'know?"
"N..o."
Anyways I have color-grapheme synesthesia and somehow, no one thought much of me saying that the days and months and letters and numbers all had colors. ReviLogic , Sue Thompson Report 179points POST Alice Alice Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I am so confused other people don't have this...? 32 32points reply View More Replies... View more comments #24 Normal is just the running average of weird. Indigo_Sunset , Bart Everson Report 170points POST 3 Owls In A Coat 3 Owls In A Coat Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I like this. We’re all weird, “normal” is just whatever weird thing most of us are doing. 64 64points reply View More Replies... View more comments #25 Ringing in the ears. I dont have a conscious memory of not having it. When i was about 5 years old I asked my grandma " what song does your head play?" liscbj , Paul Sableman Report 163points POST Sky Render Sky Render Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I've had tinnitus my entire life. Most of the time I just wilfully ignore it. 85 85points reply View More Replies... View more comments #26 I have a few medications I need to take for my mental health, some I need to take at night some in the morning. I've gotten into the habit of rather than reading the label for which ones I need, I will shake the bottle and know which ones to take based off of the sounds the pills make when they rattle.
Let me say I was shocked when I was informed this is not normal. fuckwormbrain , MArie Report 154points POST Rod McCabe Rod McCabe Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Thats definitely what t I do, I can just hear my pharmaceutical savior, xanax, as a beautiful music in the mornings. Panic attacks SUCK for 30 minutes and without a benzodiazapine I get attacks a couple of times a day. They're particularly insidious because you have to stop what you're doing and give your entire life (existence) to the attack. Work or home. You don't have a choice. I call anxiety and panic "cancer of the mind". Panic attacks are horrendous and completely debilitating. Not fun. Hearing that rattle in the morning is like all of the beautiful music or nature thrown into a couple of seconds of shaking. 39 39points reply View More Replies... View more comments #27 Visual snow. My whole life, my field of vision has always been covered by shifting multicolored dots of light. Similar to light snow on an old TV transmission, hence the name. I see it all of the time, I never don't see it, though it is worse in the dark, or if staring at the sky. In the dark or when I close my eyes, it is all I see. I thought everyone had this until my early 20s. smuffleupagus , M. M. Sand Report 153points POST Luluu_j Luluu_j Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I get this in the dark 45 45points reply View More Replies... View more comments #28 for YEARS i thought everyone got sick at the feeling of certain textures, kinda like seeing big bugs and stuff, like the same feeling that gives you, later learned i have a psychiatrist and therapist trying to figure out if i have adhd, or if im on the autism spectrum anon , Wendell Smith Report 152points POST Natalie H Natalie H Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago There are some clothing textures I absolutely can’t stand. They make shudder & my teeth feel funny for some reason ? 101 101points reply View More Replies... View more comments #29 Two OREO limit. That was always the serving size in our house growing up. My first binge in college was a whole sleeve of OREOs. welchbw , William Clifford Report 144points POST Bouche Clay Bouche Clay Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I wish I could do that. Although I often say it as a joke, for me, it's pretty much true that whatever is in the wrapper is one serving. 51 51points reply View More Replies... View more comments #30 Lice. Growing up I had lice almost every summer, I thought everyone got lice growing up. I thought lice was just a summer bug that we kids got! When I got with my ex and talked to him about my childhood and how we always got lice, he was SHOOK. It was apparently not normal for children to get lice on a regular basis. Kovong , Michael Wunderli Report 133points POST Frando Bone Frando Bone Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago yeah not normal. i never had it. 63 63points reply View More Replies... View more comments Note: this post originally had 43 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes. Anyone can write on Bored Panda. Start writing! Follow Bored Panda on Google News! Follow us on Flipboard.com/@boredpanda! Add Your Answer! Not your original work? Add source Publish Change image Upload Photo Ooops! Your image is too large, maximum file size is 8 MB. Upload Upload Edit Image Error occurred when generating embed. Please check link and try again. Render conversation
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POST Sardonyx_3 Sardonyx_3 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I have a CONSTANT inner monologue. It means I can't stop thinking. Yes, I've tried listening to ~calming music~ but it doesn't help. No, it doesn't mean I describe things in third-person. I just CAN'T. STOP. THINKING. Help? 36 36points reply Booklover<3 Booklover<3 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago This happens to me too. I didn't know that people could stop thinking!! What?!? 13 13points reply Load More Replies... Brian bell Brian bell Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Yeah! Like how do people... ... what is (?) how do you not think about stuff or talk to yourself all the time? What happens in between? I don't have silences. How does that even work? (I can listen to people or music or movies or whatever, but even then I am having like a conversation about what I am feeling, how I should respond, remembering stuff that relates and such...) 5 5points reply Sardonyx_3 Sardonyx_3 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago !^!^! 0 0points reply Vie Ivy Vie Ivy Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago But when people say they aren't thinking of anything, they mean anything important right? That they'll still be processing stuff or thinking silly stuff right? Are ppl able to completely turn off? 5 5points reply TheElderNom TheElderNom Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I used to be, cue anxiety and now my brain is usually working 150% all the time. 2 2points reply Reviewer UK01 Reviewer UK01 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Do you also have "tracks" so there's music in the literal back of your mind and some talking in the middle and possibly some other stuff going on at the front? On really busy days there are two front tracks and I'm desperately trying to turn the music down. This is probably why I find myself watching the TV, a second show on my tablet, reading a book and texting - and I'm also bored. My brain is used to the divisions, I guess? 7 7points reply Sardonyx_3 Sardonyx_3 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago It's like my entire *mindspace* is divided for SPECIFIC THINGS. On rare occasions, some things slip through the *barrier*. RARELY 1 1point reply ChickyChicky ChickyChicky Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Definitely have tracks. Sometimes it feels like a thought starts in the back of my head, and then switches to the front track. Having sound on in the room, usually music or white noise, helps. 0 0points reply Sardonyx_3 Sardonyx_3 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago YES 0 0points reply Arianna Arianna Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Ohh! It might be a symptom of ADHD, that happens to me too! 2 2points reply Jenn C Jenn C Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Before I got on meds for Adhd, I had the hardest time getting to sleep because my brain would NOT Shut Up 1 1point reply Sardonyx_3 Sardonyx_3 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Yep. I don't want to take the medication bc of the side effects (chances of suicidal thoughts, no thanks!). Took some about 3 months ago, took it for the full month. Seemed to do nothing :( 0 0points reply Local foodie Local foodie Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago For me it’s the exact opposite. I don’t have an inner monologue at all. I used to think they were made up for tv 2 2points reply Sardonyx_3 Sardonyx_3 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Huh. 1 1point reply leah leah Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Add another. I'm constantly narrating my own life in my head. Even as I type this I hear every word I'm going to type in my head. Trying to go to sleep is hell because it just doesn't ever turn off. 1 1point reply gingepanda gingepanda Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I have that too. My brain only shuts up when I'm ill. It means that I have to do two or three things at once to be able to concentrate on them.... I have an adhd appointment soon. 1 1point reply Jenn C Jenn C Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Getting meds for my distractive Adhd did wonders to calm my mind. I could finally fall asleep at night, without screaming shut up at my thoughts. 1 1point reply An Unpopular Opinion. An Unpopular Opinion. Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Same, it's the main reason I couldn't sleep last night, my brain refused to shut up at all 1 1point reply Angela Turrall Angela Turrall Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago (edited) Same. I can't stop it, but I find listening to ASMR videos helps turn it down for a bit, I'll listen to them for hours because they're soft but normal background noises. Also specific voices help me, for example I find Justin Hawkin's speaking voice super calming (as opposed to his music which gets me bouncing with energy). I think it could be the combo of his voice and that I don't know a lot about what he's talking about so I stop for a second to listen and learn - lucky for me he has a youtube channel so I just listen to him for hours on end. Same for a content creator called Lune Innate, I listen to her for hours too to calm the thinking. In both cases I actually repeat back in my head what they're saying, so it's a 'fake' calm. So I guess for me, the only way to actually 'stop' it, is go with it, so I listen to people with soothing voice and repeat what they're saying in my head, or bang some music on and so at least I'm only thinking the words I'm hearing. 