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35 Strange Behaviors People Thought Were Completely Normal, As Shared In This Viral Thread My sister said to me once, “hey, what dream did you choose last night?” I was so confused. She explained that every night she goes into a dream room and picks what she wants to dream about. I got super jealous.

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Libstak 2 years ago

Lucid dreaming. I'm jealous too, only ever achieved it a handful of times. Didn't choose the dream but changed it midway by being conscious I was dreaming.

203points

Kat Lyle 2 years ago

Lucid dreaming is awesome, especially if you can change the course of a nightmare by knowing it's not real.

23points

Dodomaster Lord of chickens 2 years ago

I never get to do that, I always dream in third person

14points

Seabeast 2 years ago

I could do it when I was a kid, but lost the ability over time.

8points

Mary Rogers 2 years ago

I once went back to a dream I had the night before, when I didn't like the ending and created a different ending. But that was back when I was experimenting with lucid dreaming and programming my dreams.I haven't had lucid dreams for quite some time. Even so, I rarely ever was able to attain lucidity within a dream.

7points

MimSorensson 2 years ago (edited)

To be honest, I thought it was normal too for a long time. And dream-series, like tv-series, with cliffhangers and everything, basically on demand. I was also very surprised when I realized that most people actually can’t wake themselves up or change dreams at will. But as a punishment for extremely lucid dreaming, I suffer equally extreme insomnia (medication or no sleep kind of situation) and extreme, quite regular sleep paralysis. It’s rather unpleasant at times. Good with the bad and all that.

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ThatBiBookLover 2 years ago

I can lucid dream occasionally and it’s the best!! I’m trying to do it more often, but it’s pretty hard. Once I managed to open many portals :O

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Isabelle Lamarque 2 years ago

Damn that sounds awesome. I have a form of sleep paralysis, where I know I'm dreaming but I can't wake up. It's always a scary scenario that's in a loop. I wake up and then it starts all over again untill I truly wake up. 🥲

31points

Miriam L 2 years ago

Hugs. Hoping you get peaceful dreams soon. Sleep paralysis is horrid

8points

Gourdeous 2 years ago

This is how we help my daughter get to sleep. We pick a dream we are going to meet in and off she goes. She always describes what we did in the morning

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simply.Taz 2 years ago

That is so sweet!

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Susan Green 2 years ago

I’ve had lucid dreams since I was young, but I can’t decide what I want to dream about before I fall asleep. I can decide how my dream will go once I’m dreaming though. For example, if I’m having a nightmare I can think to myself, this is just a bad dream and change what happens.

18points

2 years ago

I can do that and choose my dream. I have pretty much full control of my dreams and i thought it was totally normal.

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Jeffery 2 years ago

Same here. Lucid dreaming is awesome. And the flying... gosh!! There's this specific muscle or thing you do in dreams to just fly and sometimes when I'm awake I find myself trying to fly and it doesn't work. What a let down!

3points

HellyHacka 2 years ago

Same! TIL about lucid dreams...

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Patrick Whittington 2 years ago

Thats a very strong brain if she was just naturally able to lucid dream. Most people have to practice meditation, use aromatherapy, listen to specific music ect. Ill add my name to the jealousy list 🤪

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Lady Snowfall 2 years ago

I read a few studies that indicated playing video games can increase your ability to lucid dream. They linked it as causality, and not correlation. It makes sense to me, since I've been a lucid dreamer and a gamer my entire life lol

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Caro Caro 2 years ago

I'm jealous too. Maybe my nightmares will stop and I won't wake up with a thumping heart.

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Jay Son 2 years ago

That's very well possible. I've had the same nightmares for years as a kid until my early twenties. I then started to get lucid dreams for some reason and was able to take control of my nightmares. It was the end of the nightmares. I since lost the ability to get lucid dreams, maybe it'll come back some day again, it was pretty awesome.

11points

poiplescales 2 years ago

Best of all are the flying dreams where you know if you look too hard at it you'll stop flying. I wish I could have more of those.

9points

simply.Taz 2 years ago

I love the flying dreams. And you are right, if you think about what you're actually doing, you will suddenly lose your ability to fly. Lol

8points

Brenda Bernaldez 2 years ago

I have been able to do it since I was a kid. Told my daughter's they could do it to when they started having nightmares, and they are able to do it, too.

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May Alta 2 years ago

I can't do that. But if I have a good dream I can wake up, use the bathroom and go back to bed - fall asleep and continue my dream.

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Susan Green 2 years ago

Yes, I’ve done that too, only if it’s a good dream though.

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MagicalUnicorn 2 years ago

i can do it too sometimes, so realistic, its weird

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Michael D Bresnahan 2 years ago

That's a great way to get to sleep. I'll pick a favorite scenario and start imaging it like a dream and boom I'm asleep.

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SCamp 2 years ago

Whaaaaat?? Is this a thing?

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Mary Rogers 2 years ago

Yep. You can even get books telling you how to learn to lucid dream.

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Charlotte 2 years ago

Lucid dreaming. I can only do it in terms of nightmares... if something is going wrong/bad in a dream I can just go "nah, this instead" and the dream will change to what I want. I didn't realise it was unusual until last year lol

2points

moggie63 2 years ago

I can do this most of the time, although sometimes the course I choose the dream to take puzzles me.

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CouchChihuahua 2 years ago

She isn’t the only one, when i fall asleep, i go into a blank sort of template that morphs into whatever the hell i want…- a certain couchchihuahua

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Roland Nijveld 2 years ago

I know people dream every night but I can't remember the last time I remembered one

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Lara Verne 2 years ago

I'm jealous too. I am dreaming mostly about random nonsense. I don't have nightmares, but sometimes I'm dreaming about something annoying. I rarely dream about something nice.

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MarcyParlomerNerdGirlsRock 2 years ago

Sometimes I can move consciously in my dream…

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Jill Hojnacki 2 years ago

I do lucid dreaming. I like the idea of a dream room. I’ll have to try it. I just spend some time thinking about what I want to dream and then do, seeing where it takes me. If it goes wrong I redirect it or switch subjects.

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Mario Strada 2 years ago

Lucid dreaming is a lot of fun, but it's pretty hard work for lots of us. I was able to do it, but the pre-dreaming process was a lot of work.

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Babysoup 2 years ago

I have very lucid dreams. Once I dreamt I was in my friends house that I'd never been in. He was a boy a few yrs older then me and we weren't "friends" at the time of my dream. He was just a fantasy out of my reach! Anyway- I dream I'm I his house and I remember the decor down to a crucifix his parents had hanging. About a year later I go in his house and it was the same as my dream. Down to the wall paper, carpets and that damn crucifix!! Yearssss later he passed away suddenly and the day after his funeral I'm dreaming I'm holding his hand telling him it's ok to go and he's crying saying he's scared. I'm still very attached to him

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Freddy M. (He/Him) 2 years ago

When I was a kid I had a kind of "dream wheel" that I could spin for different dreams, it was shaped kind of like those little carousels at play grounds. Sadly I no longer have that ability

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New Everywhere 2 years ago

I was kind of into lucid dreaming in my early 20s (I picked it up pretty easily) but I stopped because I felt I wasn't' resting as well. Now, the only time I use it is when a dream is too scary. I can lay back and disappear right out of the dream and into another one. There's usually a moment of gratitude that the events were a dream and I was able to nope on out of there.

