Mine was having the sudden urge to hurl a random toddler who was teetering over the edge of a waterfall.
Whenever i have a knife and see a thick electrical wire i have to stop myself from “just testing” what would happen if I cut into it. I work with 400v ac on a construction site a lot and I know what would happen lol.
Mine has been to slap a stranger. I want to know, what will happen after that?
I did that accidentaly once. We were visiting Scotland and I tried to point out something and accidentally slapped a woman straight in the face. She just cursed and looked at me strangely and walked away.
In college I was enjoying some recreational activities at a house party.
Next to me on a couch was this kid who had like low grade cerebral palsey or something. Like, legitimately, he had those arm crutch things Walter White’s kid had. Never asked what it actually was.
Anyways, he laughs at something and leans back on the couch. And accidentally does one of those back punches like Bruce Lee. Like, where someone sneaks up behind him and he just hits them with the back of his fist without looking.
Anyways, dude gets me straight in the nose, doesn’t stop laughing, gets two inches from my face and screams
You just got punched by a fucking cripple
And just absolutely died laughing.
He was a cool dude, and that was probably the only time he’s punched anyone in his life, and it was absolutely an accident. But it was just hilarious how he rolled with it
Whenever I pick up my knife my brain says, “what if I just stick this into my belly?”
They say your brain imagines these scenarios so that you can try to avoid them, but the more you learn about trying to wrangle your brain the more I think the brain is just a dick sometimes.
They say your brain imagines these scenarios so that you can try to avoid them
Not quite.
Like, there’s a scary amount we don’t know about the brain and how it works.
But I think it’s a little different than you said. It’s the brain trying to figure out how it would deal if that happened.
Like, you avoid stabbing yourself by not stabbing yourself.
But your brain is evaluating if stabbing yourself so you can practice surviving a stab wound would be a good idea.
Which, sounds crazy, untill you realize most of what humans do for fun involves tricking our brains or bodies I to think we’re in danger. Hell, even the drive to “play” is just tricking us into exercising so we’re stronger if we do have to fight.
Even tickling is just teaching kids what parts to guard in a fight.
I often get the urge to steer into groups of pedestrians and cyclists or knocking over small road signs
Never did it obviously. my car would not survive that anyway.
Probs just Tetris effect from the hundreds of hours I spent playing GTA when I was younger. I’d always do that shit
I get bad short thoughts about how I could easily end so many personal relationships with a quick random punch to the face. Pick the right person and you could be ostracised from your whole family.
