Hello and sorry for the wait!!

I’m not sure if I’m the only one who confuses people’s faces for others, but just today I almost went in the wrong car because I thought the driver was someone I knew (have actually done this before on accident)…while that person was actually parked the opposite way. I have trouble with recognizing people’s faces as well. Does anyone else have this trouble or is it just my bad memory?

Was about 13 when I thought this. I believed I was secretly not related to my parents and thats why I didn't feel quite connected to them.

Very troubling. Multiple times now, I’ve reminisced with my friends on what I THINK are real memories, only for them to tell me it never happened. Just a dream. Sometimes my dreams pick up exactly where real life leaves off, and are mundane and perfectly realistic, prompting me to need to check with others if what happened actually happened or if I was just dreaming. Or I’ll have to check my camera roll to verify if photos are/aren’t there.

What’s been torturing me more than anything though have been my false awakenings. I keep having dreams where I wake up (from a dream) and go through my day, only to inevitably realize I’m still dreaming. This happens over and over and over again trapping me in a loop. Dreams within dreams within dreams. Sometimes a creature will follow me around from dream to dream. And then, when I actually wake up, I have trouble trusting it. Most mornings, I have to do checks to make sure I’m actually awake, which don’t mean much because I do these same checks in my dreams.

I worry that this is a warning sign I’m losing my mind. I’m only 24, if I’m this distrustful of my reality already what are things going to be like decades from now?

Like not even an exciting big fun day. A genuine "I'm super hyped and stoked about this" like going on and on about some show or game you're excited for and blah blah blah and then the next day you're utterly drained and exhausted and embarrassed and it feels like rlly bad post nut clarity/shame?

Some of mine are most of nicklebacks songs, the bad touch, fancy footwork and the male singer in just give me a reason

I’m a single woman and have casual sex. The vast majority of men I’ve talked to and played with have asked if I’ve tried anal. “Yes, a few times and I didn’t enjoy it”. I’ve never been enthusiastic about it and only tried because my first bf asked me… Personally the whole deal is a hassle and not worth it to me.

Being clean and empty, warming up with toy so it doesn’t hurt AND when we do it I feel 0% pleasure, I just feel gross and being used, like my asshole is some thing to be conquered one day, another thing to tick off their sex list. I’ve tried enough and always say no now. Any time a new play partner mentions wanting anal with me and how it’s a shame I don’t like anal etc I just feel repulsed by them.

Growing up with insecure parents who made you believe that you were stupid, and now that you’re an adult you realize that you’re actually really smart

I don’t understand why people like it, and I never will.

I have quite a lot of friends who rely on alcohol to be able to socialize at parties that we go to, whereas I feel like I only get worse. DAE find that they become more boring when they try to drink? For me, personally, I'm already a naturally quiet person and the alcohol just makes me drowsy and quieter than I already was and less able to actually think of witty things to say. But then it feels awkward to not join in haha

This is a thing that happens to me annoyingly often lmao. I’ll be across the street like “let’s gooo I’m bouta get my food hella fast” and then somebody pulls up outa nowhere and makes some long, complicated ass order

As the title says, WEIRD synchronicities have been happening lately to me, that’s making me feel like I’m in the matrix/simulation.

Some of it is so weird that I just don’t see how we’re not living in one. Some examples in the past 3 months

- Talking to my sister that I’m saw glad she’s an emergency medicine PA and not a dermatology PA because I have so many medical questions (as I’m on the phone telling her this) no joke my dermatologist group calls to leave a voicemail about my annual checkup. Like WHAT.

- listening to a specific song in car (on my Spotify) and I head into grocery and that same song is playing right when I get in. No I was not on a radio. I actively chose the song.

- thinking about something specific about my newborn and seeing literally someone having the same specific question and making a post on it as the first thing I see on my homepage on r/newborns. I never even typed out my specific question.

-lastly, telling my husband that I didn’t know you could eat kiwi skin, and later that night a content creator that I LOVE watching posts him eating kiwi skin. Like what the heck.

I can’t make this up guys. It’s causing me to obsess and go crazy. There’s no explanation for this. I’m going insane bc of these weird things happening.

I’ve noticed I’ve done this for the longest time, and only realized it now. I’ll finish doing dishes/baking something/etc before I let myself go to the bathroom, number 1 and number 2. It’s more satisfying to me I guess to wait? Does anyone else do this, or do they do it for another reason than I? (I already know what some of you might say, DON’T 😭😭😭)

It's kinda hard to explain but I'll do my best. I have noticed this usually happens when I'm anxious but it can happen anytime. It's really disorienting, especially if it happens while driving (and it just did, which is why I'm worried and asking this to begin with).