1point

2 years ago

wait.. this isnt normal.. ?

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bottomless.abyss.of.bordem 2 years ago

uhhhh....I think I'll take the Michael B. Jordan tonight, please

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Sue 2 years ago

After repeating it to myself before bed a few nights when I was 4, I actually told the evil little person from the original Wild Wild West that he wasn't real & woke up.

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Wellsandra Hill 2 years ago

What no way! Jealous.

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Evelyn Haskins 2 years ago

I do NOT believe it, These are simply imaginings,

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lol.litl.owl 2 years ago

Didn't really know that was really a real thing...

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Gypsy Lee 2 years ago

It would be nice to even dream. I've had them a handful of times but each time it's been a nightmare.

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Karyn Stouffer 2 years ago

So lucky. The only dreams I remember are the ones that are scary enough to wake me up. Happy or adventurous dreams would be a nice change.

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MimSorensson 2 years ago

(Ups, I made this comment by mistake and can’t delete it. Ignore this.)

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Jus 2 years ago

I have lucid dreams but I've never achieved such a high level 😳

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U r lovely and beautiful 🫶️‍ 2 years ago

I think of something I want to dream about before I drift of to sleep and I can dream that but only sometimes. I don’t rly have dreams. Haven’t in a couple years for some reason but I do have nightmares. So either I don’t sleep good, somethings up with my mind or I just don’t remember my dreams even though I would normally

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ravina nimje 2 years ago

Well there is book which teaches you how to do that. Or we can choose how dream should end or control it midway.

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Jeffery 2 years ago

Lucid dreaming!! I have that almost every night and am so thankful for it.

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Jessica J. 2 years ago

You just think about what you want to dream about, and then you do, and if you don't like something, change it. I like to change books or movies to the way I would like them better, sometimes put myself in the story.

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Aarya 2 years ago

Wait...is that not normal

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dxisy xo 2 years ago

That's crazy.. so cool

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ohjojo (you/your's) 2 years ago

Definitely choose to pick the lottery numbers

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Noodle 2 years ago

Lucid dreaming!! For years I thought it was normal, glad I’m not the only one ;)

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Jaaawn 2 years ago

Up unil recently I thought everyone had lucid dreams! Was so surprised to hear it's a pretty rare thing. I've had them all my life.

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An Unpopular Opinion. 2 years ago

I wann do this??? I'd finally be able to watch my characters in movies

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Stacy Kincannon 2 years ago

WHAT😱!!! I’m guessing she’s never had night terrors or been killed in her dreams😳

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Ada Hunter 2 years ago

bro…. i was today years old when i learned that this isn’t normal for people……

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Bibmibap 2 years ago

I don't want to lucid dream! My brain comes up with so many intricate and fantastical scenarios that I'd never be able to come up with myself. They're usually so much fun! I'd lose some amazing aspect to myself if I were flying every night.

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Remen Zack 2 years ago

She's living the dream (pun intended, duh!)

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Maisey Myles 2 years ago

I'm trying this tonight in my dream room

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Kenneth McCartney 2 years ago

Yes. Only once in a while. But whenever I get to the point when I KNOW that I'm dreaming, of course I wake up.

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Panda 2 years ago

WHAT!? I want to do that!!!

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Mary Rogers 2 years ago

There are books that can help you learn to lucid dream, if you are interested.

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Timbob 2 years ago

What’s a dream room?

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P Baker 2 years ago

Try B12 Supplements 5000mcg

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Ali H M Salehuddin 2 years ago

I can't even remember my dreams, much less forcing what to dream about.

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This one is about me. In my early 20’s I started having a lot of pain in my upper left jaw. My dentist said there was nothing wrong with my teeth and that I should go see a sinus specialist. Get to the ORL (ear nose and throat doctor) and they comment on how stuffed up I must be.
I’m slightly baffled, and say that I’m actually breathing much easier that day than usual. Aaand that was the day I found out that most people can breathe through their noses MOST of the time and not just on special occasions. Turns out I’m allergic to dust mites in a “how have you not had anaphylaxis and died” way, and had been experiencing an allergy attack for 23 straight years.
That doctors visit legitimately changed my life. I no longer had to choose between breathing and eating.

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Merle Anna 2 years ago

I don't get how this wasn't noticed by anyone before.

96points

There will always be outliers and no two people’s life experiences will ever truly be the exact same. At the same time, it’s important to recognize that, barring powerful genetic quirks and extremely unorthodox upbringing, many of us have very similar needs and drives that are shaped as much by our biology as by the environments in which we were raised.

For example, writer Ariane Sherine, who has written about living a long and healthy life, previously told Bored Panda that there are fundamental things that contribute to it. Things like exercise, good food, altruism, and quality relationships.

“Close, fulfilling relationships with others are one of the most important things when it comes to happiness, whether romantic or platonic. Studies show that the more close friendships and relationships you have, the longer you live. Volunteering and helping others are also likely to make you happy,” she said.

So just a little background so this makes more sense, one time when I was little like about 8, I was laying in bed looking out my window at the moon and suddenly I saw two moons. It freaked me out so I went to my mom, asking her if this was bad and she said “no, that’s normal” and sent me back to bed. Well, fast forward to me at about 17, I went to eye doctor with my mom to get my prescription updated. To keep it short, I told the doctor I saw two sets of letters, and he looks at my eyes closer and tells me I have a lazy eye, and that it’s not normal. So my mom, who’s right there, goes “that’s not normal?! I thought everyone saw double!” And the doctor was just like “.....no”. Turns out my mom had the same eye situation, but it was never addressed so she just figured everyone had it. Oops.

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Not named 2 years ago

I have this too, now here's an interesting part: if you go too long without proper corrective mesures, your brain will actually permanently shut down the eye feeding it bad information.

85points

Here's me!

I remember that, for a long time, I thought it was completely normal to not be able to get a full breath. I distinctly remember being 16 and asking my friends "you know that feeling when you actually get a full breath in your lungs and it feels AMAZING" and no one had any clue what I was talking about.

Turns out I had undiagnosed asthma for most of my life. Makes more sense now.

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LilliVB 2 years ago

Oh, poor thing. I hope you are better now.

