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I'm not entirely sure what this list is. Maybe because nobody is entirely sure of it. Can anyone be?
Now, sure, you can dig deep into explanations, theories and hypotheses, but, for a moment, stop and think to yourself: is it truly that, or is it just a plot hole and so let's laugh about it and move on with our lives?
Whatever the case may be, folks online have been discussing the biggest of reality's plot holes that, if you ponder hard enough, will eventually drive you to madness. Probably. Kinda. Don't quote me on it.
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#1
Most mainstream religions aim to teach values about human decency. Yet they are mostly used to discriminate other people...
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#2
“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life.” - Jean-Luc Picard
#3
You can only buy used mirrors.
#4
That we only know people as they appear to be to us, not as they really are to themselves.
#5
When you wake up, you forget your dreams. But when you are dreaming, you forget reality, so which one is the truth?
Nice Beast Ludo 1 year ago
Well since reality wakes in the same place everyday and your dreams send you off somewhere different every night I'm inclined to day reality is real
#6
The Moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, and the Sun is 400 times further from the Earth than the Moon is. This is what allows solar eclipse' to occur.
Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
That's what allows a "Total" eclipse to occur. If the moon were smaller or further away, it would be a transit; nearer or larger, it would be an occultation.
#7
Consciousness. We go to sleep or pass out and it's just suddenly daytime? No, where's the wait!? I want 8 hours of lucid dreaming, damn it, I don't wanna wake up immediately!
It's like hitting the "skip cutscene" button or spamming A to jump through dialogue, it feels like someone's skipping something important.
Mimi La Souris 1 year ago
that's a part of my difficulty to go to sleep, i don't wanna be tomorrow so soon
StrangeOne 1 year ago
But then I really regret it when I pass out in a deep, lucid dream 2 hours before I have to get up.
Mimi La Souris 1 year ago
thank you for caring :) (why downvoting ? ) it's not anxiety, it's toooooo short days :D
Bec 1 year ago
I've only been under anesthesia once and found that disquieting. It is not like falling asleep and waking up, more like off then on!
The only Plueschopossum 1 year ago
Maybe it depends on the stuff they give you. I don't know. My last time with (short-time) anesthesia I felt it kick in and was dizzy for a few seconds. Then followed some vivid and nice dreaming. When I woke up I felt heavy and tired for a while - like you feel when your alarm clock yanks you out of very deep sleep.
Strawberry Pizza 1 year ago
I think it's because REM sleep, the bit where you dream, is very brief in comparison to the deep, cleansing sleep that your brain spends most of the night in. Not a sleep expert tho.
StrangeOne 1 year ago
That would make sense. The times I had very lucid dreams that felt long are the mornings when I feel like I hadn't slept much at all.
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Isabelle Lamarque 1 year ago
The only way to remember a dream is when you woke up slightly during the night. If you sleep all the way through you won't remember anything ☺️ And that came.from people at the sleeping lab where I got tested 🤗
StrangeOne 1 year ago
In my experience, not necessarily. It's the dreams that I suddenly woken up from that quickly elude me. The way I understand it is that when you're dreaming, your brain is "organizing" all this information that's been on your mind. In normal dreams, the information is translated into random, weird images. Any information that is not of use you'll end up forgetting the dream. The information that's unresolved or ongoing will be remembered. Some dreams can be burned into your memories for many years. I still remember quite a few nightmares I had when I was a toddler. Now that I'm older and understand the world and my family better, I've realized my brain was definitely telling me something important that I need to know. Plus, the images were very disturbing in some of them. Ever get chased around by your butcher knife welding step-dad around your living room because he wants to cut the top of your head? Yeah, that was a very early nightmare I had when I was 3.
jdtimid123 1 year ago
Idk, Ive had some pretty crazy dreams I don't think I'd have thought of if I were awake.
boone williams 1 year ago
I just go back to work in my dreams, then wake up and go back to work in real life.
Wandering_Frog 1 year ago
I have intense dreams after hitting snooze button. In 10 min. it feels like 1 hour.
Nikki Sevven 1 year ago
Time is relative. When you're enjoying yourself, an hour seems like a minute. When you're miserable, a minute seems like an hour. When you're asleep, you have no perception of time because you're not experiencing it, so it temporarily doesn't exist for you.
OogieBoogie 1 year ago
It's the simulation not giving you any processing time/memory for dreaming, so your algorithm just gets restarted after 6-8 hours.
