r/DoesAnybodyElse

Just curious

I don't believe in God, but I experienced an improbable synchronicity at 19 that marked me for life...

For my 19th birthday, I wanted to be “present” for the exact time of my birth. I was born at 4:04 AM, and I realized that every year, I was always asleep at that moment. So that night, I wanted to stay awake and literally witness the symbolic transition on the clock: 4:03 -> 4:04

I decided to pull an all-nighter. While waiting, I watched Mr. Robot on my phone and planned to check the time occasionally so I wouldn’t miss the moment. But I got completely absorbed in the show. I lost track of time entirely, and I was about to miss the moment I had been waiting for.

Then suddenly, in the show, the character Dom asked Alexa:

• “Alexa, what time is it?
• 4:03.”

In the show, it was exactly 4:03 AM. My brain instantly froze. I realized I had completely forgotten to check the time this whole time. I paused the episode and checked my phone irl: 4:03 AM too. Then it turned to 4:04.

I had forgotten the time, I was deeply immersed in the show, I was seconds away from missing the moment completely, and at the exact right moment, this coincidence snapped me out of it. It felt too perfect.

Believers would probably say it was some kind of “alignment,” that I was “seen,” that God somehow manipulated Mr. Robot, or that I briefly connected to something larger than myself.

Personally, I don’t believe in God, cosmic intelligence, or anything supernatural. An improbable coincidence, no matter how strange, is obviously not objective proof of anything paranormal. But I have to admit: it deeply affected me. I actually started crying in the moment. I still don’t fully understand why.

Sleep deprivation

• emotional expectation (I was already in a symbolic mindset)
• Mr. Robot being a psychologically immersive and surreal show
• the human brain’s obsession with creating meaning

Maybe it was just the perfect combination. But even now, 10 years later, this memory still genuinely moves me.

Do any of you have similar experiences?

Does anyone else just go on walks and end up stopping to take pictures of random stuff on their phone?

Nature, buildings , small details , whatever’s interesting.

Anyone else do this?

Edit: Also i don’t mean rarely but every day . Feels like im the only one who does this in public.

With how often I see this, I feel I'm one of very few who feel this way.

As an example, there was a girl who posted on offmychest about her appearance, but didn't share a picture in the post or mention that she had one in a past post. But all of the top comments were immediately referencing that past photo, having gone looking to see if there was one, and found it. Admittedly she didn't have a long post history so it was near the top, and these were very positive comments, so nothing insulting or humiliating.

But I see this so often in more obscure cases, with commenters immediately referencing some buried past post in order to address the OP's current post.

I don't think people who do this are at fault or anything. After all, if someone posts publicly, it's fair game for others to view it. I just find it so weird that so often people will jump straight to digging through someone's post history and not feel weird themselves by mentioning it.

I certainly value my own privacy more than most people do, and I recognize that's related here. But I still feel that this behavior is objectively weird.

Anyone else?

I know I'm an old man, but I get so annoyed when I see a text post that contains no capital letters at all. It's probably because I grew up before texting was a thing, but I just can't be bothered to read a post without any capitalization.

I catch myself doing this every day after work and I'm not really sure why I continue to do it.

probably worse for me because i’m broke. i lost it hard at home because my bank account is empty and there’s no food at the house. i convinced myself i would die, threw stuff around the house and cried in my bed. ik this sounds embarrassing but is this a thing?

Like everyone else seems to naturally understand how to exist, socialize, express emotions, and just be, while you’re stuck overthinking every little thing. Sometimes I feel like other people are operating on instinct, but for me everything feels manual, like I’m consciously trying to figure out the “correct” way to react, talk, or feel.

Even emotions can feel confusing. I’ll wonder if I’m genuinely feeling something or if I’m just performing what I think a person is supposed to feel in that moment. It’s hard to explain, but it almost feels like I missed some tutorial on how to be a normal human being 😭

I know that sounds dramatic or weird, but I ask myself this all the time because I genuinely don’t know why I feel this way. Maybe it has something to do with the way I was raised or growing up overthinking myself too much, but yeah. I just want to know if anyone else relates to this feeling.

I just want to live my life and have enough money in the bank so I don't have to worry about my finances. I don't really care about "climbing the latter" and achieving some career goal. I have a job because I need money. Sure, I'd rather have a job I actually enjoy doing but that seems like an unattainable fantasy. Honestly I don't even really know what I want as a career, but any high career goals imply competition and expectations, two things I don't care much for.

Anytime i eat them, anywhere I eat them, they taste like basement. Anyone else, or am I just losing it?

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As a child, certain songs used to give me the heebie-jeebies, but I'm not exactly sure why.

For example, the song "I Feel It Coming" by The Weeknd used to make me feel really gross whenever it'd come on the radio. I'd get goosebumps and feel nauseous as soon as I heard the main lyrics. However now, I'm able to listen to the song without any off feelings.

I kind of think it was because of the sexual messages in the song, but that'd be weird since I was just a kid and had hardly any knowledge on the matter.

Regardless, does anybody else have a similar story or am I just an outlier?? Was I just a weird kid?

My bathroom is significantly closer and more convenient to go take a piss. But for some reason I enjoy going outside to pee sometimes. Something about it just feels right. I've done this since I was a kid lol

Am I the only one?

Like we are all going to die at some point, that parts unavoidable.

The world sucks.

So what's the big deal about dying 50 or so years earlier than scheduled, which is nothing in the scheme of the universe?

If anything, the lack of actual support and real solutions to what makes life suck so much just makes me feel like we are just being kept alive to be churned through billionare-profit-makers like cattle.

Like oh my life has meaning? Is that meaning to suffer? Cos that's messed up.

If anyone has any theories on the meaning to life I would love to hear them.

My husband thinks this is psychotic but bets other people have this too. Does anyone else worry that other people are looking at your car and judging if your windshield wipers are going nuts when it's not raining hard enough that they need to be? Obviously I don't CARE what random strangers whose faces I'll probably never see think, but I can't help but wonder if I'm being judged!

It’s not exactly depressed but kinda close to that feeling. It hits like a wave. Does anyone else experience this?

Couldn’t sleep the other night so I ended up on a random video chat site just to pass time. Met a guy from Germany and somehow we spent almost an hour talking about dogs, culture, food and everyday life.He was showing me pictures of his dog while I was talking about Indian street dogs and how emotionally attached people get to them here. It was such a simple conversation but honestly really calming.Life gets busy and repetitive sometimes, so having a genuine conversation with someone from a completely different part of the world felt refreshing. No pressure, no expectations, just talking.

Made me curious if other people here still enjoy random late night conversations too.

PS - i met him on Vooz

Kind of like a dog wagging its tail I would say. Not excited for any sexual reasons but for example if I were to see some really good food I’d probably do it.

My mother has been gone 5 years and it still hurts. Cancer took her! Fuck Cancer! 5/05/2021😢