84points

35 Strange Behaviors People Thought Were Completely Normal, As Shared In This Viral Thread My husband had no idea he was lactose intolerant. He thought everyone had diarrhea everyday. He’s 26 and found out last year. How’d he find out? His mom told him. She’s known his whole life.

do_the_yeto , Andrea Piacquadio Report

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Marvelor 2 years ago

Poor dude

159points

“There are other things that contribute to happiness and well-being including taking regular exercise, eating healthily, having enough money to feel comfortable, having job security, and enjoying experiences rather than possessions,” Ariane told Bored Panda.

“Self-care and taking time for yourself are also very important. But I'd say close relationships are probably the most essential things to happiness.”

35 Strange Behaviors People Thought Were Completely Normal, As Shared In This Viral Thread My aunt put a fence around the pool to keep the ducks out. She didn't believe us when we told her they could just fly over it... Does this count?

nb4ban , Sam Divita Report

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Anita Edwardd 2 years ago

Yes, yes it sure does!

75points

35 Strange Behaviors People Thought Were Completely Normal, As Shared In This Viral Thread My sister’s ex husband thought the moon was the sun but in “night mode” so it’s more dim.

The man was 43 years old.

This is when my sister realized this was the final straw and needs to get a divorce.

anon , Dmitry Limonov Report

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279points

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Chris Hooley 2 years ago

Just remember, people like him are allowed to vote, breed and drive.

21points

35 Strange Behaviors People Thought Were Completely Normal, As Shared In This Viral Thread My ex and her entire family share a tooth brush she argued it like they were all sharing a hairbrush... glad that ended

schoolsuckass , Miriam Alonso Report

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Vic 2 years ago

eeeewww!!

151points

Our biology more or less demands that we form tight-knit social bonds, be kind, and get enough movement. The vast majority of us are hardwired for this and it’s what makes us happy.

Psychology expert Suzanne Degges-White told Bored Panda earlier that our biology, as well as the culture we grow up with, shapes our attitude toward altruism, kindness, and being social.

"Many of us are raised to believe it is the 'right thing to do.' Basically, all spiritual belief systems have a version of the 'Golden Rule, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,'" she explained. "We also do good turns because we know that one day we may be in need of a little 'generosity from the universe,' so it's like putting 'money' into a karma account."

#10

This was me until about two years ago.

I thought that Kiwis made everyone's mouth itchy. Like it was just part of the fruit experience. I also thought mangos were "hot" for everyone.

Well my wife informed me that I probably allergic to those fruit since mangos aren't supposed to burn your mouth and kiwis shouldn't make your mouth itch. I truly didn't believe her. Months later I'm choking on mango. I can't breath, my face is getting red. I couldn't even get the word put to tell her I couldn't breath. EpiPen and an ER visit later. I'm allergic to mangos and kiwis and a host of other tropical fruit.

No fruit should make your mouth burn(aside from the jalepeno and peppers). And no fruit should make your mouth itch or lips swell. Apparently that's called an allergy.
Oops

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The Big Dipper ⭐️ 2 years ago

I’m pretty sure some people’s mouths get itchy from eating pineapple, something about enzymes?

105points

#11

35 Strange Behaviors People Thought Were Completely Normal, As Shared In This Viral Thread One time my best friend and I were on a voice chat as it was getting pretty late. At one point he said that he should probably head to bed because he was starting to see gory and otherwise disturbing things. Apparently he has hypnagogic hallucinations every so often and just assumed that it was normal when to see stuff when you get tired

Palycat , Faruk Tokluoğlu Report

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DDmaybeandor 2 years ago

For those commenting, “It’s not normal?”, I’ve never had this or heard of anyone else having it as normal phenomena.

84points

#12

35 Strange Behaviors People Thought Were Completely Normal, As Shared In This Viral Thread I had a sleepover with a friend in middle school one weekend. I went to shower and she gave me a towel. It had a weird smell to it, but I couldn’t find any other towels inside the bathroom, so I used it by patting myself barely and just air drying.

Turns out her whole family shares a towel to prevent having to use new ones every time. I told her how weird that was and she was shocked to find out that my family has THEIR own towels to use, but we put them in the wash every 2 or so uses.

I didn’t sleep over there again.

mrzpldubbz , Castorly Stock Report

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249points

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Joshua Moore 2 years ago

Ewww 🤮🤮

129points

“Humans are wired so that when we do something kind for another, we feel good about ourselves and neurotransmitters like endorphins and oxytocin have been shown to get a boost when we do something good for another. It is through cooperation that society functions, so the survival of the human race depends on being willing to help others. Family values, spiritual beliefs, and biology all play a part in this motivation," she said.

"Many of us take pride in being of service to others as it is culturally valued and we want to hold significance in our worlds. So when we do good deeds, we show others our willingness to help those in distress/need; we live out faith-based encouragement to treat others the way we would like to be treated, we uphold family values, and our brains get a positive jolt of happiness when we help others.”

In other words, as diverse as our goals, ambitions, and life experiences might be, there are some fundamental things that simply do not change. Realizing this is kind of inspiring, don’t you think? We’re not so different after all… with a few peculiar exceptions that are found in this list, of course!

#13

35 Strange Behaviors People Thought Were Completely Normal, As Shared In This Viral Thread My roomate in college thought you washed clothes on every single cycle on the washing machine. Our machine had a delicate cycle, a cotton cycle, a solo rinse cycle, a permanent press cycle, etc.

He always complained about the washer taking forever.. its because he was washing his clothes 4-5 times every time he did laundry.

anon , cottonbro Report

Final score:

244points

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Mohsie Supposie 2 years ago

How to get super clean clothes. (Also how to wear out your clothes very quickly!)

124points

eyedontnowutimdoing , Dayvison Tadeu Report

#14

35 Strange Behaviors People Thought Were Completely Normal, As Shared In This Viral Thread Had a friend who I took shooting when we were like 20. He’s never shot before and when he was trying to aim he was tilting head strangely. When I questioned him about it, he said “well which eye do you see out of?!”

He had been blind in one eye his entire life and thought everyone was like that.

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244points

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harpling 2 years ago

Firearms and lack of depth perception... sounds like a winning combination!

120points

Doctor_StrangeLuv , RODNAE Productions Report

#15

35 Strange Behaviors People Thought Were Completely Normal, As Shared In This Viral Thread My friend can't recognize faces. I only figured it out for sure when he almost got into a strangers truck because he thought it was me because she had red hair. I've known him for like 6 years. He seemed surprised when I said that wasn't normal.

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LilliVB 2 years ago (edited)

It's an actual disease. It's called prosopagnosia

158points

#16

I helped my older cousin move into a new house as a teenager, we worked non-stop for over 12 hours. I was so f*****g exhausted that at one point I vomited in his front yard.

The next day he acted like I was faking being tired, to which I responded, "how the hell do you fake vomit?". He goes, "easy", and proceeds to instantly *projectile vomit at will!* I just looked on in horror and bewilderment. He acted like it was perfectly normal and assumed everyone could do it, he got offended when I told him it was bizarre as hell. The f**k.

