weird thoughts is it just me?????

[loopyc]

do you have split second werid thoughts occassionally? i do for example if im standing on the top of a hill i will think shall i throw myself off just to see what happens? (yes i know what will happen) they only last for a split second. do you have weird thoughts like this or is it just werid little me?

[Kate77]

Oh what about when someone says

Dont touch that plate its hot?

and we all do

[stylinsam]

lmao @ kate77 soo true lol!

[Supernick]

I don't know redcrx!
I've also always imagined myself out of all sorts of terrorist /deadly situations (even well before 9/11). I'm sat on a train and I'll be thinking "What would I do if a grenade got thrown through the window?" I will hopefully never need to know.
I wish I could read other people's thoughts.

[Supernick]

The urge to throw yourself off things or under things is common with phobias. Taken from Wikipedia:

Acrophobia (from Greek meaning "summit") is an extreme or irrational fear of heights.

Acrophobia can be dangerous, as sufferers can experience a panic attack in a high place and become too agitated to get themselves down safely. Some acrophobics also suffer from urges to throw themselves off high places, despite not being suicidal.

[mccfluff]

what about the urge to stick your hand in the garabage disposal thingy at the side of the sink whilst its turned on? or is that just me x

[4getmenot]

I think you're probably on your own there fluff :-)

[flipflop104]

I ALWAYS have an urge to jump in water - no matter how high I am (am scared of the feeling of falling - so that would be silly!!) or how cold it is or how deep it is or how filthy it - just have this urge. My gf was really worried one night when she woke up in the middle of the night on a ferry and I wasn't in the room. lol

I also have an urge occaisionally to just be in my office or in the corridor and scream really loud or shout. I have luckily managed to hold onto this urge otherwise I'm sure they'd all think I was insane.

Sometime (and this is my least desirable), I feel like having a right, good, furious, shouting go at someone if they don't do something simple (say thanx when I open the door) or if they knock into me (just a little bit). it feels like all this rage has built up in me form other people's little things as well and I wanna to take it out on one person in that one tiny but VERY MAD moment - luckily this does seems to pass in a split second. LOL

[yellowduck]

I'm exactly the same - it's almsot like I'm daring myself to commit sucide or just do something totally off the wall (am fairly concervative). Like I've often been driving and just been genuinly inclined, for a split second, to crash into a wall or a tree or something. It only lasts a second though and then I feel really nervous afterwards just at the thought of having had that thought if you know what I mean! Would like to point out that I'm not at all suicidal btw! I also find that if I'm walking down a flight of stairs, I see myself tripping down them and so I end up having to take them really slowly. It's so strange.

[loopyc]

so glad i posted this question i feel normal now although i dont look it sitting here laughing so much i nearly did a little wee!!! thank you everyone for making me laugh so much xx

[gloop]

I used to walk across a bridge over a canal on the way to work and I used to get urges to throw my new mobile phone or my glasses in the water. I have very very bad eyesight without my glasses and would probably have to be guided home if I had thrown them! I sometimes just wanted to jump in too.

[redcrx]

go on loopy, i bet you are just sat there wondering if you can making yourself giggle so much that you wee lol

[loopyc]

redcrx i think you no my to well you weirdo x

[AB Editor]

so THIS is the 'weird Q' - yes, I do get weird thoughts. I sort of panic that someone will push me in front of a tube train or that I'll slip just when one is pulling into the station. not nice!

[whiskeysheri]

God!! I thought it was just me! Phew! I do it all... especially the hot plate and paint thing.

LMAO @ Supernick! :o)

[loopyc]

thank you ed.

[andy-hughes]

As posts here confirm, these 'split second' thoughts are very common,m but few people voice them because of a fear of being thought odd or irrantional.

We holiday in Spain most years at the same hotel, and we always have a high floor - 9 or 10 - overlooking the Med. I enjoy the view, but i can only sit on the balcony for about five minutes before i feel the urge to jump. I know that I won't, but the feeling is strong enough to make me feel uncomfortable. i could no more sleep on a balcony than fly to the moon!

[Pippa68]

I fear I am even weirder than you lot..yes, I do have those 'I want to jump off a balcony' urges..but my worst weirdo thoughts are like this:

Walking along a pavement, I see a puddle of vomit/pile of poo..would I eat it if

A) I was offered a million quid or
B) someones life depended on it

Now I am gonna slink off and try some sane thinking!!!

[muppeteer]

if i go on an airplane i get the urge to pull the lever & open the hatch.

i have to stop from pouring water down the back of the computer

i also have to fight the urge to say wierd things like this to people as they wont understand (so glad to have found you people & let it all out!)

i think its not because we are wierd or 'touched' in any way- its like understanding for just a moment the fragility of life & experiencing wonder & awe at the potential disaster we could cause but have the power to choose not to do so.

[joko]

the theory behind this is akin to tourettes.

tourettes sufferers are unable to prevent themselves performing unecessary and inappropriate and somewhat offensive actions and words, due to certain areas of their brains not acting as a 'firewall' and stopping it.

it is the same thing with these urges - except we have the power to stop us acting these things out - our receptor are working. (also it is a learnt thing obviously)

it is completely normal - think of the child who says in a loud voice in the supermarket - 'that lady is ugly' or takes from another child with no remorse, or punches them, as they don't have the inhibitors that come with age - they just do or say the first thing that comes to them.

[wooo12]

i must say this is a really good question. i feel so bloody normal. i do the driving thing too. like what would happen if i just stopped streering at a bend? then feel weird after thinking 'why would u think that u FrEaK child!!?'

feel so much better !