Random stuff your subconcious does when you're not paying attention

Hazys · 24-03-2010 07:00PM #1

I remember one summer day being hungover and suffering from the heat, i was dying for a white Magnum, so i decided to walk 10 mins to the shop to get one. I get there and pay for it and walk outside.

Outside standing next to the bin, i take off the wrapper and then I dumped the magnum into the bin and walked off with the wrapper still in my hand...I walked 100m down the road before realizing what i had done

So any funny stories of when your brain switchs off (either hungover or tired) and you are on autopilot?

That_Guy · 24-03-2010 07:02PM

Your subconcious was telling you that white Magnum's are disgusting.

funk-you · 24-03-2010 07:04PM

I dunno, it could be my subconcious but it's most likely that i'm wearing tight pants.

-Funk

Co45 · 24-03-2010 07:06PM

touching my willy

Bonkers_xOx · 24-03-2010 07:09PM

In the morning, I put the tea bag in the sink and the spoon in the bin.

Karl Hungus · 24-03-2010 07:49PM

One time I accidentally a coca cola bottle.

OutlawPete · 24-03-2010 07:53PM

Rushing to make a 9pm starting time movie at Cineworld, I turned left in Jervis St off Parnell St looking for a parking spot ..

Two guards guided me back out as they laughed and told me to enjoy the film

Strangely they also said:"Happens on this road a lot .."

orourkeda · 24-03-2010 07:53PM

Hazys wrote: »

I remember one summer day being hungover and suffering from the heat, i was dying for a white Magnum, so i decided to walk 10 mins to the shop to get one. I get there and pay for it and walk outside.

Outside standing next to the bin, i take off the wrapper and then I dumped the magnum into the bin and walked off with the wrapper still in my hand...I walked 100m down the road before realizing what i had done

So any funny stories of when your brain switchs off (either hungover or tired) and you are on autopilot?

Were you unconscious at the time rather than being tricked by your subconscious

nucking futs · 24-03-2010 07:54PM

Karl Hungus wrote: »

One time I accidentally a coca cola bottle.

Joke fail

we'llallhavetea_old · 24-03-2010 08:00PM

trying to light the air in front of my mouth instead of the cigarette thats still in the box

epgc3fyqirnbsx · 24-03-2010 08:01PM

socks in the shower

gagiteebo · 24-03-2010 08:20PM

I have one of those stainless steel mugs with which you can bring your tea/coffee with you. One Monday morning, very tired and hungover I put it in the fridge and was walking to work holding a carton of milk

raah! · 24-03-2010 08:29PM

Something that happens to me alot is that random images come into my head for no apparent reason. For example I could be sitting in a lecture and all of a sudden an image of living in an old house comes into my head.

Of course it's possible to make connections sometimes like "oh they are related" but they are always fairly tenuous connections, and there is a difference I think, between being reminded of something and these random flashes of memory. Not exactly subconscious, but the origin of these flash backs is certainly not conscious. So, that.

Also one time i went to take a piddle in the bin, and had my pants unbuttoned before I noticed.

Nulty · 24-03-2010 08:33PM

Sugar in the fridge and milk in the cupboard is a classic. I'll do that til I die

admiralofthefleet · 24-03-2010 08:34PM

i once filled a coffee jar with hot water thinking it was a mug

epgc3fyqirnbsx · 24-03-2010 08:35PM

This one kills me, putting a pizza in the oven and forgetting to turn it on :mad:

Sofaspud · 24-03-2010 08:36PM

Once I was talking to a friend about Steve Irwin, and was showing him something he'd done involving a snake, so I was pretending to hold a snake to show the general idea of what he was doing.
After I finished talking about it and moved on to something else, I threw the imaginary snake to the side, and didn't realise what I'd done til a few seconds later.

abouttobebanned · 24-03-2010 08:37PM

Whenever i'm on the phone I walk around the house picking up things along the way and relocating them to various locations around the house. The missus loves it as you can imagine.