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max and the expresso 2 years ago

I can do this also. Maybe not projectile but still...

57points

#17

Storytime:

Hubby learned to drive at 12yo. During the summer and holidays, he regularly drove his Grandad's truck into the fields to deliver everyone lunch and water. He also would drive the tractor to and from fields.

As a result, when I met him in his late 30s, he had a perfect driving record. His defensive driving was phenomenal. The only tickets he ever received were: driving without a seatbelt, and parking on the sidewalk. (The latter was right in front of our house and a b***hy neighbor called it in).

Fast forward 10 years. He goes to the eye doctor for the first time in 20 years. He needs glasses. The Night we pick up the glasses, he is driving towards a traffic light. As he rolls to a stop, he states: "WHOA, the traffic lights aren't star bursts anymore" Have they always looked like that????"

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Jiminy 2 years ago (edited)

Classic astigmatism. The brain can compensate most of the crooked stuff so many people don't notice a thing. Got it diagnosed when I was in my late twenties and magically had no headaches anymore.

124points

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#18

35 Strange Behaviors People Thought Were Completely Normal, As Shared In This Viral Thread My friend thought that everyone was regularly taking worming tablets to stop getting worms. It wasn’t until she got married and told her husband she was going to go pick up their worming tablets that she found out it wasn’t normal.

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228points

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sturmwesen 2 years ago

deworming, right? right???

102points

#19

35 Strange Behaviors People Thought Were Completely Normal, As Shared In This Viral Thread My ex husband has reflux really bad. Once I saw him chewing something while we were out shopping and so I asked for a piece of what I thought was gum. NOPE.
It was food that we had eaten about an hour earlier.
He told me his food would always come back up all the time and he would just rechew it and swallow it back down. I was like WTF. NOOO.

sweetsweetdingo , Jack Sparrow Report

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209points

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Biliegh they/them 2 years ago

There are just some things that should never be said out loud

182points

#20

35 Strange Behaviors People Thought Were Completely Normal, As Shared In This Viral Thread Not kidding. My boyfriend of almost 8 years thought lions were boys and tigers were girl lions... kind of like bulls and cows

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Caro Caro 2 years ago

He's the kid folding paper airplanes and picking his nose in biology class :D

101points

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#21

One time in my 20s at work a coworker and I started getting into an argument about what color Monday was (it's red) and didn't realize this was not normal until another co-worker walked by and asked us what the hell we were going on about synesthesia for.

Final score:

209points

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waddles 2 years ago (edited)

it’s definitely red though. what else would it be? INDIGO?

51points

#22

35 Strange Behaviors People Thought Were Completely Normal, As Shared In This Viral Thread In college, a bunch of friends and I were sitting around talking about things we did as a kid. One of the guys in the group said "didn't you hate when you got a cold and your mom would give you an enema?" He soon found out that he was the only one.

Dammit_MoonMoon , Bon courage Report

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206points

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indiecognition 2 years ago

How else would you serve chicken soup?

140points

#23

So this was actually me,but growing up my mom would always tell me to grab donuts from the Walmart bakery area and eat it while we walked around the store (we lived in the country so we only went to the store every two weeks). For a long time this proceeded until it was common practice and eventually I just did it without even telling her. Around early middle school a girl who has a crush on me sees me eating a donut in walmart and asks me if I just take those. I respond "of course", she proceeds to take one and eat it with me to prove she's as cool as me but I just don't understand.

I then relay to my mom how this silly girl had no idea walmart had free donuts.... And that's when she told me she had been paying for them for years. But I had not asked her permission for a long time so there is no telling how many donuts I unknowingly stole from Walmart.

It's not very often you get to find something strange out about yourself that you thought was perfectly normal.

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Lane Bass 2 years ago

A free donut and you got to stick it to Walmart? That's a win win if I've ever heard of one.

100points

#24

35 Strange Behaviors People Thought Were Completely Normal, As Shared In This Viral Thread I have a friend that thought it was normal to go 2 weeks + without a sip of water.

DerpeyBloke , Pixabay Report

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198points

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Mayra 2 years ago

Water is delicious, there I said it

79points

#25

There was this guy I went to college with - when he was in the shower, if the urge hit him, he would just take a s**t in the shower instead of getting out to use the toilet. He did this the whole time he was a kid apparently, and it wasn’t till he got to college and had to share bathroom facilities that he found out other people showering in adjacent stalls weren’t cool with smelling s**t as he waffle-stomped a log down the drain.

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197points

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waddles 2 years ago

“waffle-stomped a log down the drain” is in my personal dictionary now

236points

#26

I was talking to my husband on the phone and he told me to hang on, he had to put his clothes back on. He was at work. I asked what the hell he was doing and apparently he always takes all his clothes off to take a dump. Even at work. I knew he did it at home but he always would then get in the shower after so I figured it was just a preface to showering. He said he balances them over the stall door so they don’t get “poop particles” on them. I told him no one else does this. He didn’t notice because in the men’s room he’s used for the last 10 years there’s only one stall. I’m not sure why no colleague ever asked him why he’s hanging clothes over the stall door...

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193points

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Ana Ferreira 2 years ago

Tell me your mum was a germaphobe without telling me your mum was a germaphobe.

107points

#27

Until my early twenties, I thought lucid dreams were the norm. I cringe thinking of all the times I heard someone describe a bad dream and I said something along the lines of “Why didn’t you just change the dream?”

Growing up, I said this to several close family members, and NOT ONE told me that was weird.

doesntsharefood Report

Final score:

179points

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Christopher Buteau 2 years ago

I achieved it younger lost it older. When I talk to people younger I say...you should turn on the lights in the dream.

43points

#28

I have a friend who has lost an immense amount of weight, yet eats and drinks like c**p all the time. It had been revealed to me by him that, “he often feels so full sometimes, that he just makes himself puke to feel better.” This has been going on for quite a few years now. He’s straight up bulimic and thinks it’s just a neat little way to get rid of all the bad foods and drinks he gorges himself with. He’s gotten so good at making himself puke, it’s almost silent. No gagging sounds no messy puke splatter. Just a stream of chewed up food and beers. I’m quite sure that even his wife is oblivious to this.

LeFrizzleFry Report

Final score:

177points

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Biliegh they/them 2 years ago

I hope this person told him he needs medical help

190points

#29

35 Strange Behaviors People Thought Were Completely Normal, As Shared In This Viral Thread My friend genuinely believed that 'Leprechaun' was just a term for indigenous Irish little people.

RumHamHavoc , Dmitry K Report

Final score:

173points

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Gabi 2 years ago

Well, he's not wrong. In a way.