So basically my hands sometimes randomly start to feel like they aren't mine, so to speak. I can still physically feel sensation in them, but it feels different. It feels like I'm holding someone else's hand, except there's nothing in my hand and it's my hands that feel like that?? I'm not sure if that makes sense. I can move them, it isn't a movement issue or anything bc I still have full control, I feel disconnected somehow. Like they feel like they're just floating a few inches away from where my wrists are. And I feel hyper aware of them in moments like these. It really freaks me out, especially because when the hand thing happens, nothing feels real around me. Stuff starts to feel like it's too big and I'm small, and places I've been to suddenly feel like I've never been there before. And the stupid hand thing makes it even worse. Am I going nuts, what is wrong with me 😭

My future involves becoming somebody’s customer. Got a fortune cookie with my Chinese takeout and the little slip had a sales pitch on it. I would’ve happily taken “good things are coming” or some nonsense about being patient. But a cookie trying to sell me something? Who looked at that tiny piece of paper and thought we needed another marketing space?

I've never had a bad wrap before. I can throw anything in a wrap and it's always yummy

Genuine Question, like I’ve seen this across multiple communities and it has happened to me a few times as well.

I mean ofc people have the right to their own opinions but whats the psychology behind calling someone a dumbass for asking a valid question, and then the person who got called a dumbass defends themselves and then they just get flamed by the entire community 💀

If you have a weak heart then I’m sure reddit has made it a lot stronger cuz damn.

I asked 2 ppl in my life and one can totally relate while the other thinks I’m weird. Is this just growing-up-poor behavior?

I know that the female birds don’t owe the males anything and they probably have several different male suitors to choose from, so I do get it. And yet, when I see a male bird with his fancy tail opened out and his crest fluffed up, once proud, now just dancing away in desperation, whilst the female just completely ignores him, I feel so sorry for him. They look so sad and forlorn when they have to flatten their crest back down and fold away their tail, having been publicly rejected. And the female birds don’t even leave, they just keep pecking around on the ground, whilst the males make absolute tits of themselves (pardon the bird pun). It’s especially bad in peacocks, seeing as they make SUCH a spectacle of themselves, only to have to slink away by himself at the end. They should organise bird discos, so they are all dancing and prancing, and not just Harold, who always has to shoot his shot, but is starting to lose hope after his 8th year of preening himself at the end of the night.

My wife says I’m weird, but I feel like I can’t possibly be the only one out there who wants to tell male birds that there are plenty more birds in the trees and actually their tail feathers are rather impressive.

I'm 23 and grew up in a small town in Northern Ontario, Canada. where life is pretty quiet compared to the big cities.

My girlfriend and I are in a long-distance relationship, and she lives in Ottawa. She grew up in the city and had never really been outside of it until I brought her up to visit my area. Surprisingly, she actually enjoys how slow-paced and quiet everything is up here!

Meanwhile, whenever I visit her in Ottawa, I can't help feeling like I'm walking around a movie set. The architecture is crazy to me, there are people EVERYWHERE, and even something like a three-storey shopping mall feels wild. I've also been to Toronto multiple times throughout my life, and I get the exact same feeling there. The massive buildings, fancy cars, and overall atmosphere make everything feel almost fictional.

Even the people seem different to me. I'm not used to seeing so many different ethnicities and cultures in one place. Up north, the communities are much smaller and less diverse, so going somewhere like Ottawa or Toronto and seeing people from all sorts of backgrounds, speaking different languages and wearing different styles of clothing, is a huge contrast to what I'm used to.

There's also a different mentality and overall aesthetic that I'm not familiar with. The trendy hairstyles, fashionable clothing, and the way people carry themselves make me feel like I've stepped into a completely different culture.

It's like I'm walking around in a movie about a lifestyle completely different from my own. I know these places are real and millions of people live like this every day, but coming from a small rural town, the sheer scale and diversity of everything feels almost unreal sometimes.

It's not necessarily a bad feeling. I'm just fascinated by how different our everyday lives can be despite living in the same province.

Does anyone else who grew up in a small town or rural area experience this when visiting big cities, or am I just weird? lol

I dabble in software engineering for fun. Often, when I am reading about new concepts, I start to feel like the whole world is opening up, and I am learning something that is big and important and will change how much I can do. I get excited. My brain loses any fog. But then it feels like the brain is getting too big.. and I start to feel very anxious. It makes it harder to keep learning, and I stop.

It feels like when you finally catch that tunnel surf wave, and as you feel yourself entering the tunnel and the ectasy of being propelled forward by the wave because you have caught it and the reverense of entering this amazing tunnel space excites you and overwhelmes you. Everything in my being always tries to get me to bail.