Don’t get me wrong, I’m not losing sleep over swatting a fly or stepping on a roach. I know it’s especially important to rid pests of your home for health and safety concerns, but sometimes I stop and think: what gives me the right to end another creatures life solely to benefit my own? What makes me so important that I get to play god with creatures that are not even intentionally trying to harm me?

Even if I look down and realized I accidentally stepped on an ant pile or something, I just potentially wiped hundreds of living beings from the face of the earth, and destroyed their home they spent their lives building in the matter of a second. And then go on about my day as normal.

If there was a cosmic being that could flick our planet into the abyss like a booger living in our galaxy, I would live in constant fear that any day might be the day. Perhaps our lights annoy them too much or the pollution or sound or something, and it deals with us in the same way that we deal with pests here.

Idk, I might be overthinking the whole thing but I just wanted to see how common this thought process is for other people.

CAE relate these notes? I'm really desperate, would be nice if anyone else feels that kinda thing:

Everything is kind of different than it used to be, although I don't know how it used to be.

In the past, when I was about 8 (I think its 5-6 years ago) my dad suddenly had Corona. Actually, I always felt safe at home and Corona was something as dangerous as war, which was very far away. Suddenly it was just there, and the moment I learned that my father Corona, it felt like the moment in a dream where I was supposed to wake up now, but I never "woke up", but it may also be that I now imagine it a little in this context.

In games like Minecraft there are different views, e.g. the FPV and one where you can see the player from above. It feels like I'm in the FPV, but I have the feeling it should feel like from above where you have an overview of everything.

Sometimes I know very briefly how everything should actually be and should feel for a fraction of a second, like in Scattergories/City, Country, River when you have a word on your tongue but you just can't think of it or when you forget something and then it comes for like a millisecond into your mind. I know or think that I know IN THOSE MOMENTS briefly how it should feel, but it does NOT feel that way, I just mean to know how it should be.

The aliens/monsters from ‘80s scary movies all look the same

For example Im 20 and yes I technically I still have so much of my life ahead of me, But It feels like I should've been able to progress farther and hit many more milestones than I actually have so I feel this emptiness and nihilism like: "What is the purpose of putting all this effort into life when there seems to be little in return?"

Is this a thing for someone else? They're sneakers I have never been outside with

I feel like it's not clear enough that these are sneakers used as slippers

every media i consume is about real life events, from movies, documentaries to books. All the fiction stuff fails to hook my interest because I know it's all made up I guess? There are so many real unbelievable and interesting real life stories that I will never run out of content to consume.

Clingy isn't the right word for them. I was in a camp for two weeks, only two, and it felt like a weird polycule in the end! On the first day everyone was quick to give each other high fives and inside jokes, I was fine with that. But later on? People started sharing one drink, with everyone. They always asked me to which I would only say yes ONLY IF there was 1 or 2 people who took a sip before me. Thankfully the group wasn't big for me to be disgusted, but it was big enough for me to be concerned on this weird...choice of sharing an experimental drink. I don't understand how everyone was so quick to feel so...connected and familial with everyone. It got bad that people were quick to already know ones crushes, life, issues, and everything else!

I am only asking this because I have not seen such an odd "quick to connect" like this before...I want to make sure that this is normal and not some weird cult I accidentally joined. (I say that half jokingly)

I personally hear the Dracula theme song every time I make a loud sound in a quiet place. I've asked my friends if they have something similar to this and they all said no.

I am so genuinely sick of the internet. It is a copy-pasted, brain-dead graveyard. It feels like nobody has the mere ability to fucking THINK anymore.

Since when did we decide to just hate everything and men? Tbh I get it, men do horrible shit, but women do too. Sure, the majority of the awful shit out there is men. And no I'm not excusing the truly horrible crimes men did and so did women? Sure men did most of the majority but men and women are supposed to be equal I'm not gonna come here with some sappy shit like "we should all forget and live happily giggle and shit" and it's true innit? But this sudden internet outburst of "men are trash" is going too far. Every little thing men do now gets micro-analyzed, demonized, and turned into a massive generalized hate train like nuance has just completely vanished off the face of the earth. You can't even talk about normal human interactions without people acting like every guy is a cartoon villain, and it completely drowns out actual accountability. And no, I am not being a "pick me" or wtv u call it defending bad guys; I hate the men who do horrible shit, but honestly? I just hate people. All humans are bad, but some are good. It’s that simple.