46points

#30

35 Strange Behaviors People Thought Were Completely Normal, As Shared In This Viral Thread My friend didn’t know martinis weren’t normally served in giant water-sized glasses and thought she was getting ripped off when she ordered one at a bar. Her parents were alcoholics.

ceecee1791 , MART PRODUCTION Report

Final score:

163points

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Isabela Cincu 2 years ago

That s sad

98points

#31

35 Strange Behaviors People Thought Were Completely Normal, As Shared In This Viral Thread A family member thought that hallucinations were something everyone dealt with. They thought that monsters under the bed and other cultural tales of ghosts were real things which were further confirmed by their experience.

It this led to later diagnosis of schizophrenia once they couldn't cope well enough to deal with the symptoms and it became evident to family members.

Mettastorm , Vagelis Lnz Report

Final score:

163points

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Mouse 2 years ago

After my cousin was diagnosed with schizophrenia my mom told me that if I ever thought I had hallucinations to let her know and we'd figure it out together. Luckily I did not, but I love how my mom approached with love in a non shaming way.

154points

#32

35 Strange Behaviors People Thought Were Completely Normal, As Shared In This Viral Thread My neighbours ate their Cornflakes with orange juice instead of milk. Their parents had conditioned them all to think this was normal and acceptable behavior.

Fruitloops_for_B , Ron Lach Report

Final score:

158points

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Vic 2 years ago

What and absolute wacko!! *Adds vodka to cornflakes*.. Some people, I tell you..

344points

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#33

A little late here, but my ex didn’t think you needed to wash cutting boards. I was doing his dishes and started to wash it and he got upset. I thought that was a common sense thing that someone in med school should know.

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Final score:

151points

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Jason 2 years ago

I have different cutting boards for different tasks. A nice wood one that I keep waxed and use only for veggies. I usually just wipe it down. Another plastic one I use for meat which I scrub the **** out of, or if I'm lazy throw in the dishwasher.

64points

#34

35 Strange Behaviors People Thought Were Completely Normal, As Shared In This Viral Thread Me and my sister at a festival in line for the toilets.

Me: You wanna pee first? I can hold your beer.
Sister: Naw, thats fine. I will just place it in the beerholder.
Me: ...... you mean the urinal?

DiktatorSilje , Michael Coghlan Report

Final score:

144points

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Ana Ferreira 2 years ago (edited)

Eeww. And at festival toilets to boot. Ewwww.

95points

#35

35 Strange Behaviors People Thought Were Completely Normal, As Shared In This Viral Thread They carried a pizza box sideways under their arm.....

Wow! Im so glad it made other people as uneasy as it made me. It was a neighbor at a neighborhood pizza party that was kinda strange already. Everytime someone talks about him I'm like, "I knew he was strange since the pizza box incident."

lrichard225 , detentioncomics Report

Final score:

132points

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Firstname Lastname 2 years ago

I only did this once, to a frozen pizza because I thought all the ingredients were frozen in place as I walked home. It was just warm enough to slightly defrost on the way home, start to accordion itself and let all the toppings avalanche to one side. I repent of my pizza sin.

80points

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#36

I used to smoke a lot at my friends house after high school. We would work on computer stuff and his cat who would join us and chill in his dark room. Well, one day his cat got old and eventually passed. When i came over again I asked where was his purple cat was at. He looked at me and said "What??"

It was at that time i realized i had some form of color blindness.

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Final score:

48points

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waddles 2 years ago

now i want a purr-ple cat

51points

#37

Unfastens seatbelt

*gets out of car*

Refastens seatbelt behind them

*leaves/does whatever*

*opens door*

Unfastens seatbelt

*gets in seat*

Fastens seatbelt

aether_killer Report

Final score:

45points

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Candy Cane 2 years ago

This is.... this is like the creepiest one on this list.

27points

#38

This one is about me. I have loose ligaments/muscles/tendons/something in both of my shoulders. I’ve never gotten it looked at before, but I never know it wasn’t common for people’s shoulders to just kinda come out of the socket while they do different things.

Example being, if I carry anything with any real weight in one hand, and don’t focus on keeping my shoulder muscles tight, my arm will come out of the socket. It doesn’t hurt, and it goes right back in when I put the item down, but I was in middle school when I realized it wasn’t normal. And now it’s just a fun party trick.

finchfinch93 Report

Final score:

44points

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Holly Brown 2 years ago

I think you might have Ehlers-danlos syndrome!

34points

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#39

Constant headaches in the morning. I just figured it would be fine, nothing serious, just a regular groggy feeling that most people get in the morning and they use coffee to help with it.

And then I had a seizure and was diagnosed with epilepsy, so that's a thing.

veroui Report

Final score:

40points

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Amanda Rose 2 years ago

Morning headaches (assuming that the person is sober and not experiencing a hangover) can also be a sign of sleep apnea and high blood pressure.

20points

#40

Had a dude that I know say that his family had a cup they all shared water from at dinner, and the last person to drink from it had to go fill it back up. He thought it was normal until everyone in our friend group said their families didn’t do that.

Final score:

40points

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a fruity dream of delusion 2 years ago

this isn’t as bad as some of the other ones, but the potential backwash makes me want to gag >n<

13points

#41

My friend last night was like "you know when you think you're starting to get sick and you're super tired, your nose is runny, and your throat is flemmy..." and we're all like "yeah?" and she says "and then your hands go completely numb?" And we're all like nope, that's definitely just you

regan-omics Report

Final score:

37points

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Jill Bussey 2 years ago

Phlegmy.

20points

Woman Moves Out Of Parents' Home After They Asked Her To Give Her Space To Brother, They Freak Out

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#42

This happened to me.
Growing up, I was conditioned by my mother to not only use soap on my body while showering, but to use it in my hair too. Doing this made my hair feel insanely rough and dry, but I kept at it thinking it was the right thing to do. On a trip to California to meet some friends I took a shower and they didn't have a bar of soap. I confronted my friend about it, asking what they used in their hair as a substitute for soap. Everyone in the room gave me a strange look and told me that soap wasn't supposed to be used for hair. I was around 18 years old when I found this out.

N1nja120 Report

Final score:

37points

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Sasy 2 years ago

Before shampoo and conditioner everyone used soap, not surprising still a carried down thing.

21points

#43

Senior year, study hall. I’m sitting with a dude I knew. I don’t remember the context, but we were talking about growing up and he says “and it was around that time when milk started coming out of my nipples” and I’m like “...what?” and he’s like “you know, when milk starts to come out” and I’m like “dude... thats not normal.” The face he made when he realized the reality of the situation was memorable. He goes “that.. that didn’t happen to you?” and I’m like “no.” Then he asks the rest of the guys in study hall “did any of yall have milk come out your nips during puberty?” They said no.

nickmcapone Report

Final score:

37points

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Amanda Rose 2 years ago

Galactorrhea, is a form of lactation not associated with childbirth and can occur in both males and females. It may be a sign of underlying health issues such as thyroid problems or a pituitary tumor.

