Humans are always curious about something. Well most of us surely. Those thoughts are sometimes about daily life, sometimes about some events in the future, but sometimes our thoughts develop in weird and curious directions. Therefore, let’s try to summarize 10 weirdest thoughts that are mind-blowing in every direction.
Certainly there are many more weird and/or curious thoughts, but those ten seemed very interesting to me. So, let’s start.
1. You Have Never Been Closer to Death Than You Are Right Now!
And now again! This is completely true if you think about it. Ok, you could argue that when you crashed your car, you were never closer to death. But that death was not certain. One thing that is certain is that you (and everyone else) will die in some finite amount of time. And so, every second you’re closer to death than you’ve ever been before.
But here’s an even weirder twist: what if time isn’t linear? What if your death has already happened in some parallel timeline, and you’re just experiencing the delayed echo of a life that’s already concluded? Every breath could be borrowed time from a universe where you’ve already exhaled your last.
2. The Adam & Eve Inbreeding Paradox
By religious theory Adam & Eve were first humans on Earth. Well what is then religious explanation of further inbreeding? I mean if we were to believe this theory whatsoever, then we need to have thoughts about massive inbreeding in first couple of hundred years.
Adam’s and Eve’s children needed to mate with each other (or even weirder) with their mother for humanity to exist today. Surely it is interesting to contemplate this Adam and Eve theory from perspective of sexual relations and inbreeding.
Taking this further: if genetic diversity is crucial for survival, how did humanity not collapse within a few generations? Were the first humans genetically perfect, gradually degrading over time? Or does this suggest that our understanding of genetics is fundamentally flawed when applied to mythological origins?
3. The Simulation Server Paradox
If our life is really simulation, where are the servers then? And who is handling those servers/computers? Every day more and more people are talking about simulation theory. But what about those computing power needed to simulate everyone’s life? Who is running those computers?
Are those computers connected to electricity? To Internet? What is even Internet in that situation? So many questions open up when you really think about it. Are then those computers that are running simulation even real or are they also in simulation?
Here’s the mind-bender: if we’re in a simulation, and the computers running us are also simulated, we’re looking at infinite recursive simulations. It’s simulations all the way down! And if the beings running our simulation are also questioning their reality, are they trying to contact their simulation administrators? Are we receiving their prayers as glitches in our matrix?
4. The Flat Earth Revelation Shock
How did people first feel when they were told that Earth is not flat? The earliest mention of the spherical Earth concept dates from around the 5th century BC. Still many people believed Earth is flat.
And this is completely normal if you try to put yourself in a seat of someone born couple of thousands years ago. Everything seems flat for ordinary person. But it is interesting to contemplate how did first people feel when they found out that Earth is a sphere spinning and traveling fast through infinite universe.
Probably some people killed themselves upon first information of that fact. Imagine if someone on the news now tells you that Earth is actually a cube. Many people would commit suicide instantly.
But consider this: what if our current understanding is just as primitive? What if future humans will look back at our “spherical Earth” concept the same way we look at flat-earthers?
Maybe Earth exists in eleven dimensions, and we’re only perceiving three of them. The “sphere” might just be a shadow of something incomprehensibly complex.
5. What Is Really Happening in the World?
Now this may not seem as weird or curious question at all. But if you really think about it – this is the most curious question that it could be. Especially if you have curious and awaken mind. I mean really – are we ordinary people aware of even five percent of what is really happening?
And by that I don’t mean; which celebrity wore what dress or who is elected president in country X. I mean real happenings that are affecting our daily lives or perhaps even life of our planet. Can this question or thought even be answered? What is really happening? Are we just strolling around like brainless ants or is there a direction in which this boat called Earth sails to?
6. The Language Prison
Here’s a thought that will mess with your head: you can only think in the language you know. Every concept, every emotion, every revolutionary idea is trapped within the vocabulary and grammar structures you’ve learned.
What groundbreaking thoughts are you incapable of having simply because your language doesn’t have words for them? Ancient languages had dozens of words for concepts we cram into single terms. Are we intellectually impoverished by linguistic limitations we don’t even recognize?
7. The Color Weirdness
Do you see the same “red” that I see? When we both look at a stop sign and call it red, how do we know we’re experiencing the same visual sensation? What if your red is my blue, but we’ve both learned to call it “red”?
We could be living in completely different visual universes while thinking we share the same reality. Color-blind tests only reveal extreme differences – but what about the subtle variations that go undetected?
8. The Memory Fabrication Factory
Every time you remember something, you’re not accessing a file – you’re recreating it. And each recreation slightly changes the memory.
So your most cherished childhood memory might be 90% fiction by now, a story you’ve unconsciously edited through decades of remembering. Are you the same person you were yesterday, or just someone with edited memories of being that person?
9. The Consciousness Gap
You lose consciousness every night when you sleep, yet you wake up convinced you’re the same person. But what if you’re not? What if consciousness is like a flame that gets extinguished and relit, and the “you” that wakes up is just a new consciousness with implanted memories of being yesterday’s you?
The person who went to sleep last night might have died, and you’re just their replacement, none the wiser.
10. The Scale Vertigo
Zoom out far enough, and our entire galaxy becomes a speck. Zoom in far enough, and you discover vast spaces between atoms. You are mostly empty space – if you removed all the empty space from every atom in your body, you’d be smaller than a grain of sand.
Yet somehow this mostly-nothing thinks it’s something, worries about mortgage payments, and falls in love. How does emptiness achieve consciousness?