1 1point reply Question everything Question everything Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 days ago If you're having thoughts at a high speed, thoughts accompanied by music or other thoughts in the background, it's not normal. I asked my husband. Apparently it's a thought, small pause, though, small pause etc for a normal brain. I have racing thoughts, overlapping and can't remember the topic in the middle of a discussion while I'm the one talking lol. I suggest you check the internet for symptoms of ADHD or ASD. If they fit, get tested. 0 0points reply Mybellybuttonleaksglitter Mybellybuttonleaksglitter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I do the same thing. Always have. It seems to run in my family. I can't sleep without a tv on so I put on reruns and listen to it like a bedtime story. My mind focuses and thinks about that and I can sleep. Otherwise my mind races from thought to thought allll night long 0 0points reply BenMaharaj BenMaharaj Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I can make my mind go completely blank and I only verbalize what I’m doing in my head if the task requires great concentration. Most tasks are just done with nothing I’d call a sentence floating through my head. I can and do talk to myself in my head but I can also stop if I don’t want to do it anymore. I can’t tell you how to do it. I guess I don’t associate action with words. It was surprising to me that everyone isn’t like me. 0 0points reply Sam Sam Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago (edited) Don’t know if this is a condition or if this will help you, but when I was younger this was a real problem for me and now I can mostly manage it. Things that helped me: Learn to do just one thing at a time. This is harder now than ever, but don’t watch TV, be reading BP and playing a game at the same time. Pick 1. Do that and give it your focus. Learn to do nothing. Spend some time doing nothing at all. Just lay around and listen to your thoughts. Give them space. Learn to meditate (this is truly different from the other things). This helped me the most but is definitely hard and took a long time. Edited to add: if they keep you awake at night, I now use them to make “bedtime stories” in my own head. So I still am thinking, but as a movie/storyline instead of just wandering stressful thoughts that keep me from sleeping. 0 0points reply Sardonyx_3 Sardonyx_3 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Hmm! I sometimes try to bend the crazy-running free thoughts into a dream I want to have that night. Never works, but at least I can mostly listen to what I want. Although, if I'm not focusing on it, it can just spiral off and I can't get it back to its original state of complete control. i.e. dinosaurs walking to a tree (~~) The tree is now a pineapple, which sometimes looks like a tree don't you think? What color were the dinosaurs? Ooo I'm hungry for pizza even though it's 10:05 PM... vfvnfuinfi 0 0points reply Sam Sam Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago So that’s the trick for me, too. If I stop thinking along those lines I still get, o there was a bunny in the field, and it was grey and grey clouds, wait those looked like a grey dragon and o how to tame a dragon…. But then I try to pick my story back up. Even now sometimes it will take me a while to get to sleep, but unless I’m totally stressed it’s not every night anymore. :) 0 0points reply DJR DJR Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 week ago Have you tried looking at a candle? It sounds silly, but for me it's just enough to keep my attention without thinking about anything. 0 0points reply Sardonyx_3 Sardonyx_3 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Hm. There's no way I can look at a candle now... (and I can't download apps on my phone :( ) I DO calm down when I focus on candle flames tho :) 0 0points reply BonnyDK BonnyDK Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I dream full length mostly movies with complete dialogue, scenes, and other characters. Sometimes they start right before I fall asleep so I consciously know they are beginning. Seconds before. If you wake me up in the middle of the night I can tell you everything going on and who said what. In the morning I only remember bits and pieces. They are shows I have never seen before anywhere. Sometimes they repeat themselves. There was one inside a dark mansion with lots of hallways upstairs that repeated for months. I walked quickly trying to get out but never finding a way. Another that repeated was a soldier standing at the foot of my bed as if he was guarding me. He wore a WWll uniform. So strange. 13 13points reply Omiyaru Omiyaru Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago (edited) Had that occur Wirth some dream about an dystopian anime with an antro-wolf, basically escaping a slave trade, one scene Involved a high class train (fully furnished with velvet seat cushions, wood tables, upholstery the works) one scene involved the wolf being forced to serve nude, leading the wolf stabbing one pug guard in the eye with a shrimp fork. The intro to that "series" was all bright and cheerful. Had its own theme song, the wolf character lounge across title. It was seriously messed up, and bloody as hell. But definitely went a full 360, going from suspense to action in 3 seconds 1 1point reply Load More Replies... Devin Singh Devin Singh Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I'm the opposite. I'm lucky if I get one dream every two years. 0 0points reply Rowan/Vin Rowan/Vin Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Sameee. Luckily I daydream enough for the entire population so it balances out 0 0points reply BonnyDK BonnyDK Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Start the dream before you fall asleep. Start the story. Pretend you are on a precipice. Tall mountain with a ledge going out. Clouds just below the ledge so thick you can't see through them. Gently fall turning to your back as you slowly melt through the clouds. It takes a few minutes but you fall like a cat and land on your feet in a crouch. There are people around you all joining in. Let the action begin. Take it from there. Do things you have always wanted to do. Go where you have always wanted to go. It's your story after all... 0 0points reply Kassi Kassi Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Yay! I'm not the only one! 0 0points reply Melissa TO Melissa TO Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I love it when I dream like that. Super vivid! It's like I've escaped to my own fantasy land. Sometimes its amazing with bright colors and amazing flowers and animals. Other times it can be horribly frightening with strange creatures and strange rivers full of goop to slog through. But I have learned to appreciate both kinds because they are both amazing in their own ways, and usually mean that I'm sleeping deeply for once. 0 0points reply BonnyDK BonnyDK Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Mine are like real life. I’m always the main character. Some fantasy action movies. I don’t dream horror. I don’t like watching it either. Yes I sleep pretty deep when I’m dreaming like that. I have not run into many people that dream like that. It definitely keeps my active mind occupied. 0 0points reply BonnyDK BonnyDK Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago *full length movies 0 0points reply Peppermallow Peppermallow Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I’ve never known how complete strangers can start clapping in synch with each other when music comes on. A television ad came on one day for a Bruno Mars album. There were people in monkey suits moving in time to each other, I commented how much practice it must have taken to synch up their movements so perfectly. My wife said “they are in time to the music”. I had no idea. To me there is no connection between dancing and music. Sometimes called Beat Deafness, I found out I have Amusia, which is sort of like a musical equivalent of dyslexia 8 8points reply Load More Comments POST Sardonyx_3 Sardonyx_3 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I have a CONSTANT inner monologue. It means I can't stop thinking. Yes, I've tried listening to ~calming music~ but it doesn't help. No, it doesn't mean I describe things in third-person. I just CAN'T. STOP. THINKING. Help? 36 36points reply Booklover<3 Booklover<3 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago This happens to me too. I didn't know that people could stop thinking!! What?!? 13 13points reply Load More Replies... Brian bell Brian bell Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Yeah! Like how do people... ... what is (?) how do you not think about stuff or talk to yourself all the time? What happens in between? I don't have silences. How does that even work? (I can listen to people or music or movies or whatever, but even then I am having like a conversation about what I am feeling, how I should respond, remembering stuff that relates and such...) 5 5points reply Sardonyx_3 Sardonyx_3 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago !^!^! 0 0points reply Vie Ivy Vie Ivy Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago But when people say they aren't thinking of anything, they mean anything important right? That they'll still be processing stuff or thinking silly stuff right? Are ppl able to completely turn off? 5 5points reply TheElderNom TheElderNom Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I used to be, cue anxiety and now my brain is usually working 150% all the time. 2 2points reply Reviewer UK01 Reviewer UK01 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Do you also have "tracks" so there's music in the literal back of your mind and some talking in the middle and possibly some other stuff going on at the front? On really busy days there are two front tracks and I'm desperately trying to turn the music down. This is probably why I find myself watching the TV, a second show on my tablet, reading a book and texting - and I'm also bored. My brain is used to the divisions, I guess? 