52points

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#44

I worked with a guy who had some kind of gut problem and he'd be sitting at his desk, and vomit into a cup. Not a lot, but like a vurp. A few times a day, even in meetings. Finally, his boss talked to him and said that was not cool, and he should see a doctor. The guy was surprised. "Why?" He asked. He apparently had been doing this all his life.

He went to a doctor, and whattia know! They had medicine for his condition! The guy grew up in some country where his condition was never addressed, either because of poverty or neglect. Probably both.

But the damage was already done; everyone avoided the "vomit guy." He was eventually let go.

punkwalrus Report

Final score:

36points

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Biliegh they/them 2 years ago

Poor guy. Has a legit medical problem and they fired him

50points

#45

My friend thought that everyone ate cereal without milk. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind eating dry cereal, but they thought it was weird that people would put milk in their cereal on tv commericals, shows, etc. They didn't know that this was a thing people really did.

AGylime Report

Final score:

35points

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Vicki Doggurl 2 years ago

My aunt puts water on her cereal. Her daughter (my cousin) grew up doing this and still won’t put milk on her cereal, just tap water. Ew!!

16points

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#46

Once my now-partner and I passed an open sewer being worked on. I was holding my nose and gagging. She goes, "oh, now that I'm thinking about it, that does smell bad!"

She has to concentrate on smelling things. And if she isn't actively concentrating, she doesn't always smell things. Turns out, she and her siblings all have a really weak sense of smell, and none of them really noticed anything was different until I, and other friends, pointed out how that wasn't the norm.

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Final score:

35points

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DDmaybeandor 2 years ago

I can smell or not smell things depending on where I am in my cycle. It’s hormonal and I hate it.

16points

#47

My dad's parents never told him to brush his teeth and he told me that he used to eat a whole can of condensed milk everyday as a kid! He still thinks it's perfectly normal, I don't know. And he just wondered why one day his teeth fell out. Only when he was in his 20s someone told him that brushing helps.

forthevic Report

Final score:

34points

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LilliVB 2 years ago

I'm baffled by how many OPs have serious undiagnosed disease in this thread. And I'm not talking about rare and difficult to recognize disease, but common disease that a visit can find in an heartbeat. Poor people.

40points

#48

I used to have a friend who thought everyone only had dreams that had

a) no color, or b) no sound.

Final score:

34points

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Jay Son 2 years ago

He must like the old silent movies.

20points

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#49

35 Strange Behaviors People Thought Were Completely Normal, As Shared In This Viral Thread I know someone at work that eats oranges with the peel on. I'm pretty sure he is a psychopath.

strangevil , ROMAN ODINTSOV Report

Final score:

33points

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Janine B. 2 years ago

Maybe he's just a shy guy and doesn't want to undress fruits before eating?

38points

#50

My SO doesn't think you're supposed to get any water on the bath mat, so he stands in the shower on one foot whilst completely drying the other. He then stands on the mat with that dry foot, drying the other foot. Once both dry he then steps fully out of the shower.

Final score:

33points

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waddles 2 years ago

WHAT ARE THEY FOR THEN

35points

#51

Friend of mine will absentmindedly start putting more and more of her shirt into her mouth until she chokes/gags. She enjoys the feeling and does it while doing things like browsing reddit or sitting on the toilet for a long time.

AnxietyExit Report

Final score:

32points

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indiecognition 2 years ago

Give her a break, she's just tee-thing

55points

#52

I lived with a girl that would eat baby powder that she had stashed in the drawer of the bathroom. She would walk by the bathroom and do quick shakes of the bottle right in her mouth. She would also buy whole frozen fish from walmart and take them out of the freezer bag and slap them hard against the brick kitchen floor before cooking them in a stew.

GrayBuffalo Report

Final score:

28points

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Casey Burns 2 years ago

This is up there with eating bed foam and toilet paper.

25points

#53

I used to think towels were post-shower blankets until my college boyfriend recommended I dry I off the water to help me warm up faster. Then it dawned upon me....

Eucilyli Report

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28points

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Debby Keir 2 years ago

This is sad - a mummy/daddy's job when you are a baby, is to gently envelop you in a warm towel and hug you dry. If you didn't get that, that's why you didn't learn

18points

#54

I can't go to sleep unless the back of my left ankle is wedged between my right big toe and the second toe. I was 30 before someone asked about it.

Final score:

27points

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Sasy 2 years ago

I do that sometimes, not a need though, it might be a pressure point thing.

18points

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#55

A lawyer I used to work with would trim his toenails during conference calls in his office. Toenails, not fingernails, meaning he removed his shoes and socks and pawed all over his stinky feet while on the phone. Never got over that.

Final score:

27points

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Joshua Moore 2 years ago

🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢🤮

21points

#56

I knew a guy in college that used ketchup/catsup as a dressing for his salads. Still gives me the w*****s 20 years later.

mc_thac0 Report

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27points

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The Big Dipper ⭐️ 2 years ago

Bored Panda is really censoring w*****s?

37points

#57

35 Strange Behaviors People Thought Were Completely Normal, As Shared In This Viral Thread My coworker recently let me in on the fact that he sometimes spits on his toilet paper before wiping.

What the f**k Tom.

707RiverRat , Vie Studio Report

Final score:

26points

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Zwiebel Suppe 2 years ago (edited)

Wiping yourself with a wet cloth is more efficient (and feels better) than with a dry paper. After all, if there was s**t on your arm or anywhere else on your skin, you wouldn't just wipe it with paper, but you'd want to wash that part. So if there''s only paper available this seems quite reasonable.

31points

#58

One of my friends genuinely cannot taste basil. He always thought that basil was some tasteless leaf that people liked to put on pizza. He once ate bowl of basil leaves like a salad.

king101well Report

Final score:

25points

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Biliegh they/them 2 years ago

I don't taste basil either. I can smell it when it's dry but I taste nothing from it. I always wonder why people put the leaves in what they are cooking.

18points

#59

When my friend makes mac and cheese she puts the cheese powder, milk, and butter into the boiling water...

wewillwewont Report

Final score:

20points

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JacPot 2 years ago

Cheese powder?!?

14points

Storytelling, journalism, and art are a core part of who I am. I've been writing and drawing ever since I could walk—there is nothing else I'd rather do. My formal education, however, is focused on politics, philosophy, and economics because I've always been curious about the gap between the ideal and the real. At work, I'm a Senior Writer and I cover a broad range of topics that I'm passionate about: from psychology and changes in work culture to healthy living, relationships, and design. In my spare time, I'm an avid hiker and reader, enjoy writing short stories, and love to doodle. I thrive when I'm outdoors, going on small adventures in nature. However, you can also find me enjoying a big mug of coffee with a good book (or ten) and entertaining friends with fantasy tabletop games and sci-fi movies.

