DevilishlyHandsome49 Posted October 9, 2015 Share Posted October 9, 2015 (edited) What I mean by this is when you suddenly become aware of your own blinking or your breathing. Both are things you never notice yourself doing and your body just does it. Then comes that time where you're just sitting around doing nothing, bored, and you started noticing how many time you blink and you actually start blinking on purpose.Same goes with breathing, but its a bit scarier . Especially when you start wondering if you've been breathing too fast or too slow and you try to control it but it just ends up getting you a bit panicked.Anyone else ever experience this? Its so weird Edited October 9, 2015 by DevilishlyHandsome49 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolflich Posted October 9, 2015 Share Posted October 9, 2015 I think this one time when I was ~5 I worried that if I forgot to breathe I would die, but not for very long because when I tested this theory I couldn't actually stop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valery91Thunder Posted October 9, 2015 Share Posted October 9, 2015 (edited) The trick is, if you don't hear/talking about breathing and blinking you won't realize it and you'll be fine. Now you've tricked me into thinking about it. ._. It's kinda like when you read the word "yawn" and you yawn. There, it just happened. I've also experienced something similar with little unconscious actions I do when I'm concentrated enough, which apparently I never realized until recently. For example, my boyfriend says I stick the tongue out when I'm playing videogames and I get very invested into it, but really it's something I never noticed nor realized, I don't even know when I actually start sticking it out.There's another friend of mine who taps her fingers on the table whenever she's reading, I wonder if she's aware of that. Edited October 9, 2015 by Valery91Thunder typos 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clove Darkwave Posted October 9, 2015 Share Posted October 9, 2015 This is what makes watching video taken of yourself really creepy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sidewalk Surfboard Posted October 9, 2015 Share Posted October 9, 2015 This is what makes watching video taken of yourself really creepy.I get what you mean, kinda. Like, sometimes I forget I'm a physical being in a body. Then, when I see pictures of myself or videos of myself, it feels fucking weird. It reminds me, "Hey, look, that's you. You're a person." 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gator Posted October 9, 2015 Share Posted October 9, 2015 I get what you mean, kinda. Like, sometimes I forget I'm a physical being in a body. Then, when I see pictures of myself or videos of myself, it feels fucking weird. It reminds me, "Hey, look, that's you. You're a person."i get weird moments every now and then where i suddenly become aware of the fact that i'm a person with a body. freaks me the fuck right out. preeeetty sure i'm supposed to be an invisible thought-orb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuttButt Posted October 9, 2015 Share Posted October 9, 2015 I've been learning a little about this in my cognitive psych class actually. The gist of it is that our senses take in stimuli indiscriminately, so our brains learn to filter out the more inconsequential things, like the sensation of your own breathing for instance. Otherwise you'd have too much stimuli to deal with at once and you'd be too overwhelmed to really concentrate on any one task or do anything productive. When you're sitting in a quiet room or trying to go to sleep or whatever, your brain isn't as stimulated as when you're working on something or out and about during the day, and so those more mundane sensations start to come back to the surface. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratical Posted October 10, 2015 Share Posted October 10, 2015 When I was younger I had a weird compulsion to blink my eyes constantly. I think it was some kinda nervous tick, but I was definitely conscious of it. Now several years later and *bam*. Glasses. Well... I'm sitting in front of a PC all day may have had more to do with that. When I was younger I had a weird compulsion to blink my eyes constantly. I think it was some kinda nervous tick, but I was definitely conscious of it. Now several years later and *bam*. Glasses. Well... I'm sitting in front of a PC all day may have had more to do with that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BagelRabbit Posted October 10, 2015 Share Posted October 10, 2015 I've been learning a little about this in my cognitive psych class actually. The gist of it is that our senses take in stimuli indiscriminately, so our brains learn to filter out the more inconsequential things, like the sensation of your own breathing for instance. Otherwise you'd have too much stimuli to deal with at once and you'd be too overwhelmed to really concentrate on any one task or do anything productive. When you're sitting in a quiet room or trying to go to sleep or whatever, your brain isn't as stimulated as when you're working on something or out and about during the day, and so those more mundane sensations start to come back to the surface. There's a great Peanuts cartoon about becoming aware of your tongue: making those inconsequential stimuli consequential by thinking about them.On at least two occasions, I've been lying in bed and "become aware of my tongue." It makes for a long night.Anyone else experience this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#00Buck Posted October 10, 2015 Share Posted October 10, 2015 What I mean by this is when you suddenly become aware of your own blinking or your breathing. Both are things you never notice yourself doing and your body just does it. Then comes that time where you're just sitting around doing nothing, bored, and you started noticing how many time you blink and you actually start blinking on purpose.Same goes with breathing, but its a bit scarier . Especially when you start wondering if you've been breathing too fast or too slow and you try to control it but it just ends up getting you a bit panicked.Anyone else ever experience this? Its so weirdDo you just sit around staring into space or something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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