Allen Lavine 1 year ago
Researchers estimate that the average person spends about two hours dreaming each night. REM sleep periods early in the night generally last about 10 minutes and gradually increase in length throughout the night to a maximum of about one hour.
TheGoodBoi 1 year ago
*skip ad* I like being able to go to sleep and wake up with hours gone by. Really loved it as a child when we were leaving for vacation the next morning!
#8
How did they get that car into the middle of the mall.
Jennifer Clayton 1 year ago
I sold cars years ago. They get them into buildings and showrooms by driving them through a big door or glass wall that unlocks.. It's nerve wracking when there's a few centimeters of clearance on either side and the vehicle is expensive and fragile.
#9
Inner voice and sight? I can hear it but not with my ears. I can see it but not with my eyes? I don't understand how this works.
#10
What was before the big bang? Before that? And that? And that?and so on. Whats beyond nothing?
Stardust she/her 1 year ago
There was no time before the Big Bang so this means that there isn’t really a “before”
#11
Human consciousness. Like at some point in time you just go from being an unconscious ball of semi functional flesh to conscious human being. Like I'm sorry, what?
sofacushionfort 1 year ago (edited)
From my experience with many people,I’m not convinced this applies to everyone (myself not excepted)
#12
The Planck Unit exists. In theoretical maths, we can divide a number infinitely. In reality, there's a smallest possible "something" that you can divide to, the Planck Unit. Remember relativity, a unit of space is equivalent to a unit of time. They're not two different things, rather two different ways of measuring one thing. This means there's a smallest possible distance to traverse, and a smallest unit of time to do so...the universe is NOT analog! It has a FRAME RATE AND A PIXEL RESOLUTION.
That s**t is bananas...
detective miller's hat 1 year ago
my brain can barely process telling the difference between a 9 and a 6.
#13
Me walking in a room and completely forgetting what i went into that room for.
#14
I have four children, one just graduated high school, one just graduated college. One is already done with his first year of middle school. My youngest just turned 9 and a half years old, closing in on 10. She is actually wearing an old dance outfit that originally belonged to the oldest. I told her "hey, that used to be your sister's."
What am I getting at? Time can move so slowly at times, especially when you are waiting for something to happen. But then you get to be middle aged like I am now and you look back and it just seems like it went by in a flash.
Let me give an example that might be more universal. I work in education. We just had the absolutely weirdest, most bonkers and difficult school year probably of my entire career. Lots of tedious, difficult, and mind numbing work to pull it off. But then almost like a flash, looking back, it's over. It's time for summer again. And summer, where I live anyway, the summer goes fastest of all.
Time and how it feels passing versus how it feels looking back is a huge plot hole or a "glitch in the matrix" if you will.
And when I was younger people tried to explain how fast it went, like with fatherhood or my career and things. I could not believe them when they told me, but they were right. Luckily I took some pictures and built up some memories that will last because otherwise it would all be a blur.
Kathryn Baylis 1 year ago
Sometimes an hour takes forever to get through. Then you blink, and suddenly ten years have gone by.
#16
Death. The thought of it, the unsureness of what happens next, for most people that's where life's plot armour dies.
Luke Branwen 1 year ago
There's either nothingness or eternity, no 3rd option, and thinking about this f#cks me up REAL bad. I hope I'll gain some higher level of consciousness after death so I'll be able to comprehend it better.
#17
Who made the terms of agreement so long.
Charlie the Cat 1 year ago
How many terms of agreement have we agreed to without ever reading them?
#18
I’ve found it increasingly infuriating that doubling down on a lie, no matter how egregious seems to work 80-90% of the time.
Michael P (Perthaussieguy) 1 year ago
That is also why liars need to be held accountable. especially if they are in positions of power/authority
#19
Time.
You think that time is a measurement of existence. If I stand there looking at my watch for a while, I can go "yup 5 minutes of existence passed."
But in space thats a lie. Me going 5 minutes passed but my buddy in a space ship will go "Actually that was only 1 minute of existence."
Thats like putting a ruler under water and the light refracting distorts the ruler so now it measures differently. It makes no sense!
StrangeOne 1 year ago (edited)
I think they may have discovered a piece of the mysterious dark matter.
#20
How construction cranes suddenly just appear on their construction site.
Stardust she/her 1 year ago
They build a foundation/base and then other cranes start adding onto the foundation until you get these construction cranes
#21
If an entity were to stop time for millenniums, there would be no possible way of anyone knowing (unless any visible change but that’s just being picky).
#23
What is reality? Am I a figment of your imagination, or a figment of mine?
