This is a topic where you can tell us all about strange things you think about. I'll start it off by saying that whenever I see an ad that I really notice (in NYC, mind), I play through my head what the ideal consumer is supposed to think in a fake-astounded voice. I also overanalyze ads when I'm bored, getting into annoying loops of whether that's what the company WANTED me to think when reading the ad.

I sometimes think my face is a punctuation mark.

My demons are for me only.

Edit: Never mind. That was an odd thought.

Post has been edited 2 time(s), last time on Dec 8 2009, 12:06 pm by Tuxedo-Templar.

Honestly, at this point, I'm pretty open as to what I'd accept as a decent odd thought.

My mind is constantly undergoing several different leaps from one thought to another. Most of the time I cannot even recall reoccurring thoughts simply because by the time I am going to type one down I have already been brought to the attention of another thought. Really, I have a short attention span.

However, I will go with the basic thought of every man and say, "I am thinking of sex right now."

Well, I constantly run conversations in my head with people. Does anyone else do this? I talk to people without them being here, especially when I'm bored, or can't get to sleep. I say things to them, and then emulate their reactions, and really just converse with them. I run test drives of things out in my head (test drives of anything, whatever I want to test out to see if it will work properly in real life, and I do it all the time), especially with conversations. I'll say whatever I want to "test" out on a person, and then I imagine the most realistic response that person could come up with, and then carry on a conversation or analysis after I hear their reaction. I test run conversations when I need to persuade someone of something, ask someone a question, or when I'm just doing something I want to be doing at the time. The funny thing is, I even run conversations with people in my head, as if I were telling them about my time spent conversing with them in my head. I run fake conversations with people I've meet online, and I imagine that I talk with them in real life. I talk with people I see daily, but don't really know, and try to figure out what they are really like.

I talk to people I don't actually know in real life -people I've just made up. I also like to imagine places I've never been to, but long to go. I often have continuations of dreams with people I know, and one time in my early childhood I thought I fell in love with a girl I met on a long journey, the type of journey you hear about in novels and stories.

Hmm what else is something odd I often think about. I like to argue with myself and other people, mainly myself, and I like to talk to myself as well, whenever I'm bored or trying to figure something out. I find that if I argue with myself, and play devil's advocate on things I'm stubborn about, I can take on a third person perspective of my own thoughts and actions and then use that new perspective to my own advantage. It isn't easy to sing well if you can't hear yourself, and it isn't easy to think efficiently without analyzing your own thoughts.

I have a small sort of belief I've developed, but I haven't ironed out the kinks in it yet. I kind of live by it, it's sort of a quote I've come up with:

Cecil... Brains get tired if you push them hard enough.


As for me.. All kinds of shit running through brain non-stop, but nothing really important.

Yeah I 'plan' out conversations in my head, but pretty much only when it's gonna be a big screaming fight. Not as hardcore as Cecil

I talk to myself in my head as if I were two exact copies of myself. It''s nice because I'm talking to someone that completely agrees with me 100%, lol. Plenty of times I've talked to myself about talking to myself.
I sometimes get random thoughts of swearing at people or sometimes stabbing them or myself, I get really into it for a short moment before coming back to reality and saying to myself that the thought was really weird, random, and why the heck would I do that.
I used to have a lot more weird thoughts, like constantly thinking about parallel universe stuff- like does thinking and acting about the future, change the future, or in the past, was it your future to think about changing the future?

I do that all the time... And for certain people the conversations I create in my head are what actually happen later when I bring up that subject. xD

Very this.
Generic sample conversation:

I also randomly bring up topics in my mind and decide whether or not I agree with whichever side... If something has happened during the day and I was greatly dissatisfied with my reaction (or didn't know how to react), I will over-think it until I can vividly recreate that scene and perform a satisfactory reaction. Usually done best when I've zoned out while walking or while sitting down doing nothing else.

Unless I'm actually thinking of speaking, someone speaking, or trying to form something into words most my thoughts are essentially garbage... It's really hard for me to convey ideas that are in a non-word form because of this. ;o

If I hear someone's voice enough, I can make them say things in my mind... It's fun making people scream, curse, and swear who would otherwise not do such things.

Whenever I have a long conversation with someone, I like to recall every step the conversation took... This action is inspired by the countless times someone says something like "How did we get from sandstorms to gingerbread houses made from crisco instead of gingerbread?"

They so don't. ;o If I feel I am not thinking as well as I'd like, I drink water or eat something sugary (preferably the former...).

Post has been edited 5 time(s), last time on Dec 8 2009, 11:52 am by FaRTy1billion.

