We're All Mad Here

Introduction

Often an AskMe starts with 'So... my brain does this really weird thing. Have you heard of this / am I crazy?' after which a surprising number of posters jump in to say 'Oh my god, I thought I was the only one!' etc. The MetaTalk thread Your solitary compulsion becomes a shared experience celebrates these 'I may be a freak but I am not alone' moments & inspired this wiki page.

AskMe threads

Audio

• Screaming in my head [1], [2]
• Extra people in your head
• Loss of hearing while bleeding from hands
• Voices in head echo what was heard earlier
• Left-eared
• Music and noises in my head, short snippets of music in my head
• Delayed auditory processing
• Aural imagination
• Often wake up with an original piece of music in my head
• Woken by persistant 'banging sounds'

Brain Function

• How does your brain idle?
• Mental blanks [1], [2], [3]
• Brainfog [1], [2], [3]
• Bad at abstract thought
• Brain switches to auto-pilot
• Mind wanders too much
• Lost sense of direction
• Cannot mentally visualize
• Brain is making up a new version of English
• Going too fast at work
• Forgot how to drive safely for a few seconds
• Losing ability to think and talk

Dreams

• Dream timing
• Daydreams [1], [2]
• Telescopic dreams
• Lucid dreams [1], [2], [3]
• Bad, weird, or confusing dreams [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8]
• Can't shake dreams off after waking [1], [2]
• Headaches after vivid dreams
• Recurring dreams
• Sleep walking and talking
• Tasting dreams after waking
• Dreams about: high school, not breathing
• Dream flashbacks while awake
• Lonely dreams
• Vivid dreams

Sensations

• Manubriosternum popping
• Bookstores: the natural laxative
• Sexy hip pain [1],[2]
• Ghosts
• Heart fluttering
• I'm only hungry when it rains
• Inside head: Electric shock, "Brain thunder", "Brain buzz", "Brain itch"
• Mindgasms
• Caffeine has opposite effect [1], [2]
• Can't burp or blow up balloons
• Extreme physical reactions to my emotions
• Feeling covered in spiders
• Voice only sounds awesome in the morning
• Feeling like: life has been a dream, I'm constantly acting a role, the only person who really exists
• Never Get Tired
• Sensation that something familiar is suddenly strange
• Feeling disconnected: from surroundings, from body [1], [2], [3]
• Fleeting moments of sublime happiness
• Slamming abruptly awake, without nightmares
• Weird sleep issue with odors
• Walking on air, literally

Time Sense

• Uncanny time sense
• Time passing quickly
• Time passing slowly
• Distorted time perception [1], [2]

Thoughts

• Imaginary friends
• Compelled to blurt
• Mental calendars
• Significant bigotry emerging in my thinking
• Horrible movie playing on a loop inside my head
• Imaginary worlds [1], [2]
• Can't stop thinking
• Bitter about "happy" people
• Massive amounts of mental verbosity
• Very offensive word constantly popping up in my head

Visual

• Visual imagination
• Odd vision shifts
• Color generated 3D effects when reading screen
• Warm & cool eyes
• Mystery halo seen in eye
• Seeing weird shapes before getting sick
• Waves of darker colour and small clusters of sparkles
• What is this weird 'after-image' sensation that I am feeling?

???

• Porn in the woods
• Death sneeze
• Cats and trackpads
• Random occurrence of wrist tendons

Further Reading

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