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waddles 2 years ago

this was one rollercoaster of an article

39points

OnAFreakingRollercoaster 2 years ago

Upvote for the use of the word rollercoaster 😉😉

0points

BonnyDK 2 years ago

When I first started dating my husband I realized he had peculiar behavior. He was seeing a therapist for about 10 years that told him he had a shyness disorder. He was fine with me but had a hard time looking in the eyes of people he didn't know while talking to them. Especially if they were close to him. The first time I noticed it was 6 weeks after we met. After a while I ended with a list of things that were not the "norm". He was intelligent top of his profession but a bit different. Then the seizures started about 2 years after we married. After a bunch of misdiagnoses he finally had an MRI and found a brain tumor. The type of cancer he has comes with a list of recognizable behavior changes. Textbook my husband. I showed his friends the list and his mom and they just told me he had always been like that. The dr said he probably had the tumor his whole life. I cannot for the life of me figure out how they thought it was normal and why they didn't take him to the Dr.

27points

Maria 2 years ago

Oh wow. Did the tumor get safely removed? How did he change afterwards?

6points

The Big Dipper ⭐️ 2 years ago

Doesn’t really belong here, but my weird talent is being able to suck the sides, but not the middle, of my stomach in. It kind of looks like I’m really thin, but there’s a can in the middle of my stomach.

18points

Sasy 2 years ago

It counts

10points

Arthur Waite 2 years ago

Interesting article. About thirty of these items illustrate the axiom that "You don't know what you don't know."

16points

Ann Coffman 2 years ago

I have one. You know someone until you get to know them. Finally figured that out after lots of bad relationships and trusting "friends" I shouldn't have trusted.

0points

Mindghost 2 years ago (edited)

A friend of mine came over when we were about 12 years old. We were gaming in my room. He went to the toilet and had a "big deal" to make. He didn't close the door, so my mother smelled it from the kitchen next door and got angry. He didn't know what's wrong, because his parents didn't tell him to close the door when going to the toilet. When his family (uncle/aunts etc.) visited them, they also didn't close the door when going to the toilet.

10points

Aleksandra 2 years ago

I thought everyone hears hight pitched sound in their ears when it's silent enough in the room. Turned out i just have tinnitus (learnt it at 24yo)

9points

ThatBiBookLover 2 years ago

Wait… that’s not normal???

2points

Luis Gomez 2 years ago (edited)

A bunch of these are just a sign that kids weren't paying attention during science class. Years later, you see them making opinions about vaccines and climate change.

9points

Mad McQueen 2 years ago

My husband throws all his clothes in the washer. Whites. Darks. Super dirty bondo sawdust paint covered clothes. All his white underpants and socks and tees are gray. I've tried to tell him to sort and do smaller loads. Not 4 sweatshirts and 6 jeans and everything else. Also he loads all that at once into the dryer and only runs it 30 mins at a time. So it takes forever to dry. I do laundry one day a week. I've gotten to taking his stuff out of either machine. Doing mine and putting his back. I guess his mom just washed like that all the time. Gross. And he will wear stuff with holes. Shoes undies socks jeans. Look homeless and it's so embarrassing. And his pants even with a belt never stay up. Captain buttcrack. All the time. He doesn't even buy pants correctly. Too long inseam. Too loose waist.

7points

Madeleine 2 years ago

I don’t quite understand wanting to marry someone or stay married to someone you think has a gross, embarrassing appearance and does things like ruin all his clothes for no apparent reason.

2points

Mary Rogers 2 years ago

Something embarrassing I didn't know: What a toothache feels like. I always had great teeth and didn't have my first cavity until I was in my forties. And since I arrogantly thought my teeth would last forever, I didn't get regular checkups. When I did start to develop pain, it wasn't what I thought a toothache should feel like. I thought it was just sensitivity because it wasn't consistent and often was related to eating something cold. What I didn't know is that when you have an infection, it kills the nerve and that's why the pain would go away on it's own. I paid a heavy price for neglecting my dental health because multiple infections ended up draining into my sinuses, causing chronic sinus infections. The chronic inflammation resulted in polyps blocking my sinuses, requiring surgery. All because I didn't know what a toothache was supposed to feel like and didn't get regular checkups.

5points

similarly 2 years ago

I used to have a spot on my forehead, about the size of the head of a pin, but star shaped. It would scab over, sometimes bleed. I kept wondering "When is this stupid thing going to heal? It's taking forever!" Then, I was looking at some old photos and found a photo of me from three years earlier: and I had the spot. Turns out it was skin cancer. I named him Spot! He and I have since parted company, but I'm constantly on the lookout now for Spot Jr.

5points

simply.Taz 2 years ago

Not all people experience toothache pain the same.

2points

Anita Rapp 2 years ago

You're lucky you didn't abscess into your brain.

2points

Mouse 2 years ago

2 out of 3 people notice their urine smells different after eating asparagus. 1 out of 3 has no idea theirs does as well.

5points

Hey! 2 years ago

Mine smells awful. My husband can't smell his but I do!!!

0points

Christi Blankenship 2 years ago

From a post like this, i actually discovered that my sister and i both have form of narcolepsy. Until reading about it, i just assumed everyone lost control of their muscles and became semi paralyzed from laughing too hard 🤦🏼‍♀️

4points

Sardonyx_3 2 years ago

I hear sometimes "hear" electrical signals. Whenever I'm near an electronic that's plugged in, I can hear a sort-of... whining sound. Kinda like tinnitus. but. not...?

4points

Arielle Daughtry 2 years ago (edited)

The refrigerator keeps me up at night the electric whir the making of ice the water needed to make the ice. I hear it all and it wakes me up from another room with the door closed. Don’t really notice during the day but at night it’s the worst. But if you pay attention you hear most everything the air coming through the vents when the heat or a/c is on, the house settling, all the stuff you don’t really pay attention to. The stove makes a little noise not much but you can hear it when it’s been left on.

2points

Christi Blankenship 2 years ago

Me too, and so can my sister

1point

M Whee 1 year ago

I can hear that, old tube tvs were the loudest. I have tinnitus now and it sounds similar.

0points

Stardust she/her 2 years ago

I thought it was normal to cry very easily when experiencing any kind of negative emotion. I guess I might have depression or something else that causes me to get stressed out very easily

4points

Squirrelly Panda 2 years ago

Some people cry easily, some find it impossible to cry no matter how sad. It has nothing to do with being depressed or stressed easily and totally how your body responds to emotional stimuli. However, see someone and get help if you think you might be depressed, have anxiety, or if the free flowing tears are hindering your life. I've learned to partly manage, partly live with mine.

4points

Aleksandra 2 years ago

I also was very emotional to stressful stuff, reacted strongly to sadness or anger. I have depression, and now as I'm treating it I don't react that strongly to things, bad emotions don't fog up logic and thoughts. I also had other symptoms too tho. So if you feel it might be depression it's good to check up with psychiatrist (not psychologist). Also, lots of people don't even suspect they have depression, they just think it's normal

1point

similarly 2 years ago

It MIGHT be depression, or you just might be very good at expressing it. Be GLAD. I have a lot of trouble expressing emotion. I rarely laugh out loud, and I basically cannot cry. I can count on one hand the number of times I've actually shed tears from sadness in the past 30 years. I WISH I could show emotion, because I feel it. I just don't express it.