7 7points reply Sardonyx_3 Sardonyx_3 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago It's like my entire *mindspace* is divided for SPECIFIC THINGS. On rare occasions, some things slip through the *barrier*. RARELY 1 1point reply ChickyChicky ChickyChicky Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Definitely have tracks. Sometimes it feels like a thought starts in the back of my head, and then switches to the front track. Having sound on in the room, usually music or white noise, helps. 0 0points reply Sardonyx_3 Sardonyx_3 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago YES 0 0points reply Arianna Arianna Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Ohh! It might be a symptom of ADHD, that happens to me too! 2 2points reply Jenn C Jenn C Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Before I got on meds for Adhd, I had the hardest time getting to sleep because my brain would NOT Shut Up 1 1point reply Sardonyx_3 Sardonyx_3 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Yep. I don't want to take the medication bc of the side effects (chances of suicidal thoughts, no thanks!). Took some about 3 months ago, took it for the full month. Seemed to do nothing :( 0 0points reply Local foodie Local foodie Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago For me it’s the exact opposite. I don’t have an inner monologue at all. I used to think they were made up for tv 2 2points reply Sardonyx_3 Sardonyx_3 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Huh. 1 1point reply leah leah Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Add another. I'm constantly narrating my own life in my head. Even as I type this I hear every word I'm going to type in my head. Trying to go to sleep is hell because it just doesn't ever turn off. 1 1point reply gingepanda gingepanda Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I have that too. My brain only shuts up when I'm ill. It means that I have to do two or three things at once to be able to concentrate on them.... I have an adhd appointment soon. 1 1point reply Jenn C Jenn C Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Getting meds for my distractive Adhd did wonders to calm my mind. I could finally fall asleep at night, without screaming shut up at my thoughts. 1 1point reply An Unpopular Opinion. An Unpopular Opinion. Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Same, it's the main reason I couldn't sleep last night, my brain refused to shut up at all 1 1point reply Angela Turrall Angela Turrall Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago (edited) Same. I can't stop it, but I find listening to ASMR videos helps turn it down for a bit, I'll listen to them for hours because they're soft but normal background noises. Also specific voices help me, for example I find Justin Hawkin's speaking voice super calming (as opposed to his music which gets me bouncing with energy). I think it could be the combo of his voice and that I don't know a lot about what he's talking about so I stop for a second to listen and learn - lucky for me he has a youtube channel so I just listen to him for hours on end. Same for a content creator called Lune Innate, I listen to her for hours too to calm the thinking. In both cases I actually repeat back in my head what they're saying, so it's a 'fake' calm. So I guess for me, the only way to actually 'stop' it, is go with it, so I listen to people with soothing voice and repeat what they're saying in my head, or bang some music on and so at least I'm only thinking the words I'm hearing. 1 1point reply Question everything Question everything Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 days ago If you're having thoughts at a high speed, thoughts accompanied by music or other thoughts in the background, it's not normal. I asked my husband. Apparently it's a thought, small pause, though, small pause etc for a normal brain. I have racing thoughts, overlapping and can't remember the topic in the middle of a discussion while I'm the one talking lol. I suggest you check the internet for symptoms of ADHD or ASD. If they fit, get tested. 0 0points reply Mybellybuttonleaksglitter Mybellybuttonleaksglitter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I do the same thing. Always have. It seems to run in my family. I can't sleep without a tv on so I put on reruns and listen to it like a bedtime story. My mind focuses and thinks about that and I can sleep. Otherwise my mind races from thought to thought allll night long 0 0points reply BenMaharaj BenMaharaj Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I can make my mind go completely blank and I only verbalize what I’m doing in my head if the task requires great concentration. Most tasks are just done with nothing I’d call a sentence floating through my head. I can and do talk to myself in my head but I can also stop if I don’t want to do it anymore. I can’t tell you how to do it. I guess I don’t associate action with words. It was surprising to me that everyone isn’t like me. 0 0points reply Sam Sam Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago (edited) Don’t know if this is a condition or if this will help you, but when I was younger this was a real problem for me and now I can mostly manage it. Things that helped me: Learn to do just one thing at a time. This is harder now than ever, but don’t watch TV, be reading BP and playing a game at the same time. Pick 1. Do that and give it your focus. Learn to do nothing. Spend some time doing nothing at all. Just lay around and listen to your thoughts. Give them space. Learn to meditate (this is truly different from the other things). This helped me the most but is definitely hard and took a long time. Edited to add: if they keep you awake at night, I now use them to make “bedtime stories” in my own head. So I still am thinking, but as a movie/storyline instead of just wandering stressful thoughts that keep me from sleeping. 0 0points reply Sardonyx_3 Sardonyx_3 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Hmm! I sometimes try to bend the crazy-running free thoughts into a dream I want to have that night. Never works, but at least I can mostly listen to what I want. Although, if I'm not focusing on it, it can just spiral off and I can't get it back to its original state of complete control. i.e. dinosaurs walking to a tree (~~) The tree is now a pineapple, which sometimes looks like a tree don't you think? What color were the dinosaurs? Ooo I'm hungry for pizza even though it's 10:05 PM... vfvnfuinfi 0 0points reply Sam Sam Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago So that’s the trick for me, too. If I stop thinking along those lines I still get, o there was a bunny in the field, and it was grey and grey clouds, wait those looked like a grey dragon and o how to tame a dragon…. But then I try to pick my story back up. Even now sometimes it will take me a while to get to sleep, but unless I’m totally stressed it’s not every night anymore. :) 0 0points reply DJR DJR Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 week ago Have you tried looking at a candle? It sounds silly, but for me it's just enough to keep my attention without thinking about anything. 0 0points reply Sardonyx_3 Sardonyx_3 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Hm. There's no way I can look at a candle now... (and I can't download apps on my phone :( ) I DO calm down when I focus on candle flames tho :) 0 0points reply BonnyDK BonnyDK Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I dream full length mostly movies with complete dialogue, scenes, and other characters. Sometimes they start right before I fall asleep so I consciously know they are beginning. Seconds before. If you wake me up in the middle of the night I can tell you everything going on and who said what. In the morning I only remember bits and pieces. They are shows I have never seen before anywhere. Sometimes they repeat themselves. There was one inside a dark mansion with lots of hallways upstairs that repeated for months. I walked quickly trying to get out but never finding a way. Another that repeated was a soldier standing at the foot of my bed as if he was guarding me. He wore a WWll uniform. So strange. 13 13points reply Omiyaru Omiyaru Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago (edited) Had that occur Wirth some dream about an dystopian anime with an antro-wolf, basically escaping a slave trade, one scene Involved a high class train (fully furnished with velvet seat cushions, wood tables, upholstery the works) one scene involved the wolf being forced to serve nude, leading the wolf stabbing one pug guard in the eye with a shrimp fork. The intro to that "series" was all bright and cheerful. Had its own theme song, the wolf character lounge across title. It was seriously messed up, and bloody as hell. But definitely went a full 360, going from suspense to action in 3 seconds 1 1point reply Load More Replies... Devin Singh Devin Singh Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I'm the opposite. I'm lucky if I get one dream every two years. 0 0points reply Rowan/Vin Rowan/Vin Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Sameee. Luckily I daydream enough for the entire population so it balances out 0 0points reply BonnyDK BonnyDK Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Start the dream before you fall asleep. Start the story. Pretend you are on a precipice. Tall mountain with a ledge going out. Clouds just below the ledge so thick you can't see through them. Gently fall turning to your back as you slowly melt through the clouds. It takes a few minutes but you fall like a cat and land on your feet in a crouch. There are people around you all joining in. Let the action begin. Take it from there. Do things you have always wanted to do. Go where you have always wanted to go. It's your story after all... 0 0points reply Kassi Kassi Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Yay! I'm not the only one! 0 0points reply Melissa TO Melissa TO Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I love it when I dream like that. Super vivid! It's like I've escaped to my own fantasy land. Sometimes its amazing with bright colors and amazing flowers and animals. Other times it can be horribly frightening with strange creatures and strange rivers full of goop to slog through. But I have learned to appreciate both kinds because they are both amazing in their own ways, and usually mean that I'm sleeping deeply for once. 0 0points reply BonnyDK BonnyDK Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Mine are like real life. I’m always the main character. Some fantasy action movies. I don’t dream horror. I don’t like watching it either. Yes I sleep pretty deep when I’m dreaming like that. I have not run into many people that dream like that. It definitely keeps my active mind occupied. 