Dumb things that seem to creep into your thoughts

[puckluck]

That If I died in the next few months that I would miss the next Flame's season and that would suck.

[dubc80]

Originally Posted by OILFAN #81

- Thinking my car isn't locked right after I hit the button to lock it. I will start walking for a few minutes and then turn back and check each individual door and then head on my way again. (This happens sometimes to me at my front door at home as well)

- What I would do on an airplane that is hijacked. I play in my mind what I would do first to help everyone on board and my plan to fight off the hi-jackers (this has happened a lot more since 9/11).

ha ha! I've done this on both planes and busses.

I've even gone as far as scanning the other passengers and assessing their potential capabilities, usefullness, and percieved "skill" in said situation.

[Cheerio]

One thought I've never been able to shake from my mind:

-I want to fight a coyote, 1 on 1 and kill it with my bare hands. But it would have to be made angry somehow so that it would actually fight back

[Sr. Mints]

When I walk by a staircase, I think I'm just going to tumble down it. This is especially bad at night: sometimes I find myself almost sidling along the walls if it's really dark.

[I_am_Beast]

Originally Posted by troutman

I sometimes get the feeling at night that a Grey Alien is watching me through the window, in preparation for the abduction.

What about bald eagle dude?

[LChoy]

More so when I was a kid visiting Hong Kong, We stay in one of those tall highrises and I always wanted to throw objects from great heights and watch it fall. Logically, this can be extrememly dangerous as it can cause serious injury and/or damage to whatever the object. However, it's a curiousity that I can't shake, be it throwing a marble, paper airplane, a fork...

Same goes if I am on a highfloor stair well, and you look over the railing and see the previous stairs spiral to the bottom. Wanting to drop a pen so that it falls to the basement without hitting the railing on its way to the bottom

[Ashartus]

Sometimes when I'm driving I think about how if there is are parallel universes, in some I might have just been hit by a meteor, in others the oncoming car crossed the median and hit me, and other random improbable ways I could die in those universes.

Like a few others I also get that weird urge to jump when I'm in high places, despite being fairly acrophobic.

[MarchHare]

- What I would do on an airplane that is hijacked. I play in my mind what I would do first to help everyone on board and my plan to fight off the hi-jackers (this has happened a lot more since 9/11).

Ha! Whenever I'm on a commercial airliner, I always play out a scenario in my head where the plane is hijacked, but the passengers fight off the bad guys and take back control of the plane. Unfortunately, the flight crew has already been killed/incapacitated, and I'm the only other pilot on board. Using my l33t Cessna 172 skills, I'm able to safely land the plane with the assistance of an experienced jetliner pilot walking me through the landing procedure over the radio.

I've never asked, but I'm pretty sure every private pilot in the world also thinks this whenever they fly commercial.

[troutman]

Originally Posted by I_am_Beast

What about bald eagle dude?

Ca-Caw!

[BurningYears]

One very little thing with me is I often wonder if the colours that you see are the same that I see, Is my "Red" in the flaming C the same as yours? or is yours more "Green"

[troutman]

Originally Posted by BurningYears

One very little thing with me is I often wonder if the colours that you see are the same that I see, Is my "Red" in the flaming C the same as yours? or is yours more "Green"

I have often wondered that myself. I assume we all see the same colors, as they are arranged by wavelength from darker to lighter?

http://science-edu.larc.nasa.gov/EDD...or_Colors.html

Our eyes are sensitive to light which lies in a very small region of the electromagnetic spectrum labeled "visible light". This "visible light" corresponds to a wavelength range of 400 - 700 nanometers (nm) and a color range of violet through red. The human eye is not capable of "seeing" radiation with wavelengths outside the visible spectrum. The visible colors from shortest to longest wavelength are: violet, blue, green, yellow, orange, and red. Ultraviolet radiation has a shorter wavelength than the visible violet light. Infrared radiation has a longer wavelength than visible red light. The white light is a mixture of the colors of the visible spectrum. Black is a total absence of light.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/in...4122223AA21sKF

http://www.cis.rit.edu/fairchild/WhyIsColor/map.html

[Free Ben Hur!]

Great thread - nice (in a way) to see that most everyone else is as neurotic as I am. I wonder about the moment of death, particularly violent death. I read about this construction foreman in Ontario who fell into a piling shaft while the crew was doing an auger inspection or something. The crew didn't know he fell down the hole. Then they went back to drilling again. I wonder about the terror he must have felt as the top of the hole went dark and the earth began to shake and he knew, inevitiably, what was going to happen to him.

