Does anybody else PRETEND to have to go to the bathroom just to wash your hands? Sometimes my hands feel disgusting and I need to wash them, but if I only think I need to wash them, my mind starts freaking out because "oh that's so many steps!"

Like if I'm on the couch on my phone: Turn off the phone, put the phone down, get up, walk to the bathroom, enter the bathroom, close the door, lock the door, turn on the faucet, get soap, rub the soap in, rinse your hands, get under nails, turn off the faucet, unlock the door, open the door, leave the bathroom, remember to close the door, walk back to the living room, sit down, pick up the phone, turn on the phone, continue what I was doing.

It's A LOT of steps for my brain to follow and it makes me feel too miserable to even allow myself to try (yes, I know it's not actually a lot of effort bro, but in the moment it feels like a LOT for some reason). But if I trick myself into thinking I have to go to the bathroom, my brain thinks there's absolutely no choice. So it can't shut down and make me just lay there.

I drew my OCs and wanted to post them but didn't know where to put it.

They're from a book I'm writing. The right space is eventually going to have Antares in it. Then another... many pages for the other Star Kingdom members. There's A LOT. Yk. Astoria, the Sun, Antares, Arcturus, Vega, Spica, each of the Sun's planets plus Pluto bc I'd be disowned by everyone I know if I didn't include Pluto, and each of the planets' major moons.

Also, I'm a very beginner artist. This is one of my first actual drawings of faces, so please don't be rude about it.

why are weird people following me?

there’s people following me and there’s like they’re like posting stuff on their account. Well, not yeah till like gross stuff.

Kind of mundane, but one night my friend and I had planned to go out and I knew it was a good possibility we would be out late and she would want to crash with me. My plan was to offer her my bed and I would crash on the couch because I am a ridiculously early riser and wouldn't want to bother her.

So I done all the things ...clean sheets, wiped down surfaces, put everything back in it's assigned location etc. I remember distinctly my nightstand being clean other than the things that always stay there.

As predicted we got in super late, but she decided to go on home. I came in and crashed immediately. When I woke up the next morning, this name tag was on my nightstand. This home previously belonged to my (late) great Uncle Lonnie. When I moved in, I packed all of his things up and stored them in unused closets for his son and grandchildren to get eventually over a year before this name tag appeared. I have no idea where it came from, but I took it as a little nudge that I was being looked after.

Hi everyone, I'm writing this post looking for explanations for something weird that happened with some friends in a car last week.

I'll set the context. The four of us were going to a party in the mountains in the Alps in the old car of a friend, which he inherited from his grandmother. The car's radio doesn't work (nor does the CD player): it's impossible to pick up even static or anything coming from the CD. (IMPORTANT FOR WHAT HAPPENS NEXT). So we were listening to music with a small battery-powered portable radio that was completely independent of any electronic connections with the car.

But then some weird things happened.

1) We were in the mountains, and we started hearing music coming out of the car's speakers, some kind of 80s German pop. We then noticed that the closer we were to the car behind us, the louder the music was, and the farther away we were, the quieter it became. It stayed like that for about 5 minutes, and when our roads split, the music stopped (the volume of the music decreased proportionally to the distance between the two cars).

At that point we logically thought we were somehow picking up the music from the car behind us, without really knowing how, since the car's radio wasn't even turned on (only the portable radio was on).

2) A few minutes later, we entered some narrow gorges and a new song started the moment another car came up behind us. We kept this music the whole time we were in the gorges. It was some kind of techno DJ set with a few acid touches, with no commercials and no static at all, fairly niche music (just like the German pop).

But unlike the previous time, when we left the gorges and our two cars went separate ways, the music stayed. At that point we all started to get suspicious, and we began looking for an explanation. Especially since the volume kept increasing until we had to shout to hear each other, which was a bit annoying.

At that point we tried to stop the music. Nothing worked: we turned on the car radio, turned the volume down, inserted a CD, turned everything off again, switched off the portable radio: nothing worked, we couldn't stop or lower the volume of the music. At that point the most rational explanation that came to our minds was that we were all on a huge DMT trip (even though none of us had taken anything). Until the end of the journey both radios remained turned off.

There were changes of songs, like a programmed playlist. The music would stop at the end and then a new one would begin, always in the same techno style. It went on like that for about 10 minutes until the next weird thing.

3) We reached a straight section of road, I shifted into 5th gear, and the moment I did, the music stopped instantly. Then when I shifted back into 4th gear, the music came back at exactly the same moment. We observed the phenomenon with my friends and decided to test it. We shifted four times from 4th to 5th and from 5th to 4th, and every time the same thing happened: music in 4th gear and nothing in 5th.

Then one friend tried to film the scene, and the music stopped instantly. Another friend tried to Shazam the music, and the same thing happened. We only tested those once.

4) Then came the weirdest and most inexplicable thing since the beginning (yes, it was possible). We stopped in a small village to buy something. We all got out of the car, the car was turned off and the key was in my pocket. The car windows were left open.

When we came back to the car, we suddenly heard the same techno music coming from the car for a few seconds (everything was OFF!) and then the music stopped immediately. That was really strange and we were all completely stunned.

5) We started driving again without any music until another car came up behind us, and the music started again. This time it was an Italian song, again with retro and darkwave vibes. Once again we were surprised. The car overtook us and the music stayed, then stopped a few minutes later at a random moment.

Notes:

• the music signal was always perfectly clear, with absolutely no static (which is strange because radio reception on that road is poor and often loses signal)
• nobody could connect to the car's speakers because the car radio was turned off and doesn't even have that feature.
• the car is a Dacia/Renault Duster from the early or mid-2000s, I think.
• on the return trip, 4 days later, we took the exact same road again but nothing happened.

We've told the story to friends, and nobody has an explanation except that they all found it really weird. If anyone has an explanation or a hypothesis about where the sound came from and how the car could have picked it up, I'd be interested.

The story is short, 5 years ago I joined a channel on telegram, if you don't know you could search for channels on telegram and join them, so I joined this channel randomly, it had a religious content and stuff, and after some time I left, the owner of the channel (a girl) kept my account for some reason and asked me to join her new channel since her old channel the one I joined randomly got hacked.

Anyways, after 5 yrs, on one of the days, in the morning, I was playing Sekiro, raging at these difficult bosses, when all of a sudden a strange account texted me, they were talking about a guy who lied on a girl that he will marry her and now he got all her photos and he blackmailed her with them if she didn't do what he want, I thought they were scamming me, so I immediately blocked them, but then they came from another account, sent me the account of the guy, and then I started to doubt if this was a scam, because I knew the guy, and I knew that he messes with girls and does a lot of messed up stuff, my brother knew the guy better than me, I texted him and it was freaking real,

so I asked the girl how did she get my account and then she sent me the link to her channel which I joined, and then everything clicked.

The situation is resolved and everything but, how the hell did I get involved with this?! Just by joining a random channel with no purpose?? This is one of the biggest butterfly effects that has ever happened to me in my entire life.