0 0points reply BonnyDK BonnyDK Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago *full length movies 0 0points reply Peppermallow Peppermallow Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I’ve never known how complete strangers can start clapping in synch with each other when music comes on. A television ad came on one day for a Bruno Mars album. There were people in monkey suits moving in time to each other, I commented how much practice it must have taken to synch up their movements so perfectly. My wife said “they are in time to the music”. I had no idea. To me there is no connection between dancing and music. Sometimes called Beat Deafness, I found out I have Amusia, which is sort of like a musical equivalent of dyslexia 8 8points reply Load More Comments Popular on Bored Panda I Used AI To See What These 23 Popular Cartoon Characters Would Look Like In Real Life 30 Y.O. 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Publish Not your original work? Add source We all have some things about ourselves that might seem weird to others. Maybe we have peculiar eating habits, and we see or do some things differently. And these things might seem like a norm to us. But what if one day you realize that what you thought to be a regular thing is actually a pretty rare occurrence for others? Reddit user @u/ComfortableMess3145 was curious to know what were some things that people thought to be normal until they realized that they aren't. The question that received 1.3K answers got some interesting responses. A lot of people shared that for the longest time, they didn't know they had a certain condition such as astigmatism, ADHD, or some kind of allergy. Other users revealed that their "not normal thing" usually came from their household. The examples included being expected to always ask for every little thing instead of just taking or doing it, or being used to big family fights. Do you have something to add to this list? Don't forget to leave your thoughts in the comments down below! More Info: Reddit This post may include affiliate links. #1 Subconsciously adapting my speech patterns to whoever is around me. I'll start picking up their accent, words they use frequently, etc. Turns out, this is a common thing neurodiverse people, and it's more seen in women if I'm not mistaken. It could cause me issues, however. Thing is, I'm much more self conscious about this when I talk to black people, bc I'm white... And I swear I'm not trying to do a "blaccent" on purpose. It just... Kind of happens. Upbeat-Quality1421 , j dunlap Report 489points POST Deborah Harris2 Deborah Harris2 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 week ago I'm the same x 161 161points reply View More Replies... View more comments #2 I have astigmatism so I see light in streaks. For the longest time I thought that was how everyone saw it. Onirity , lgbsneak Report 446points POST Ms.M. Ms.M. Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 week ago Me too! 106 106points reply View More Replies... View more comments #3 Not everyone struggles to concentrate on a task or have the mental energy to take care of things. Apparently I have ADD. I found out two years ago life didn’t have to be a daily struggle when I started taking a medication for a sleep problem and one of its off label uses is to treat ADD.
I was actually told repeatedly as a kid I had ADHD but they always told me it was my fault and treated it as if the issue was voluntary. So I grew up believing I was just a lazy day dreamer who gets overly stressed by having too many tasks. I’ve lived my life thinking everyone else was better than me because they can get things done. Nope, I’ve just need meds my entire life. Now I wonder how different my childhood would have been if I had been treated back then. DeaddyRuxpin , fotologic Report 364points POST Lisa H Lisa H Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I need to get tested for this once and for all. My school failed me hard for this. They said that I'm "too smart to have a learning disability." How messed up is that? Not only are they implying that people with learning disabilities are dumb, but it's also like they wanted me to just tell them that I'm lazy even though I worked my a*s off and told them as much. Twenty years later and it still makes my blood boil. 160 160points reply View More Replies... View more comments #4 having a good relationship with your own parents. wasn’t until i made good friends that i realised how lucky my relationship is with my parents bc so many of my friends did not like family life. wankybabyy , Jean-Simon Asselin Report 334points POST Robert B Robert B Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Sigh. “You too?” 4 31 31points reply View More Replies... View more comments #5 Having to hide when you’re parents are fighting, I only found out this was not normal when I went to a friends house and their parents had a argument that I expected to turn into a screaming fit just like it does with my parents. I got up expecting to have to hide with my friend before they started full on fighting. I was then informed by his concerned parents that it’s not normal to have to do that. Ok_Pressure_4462 , B. Report 321points POST Dumpsterbaby Dumpsterbaby Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I lived my life like that also. I had a friend who told his parents to stop yelling. I thought, omg heads are going to roll, but they didn't. His parents stopped and apologized to him. I was floored. 155 155points reply View More Replies... View more comments #6 Hearing music play even when you aren’t listening to anything. And no I’m not talking about when you have a song stuck in your head and it’s just your thoughts singing the lyrics, I mean actually hearing music when nothing is there.
I use to think my house was haunted by a ghost that loved to play music. Later on as I got older I thought it just happens to everyone. Until I read about “Musical Hallucinations” online and found out how rare it actually is.
And no it’s not fun. VisitSecure , bradleypjohnson Report 311points POST barn owls ️ barn owls ️ Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago wait that isn’t normal? i thought everyone had that. another thing to add to the list of “things i might have to get tested for” 86 86points reply View More Replies... View more comments #7 The ability to make a roaring noise in my ears by tensing a muscle. Jmen4Ever , David Report 306points POST BubbaLouie BubbaLouie Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago (edited) I can do this, and I can also do a really high pitched beep. (EDIT: I forgot, I can also click.) (Edit 2: I do the beep by... tensing up my jaw/chin? I don't know how it works.) 117 117points reply View More Replies... View more comments #8 I always thought when you try to talk to someone about something they do that bugs you or is just something that you feel the need to bring up because it effects you, that its normal for the person to get upset when you bring it up, and for them to disagree with you, resulting in yelling and fighting. I always thought this until I was talking with my friend about something they do that really pisses me off, and they just sat there, and thanked me for bringing it to there attention, and was completely chill about it, no yelling or argumenting. It was a weird feeling because I just kept waiting for the disagreeing and yelling to happen, and when it didn't I felt like something was missing? lol. _yUkO_IDK , Jean and Fred Hort Report 299points POST Robert B Robert B Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I’m gonna give this one an extra bump 7 39 39points reply View more comments #9 Picturing things in your head. I have a friend with aphantasia and she was flabbergasted when she realized people could visualize things in their brain. Imperfect_Beluga , Andres Alvarado Report 298points POST olx olx Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago same i was like??? so u can just see what u want when u want?? it makes me wonder how phantasic people dont instantly have a great memory 60 60points reply View More Replies... View more comments #10 Being able to blur and unblur your eyes on command evanwantsyourtoes , Dario Report 280points POST Stardust she/her Stardust she/her Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago This isn’t normal? I do it all the time 277 277points reply View More Replies... View more comments #11 I always thought the after effect for eating fresh cherries was a scratchy throat, with this weird tight feeling. Mild though but it would last about 30 minutes.
After eating 2 cherries earlier this year I ended up having a severe allergic reaction and discovered that cherries aren't meant to do that and I've just been allergic to them this whole time. ComfortableMess3145 , Luke Jones Report 272points POST Michelle Reynolds Michelle Reynolds Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Pineapple, kiwi, cantaloupe, walnuts, pecans, bananas-they all do that to me but cherries are OK luckily, 58 58points reply View More Replies... View more comments #12 I was joking around with my friends in 8th grade History and we were trying to see how many pencils we could stick into my friend's afro (with his consent) and right as I was trying to lift my arm and put the pencil in his hair one of them cracked a joke that sent us into a fit of laughter. My arms went limp and when my friends started coaxing me to put it in I told them I couldn't.
They were noticably confused, so when I regained my composure I explained that everytime I laugh, my muscles go limp and I am not be able to move them. It ranges from droopy head and weak knees, to full body collapse.
Because of the term "roll over laughing" and portrayals of people in media falling over in laughter I thought this happened to everyone, and they were just better at controlling it. My friends all agreed that it in fact did not happen to them, and that I should get it checked with a doctor.
