Fear, problems I gotta deal with (family related)
Dread from debt
Cool stuff like future personal projects
"Freedom" I think of an open field and a sunny day
space/what happens after death
Ask HN: Where does your mind wander to?
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#23Oh I got the perfect answer for this one.
As someone who (now after about a year of therapy a while back) has my OCD managed, let me tell you what my brain still does with a moment of free time:
Visualizes the worst possible scenario of any situation I’m in!
Standing in line to get coffee: What happens if I blurt out a racial slur randomly in here? Or what if someone walks in with a gun? What if someone put poison in this batch of coffee?
Walking with my kids to a park: What if that van over there is about to kidnap my kids. What if my oldest pushes my younger one out into traffic? What if one of them falls off the playground and gets permanent brain damage?
Sitting in bed at night: What if that weird feeling in my stomach is cancer? What if I left the heater on too high and it starts a fire that burns down my house? What if a giant sinkhole opens up beneath my house and swallows us whole?
All that being said, I used to spend hours compulsing to try and make the anxiety these thoughts cause go away but have learned to better accept them for what they are.
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#24I try to slow down as much as possible my mind (and all the rest), else I'd procrastinate too much or not be very focused
and unfortunately with all the noise in our cities, it's hard day-dreaming much
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#25Money, quantum physics, the nature of reality, the nature of consciousness, sex, recent conversations I've had, admiring the beauty of nature, thinking about trips I want to take...
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#26Europe...always Europe. I'm literally back in my 20s backpacking through Europe, or dreaming about finally finishing Eurotripr to help inspire others to travel through Europe. My wife literally calls Europe my mistress.
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#27I recently moved to Seattle from England, and when I'm overwhelmed and fed up with the weather I flick through houses in southern California or Spain. So I guess my day dream is how much money I need to make so that I can go to bask in the sun. Quite the irony considering I left Spain several years ago for my career!
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#28Oh I got the perfect answer for this one. As someone who (now after about a year of therapy a while back) has my OCD managed, let me tell you what my brain still does with a moment of free time: Visualizes the worst possible scenario of any situation I’m in! Standing in line to get coffee: What happens if I blurt out a racial slur randomly in here? Or what if someone walks in with a gun? What if someone put poison in…
Also have OCD and have the same types of thoughts.
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#29I recently moved to Seattle from England, and when I'm overwhelmed and fed up with the weather I flick through houses in southern California or Spain. So I guess my day dream is how much money I need to make so that I can go to bask in the sun. Quite the irony considering I left Spain several years ago for my career!
There is a brief period of very nice weather coming soon, I promise. Don't blink, or you'll miss it!
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#30I often have made up comedic skits running through my head, often starring friends, family, and myself. And I make myself laugh out loud and probably look a bit crazy to others. People regularly around me know I'm just making myself laugh though and ask "what's so funny?". I can never explain because the skits often have inside jokes from previous skits. It's all in my head so these inside jokes are some serious inside jokes.