I sometimes think that I'm in the Starcraft universe playing a game about reality
Also, everybody knows that 80% of people on the internet are from the future. They time travel via WWW to have fun with us present dwellers.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Dec 8 2009, 12:18 pm by OlimarandLouie.

I sometimes think of funny jokes to tell, and then read them over in my head and perfect the way I deliver it. I'll just randomly be doing nothing, and I'll think of an awesome joke, and spend all the time trying to perfect it until I can tell it to someone, I think it's sort of odd, lol. To them it seems like I just made a joke on the spot, but in reality, I've been practicing for hours!

I imagine myself shooting lasers out of my eyes and having them ricochet around the room.

Used to have a lot more, but medication cleared that up.

Aha! I do the same exact thing pretty often. I especially like to have conversations I've pre-planned, and then compare the actual conversation with the one I emulated. When I first started doing this, with my parents when I was a small child (usually when I wanted to ask for something), I would pre-converse in my mind with my parents about my question. I would usually "go easy" on myself, and make my parents give me whatever I wanted. But over time, I've gotten better at being more accurate.

I've never told anyone that I have pre-run a conversation in my head, but I've told people in my mind about telling them that I've had pre-convos in my mind, and then I usually realize what I'm doing, and then I tell the person about how strange it is that I'm telling them in my mind about (insert confusing text here)

Mine don't

But has anyone ever imagined someone new entirely and talk with them, or talk with someone they only know the name, or position in society of? Lately I've been longing to DigiPen, and sometimes I daydream about taking classes there, listening to lectures, participating with the class and conversing with people.

Or how about dreams? Does anyone else have the same exact dream twice, or have continuations of dreams, as if your dreams were similar to just reading a novel over a period of a few days?

Another thing I like to do is take on mental challenges, forcing my mind to overcome my body's impulses, or doing math in my head to see if I can without a calculator or paper. An example would be when I was younger and walking around my house in the dark. I used to force myself to walk slower whenever I became more frightened of the dark, and would continue to walk in super slow motion, until I either accepted my fear (which sort of is overcoming fear altogether) or would vanquish my fear by telling myself my fear isn't rational. Once I would stop being afraid, I would continue walking. I would stop my urge to run to my bedroom and hide under my blankets, by standing alone in the dark until I overcame my fear of doing so. Does anyone else do things like this at all?

Oh, a good example would be lately. I've been trying to "train" myself to be able to think in a focused manner despite sonic stimuli. I usually do this by trying to something online while listening to my music, with my headphones on, with the volume up high. I think it would be nice if I could voluntarily tune out whatever I hear and focus my thought. It would be especially helpful in my family, where I can't stand to hear the voice of my mother yelling at everyone in the house while I'm trying to do whatever I'm doing at the time. I also have siblings, and being able to tune out noises effectively with them would be a plus

Hmm I'm trying to think of what else I do that might be weird. I think I'm synaesthetic. Whenever I look at an image, especially really original and innovative indie games or short videos, or feel a certain texture, or react with my emotions in a certain way, I sort of make connections to other feelings or images that I've been through in the past. I don't really do it consciously, but more of subconsciously; as in, I don't actually see images floating in my mind, but more of the general feeling or awe of what it would be like to see those images in my mind. It's pretty hard to explain. I guess you could say I connect certain sense receptions with others, and certain experiences with others, and certain feelings with others, and I make connections between those three categories as well. I've been doing it as long as I remember, and until rather recently I thought everyone did exactly what I did, because what I did was just the reality presented to me. Does anyone else feel the same way about things as me, pertaining to this paragraph? Does this even make sense?

Yes, I have definitely had reoccuring nightmares- which wasn't so nightmarish when I thought about it.
Sometimes they happen slightly differently though.

I had a dream where I was dreaming once, then I thought I woke up, but I was still dreaming- then I had a massive headache when I woke up for real.

I don't either... but in my mind I get confused about when to stop talking about how I pre-thought this through, including the thought stating that I pre-thought it and then pre-thought that last statement etc... I usually try find a way to derail at that point.

...oh lol.

I always wonder how much nose someone would have left if I were to start at where their eyebrows meet and then cut straight down (with a laser or something so the cut was clean). Depending on the person's face, it's always different, but I haven't been able the help wondering about that for the last several years now.

When I meet a new person, I'm terrified of mentioning something they haven't already told me but that I have learned from some light internet stalking.

Sometimes I'm trying to figure out ways that could make communism based government work. I oughta write a book about it.