Donkey boi 1 year ago (edited)
Argh!!! It's really frustrating trying to word the response correctly, because it's so hard to explain! Generally, when suffering from a delusion, it feels so real that nothing could shake that belief, so much so, that it's easier to be convinced that something real is a delusion than that the delusion isn't real. So technically, if I am delusional, and I could be convinced that you are a delusion, you are most definitely real and not a figment of my imagination. Those few that are self aware delusional, still believe that it's real, but have the internal battle of acting according to what they think is most normal.
#24
According to what we understand of matter & energy transfer, there should be no matter in the universe. And yet there is TONS of matter in the universe. Literally what the f**k happened? Someone deux ex machina'd the universe itself.
Stardust she/her 1 year ago
There should either be no matter because there should be an equal amount of matter & antimatter or the matter should be clouds of evenly distributed hydrogen & helium yet a bit of fluctuation here and there has enabled our universe to be the way that it is
#25
That you are, in this reality, the reader, the character/narrator, and the writer all in the same pocket of time.
#26
That I’ve never seen my neighbors bring in groceries into their homes.
#27
Oh all of history is pretty b******t when you pay attention but maybe that's just because in any sensible timeline humans have nuked themselves to extinction.
Mimi La Souris 1 year ago
and history is written by the winners. I often wonder what the world would have been if the native Americans (north or south) hadn’t lost
#28
"Everything that humans like, either [ends] them or it's a sin" Just think about it. Why can't we find healthy food as tasty as a street hot dog? Why did we create a god that condemns things that we like to do? Why it seems that we evolved especifically to suffer? Something is wrong here.
Stardust she/her 1 year ago
We like high salt & sugar content in our food because back when we were hunter-gatherers, those things weren’t common to come across so you needed to take as much of them as possible to survive
#29
What happens when we get as fast as we are going to get?
You know... the current world record for the men's 100m sprint is 9.58 seconds (Usain Bolt) ... but you would imagine that there will come a day when a man beats that... then another and another... but eventually we will be as fast as we can get (because you can't go backwards), so then what?
Donkey boi 1 year ago
Wasn't there a study that showed that sprinters exerted comparatively very little force on their muscles & limbs? I think the end result of the study was that humans have the potential to achieve over 40mph.
#30
Whenever I hear a physicist say "All of those things you learned about Newton's laws are actually false and just approximations for these other things that make no sense."
What do you think ?
Blarrg 1 year ago
Trying and generally failing. You know that thing when you're with people who are high and they think they're being really profound, but they mostly sound silly? Reading this thread started to feel like being the designated driver; listening to Deep Thoughts From People Under the Influence.
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Gianna B D 1 year ago
The question came from r/askreddit, but the answers belong on r/im14andthisisdeep.
Stardust she/her 1 year ago
Here’s something odd about our universe. Let’s try to visualize space time in 2 dimensions for now. If we add too much matter then spacetime would curve positively (meaning it would be like a sphere) but if it doesn’t have enough then it will curve negatively (it would sort of look like a saddle). Our universe for some reason has just enough mass that spacetime is flat, it’s not curved in any way. It’s flat. Isn’t it weird how our universe conviniently has enough mass that it’s flat?
Jiji The Cat 1 year ago
Cars have two seats, three at a squeeze, and fit on a normal size road nicely. Buses have four seats AND an isle, and also fit on a normal size road nicely. what is this plot hole/glitch in the matrix?? every time I think about it I get more confused.
Blarrg 1 year ago
Trying and generally failing. You know that thing when you're with people who are high and they think they're being really profound, but they mostly sound silly? Reading this thread started to feel like being the designated driver; listening to Deep Thoughts From People Under the Influence.
Load More Replies... Gianna B D 1 year ago
The question came from r/askreddit, but the answers belong on r/im14andthisisdeep.
Stardust she/her 1 year ago
Here’s something odd about our universe. Let’s try to visualize space time in 2 dimensions for now. If we add too much matter then spacetime would curve positively (meaning it would be like a sphere) but if it doesn’t have enough then it will curve negatively (it would sort of look like a saddle). Our universe for some reason has just enough mass that spacetime is flat, it’s not curved in any way. It’s flat. Isn’t it weird how our universe conviniently has enough mass that it’s flat?
Jiji The Cat 1 year ago
Cars have two seats, three at a squeeze, and fit on a normal size road nicely. Buses have four seats AND an isle, and also fit on a normal size road nicely. what is this plot hole/glitch in the matrix?? every time I think about it I get more confused.
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