1 year later I was diagnosed Type 1 Narcolepsy: a sleep disorder characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness, and Cataplexy. Cataplexy happens when a trigger, such as strong emotions like laughter or fear, trigger a sudden loss of muscle tone, making it difficult to move, stand, or even breathe.
I was lucky to be diagnosed as early and quick as I was, since the condition is widely unknown outside of the context of Narcolepsy patients and specialists. The symptoms of Narcolepsy are so common, in both puberty where it starts to present more heavily, and other diagnoses such and depression and anxiety. Its estimated that around 1 in 2,000 people have this disorder, and the lucky few that actually get diagnosed usually only do so later in life after 5-10+ years of multiple tests and misdiagnoses.
The takeaway from this is that if you think that other people "deal with it better" or "suck it up" or "control it better" chances are that's not normal, and you should speak up about it. Savannahisded , Melissa O'Donohue Report 270points POST Natalie H Natalie H Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago This happens to me when I’m laughing. 29 29points reply View More Replies... View more comments #13 Having to deliberately learn all your social skills. I assumed other people just got more practice, because I didn't have many friends growing up. Years of work did help me a lot, but I only recently realized most people learn these things without thinking much about it.
I'ts like the difference between glancing at a sentence and immediately getting its meaning, vs. figuring out each word letter by letter. Sterna-hirundo , S.C. Axman Report 256points POST CelticElff CelticElff Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 week ago autism spectrum? 88 88points reply View More Replies... View more comments #14 Apparently most people can't reach their entire back with their hands. I never knew backscratchers had an actual purpose. dm-me-appletun-pics , ricky montalvo Report 245points POST Chucky Cheezburger Chucky Cheezburger Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I can do this too. Apparently I'm a bit more flexible than most other folks. I can turn my feet around almost all the way backwards,put my feet behind my head and contort in a few odd ways. I thought everyone could do this. 66 66points reply View More Replies... View more comments #15 Not being able to watch Movies/Shows without Close Captions or subtitles. Also never understanding what they are sayin on the radio. Turns out, I have an Auditory Processing Disorder. If I don't see peoples lips moving my brain doesn't recognize they are words more than half the time SugarLily0420 , Cats by moonwhiskers Report 241points POST CelticElff CelticElff Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 week ago Sensory Processing Disorder (avoider) here. If two people talk to me at the same time (classical scenario: I'm on the phone but my toddler demands my attention) the voices overlap and become nonsensical noise. Drives. Me. Crazy. 112 112points reply View More Replies... View more comments #16 That most people aren't constantly aware of their heart beating, and dont get numb legs just from walking a few metres uphill, and don't lie in bed at night wondering whether they'll die in their sleep because their heart does funky things when they lay down.
Turns out I have a heart condition lol. I feel so at peace now that I'm on medication for it ceo_of_dumbassery , Bastian Greshake Tzovaras Report 237points POST alias D. alias D. Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 week ago This hits hard for a dude with brugada syndrome 34 34points reply View more comments #17 I thought it was normal for every friend group to have one person that everyone picked on for no reason. I don't mean light roasting, I mean legitimately bullying them and putting them down. My brother's friend group had one, with my brother being a primary instigator. I was the punching bag in my middle school friend group. It took until the end of high school/the beginning of college for me to actually be treated like a person and realize that friends aren't supposed to make you feel like s**t about yourself. yeetgodmcnechass , Thomas Ricker Report 231points POST Stardust she/her Stardust she/her Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I feel this. I was constantly shunned and yelled at growing up untill recently when I made actual friends who treated me nicely 70 70points reply View More Replies... View more comments #18 I’ve played violin since I was 3 years old. So, I learned the letter names of each string and the finger numbers. And, whenever I heard a song, I always thought of a letter or number with each note. To me, it was plainly obvious what each letter and number was, and my brain even expanded the letter/number system to work with cello and the entire piano range.
Turns out, not every violinist has this, let alone absolute pitch (frequency in Western countries: 1 in 10 000). When I was 20, I discovered it was synesthesia, a harmless linking of senses/concepts in the brain.
That seemed to check out since people’s faces often have smells/tastes associated with them. Mine tastes like white sugar out of the packet. My brother’s is hard boiled egg. And whenever someone mentions a particular date on a particular year, I envision a giant number line.
Also, letters have emotions. E is happy, but lowercase e is even happier. Capital N is happy but lower case n is sad. And the months of the year go in a giant counter-clockwise circle, with my birthday in October being at the bottom. 2 is sad. 3 is happy. throw_aaway7777 , Ministerio de Cultura de la Nación Report 225points POST Bird Mom Bird Mom Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago For as long as I can remember, every time i think of a date or month, this giant circular calendar pops into my head 55 55points reply View More Replies... View more comments #19 Having a whole complex of rooms in your head and about 16 people in there chilling and having convos with them
It’s all positive, they’re kinda my way of getting things out and processing thoughts and emotions
I do all sorts in my subconscious mind palace and it’s very entertaining but everyone else finds it kinda wierd. martthethird , london road Report 217points POST Construction site Panda Construction site Panda Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago (edited) I hate to reveal this secret but when I am under stress, to relax myself I make up all sorts of cringe stories in my mind but I dont write them down. But ik I will never get the most number of upvotes so my comment will be the last one in order so no one will know my secret hehe 173 173points reply View More Replies... View more comments #20 When I’m on my period, I can numb my lower half of my body so I can’t feel cramps. After talking to my friend I realized she couldn’t do it and I was just confused as I have been doing it for years. QueenBee_Here , Nenad Stojkovic Report 194points POST Tash Tash Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I would quite like this one 190 190points reply View More Replies... View more comments #21 Not everyone hears their own thoughts audibly. I only learned that last year after describing to my husband that when I’m thinking I literally hear my thoughts as if they’re being spoken outside of my body. LittleFlowers13 , GAby Report 188points POST Rod McCabe Rod McCabe Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I routinely talk to myself. When you're alone for 54 years with not one at all in life talking to yourself is almost inevitable. No family, friends, work associates, no social media contacts... no one. well I've been talking to myself ever since I could talk. And yes, I answer myself as well. Its fun. 85 85points reply View More Replies... View more comments #22 Being able to give myself goosebumps on command.
I only realised last year (I’m in my 30s) when watching Taskmaster and one of the tasks was “Give yourself goosebumps, fastest wins”, and I wondered why they didn’t all just induce them like I do.
Turns out it’s a rare ability that only 1 in 1500 people have. Dvdsmith2002 , Flóra Soós Report 185points POST TheAquarius1978 TheAquarius1978 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago That's easy, listen to a song from Eluveitie, that works everytime lol ( for those of you not in to folk metal, try " 2SFH " ( 2 steps from hell ) its Impossible to hear their músic and not getting goosebumps ) 33 33points reply View More Replies... View more comments See Also on Bored Panda Woman Shows How "Harry Potter" Characters Were Supposed To Look According To Book Descriptions (35 Pics) 50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective #23 "Man, I am having so much trouble finding out which colors to use for these letters!"
"Just... use the colors from your head."
"The what?"
"That's what I did! The head colors? Y'know?"
"N..o."
Anyways I have color-grapheme synesthesia and somehow, no one thought much of me saying that the days and months and letters and numbers all had colors. ReviLogic , Sue Thompson Report 179points POST Alice Alice Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I am so confused other people don't have this...? 32 32points reply View More Replies... View more comments #24 Normal is just the running average of weird. Indigo_Sunset , Bart Everson Report 170points POST 3 Owls In A Coat 3 Owls In A Coat Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I like this. We’re all weird, “normal” is just whatever weird thing most of us are doing. 64 64points reply View More Replies... View more comments #25 Ringing in the ears. I dont have a conscious memory of not having it. When i was about 5 years old I asked my grandma " what song does your head play?" liscbj , Paul Sableman Report 163points POST Sky Render Sky Render Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I've had tinnitus my entire life. Most of the time I just wilfully ignore it. 85 85points reply View More Replies... View more comments #26 I have a few medications I need to take for my mental health, some I need to take at night some in the morning. I've gotten into the habit of rather than reading the label for which ones I need, I will shake the bottle and know which ones to take based off of the sounds the pills make when they rattle.