[Knut]

Originally Posted by troutman

I have often wondered that myself. I assume we all see the same colors, as they are arranged by wavelength from darker to lighter?

http://science-edu.larc.nasa.gov/EDD...or_Colors.html

Our eyes are sensitive to light which lies in a very small region of the electromagnetic spectrum labeled "visible light". This "visible light" corresponds to a wavelength range of 400 - 700 nanometers (nm) and a color range of violet through red. The human eye is not capable of "seeing" radiation with wavelengths outside the visible spectrum. The visible colors from shortest to longest wavelength are: violet, blue, green, yellow, orange, and red. Ultraviolet radiation has a shorter wavelength than the visible violet light. Infrared radiation has a longer wavelength than visible red light. The white light is a mixture of the colors of the visible spectrum. Black is a total absence of light.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/in...4122223AA21sKF

http://www.cis.rit.edu/fairchild/WhyIsColor/map.html

Actually the concentration of the cone photoreceptors in relation to one another changes the appearance of the "color" you see. So red likely does look slightly different to most people.

http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tut...perception.htm

This link simplifies things a bit. Essentially if one of the cones is in lower concentration it shifts the average view of what you see. However, because we have named these colors our whole lives (ie. Apples are red) we have each learned what colors are attributed to our personal shades.

[burn_this_city]

Originally Posted by OILFAN #81

- What I would do on an airplane that is hijacked. I play in my mind what I would do first to help everyone on board and my plan to fight off the hi-jackers (this has happened a lot more since 9/11).

I've look at my carry on items for things I could use as a weapon in a hijacking. Iphone and laptop battery in my socks could do enough damaged to take the hijacker down. My puffy headphones I carry but rarely use, have a pretty thick cord if I had to choke a guy from behind.

[Dion]

Having to drive back and make sure I closed the garage door. Of course it's always closed but still I always have this strong urge to go back and check. I will sometimes do this with the doors on my house.

[shermanator]

I'm paranoid of leaving my keys locked in the house / car. I'll shut off my car, take my keys, put them in my pocket, then as I close the door feel my pocket twice more to make sure the keys are in my pocket and not on the seat. Then between closing the car door and wherever I go check three more times to ensure the keys have not somehow fallen out through a mysterious hole in my pocket.

I've left keys in my friends car as I've gone hiking and have freaked out halfway through the hike when my keys weren't in my pocket.

Ridiculous I tells ya

[shermanator]

Also, when I see a girl that is so incredibly attractive that I can't take my eyes off her, I imagine that girl taking a giant dump. It helps bring her down to my level...

[Wood]

I always wonder what it would be like to start a worldwide fad, or make a word/phrase popular. Like the first guy to all his friend a doosh for example. At that moment it made no sense, now it's a widely accepted insult

Or the first person to "plank". When some doosh said "hey, take a picture of me laying flat on this obscure object" his buddy probably thought, this is stupid. Now it... Wait, nvm

[JohnnyB]

Almost whenever I take a high elevator I can't help but thinking for just a moment that it is about to fall, and that once I'm in it I am totally committed to having faith in that little box hanging above a very long empty space. Sometimes I can almost experience that feeling of what it's like to suddenly free fall, like when you take that 'Drop of Fear' or whatever ride at fair grounds, and I think about how I would try to time a jump as well as I could just before impact to reduce my downward momentum in the last hopes that it would make a difference. Also, I sometimes think about who I would try to jump over in order to soften my own impact.

[JohnnyB]

Originally Posted by MissTeeks

Whenever I am home in Sicamous, I have to check the bottom of my sheets for Black Widow spiders because they once found one in Enderby, which is like 30 minutes away, like 10 years ago.

Also along the lines of Bloody Mary, I get extremely freaked out whenever anyone says "Candyman".

I also try my hardest to avoid walking on cracks in the sidewalk or lines in floor tiles, but that may be more of an OCD thing, instead of a creepy thing.

I would think Sicamous would be likely to have black widows, no? There are certainly no shortage of them around my parents place in Penticton. The space under our deck is loaded with them, as are the irrigation boxes and pretty much any pile of random rubble I go shifting around. They're all over the place.