1point

James Doe 2 years ago

I get angry at how inconsiderate people are, eg wheb driving. Only through therapy I realized that it's not normal to have at least 5 cars in front and at least 3 behind you in mind at all times. Now it perfectly makes sense how peolpe can "listen" to the same 15 songs on radio, while chatting and driving - as normal human brains just filter stuff out.

3points

ί𝔫ＣίŦᵃт𝐔𝐬 2 years ago

But I do this too! I kind of realize it's not normal, but there's nothing that we can do, right? Every single time I get in the car it's a heart attack from anger at other drivers.

0points

MetaMaxNL 2 years ago

had a friend who always got intoxicated faster and worse then the rest of us. we and he always made a bit of a joke of it. few years later he went to the hospital for some random thing, finds out he only has one kidney

2points

Osprey 2 years ago

At 48 I still take baths, not showers. I didn't realize that normal adults eventually graduate to showers outside of childhood baths. I rarely shower, I feel cleaner and more relaxed after a bath and I cant seem to break the habit and switch to showers. One of few quirks that I have is that I have to bathe before I leave the house everyday.

2points

Mary Rogers 2 years ago (edited)

That's not abnormal. It's just a preference.

1point

2picklesinabun 2 years ago

Stay in school, kids.

2points

Madeleine 2 years ago

1) Stay in school, and 2) get to know people besides your own immediate family, so that you don’t have a totally insular life with no sense of what is and isn’t normal. Some of these posts, it seems people go even further into wild insularity and don’t even have conversations with their family members they share a home with!

4points

Pam 2 years ago

I enjoyed this Bored Panda immensely! Thanks Bored Panda!

1point

T 2 years ago

My dad is relatively hairless (genetics, I guess) so I had no clue that men could have chest hair, let alone thick body hair, until I was a preteen. Threw me for a loop the first time I saw it.

1point

Natalie Bohrteller 2 years ago (edited)

I can provoke goosebumps and just recently found out that this shouldn't be possible and that not many people can do it. Anyone else here?

1point

Amy S 2 years ago

Wait, can't everyone provoke goosebumps by choice?

1point

Alicia Davidson 2 years ago

I was always the kid being told to chew with my mouth shut, but I just couldn't do it. Meanwhile, we always knew that I had seasonal and pretty dander allergies, but it didn't seem that serious. Found out when I was 17-18 that I have severe allergies to basically everything in the air (dust, all pollen, anything scented, etc.) I had never been able to properly breathe through my nose. So I was a mouth breather, which is why I could never chew with my mouth closed. We also discovered that I have a poor sense of smell because of it, but if I breathe through my mouth, I can smell it. It's really hard to explain.

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Dave 2 years ago

Another stolen from Reddit article

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censorshipsucks 2 years ago

yes that's what BP does. But at least you can read it properly, Reddit is a dumpster fire.

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waddles 2 years ago

this was one rollercoaster of an article

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OnAFreakingRollercoaster 2 years ago

Upvote for the use of the word rollercoaster 😉😉

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BonnyDK 2 years ago

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Maria 2 years ago

Oh wow. Did the tumor get safely removed? How did he change afterwards?

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The Big Dipper ⭐️ 2 years ago

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Sasy 2 years ago

It counts

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Arthur Waite 2 years ago

Interesting article. About thirty of these items illustrate the axiom that "You don't know what you don't know."

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Ann Coffman 2 years ago

I have one. You know someone until you get to know them. Finally figured that out after lots of bad relationships and trusting "friends" I shouldn't have trusted.

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Mindghost 2 years ago (edited)

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Aleksandra 2 years ago

I thought everyone hears hight pitched sound in their ears when it's silent enough in the room. Turned out i just have tinnitus (learnt it at 24yo)

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ThatBiBookLover 2 years ago

Wait… that’s not normal???

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Luis Gomez 2 years ago (edited)

A bunch of these are just a sign that kids weren't paying attention during science class. Years later, you see them making opinions about vaccines and climate change.

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Mad McQueen 2 years ago

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Madeleine 2 years ago

I don’t quite understand wanting to marry someone or stay married to someone you think has a gross, embarrassing appearance and does things like ruin all his clothes for no apparent reason.

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Mary Rogers 2 years ago

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similarly 2 years ago

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simply.Taz 2 years ago

Not all people experience toothache pain the same.

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Anita Rapp 2 years ago

You're lucky you didn't abscess into your brain.

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Mouse 2 years ago

2 out of 3 people notice their urine smells different after eating asparagus. 1 out of 3 has no idea theirs does as well.

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Hey! 2 years ago

Mine smells awful. My husband can't smell his but I do!!!

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Christi Blankenship 2 years ago

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Sardonyx_3 2 years ago

I hear sometimes "hear" electrical signals. Whenever I'm near an electronic that's plugged in, I can hear a sort-of... whining sound. Kinda like tinnitus. but. not...?

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Arielle Daughtry 2 years ago (edited)

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Christi Blankenship 2 years ago

Me too, and so can my sister

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M Whee 1 year ago

I can hear that, old tube tvs were the loudest. I have tinnitus now and it sounds similar.

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Stardust she/her 2 years ago

I thought it was normal to cry very easily when experiencing any kind of negative emotion. I guess I might have depression or something else that causes me to get stressed out very easily

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Squirrelly Panda 2 years ago

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Aleksandra 2 years ago

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similarly 2 years ago

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James Doe 2 years ago

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ί𝔫ＣίŦᵃт𝐔𝐬 2 years ago

But I do this too! I kind of realize it's not normal, but there's nothing that we can do, right? Every single time I get in the car it's a heart attack from anger at other drivers.

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MetaMaxNL 2 years ago

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Osprey 2 years ago

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Mary Rogers 2 years ago (edited)

That's not abnormal. It's just a preference.

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2picklesinabun 2 years ago

Stay in school, kids.

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Madeleine 2 years ago

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Pam 2 years ago

I enjoyed this Bored Panda immensely! Thanks Bored Panda!

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T 2 years ago

My dad is relatively hairless (genetics, I guess) so I had no clue that men could have chest hair, let alone thick body hair, until I was a preteen. Threw me for a loop the first time I saw it.

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Natalie Bohrteller 2 years ago (edited)

I can provoke goosebumps and just recently found out that this shouldn't be possible and that not many people can do it. Anyone else here?

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Amy S 2 years ago

Wait, can't everyone provoke goosebumps by choice?

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Alicia Davidson 2 years ago

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Dave 2 years ago

Another stolen from Reddit article

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censorshipsucks 2 years ago

yes that's what BP does. But at least you can read it properly, Reddit is a dumpster fire.

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