Let me say I was shocked when I was informed this is not normal. fuckwormbrain , MArie Report 154points POST Rod McCabe Rod McCabe Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Thats definitely what t I do, I can just hear my pharmaceutical savior, xanax, as a beautiful music in the mornings. Panic attacks SUCK for 30 minutes and without a benzodiazapine I get attacks a couple of times a day. They're particularly insidious because you have to stop what you're doing and give your entire life (existence) to the attack. Work or home. You don't have a choice. I call anxiety and panic "cancer of the mind". Panic attacks are horrendous and completely debilitating. Not fun. Hearing that rattle in the morning is like all of the beautiful music or nature thrown into a couple of seconds of shaking. 39 39points reply View More Replies... View more comments #27 Visual snow. My whole life, my field of vision has always been covered by shifting multicolored dots of light. Similar to light snow on an old TV transmission, hence the name. I see it all of the time, I never don't see it, though it is worse in the dark, or if staring at the sky. In the dark or when I close my eyes, it is all I see. I thought everyone had this until my early 20s. smuffleupagus , M. M. Sand Report 153points POST Luluu_j Luluu_j Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I get this in the dark 45 45points reply View More Replies... View more comments #28 for YEARS i thought everyone got sick at the feeling of certain textures, kinda like seeing big bugs and stuff, like the same feeling that gives you, later learned i have a psychiatrist and therapist trying to figure out if i have adhd, or if im on the autism spectrum anon , Wendell Smith Report 152points POST Natalie H Natalie H Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago There are some clothing textures I absolutely can’t stand. They make shudder & my teeth feel funny for some reason ? 101 101points reply View More Replies... View more comments #29 Two OREO limit. That was always the serving size in our house growing up. My first binge in college was a whole sleeve of OREOs. welchbw , William Clifford Report 144points POST Bouche Clay Bouche Clay Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I wish I could do that. Although I often say it as a joke, for me, it's pretty much true that whatever is in the wrapper is one serving. 51 51points reply View More Replies... View more comments #30 Lice. Growing up I had lice almost every summer, I thought everyone got lice growing up. I thought lice was just a summer bug that we kids got! When I got with my ex and talked to him about my childhood and how we always got lice, he was SHOOK. It was apparently not normal for children to get lice on a regular basis. Kovong , Michael Wunderli Report 133points POST Frando Bone Frando Bone Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago yeah not normal. i never had it. 63 63points reply View More Replies... View more comments Note: this post originally had 43 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes. Anyone can write on Bored Panda. Start writing! Follow Bored Panda on Google News! Follow us on Flipboard.com/@boredpanda! Add Your Answer! Not your original work? Add source Publish Change image Upload Photo Ooops! Your image is too large, maximum file size is 8 MB. Upload Upload Edit Image Error occurred when generating embed. Please check link and try again. Render conversation
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POST Sardonyx_3 Sardonyx_3 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I have a CONSTANT inner monologue. It means I can't stop thinking. Yes, I've tried listening to ~calming music~ but it doesn't help. No, it doesn't mean I describe things in third-person. I just CAN'T. STOP. THINKING. Help? 36 36points reply Booklover<3 Booklover<3 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago This happens to me too. I didn't know that people could stop thinking!! What?!? 13 13points reply Load More Replies... Brian bell Brian bell Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Yeah! Like how do people... ... what is (?) how do you not think about stuff or talk to yourself all the time? What happens in between? I don't have silences. How does that even work? (I can listen to people or music or movies or whatever, but even then I am having like a conversation about what I am feeling, how I should respond, remembering stuff that relates and such...) 5 5points reply Sardonyx_3 Sardonyx_3 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago !^!^! 0 0points reply Vie Ivy Vie Ivy Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago But when people say they aren't thinking of anything, they mean anything important right? That they'll still be processing stuff or thinking silly stuff right? Are ppl able to completely turn off? 5 5points reply TheElderNom TheElderNom Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I used to be, cue anxiety and now my brain is usually working 150% all the time. 2 2points reply Reviewer UK01 Reviewer UK01 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Do you also have "tracks" so there's music in the literal back of your mind and some talking in the middle and possibly some other stuff going on at the front? On really busy days there are two front tracks and I'm desperately trying to turn the music down. This is probably why I find myself watching the TV, a second show on my tablet, reading a book and texting - and I'm also bored. My brain is used to the divisions, I guess? 7 7points reply Sardonyx_3 Sardonyx_3 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago It's like my entire *mindspace* is divided for SPECIFIC THINGS. On rare occasions, some things slip through the *barrier*. RARELY 1 1point reply ChickyChicky ChickyChicky Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Definitely have tracks. Sometimes it feels like a thought starts in the back of my head, and then switches to the front track. Having sound on in the room, usually music or white noise, helps. 0 0points reply Sardonyx_3 Sardonyx_3 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago YES 0 0points reply Arianna Arianna Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Ohh! It might be a symptom of ADHD, that happens to me too! 2 2points reply Jenn C Jenn C Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Before I got on meds for Adhd, I had the hardest time getting to sleep because my brain would NOT Shut Up 1 1point reply Sardonyx_3 Sardonyx_3 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Yep. I don't want to take the medication bc of the side effects (chances of suicidal thoughts, no thanks!). Took some about 3 months ago, took it for the full month. Seemed to do nothing :( 0 0points reply Local foodie Local foodie Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago For me it’s the exact opposite. I don’t have an inner monologue at all. I used to think they were made up for tv 2 2points reply Sardonyx_3 Sardonyx_3 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Huh. 1 1point reply leah leah Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Add another. I'm constantly narrating my own life in my head. Even as I type this I hear every word I'm going to type in my head. Trying to go to sleep is hell because it just doesn't ever turn off. 1 1point reply gingepanda gingepanda Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I have that too. My brain only shuts up when I'm ill. It means that I have to do two or three things at once to be able to concentrate on them.... I have an adhd appointment soon. 1 1point reply Jenn C Jenn C Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Getting meds for my distractive Adhd did wonders to calm my mind. I could finally fall asleep at night, without screaming shut up at my thoughts. 1 1point reply An Unpopular Opinion. An Unpopular Opinion. Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Same, it's the main reason I couldn't sleep last night, my brain refused to shut up at all 1 1point reply Angela Turrall Angela Turrall Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago (edited) Same. I can't stop it, but I find listening to ASMR videos helps turn it down for a bit, I'll listen to them for hours because they're soft but normal background noises. Also specific voices help me, for example I find Justin Hawkin's speaking voice super calming (as opposed to his music which gets me bouncing with energy). I think it could be the combo of his voice and that I don't know a lot about what he's talking about so I stop for a second to listen and learn - lucky for me he has a youtube channel so I just listen to him for hours on end. Same for a content creator called Lune Innate, I listen to her for hours too to calm the thinking. In both cases I actually repeat back in my head what they're saying, so it's a 'fake' calm. So I guess for me, the only way to actually 'stop' it, is go with it, so I listen to people with soothing voice and repeat what they're saying in my head, or bang some music on and so at least I'm only thinking the words I'm hearing. 1 1point reply Question everything Question everything Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 days ago If you're having thoughts at a high speed, thoughts accompanied by music or other thoughts in the background, it's not normal. I asked my husband. Apparently it's a thought, small pause, though, small pause etc for a normal brain. I have racing thoughts, overlapping and can't remember the topic in the middle of a discussion while I'm the one talking lol. I suggest you check the internet for symptoms of ADHD or ASD. If they fit, get tested. 