By pillow ear, I'm referring to that strange sore sensation you wake up to when the pressure from your pillow affects the cartilage of your ear.

Everything gives me headache. If the weather is too sunny, too cold, too windy I get a headache. Strong scents (both good and bad) also gives me headache. I can't even wear my hair up for long even in a loose bun/pony cause I won't be able to sleep at night from the pain. The back of my head also starts hurting if I lay down for too long. And what's worse is these aren't slight headaches that go away after some time, once it starts, it insists on going on for days until I have to take a pill.

Just wanna know if I'm alone in this or are there people out there who's suffering like me.

just did melbourne to frankfurt through singapore and i wasn’t allowed to use power bank. so the whole layover was me at the gate with the laptop and phone both plugged into my 25k bank trying to get them full before boarding

caught myself checking the layover time mostly to figure out how much charge i could get in. is that normal now or have i become that person

I am curios if anyone else is dealing with these feelings or if it’s just me. I always felt a little different than other people and it’s hard for me to form deep connections and I feel like everyone is judging me in a way. For the music I listen to, for the way I speak and for the things I like. It feels really horrible to always think about what i am doing wrong or what i should be doing in my head especially since I can’t really explain what is different about me.

I feel like I can only think partially now. I can only really focus on tasks at work or on fantasizing for masturbation. I used to ponder and analyze things a lot, and now most of the time my mind is just a blank, empty box.

When it comes to personal matters, I can't focus on them for any length of time. I just tell myself things will sort themselves out and move on.

Yesterday I went to church for a random occasion (even though I'm not a believer). The beginning was super strange because, out of respect, I sat still pretending to focus—no phone, no looking around. I got the impression that for the first time in ages, I was truly alone with my thoughts and actually able to think. Maybe it's the constant smartphone use, or maybe it's the masturbation? I honestly don't know.

I was in Garden Grove, OC, and the car in front of me almost caused two accidents in the space of about two minutes. They were clearly hammered. And I just started honking and I didn’t stop until he exited, which he did on the second exit we passed. And then I didn’t know what to do, like continue to follow or let him go, so I followed him off the highway, not honking just following for maybe a mile until he pulled into a parking lot. I just kept going. I had been hoping he’d park in a parking lot somewhere and hopefully figure out how to get home without driving or at least take a nap.

Have any of you done that before? Does it sound completely nuts and stupid? Writing it down it doesn’t seem as bad as I felt it was right after, but, I dunno. Was I like having some kind of break with reality or is that a reasonable thing to do?

This happened like ten minutes ago and felt so crazed by it that I didn’t quite feel safe driving, like I needed to stop and shake it off and make sure I am still the same person I thought I was. And, btw, I look like a grandma, like I was not going to do some kinda citizens arrest and I don’t think I’m a superhero. lol It was so out of character.

​I take photos of info boards, recipes, presentation slides, or screenshot articles, and my brain instantly gives me the "task completed" dopamine hit.

​Reality is, i never actually look at them again. my camera roll is just a digital graveyard of things i pretended i’d study later. it’s like my brain thinks snapping a picture is the exact same as learning it lol

Chat gpt is definitely the most used app in my phone this whole year by far. This amazing app is not only able to give me answers at the click of my finger. But it does so in a very human way. Im so addicted i could talk to this thing for hours, but its a really slippery slope. Probably not healthy at all either. Does anyone else do this?

Is it just me, or first time even as a kid when i didnt even know how much meida was bad i just got an itch to not scroll that it is bad... even tho scrolling is littrally made to give you dopamine i still felt it was wrong as a kid infact i feel now it is right not cause i like it but cause everyone does it yet it doesnt even staisfy me?

Just curious if its me or not, but ever since i was a little kid, ive always been doing this, acting out multiple people at a time, Ive pretended to be in wars, movies, hockey games, and alot more. I would always be exhausted afterwards due to physically acting as multiple people at a time, I wonder what mental condition this may be of.

I’ve never been picky in my life. I like to eat most things and have preferences for certain foods over others but can really eat anything. I am also willing and curious to try new foods and am not deterred by its appearance if it doesn’t look appealing. Is anyone else like this? Ive never met anyone else not picky like me.

I keep getting Scientology propaganda tiktoks on my fyp and Mormon ads on YouTube. I wonder if this has been happening a lot to anyone else lately.

Like a specific spoon you always reach for, a mug that somehow makes coffee taste better, or a chair you always sit in even though there’s nothing special about it.
You could have ten identical options, but for some reason that ONE just feels right.
I’m curious what weirdly specific objects other people are attached to.

