For example, I'll have a candle but hardly ever burn it because I want it to last.

I'll be enjoying a book but then slow down on reading it because I don't want it to be over.

I'll get a craft kit but put off making it because then I won't get to make it anymore lol.

I'm not a hoarder btw, I actually lean pretty minimalist. And it's not like a money issue, I could afford to replace things as I use them. I just love the 'looking forward to this thing' feeling so much that sometimes it prevents me from actually enjoying the thing.

I never drink the last bit because I feel like the bottom of the cup is dirty. No matter how hard I scrub the cup, no matter how much soap I use, I still think the bottom is dirty. It could be a completely new cup, but I will still think it's dirty.

After long days, I just want to go home and rest. My current roommate talks to himself constantly. Loudly. So loud that if I try to get into a movie or show, I can’t hear all of it. He paces back and forth talking to himself about different things. I wear headphones when out in public because I just want to be with my own thoughts. I just don’t tolerate constant talking very well. When I want to journal or meditate I have to go in my car or drive to a parking lot to get peace and quiet. Working on my living situation so I can live alone. Asking for quiet doesn’t work. I just think that at some point in life you should be able to be quiet.

I use Waze, so for me I use the GPS to get notified about traffic, road hazards, breakdowns, cops, etc, rather than for directions. I know the way to work.

Waze is generally pretty insistent about making me take a particular route home from work. Unless the time difference is big enough that my usual route clearly has issues, I ignore it though. The faster route often has cars parked on the left and cars trying to turn right from the right lane across traffic, and there's only two lanes so you have to weave back and forth a lot and it gets annoying. Due to peak hour people aren't supposed to do either of those things until off peak kicks in, but they still do.

The route I usually take, for some reason, has less people doing both. So I just use that one even though it takes longer bc I prefer to chill.

I love getting my balls scratched by my girlfriend as she has amazing nails, are there any other guys whi do the same?

My wife hates doing dishes, but I kinda enjoy it. Most of the dishes go in the dishwasher, but large bowls, wine glasses, heavy pots / pans etc, all get washed by hand. I always get this feeling of accomplishment (though it's hardly a monumental task) once the dishes are washed, the stove and counters are wiped down, floor swept when necessary, and the kitchen is once again presentable

I should first of all say that I'm NOT hurting myself, and I never would. Also, no, this isn't a troll, I sincerely want to know if anybody else uses negative reinforcement to be more productive.

I'm a writer. I have a quota set for myself to write at least 500 words a day. If I don't meet that minimum, I wash my mouth out with non-toxic soap, like what parents do when their kid swears. I don't hurt myself, I don't do anything dangerous, that's all I do. I've been doing it for so long that whenever I smell a particular brand of soap, I have the urge to get to work. Anyway, I casually mentioned the fact that I do this to some other writer friends, and they all think I'm crazy for doing that, and that's not normal. I don't think it's bad for me, and I'm not hurting anybody, so I don't get why everyone says what I do is crazy. It may be a bit weird, but some soap isn't that bad, right?

Obligatory: I don't endorse anyone else doing this. Don't do it.

When you got good sleep schedule, you finally feel like human, tactile feelings starting to become more even, smells more detailed, and even sight becomes clear!

I’ve worn glasses since 8 or so and now can feel dips (I guess that’s the best description) in my skull and sides of my face where the earpieces have been for 20+ years. Where they go behind my ears, the cartilage over time has also reshaped to the curvature of the earpieces.

I bought a pair of headphones today, the Kraken X Lite. I read that they are not the best, but for 35 bucks are kinda ok. The ones that I was using before were not the best either, so I didn't really care.

After using them for a while, I noticed some things that are don't end up liking. The fake leather thing on the pads heats my ears like crazy, and the sound is somewhat... off? And the microphone sounds high pitch. This may be fixable anyways, just using the proper software.

The point is, after using them and finding out that they are not a lot of my liking, I started feeling bad. I got nervous and I was in discomfort with myself, for "wasting" money. I want to specify that I am not in any way stingy. It doesn't matter if the thing costs a 3 peebles and a stick, or if it is worth a grand, I am going to feel equally bad if I end up not quite loving it.

The weird part is that even if I can get a refund, I will still feel bad. In this case I think I can't, because I already opened the thing. I could only make up an excuse, which I don't think I can.

I also felt like this the time I bought an sd card to crack my 3DS. In the end, I could not manage to do it, and the sd card ended up being not used. It was only 14 €, but I felt this way for days. I don't know if this is normal.

If anybody elses feel like this or can relate, I would appreciate your comments. Please don't laugh at me because of this if it sound stupid, I end a feeling really bad and sad when this happens, feeling this way right now.

Thanks for your time.

If I am sleeping deep enough but I have to pee irl, it will consume my dreams. I'll constantly be looking for a bathroom, and even if I find/use one, dream-me never feels satisfied. It will just be an endless stream of me needing to use the restroom, no matter how many times I go. Obviously, this is because my real body needs to pee, but it isn't enough to truly wake me up. I'll eventually wake up and realize why my dreams were so weird is because of my need to actually pee. I assume I'm just in too deep of a sleep to be woken, but the sensation is enough to mess with my dreams. Does anyone else get this, or am I just weird?

(Disclaimer: this has never once caused me to wet the bed. Most of the time if I have to pee, I will wake up before it affects my dreams. Otherwise, I just get weird dreams.)

I often get food poisoning that puts me out of commision once or twice a year. When I do vomit/feel nausea from food poisoning I notice that whenever I think of any food I had previously eaten in the last 12 hours it makes me feel worse, and it makes me despise that food for period after.