Nulty · 24-03-2010 08:37PM

Actually now that I remember there was a day when I was younger me and my brother were bringing a video back to the video shop and getting a new one. Half way down the road, I turned to him and asked him did he have the video he says "no, we'll have to go back for it."

So we start walking back towards home and after about 50 yards, I realise I have been carrying it in my hand the whole time.

Thats was the day I KNEW I was 'special'.

ctrl-alt-delete · 24-03-2010 08:38PM

Blaze Tangy Conductor wrote: »

This one kills me, putting a pizza in the oven and forgetting to turn it on :mad:

This one kills, or maybe will kill me, putting a pizza in the oven and forgotten i've turned it on!

Gillington · 24-03-2010 08:38PM

Late getting up for work one morning,mate sittin in the car outside waiting for me so ran as quick as I could.

Him : "Gillington,run back inside and put your pillow back on your bed and get your jacket instead.And get some f**king shoes on!"

Ickle Magoo · 24-03-2010 08:45PM

I put my wee girl in her car seat and then sat in the driving seat convinced the keys should be in my hand...I was completely befuddled, searching pockets and emptying out my bag and searching around the floor and sills - I got out to look under my seat and spotted them lying where I'd left them when on the roof of the car above the passenger door...doh!

Simply Red · 24-03-2010 08:45PM

Once when i was getting into the shower i threw my boxers down the toilet instead of the washing basket, i only realised what i had done after i had started peeing on them

Optimalprimerib · 24-03-2010 08:54PM

i subconsiously pick up things and carry them around with me for ages without realising. One day i was carrying a pebble for ages until i noticed it buzzing. I look down and its a blue bottle. How i caught it is beyond me

Hazys · 24-03-2010 09:14PM

Haha i must be retared or something because i have done a lot of things people here have done, boxers in the jacks instead of the wash basket, spoons in the bin always happens when im eating yogurt and then walking to the dishwasher with an empty carton before realizing.

wylo · 24-03-2010 10:02PM

raah! wrote: »

Something that happens to me alot is that random images come into my head for no apparent reason. For example I could be sitting in a lecture and all of a sudden an image of living in an old house comes into my head.

Of course it's possible to make connections sometimes like "oh they are related" but they are always fairly tenuous connections, and there is a difference I think, between being reminded of something and these random flashes of memory. Not exactly subconscious, but the origin of these flash backs is certainly not conscious. So, that.

Your not alone, this happens me too, I could be right in the middle of a tough days work, sweating, kneeling over doing something, and all of a sudden a flash of a holiday or something from 5 years ago might appear.

thebullkf · 24-03-2010 10:15PM

Simply Red wrote: »

Once when i was getting into the shower i threw my boxers down the toilet instead of the washing basket, i only realised what i had done after i had started peeing on them

came back from 2 weeks hols in greece ...(years ago)

in me folks,went to the loo, takin a *cough* number 2.

wiped meself and threw it into the clothes basket.....

(in greece,toilet paper was disposed in a bin-not the toilet)

thebullkf · 24-03-2010 10:17PM

or comin off hols,going into your local and saying thanks or please in a foreign language..

ie obrigado,
Yamas,
Saloo etc ..

ColmDawson · 24-03-2010 11:12PM

Putting on two belts, or two pairs of boxers. I haven't done both of those simultaneously ... yet.

starbelgrade · 24-03-2010 11:18PM

I once took what I thought was a sleeping tablet & spent the next 8 hours being unable to sleep, with a mild headache and a raging hard on.

Knifey Spoony · 24-03-2010 11:19PM

Blaze Tangy Conductor wrote: »

This one kills me, putting a pizza in the oven and forgetting to turn it on :mad:

Or even worse, thinking you have turned on the oven, when you have just turned on the grill. You leave the kitchen and come back ten minutes later to see if the the little light has gone off, but instead the kitchen is just full of smoke. This has happened to me more than once.

Random stuff your subconcious does when you're not paying attention

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