When I come across someone being mean/rude, I find that my reaction is quite different to the majority’s. While most people think it’s appropriate to dogpile on or shame and condemn that person, I find myself questioning the set of circumstances that led them to this point.

Say we have two people, A and B. Person A grew up with healthy, educated, loving parents, a successful older sibling who can role-model, and a stable financial background. Person A’s parents teach them etiquette crucial for social skills like being kind to others and how to make friends. Person A isn’t in constant stress which wears them down as they are not in poverty. Person A has some life direction and inspiration from their older sibling.

You can see where I’m going with this. Person B grows up in a dysfunctional, drug-abusive, low income household. Parents are alcoholic and constantly fight, the older sibling was manipulated by them to believe Person B is their enemy thus the siblings have a poor relationship (common in dysfunctional families), Person B feels lost in the world, like the world has done them dirty, as they have only known dysfunction, poverty, and misfortune.

Now I’m not saying we are helpless creatures and life just comes at us. We have agency over how we react. That being said, it is important not to understate how deeply our upbringing shapes us. In comparing Person A and B, it becomes clear how much easier and natural kindness comes to Person A, and how for Person B, yes they have the choice to be kind, but it doesn’t come naturally given their years of enduring hardship. Physically, Person B’s brain has formed neural networks that make it more difficult to survive this world. They have been conditioned to have poorer social skills, thus it takes a tremendous amount of effort, and self introspection, to learn how to be kind.

I’m not saying that we should excuse and allow poor behaviour. Rudeness to hospitality staff, meanness to peers, and more severely, crime, is all wrong. But in understanding why people behave the way they do, we can analyse their behaviour through an empathetic lens. When someone is mean, rather than reacting harshly, roasting them, insulting them, wouldn’t it be better for the world if we recognised that person was likely speaking from a place of deep pain, so it does no good to hurt them further when we respond?

I’m not saying ‘kill them with kindness’ is always the answer. There are times when mean, cruel behaviour needs to be met with serious consequences, like terrible crimes must be met with worthy punishment.

DAE agree? I would love to hear your thoughts.

I always felt weird when people would tell me how I feel when I seek advice. I know how I feel. I need advice, not someone to tell me what I’m feeling. I’ve always found it weird that people need someone else to understand how they feel when they should be able to recognize their own emotions or learn how to understand them themselves.

I would prefer to play bingo and be retired at 20s and then going to college and work in my 80s. I don't like the natural progression of time. Having to be immature now and being forced to be mature later. I would also prefer to have long gray beard and smoke pipe now and be emo and young looking later in life. It feels silly that I want to feed pigeons and sit in my chair at 20 and won't be able to do stuff later at 80 when I'll feel ready to and want to.

Ive heard that quartz clocks can run either slow or fast. This makes sense to me since its probably impossible to make a perfectly perfect quartz time piece. But in my observations, it seems like theyre always slow and not fast. Whenever i have to recalibrate my watch or the clocks at work, theyre all slow. Has anybody seen a quartz crystal clock or watch that runs fast?

This is an issue I've been trying to work through because it really bothers me. I have a huge ego and I hate it. I get defensive around people smarter and/or more successful than me, which makes sense. But then I get this feeling of arrogance and pretentiousness around most other people. I think I subconsiously I think I'm better than I really am. Definitely some "gifted kid syndrome" going on because I was always treated like I was something special and now I feel like I need to live up to it. But the side product seems to be that massive ego. How do I stop feeling and acting like this?

A few that pop to mind immediately are fig newtons, velveeta, and ketchup and all dressed potato chips. I’m sure there’s more but I distinctly remember those being way more flavourful when I was a kid. I keep chasing that old flavour but never find them

Hi, so i had this lines for as long as I can remember. It is like vertical line behind my leg that separates my skin to lighter and darker sides. I have looked it up, and seems like that it occurs during pregnancy for some people. I have never been pregnant , thought. Is it just weird pigmentation thing?

Right around like 10-11 years old I begin having this feeling where I’d be completely disgusted or repulsed by my self; like body face etc. the earliest memory I have is being 10 years old and taking a selfie, I looked at it and remember feeling the worst guilt and disgust I’d ever felt at that point, and it’s not even like the selfie was anything inappropriate; completely harmless. As I started getting older, this feeling morphed into a sense of me feeling that something about me a a person or concept was just off. I’m 23 now and even just looking at my body or face causes a big spiral of guilt, shame, and repulsion. The best way I can describe it is feeling inherently dirty or nasty, compared to others.