This happens even when the food isn't the explicit cause. For example, I got food poisoning a few years ago and that same day I had eaten a lot of taro chips. I couldn't stop thinking about the oiliness and grease in them when I was feeling nauseous. It actually made me stop eating taro chips for months after I recovered, even when I knew it didn't cause my sickness.

DAE have something similar to this?

I don’t mean in the literal sense where you’re tired. But like nothing is exciting. You have little emotional energy towards anything - even stuff you enjoy. Nothing has meaning or matters so I remember very little. There’s no emotional attachment to most things.

This is a lifetime of feeling like this. Like any emotion I experience is superficial and doesn’t connect to my brain. I’ve taken antidepressants previously when depression took hold during a rough time and it brought me back to how I feel now. But I never really experience energizing emotional responses.

People give someone a gift and they’re all “omg thank you!!” And excitedly hug them or something. I have to fake most of that similar type of energy because it’s what everyone else seems to be like. Internally I’m just “oh, cool.” But outwardly I have to be smiling with a sincere appreciation and admiration of the gift. Even if I genuinely like the gift.

It’s all a facade. A mask. And now I’m not sure what’s considered normal or not. If I’m mentally delayed. Or clinically depressed. A self-involved cunt. Is it normal to be faking genuine excitement, the kind you can feel in your heart and mind? Is that even a real thing or something I just assume people experience? I get glimmers of that occasionally. But typically my default emotion for everything is “meh.”

Thoughts?

I love how it scratches my body, removes dead skin a lot better than soft sponges and doesnt break apart as easily.

For me it is this commercial for a coffee machine that uses those pods. I don’t understand. I feel like it was made by aliens.

I am vague to see if anyone knows what I am talking about.

Is there a word for this?

Feel so blah and embarrassed right now. Was on vid chat with my bf and he asks me to turn around to see my ass and I forgot I've got like 3 little holes in my PJ pants -_- He pointed it out and died laughing. I laughed a little but wanted to cry too. Haven't worn hole-y clothes with him but I've always sort of just worn my home clothes until the holes are too big to deal with. I'm kind of a hobo at home and I'm usually really put together and made up when I'm with him so. I'm dying of embarrassment. On top of it he said he's never seen a girl do that. I've got longstanding depression so it feels like an external manifestation of my inner chaos which is part of why I feel so ashamed.

hi! I wouldn't consider myself a gamer, as it's not my main hobby. however, I've loved pokemon my entire life, namely the DS games.

however I find that I restart the games I own very often. after I beat the elite 4, I delete the save file and start another one with a different team. i just restarted pokemon platinum for the 4th time today, in fact.

i tried looking it up, and a lot of people mention it's an OCD thing. its funny, because I highly likely have it (I've done my research). however, restarting the game isn't a compulsion for me. i don't get anxiety about it. i do it mostly because I want to re-experience the story, and be a better player than before. i don't want to just do post game stuff after finishing the game.

does anyone else here do this?

I’ve been having dreams a lot more lately, I don’t remember much of them but I am kinda aware during them, it’s kinda nice being elsewhere for a little while haha hehe

I get them (frisson) when I listen to music but now I get them when I see someone crying, happy, etc on TV. They start from my feet up to about my knees when I see something on a show now.

So everyone I know absolutely hates that I like toe socks. Don’t get me wrong when I first bought a pair as an adult it was sort of as a joke but after putting them on I loved them, just like how each toe is separate and it’s stops them rubbing together in tight shoes etc. There’s just something about them that I now can’t hate them.

I need to know if anyone else likes toe socks, if you’re not sure what a toe sock is, it’s a sock with individual toes like a glove for your foot. I don’t mind people not liking them but it’s the excessive amount of hate I get when I ever wear them or mention them. I need to know I’m not alone in this!

Ps spoke to my mother about this and apparently I loved them as a toddler too!

I started getting dizzy and single-sided headaches when I would use a pillow against my ear, and some new headphones with faux leather, in a room with cleaning chemicals, things like that. My doctor tried to send me to a psychiatrist, but I had a family member setup a test where I would have water held against one ear and rubbing alcohol against the other, and I guessed correct which one was which every time because of the pain.

I know it is a weird question but over the years phone cpu should have advanced so much and yet browsing still remains a very tolling activity on my phone with it getting warm.

I have tried different phones and browsers and that doesn't change.

What surprises me is that games that were known to be intense to cpu like genshin impact has become easier on cpu gpu nowadays. Back in the day it was difficult to get to 45fps and phones get hot during tests. Nowadays many top end chips can run genshin impact at 50+ fps keeping at low temperature, yet browsing websites get hotter than that?

Sometimes I wonder why I overthinking so much.I acknowledge the fact that it's stupid to overthink a out certain things (for example like how other people view me or if my hair looks good when I go outside)but I still get affected by it.I sometimes find myself giving my friends mental health advice that I should personally take myself.I overanalyze things so much that sometimes during my thinking I literally think of how stupid I am for overthinking.

Have you ever felt like you just want to stop existing?Like not actually hurt yourself,Just disappear completely.I just want to isolate myself but at the same time I still want to talk to people even If I only have a few.Theres random times when I wake up in the middle of the night and start to think about past experiences I've had in my life and then start crying.I don't understand why I always do this when I'm Midway through my sleep.

Sometimes I think that I'm different from people.I don't really know In what aspect but the way I perceive things is different from others and I notice that in school.I always stay quiet in class I never talk to anyone really except from when I'm with my Friends at break(My friends aren't in my classes).I really want to write more about all of these thoughts I'm having but it's just that every time I overthink thoughts just come and go.I don't how to explain it but sometimes I can forget about something I've overhthinked and suddenly after some days that thought will appear.

If you read this thank you it writing these really helps me calm down sometimes🙂