0 0points reply Mybellybuttonleaksglitter Mybellybuttonleaksglitter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I do the same thing. Always have. It seems to run in my family. I can't sleep without a tv on so I put on reruns and listen to it like a bedtime story. My mind focuses and thinks about that and I can sleep. Otherwise my mind races from thought to thought allll night long 0 0points reply BenMaharaj BenMaharaj Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I can make my mind go completely blank and I only verbalize what I’m doing in my head if the task requires great concentration. Most tasks are just done with nothing I’d call a sentence floating through my head. I can and do talk to myself in my head but I can also stop if I don’t want to do it anymore. I can’t tell you how to do it. I guess I don’t associate action with words. It was surprising to me that everyone isn’t like me. 0 0points reply Sam Sam Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago (edited) Don’t know if this is a condition or if this will help you, but when I was younger this was a real problem for me and now I can mostly manage it. Things that helped me: Learn to do just one thing at a time. This is harder now than ever, but don’t watch TV, be reading BP and playing a game at the same time. Pick 1. Do that and give it your focus. Learn to do nothing. Spend some time doing nothing at all. Just lay around and listen to your thoughts. Give them space. Learn to meditate (this is truly different from the other things). This helped me the most but is definitely hard and took a long time. Edited to add: if they keep you awake at night, I now use them to make “bedtime stories” in my own head. So I still am thinking, but as a movie/storyline instead of just wandering stressful thoughts that keep me from sleeping. 0 0points reply Sardonyx_3 Sardonyx_3 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Hmm! I sometimes try to bend the crazy-running free thoughts into a dream I want to have that night. Never works, but at least I can mostly listen to what I want. Although, if I'm not focusing on it, it can just spiral off and I can't get it back to its original state of complete control. i.e. dinosaurs walking to a tree (~~) The tree is now a pineapple, which sometimes looks like a tree don't you think? What color were the dinosaurs? Ooo I'm hungry for pizza even though it's 10:05 PM... vfvnfuinfi 0 0points reply Sam Sam Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago So that’s the trick for me, too. If I stop thinking along those lines I still get, o there was a bunny in the field, and it was grey and grey clouds, wait those looked like a grey dragon and o how to tame a dragon…. But then I try to pick my story back up. Even now sometimes it will take me a while to get to sleep, but unless I’m totally stressed it’s not every night anymore. :) 0 0points reply DJR DJR Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 week ago Have you tried looking at a candle? It sounds silly, but for me it's just enough to keep my attention without thinking about anything. 0 0points reply Sardonyx_3 Sardonyx_3 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Hm. There's no way I can look at a candle now... (and I can't download apps on my phone :( ) I DO calm down when I focus on candle flames tho :) 0 0points reply BonnyDK BonnyDK Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I dream full length mostly movies with complete dialogue, scenes, and other characters. Sometimes they start right before I fall asleep so I consciously know they are beginning. Seconds before. If you wake me up in the middle of the night I can tell you everything going on and who said what. In the morning I only remember bits and pieces. They are shows I have never seen before anywhere. Sometimes they repeat themselves. There was one inside a dark mansion with lots of hallways upstairs that repeated for months. I walked quickly trying to get out but never finding a way. Another that repeated was a soldier standing at the foot of my bed as if he was guarding me. He wore a WWll uniform. So strange. 13 13points reply Omiyaru Omiyaru Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago (edited) Had that occur Wirth some dream about an dystopian anime with an antro-wolf, basically escaping a slave trade, one scene Involved a high class train (fully furnished with velvet seat cushions, wood tables, upholstery the works) one scene involved the wolf being forced to serve nude, leading the wolf stabbing one pug guard in the eye with a shrimp fork. The intro to that "series" was all bright and cheerful. Had its own theme song, the wolf character lounge across title. It was seriously messed up, and bloody as hell. But definitely went a full 360, going from suspense to action in 3 seconds 1 1point reply Load More Replies... Devin Singh Devin Singh Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I'm the opposite. I'm lucky if I get one dream every two years. 0 0points reply Rowan/Vin Rowan/Vin Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Sameee. Luckily I daydream enough for the entire population so it balances out 0 0points reply BonnyDK BonnyDK Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Start the dream before you fall asleep. Start the story. Pretend you are on a precipice. Tall mountain with a ledge going out. Clouds just below the ledge so thick you can't see through them. Gently fall turning to your back as you slowly melt through the clouds. It takes a few minutes but you fall like a cat and land on your feet in a crouch. There are people around you all joining in. Let the action begin. Take it from there. Do things you have always wanted to do. Go where you have always wanted to go. It's your story after all... 0 0points reply Kassi Kassi Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Yay! I'm not the only one! 0 0points reply Melissa TO Melissa TO Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I love it when I dream like that. Super vivid! It's like I've escaped to my own fantasy land. Sometimes its amazing with bright colors and amazing flowers and animals. Other times it can be horribly frightening with strange creatures and strange rivers full of goop to slog through. But I have learned to appreciate both kinds because they are both amazing in their own ways, and usually mean that I'm sleeping deeply for once. 0 0points reply BonnyDK BonnyDK Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Mine are like real life. I’m always the main character. Some fantasy action movies. I don’t dream horror. I don’t like watching it either. Yes I sleep pretty deep when I’m dreaming like that. I have not run into many people that dream like that. It definitely keeps my active mind occupied. 0 0points reply BonnyDK BonnyDK Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago *full length movies 0 0points reply Peppermallow Peppermallow Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I’ve never known how complete strangers can start clapping in synch with each other when music comes on. A television ad came on one day for a Bruno Mars album. There were people in monkey suits moving in time to each other, I commented how much practice it must have taken to synch up their movements so perfectly. My wife said “they are in time to the music”. I had no idea. To me there is no connection between dancing and music. Sometimes called Beat Deafness, I found out I have Amusia, which is sort of like a musical equivalent of dyslexia 8 8points reply Load More Comments POST Sardonyx_3 Sardonyx_3 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I have a CONSTANT inner monologue. It means I can't stop thinking. Yes, I've tried listening to ~calming music~ but it doesn't help. No, it doesn't mean I describe things in third-person. I just CAN'T. STOP. THINKING. Help? 36 36points reply Booklover<3 Booklover<3 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago This happens to me too. I didn't know that people could stop thinking!! What?!? 13 13points reply Load More Replies... Brian bell Brian bell Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Yeah! Like how do people... ... what is (?) how do you not think about stuff or talk to yourself all the time? What happens in between? I don't have silences. How does that even work? (I can listen to people or music or movies or whatever, but even then I am having like a conversation about what I am feeling, how I should respond, remembering stuff that relates and such...) 5 5points reply Sardonyx_3 Sardonyx_3 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago !^!^! 0 0points reply Vie Ivy Vie Ivy Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago But when people say they aren't thinking of anything, they mean anything important right? That they'll still be processing stuff or thinking silly stuff right? Are ppl able to completely turn off? 5 5points reply TheElderNom TheElderNom Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I used to be, cue anxiety and now my brain is usually working 150% all the time. 2 2points reply Reviewer UK01 Reviewer UK01 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Do you also have "tracks" so there's music in the literal back of your mind and some talking in the middle and possibly some other stuff going on at the front? On really busy days there are two front tracks and I'm desperately trying to turn the music down. This is probably why I find myself watching the TV, a second show on my tablet, reading a book and texting - and I'm also bored. My brain is used to the divisions, I guess? 7 7points reply Sardonyx_3 Sardonyx_3 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago It's like my entire *mindspace* is divided for SPECIFIC THINGS. On rare occasions, some things slip through the *barrier*. RARELY 1 1point reply ChickyChicky ChickyChicky Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Definitely have tracks. Sometimes it feels like a thought starts in the back of my head, and then switches to the front track. Having sound on in the room, usually music or white noise, helps. 0 0points reply Sardonyx_3 Sardonyx_3 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago YES 0 0points reply Arianna Arianna Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Ohh! It might be a symptom of ADHD, that happens to me too! 2 2points reply Jenn C Jenn C Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Before I got on meds for Adhd, I had the hardest time getting to sleep because my brain would NOT Shut Up 1 1point reply Sardonyx_3 Sardonyx_3 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Yep. I don't want to take the medication bc of the side effects (chances of suicidal thoughts, no thanks!). Took some about 3 months ago, took it for the full month. Seemed to do nothing :( 0 0points reply Local foodie Local foodie Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago For me it’s the exact opposite. I don’t have an inner monologue at all. I used to think they were made up for tv 2 2points reply Sardonyx_3 Sardonyx_3 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Huh. 1 1point reply leah leah Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Add another. I'm constantly narrating my own life in my head. Even as I type this I hear every word I'm going to type in my head. Trying to go to sleep is hell because it just doesn't ever turn off. 1 1point reply gingepanda gingepanda Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I have that too. My brain only shuts up when I'm ill. It means that I have to do two or three things at once to be able to concentrate on them.... I have an adhd appointment soon. 1 1point reply Jenn C Jenn C Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Getting meds for my distractive Adhd did wonders to calm my mind. I could finally fall asleep at night, without screaming shut up at my thoughts. 