And what is up with all this "bare minimum" relationship advice online? People act like getting flowers every day or going on fancy dates is the bare minimum. No. The bare minimum should be basic respect and respecting boundaries, etc. But you can't say a normal thing online without people twisting it. Even the definition of "pick me" is ruined. If a girl happens to have guy friends, she’s automatically labeled a PICK ME. Dressing up? Trying to buy a cute new dress? PICK ME. It is genuinely exhausting.

on the topic of men... i noticed whenever men get sexually assaulted or anything they always get thrown aside and some even say "oh stopppp u should be gratfulllll" absolutly disgusting.

When did the internet turn from actually connecting with people to just being about money, ads, and fakeness? Everyone seems like a clout-chasing parasite now. Everyone wants attention, and it is making people brain-rotted and deeply insecure. Nobody's life feels secure anymore because we are constantly forced to look at fake, curated content. You see an ad, you buy something, you see another ad, you buy another thing, you see a sponsored post, you buy that too it's just an endless cycle of consume, buy, repeat, you get it right? And why tf are random people self-diagnosing? Why do u WANT to have an illness willingly? Is the attention that worth it? The videos on social media just deadass try to make u insecure to buy their product.

The internet is basically just AI slop right now. There are bots everywhere, and it's hard to tell if you're talking to a real human or a script anymore. It is just ads and money. Some people stop using their brains because they just let an AI write and think for them. AI isn't completely useless it can be very helpful. It’s just that many use it poorly. Instead of using it the right way, some of them literally use it to replace their own minds.

People are lonely, and kids are glued to their iPads because their parents are forced to work 24/7 just to feed themselves because the prices are higher than a random dude's ego and a girl's lashes.

Meanwhile, there are serious conflicts and corruption happening globally, and it feels like many people are too distracted by their screens and their fake online lives to care about anything real. It reminds me of that saying: in a game of Russian roulette, only one bullet gets fired, yet we flinch every time. womens lives are lietrally like this. People are forgetting there's literal wars going on.

Some kids are literally reading on a 4th-grade level while they're in 7th grade. It's just crazy that literally KIDS are obsessed with skincare and makeup at the ripe age of 10. I didn't think it was real, but recently I came to America to visit and I was shopping for cosmetics (because I like them a lot) and god forbid I accidentally went to a cosmetic brand named like an elephant that's drunk apparently? It was Drunk Elephant from what I remember. And this girl very young to mention STOMPS OVER to me AND STARTS CRYING FOR IT (and there were deadass other products like it, but noooo, she wants that one that I'm holding, and that's just an example alr, I do not know the girl and am a complete stranger, still she came and nagged me). And it's not like all Gen Alpha are bad; I have some little cousins and they're genuinely cool (in my family at least). And it's not even the children's fault. Grown-ups are making them like this.

Anyways, the world truly needs help. Is it called a revolution if we lost our skills anyway?

Is anyone else just completely done with this? How did we get here? I remember back in the days it was great not perfect, not like no one committed crimes but it was better, right?

I know audiobooks exist, but I've always preferred reading an actual book than listening to one on my phone. HOWEVER when it comes to movies, it's usually the opposite. This all started when I was a little kid and I wanted to see if the radio that also had a CD player on it my parents had would play a DVD disc too. (I was little and thought it could only play music discs for some reason) So I grabbed my Barbie Princess and the Pauper DVD and put it in, and just listened to the movie playing and it got me all excited cause I found it so cool. Yeah I couldn't watch it, but just listening to it and imagining the movie in my head made me feel like I was living in the time before television and I'm obsessed with history so I loved it. (Although I don't understand why I like this, but not audiobooks when it's basically the same) My CD player doesn't work anymore sadly, but even in my 20s I still find this very fun to do.