1 1point reply An Unpopular Opinion. An Unpopular Opinion. Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Same, it's the main reason I couldn't sleep last night, my brain refused to shut up at all 1 1point reply Angela Turrall Angela Turrall Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago (edited) Same. I can't stop it, but I find listening to ASMR videos helps turn it down for a bit, I'll listen to them for hours because they're soft but normal background noises. Also specific voices help me, for example I find Justin Hawkin's speaking voice super calming (as opposed to his music which gets me bouncing with energy). I think it could be the combo of his voice and that I don't know a lot about what he's talking about so I stop for a second to listen and learn - lucky for me he has a youtube channel so I just listen to him for hours on end. Same for a content creator called Lune Innate, I listen to her for hours too to calm the thinking. In both cases I actually repeat back in my head what they're saying, so it's a 'fake' calm. So I guess for me, the only way to actually 'stop' it, is go with it, so I listen to people with soothing voice and repeat what they're saying in my head, or bang some music on and so at least I'm only thinking the words I'm hearing. 1 1point reply Question everything Question everything Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 days ago If you're having thoughts at a high speed, thoughts accompanied by music or other thoughts in the background, it's not normal. I asked my husband. Apparently it's a thought, small pause, though, small pause etc for a normal brain. I have racing thoughts, overlapping and can't remember the topic in the middle of a discussion while I'm the one talking lol. I suggest you check the internet for symptoms of ADHD or ASD. If they fit, get tested. 0 0points reply Mybellybuttonleaksglitter Mybellybuttonleaksglitter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I do the same thing. Always have. It seems to run in my family. I can't sleep without a tv on so I put on reruns and listen to it like a bedtime story. My mind focuses and thinks about that and I can sleep. Otherwise my mind races from thought to thought allll night long 0 0points reply BenMaharaj BenMaharaj Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I can make my mind go completely blank and I only verbalize what I’m doing in my head if the task requires great concentration. Most tasks are just done with nothing I’d call a sentence floating through my head. I can and do talk to myself in my head but I can also stop if I don’t want to do it anymore. I can’t tell you how to do it. I guess I don’t associate action with words. It was surprising to me that everyone isn’t like me. 0 0points reply Sam Sam Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago (edited) Don’t know if this is a condition or if this will help you, but when I was younger this was a real problem for me and now I can mostly manage it. Things that helped me: Learn to do just one thing at a time. This is harder now than ever, but don’t watch TV, be reading BP and playing a game at the same time. Pick 1. Do that and give it your focus. Learn to do nothing. Spend some time doing nothing at all. Just lay around and listen to your thoughts. Give them space. Learn to meditate (this is truly different from the other things). This helped me the most but is definitely hard and took a long time. Edited to add: if they keep you awake at night, I now use them to make “bedtime stories” in my own head. So I still am thinking, but as a movie/storyline instead of just wandering stressful thoughts that keep me from sleeping. 0 0points reply Sardonyx_3 Sardonyx_3 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Hmm! I sometimes try to bend the crazy-running free thoughts into a dream I want to have that night. Never works, but at least I can mostly listen to what I want. Although, if I'm not focusing on it, it can just spiral off and I can't get it back to its original state of complete control. i.e. dinosaurs walking to a tree (~~) The tree is now a pineapple, which sometimes looks like a tree don't you think? What color were the dinosaurs? Ooo I'm hungry for pizza even though it's 10:05 PM... vfvnfuinfi 0 0points reply Sam Sam Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago So that’s the trick for me, too. If I stop thinking along those lines I still get, o there was a bunny in the field, and it was grey and grey clouds, wait those looked like a grey dragon and o how to tame a dragon…. But then I try to pick my story back up. Even now sometimes it will take me a while to get to sleep, but unless I’m totally stressed it’s not every night anymore. :) 0 0points reply DJR DJR Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 week ago Have you tried looking at a candle? It sounds silly, but for me it's just enough to keep my attention without thinking about anything. 0 0points reply Sardonyx_3 Sardonyx_3 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Hm. There's no way I can look at a candle now... (and I can't download apps on my phone :( ) I DO calm down when I focus on candle flames tho :) 0 0points reply BonnyDK BonnyDK Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I dream full length mostly movies with complete dialogue, scenes, and other characters. Sometimes they start right before I fall asleep so I consciously know they are beginning. Seconds before. If you wake me up in the middle of the night I can tell you everything going on and who said what. In the morning I only remember bits and pieces. They are shows I have never seen before anywhere. Sometimes they repeat themselves. There was one inside a dark mansion with lots of hallways upstairs that repeated for months. I walked quickly trying to get out but never finding a way. Another that repeated was a soldier standing at the foot of my bed as if he was guarding me. He wore a WWll uniform. So strange. 13 13points reply Omiyaru Omiyaru Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago (edited) Had that occur Wirth some dream about an dystopian anime with an antro-wolf, basically escaping a slave trade, one scene Involved a high class train (fully furnished with velvet seat cushions, wood tables, upholstery the works) one scene involved the wolf being forced to serve nude, leading the wolf stabbing one pug guard in the eye with a shrimp fork. The intro to that "series" was all bright and cheerful. Had its own theme song, the wolf character lounge across title. It was seriously messed up, and bloody as hell. But definitely went a full 360, going from suspense to action in 3 seconds 1 1point reply Load More Replies... Devin Singh Devin Singh Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I'm the opposite. I'm lucky if I get one dream every two years. 0 0points reply Rowan/Vin Rowan/Vin Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Sameee. Luckily I daydream enough for the entire population so it balances out 0 0points reply BonnyDK BonnyDK Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Start the dream before you fall asleep. Start the story. Pretend you are on a precipice. Tall mountain with a ledge going out. Clouds just below the ledge so thick you can't see through them. Gently fall turning to your back as you slowly melt through the clouds. It takes a few minutes but you fall like a cat and land on your feet in a crouch. There are people around you all joining in. Let the action begin. Take it from there. Do things you have always wanted to do. Go where you have always wanted to go. It's your story after all... 0 0points reply Kassi Kassi Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Yay! I'm not the only one! 0 0points reply Melissa TO Melissa TO Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I love it when I dream like that. Super vivid! It's like I've escaped to my own fantasy land. Sometimes its amazing with bright colors and amazing flowers and animals. Other times it can be horribly frightening with strange creatures and strange rivers full of goop to slog through. But I have learned to appreciate both kinds because they are both amazing in their own ways, and usually mean that I'm sleeping deeply for once. 0 0points reply BonnyDK BonnyDK Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago Mine are like real life. I’m always the main character. Some fantasy action movies. I don’t dream horror. I don’t like watching it either. Yes I sleep pretty deep when I’m dreaming like that. I have not run into many people that dream like that. It definitely keeps my active mind occupied. 0 0points reply BonnyDK BonnyDK Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago *full length movies 0 0points reply Peppermallow Peppermallow Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 week ago I’ve never known how complete strangers can start clapping in synch with each other when music comes on. A television ad came on one day for a Bruno Mars album. There were people in monkey suits moving in time to each other, I commented how much practice it must have taken to synch up their movements so perfectly. My wife said “they are in time to the music”. I had no idea. To me there is no connection between dancing and music. Sometimes called Beat Deafness, I found out I have Amusia, which is sort of like a musical equivalent of dyslexia 8 8points reply Load More Comments Popular on Bored Panda I Used AI To See What These 23 Popular Cartoon Characters Would Look Like In Real Life 30 Y.O. 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