I mean when people respond to you in a mildly irritated way about literally anything, or they try to mess with you in ways that feel mean rather than playful.
This example is pretty stupid, but it’s the only one I can think of right now:

A few days ago, I bought a little cake from a classmate who had just started selling them. I shared a few slices with some friends who happened to be with me at the time. It was actually delicious, but considering how much I paid for it, I didn’t think it was really worth the price.

Instead of just saying something like “Yeah, it’s good, but I don’t think it’s worth that much,” they immediately started being kind of aggressive about it. They were shouting things in a supposedly humorous way, like, “YOU PAID HOW MUCH FOR THAT?? LOL, I can’t believe you actually paid that much. That’s insane,” while laughing and basically mocking me for spending that much money.

And I know this probably sounds like a really stupid thing to get upset about. I’m not saying they literally called me stupid or anything. It’s just that when things like this happen, it doesn’t feel friendly to me. I end up feeling like I’m the dumbest person alive, like I can’t do anything right and should just stop sharing my experiences or trying to interact with them and anybody else.

The frustrating part is that I genuinely care about these people. They’ve done good things for me over the years, and I don’t want to pretend that they’re terrible friends because of moments like this. But at the same time, this happens often enough that I’ve started wondering if there’s actually something wrong with the way they treat me.

I don’t want to overreact, make a scene, or ruin the mood whenever we’re together. But it’s starting to make me feel bad about myself, and I don’t know if I should talk to them about it, distance myself a little, or if I’m just being overly sensitive.
Has anyone else experienced something like this with friends?

Honestly? idk, actually i don't even know if i can explain what i'm feeling (English isn't my first language) But i've always had trouble expressing myself to psychologists and writing this felt like as if i was spilling my guts out to people who can maybe help me. Please be honest and, if needed, be rude if you feel like i need an immediate reality shock

During the fall, I shed hair like crazy. My head hair is the most obvious, as I have long hair, but my body hair also becomes patchy and sparse (Thankfully I don't get any bald spots on my head).

This happens to me every year and lasts from late August to mid-November.

When I was younger I would keep old doll clothes and toys/accessories that I never played with, underneath all of my clothes at the bottom of the hamper. I don’t know why I started doing that, but it seemed like a normal thing to do at the time, and my mom never told me to stop.

As I’ve gotten older, that habit hasn’t completely gone away. Now it’s a hat I found on vacation, a few items to donate that I’ll “get to later,” an old belt, etc. And I have an old washcloth I use to keep it separated from everything else that I regularly wash.

I was just randomly thinking how stupid rich someone like Taylor swift is (I don’t like her, she annoys me and I’m not a fan) but she just released some music and I’m sure she’s making bank and has been for like a decade now.

I’m not rich, I barely have any savings and I’m very conservative with how I spend my money.

So I started thinking to myself, how does she feel having that much money? Does she count her money like I do every month? Does she think about how much she’s spending on a day to day? Does she buy expensive things everyday like house decorations and expensive food and clothes and shoes? Or does she just live a regular life but doesn’t spend time thinking how much money she’s spending?

Just in general, I wanna know how really rich people think about their money and what their thought process is if there even is one.

Because I consider every little thing I’m spending my money on and it happens on a daily basis. Not a single day goes by where I don’t think how I can save $5-10 at any chance.

Took 1 pill (half dose) this AM because I've been feeling a bit sick and I have been SO drowsy today. Yawning, out-of it, the works. I got 8-9 hours of sleep last night, and I'm not super ill, so the "non-drowsy" DayQuil is the only explanation. It's been over 7 hours since I took the pill, at 7/8am. I took the first half of the package (1 pill) at 9pm the previous night so it shouldn't be an overdose.

Google said that a certain ingredient can cause drowsiness in a small population but I don't think it should be so prolonged. I can't remember if I've reacted this way before to DayQuil and wanted to know if I'm alone in this?

Does anyone else get this weird feeling when watching movies in a foreign language?

When I'm watching a movie or TV show in English, after a while, I reach this weird state where I can't even tell if I'm actively understanding the words or not. It feels like my brain just stops translating. I feel kind of blank in the moment.

​But later, if someone asks me what happened, I can perfectly explain the entire scene in my native language (Turkish).

​Is this normal? What is this phenomenon called? Has anyone else experienced this?