I have a guilty secret...occasionally when I'm driving, especially at speed, I think "god, just one tiny flick of this steering wheel and we're all dead". I even worry that because I've thought it I might do it on impulse...like a driver's Tourettes Syndrome.

also, when a pedestrian is walking too slowly across the road in front of my car, I think...."if I put my foot down now, he won't be doing that again for a while"

Do I need therapy?

yes you do

I think it would help if you concrentrate on the road a little more :lol:

Omg i do things like that too, good thing i don't drive :hihi: but as in things like i might be going down some stairs and mentaly see myself falling and laid at the bottom for example.... I thought it was my mind warning me to be carefull and not a sign of madness....you have shaken my confidence :help: :hihi:

Omg i do things like that too, good thing i don't drive :hihi: but as in things like i might be going down some stairs and mentaly see myself falling and laid at the bottom for example.... I thought it was my mind warning me to be carefull and not a sign of madness....you have shaken my confidence :help: :hihi:

There is a scientific explanation about why we think these things, but I don't want to bore you all with it. You're right along the lines of thinking it so we don't do it.

Wilf

There is a scientific explanation about why we think these things, but I don't want to bore you all with it. You're right along the lines of thinking it so we don't do it.

Wilf
Awww i want to know the scientific explanation now :|

It'sreallynot that interesting,it's all about the part of out brain which do all the automatic processes and how they can interfer with our conscious, controlled, processes. We create a loop that means we end up thinking it.

Wilf

I have a guilty secret...occasionally when I'm driving, especially at speed, I think "god, just one tiny flick of this steering wheel and we're all dead". I even worry that because I've thought it I might do it on impulse...like a driver's Tourettes Syndrome.

also, when a pedestrian is walking too slowly across the road in front of my car, I think...."if I put my foot down now, he won't be doing that again for a while"

Do I need therapy?
i used to walk over this little bridge and thought, blimey i could fall in their if i put a bit of effort in haha.. mind you i admit to being strange... just hope i dont lose control or im a gonna :hihi:

It's just suppressed sub-concious desires - I don't think you could actually give in to them unless you'd really lost the plot. I reckon it's why bands smash their instruments up on stage - but that's an extreme situation which most people don't find themselves in... the atmosphere overpowers them and they just get the urge to destroy it all.

It's just suppressed sub-concious desires - I don't think you could actually give in to them unless you'd really lost the plot. I reckon it's why bands smash their instruments up on stage - but that's an extreme situation which most people don't find themselves in... the atmosphere overpowers them and they just get the urge to destroy it all.
well im in a band and no way does smashing up my guitar come into my mind... hell no! 1 scratch and id cry :cool:

Well then you don't rock hard enough. :) I get the urge all the time - it's just that I recognise it as that dark little part of my brain, and manage to ignore it. If I was a big star with money to burn, I'm sure I'd give in to those urges and smash the axe into the Marshall.

Things you shouldn't think whilst driving!

Sex, naked women, naked men or anything along them lines :D

Omg i do things like that too, good thing i don't drive :hihi: but as in things like i might be going down some stairs and mentaly see myself falling and laid at the bottom for example.... I thought it was my mind warning me to be carefull and not a sign of madness....you have shaken my confidence :help: :hihi:

don't worry - we could form a support group for people with this affliction..;)

i used to walk over this little bridge and thought, blimey i could fall in their if i put a bit of effort in haha.. mind you i admit to being strange... just hope i dont lose control or im a gonna :hihi:

yes - I've got that as well! Tall cliffs get me very excited that way..well perhaps excited is a bit strong...

I was aboard a large ship years ago crossing the Atlantic, my uncle said, whatever you do don't stare into the water, it'll drag you in! of course thats the first thing I did when it got into the high seas, i stared for ages, nothing happened, but i just had to give it a try.

Maybe a 3 Iron would do?

I was sitting at Hillsborough lights once and I had to wait for a little old man to cross, he was really slow and I said loudly "Come on, you wizened little ape!"

The windows were wide open and he heared me.

I felt terrible.

I have a real big thing about knowing and trusting the person who's car I'm getting into...
I once had a real big ding-dong because instead of the person who was supposed to pick me up coming for me, they said they'd send someone I had only met once for like 5 minutes! I threw a almighty strop and in the end, I cancelled the visit on the same principle!

Mistakes are so easily made on the road and I need to know and trust the person before I'll go anywhere with them driving me! Taxi's are different... I just close my eyes and hope for the best! lol

I was sitting at Hillsborough lights once and I had to wait for a little old man to cross, he was really slow and I said loudly "Come on, you wizened little ape!"

The windows were wide open and he heared me.

I felt terrible.

Classic!:hihi:

It'sreallynot that interesting,it's all about the part of out brain which do all the automatic processes and how they can interfer with our conscious, controlled, processes. We create a loop that means we end up thinking it.

Wilf

I heard somewhere that the urge to jump is a relic instinct from our early days as apes in the trees. When the ape needs to move to another tree he needs a certain willingness to jump otherwise he would freak out and just stay on the one branch for the rest of his life. So that little instinct urge to leap is what ensured our survival and evolution.
And the next time you are on top of Hope Gap just tell yourself it is only survival of the fittest... the origin of species...

I heard somewhere that the urge to jump is a relic instinct from our early days as apes in the trees. When the ape needs to move to another tree he needs a certain willingness to jump otherwise he would freak out and just stay on the one branch for the rest of his life. So that little instinct urge to leap is what ensured our survival and evolution.
And the next time you are on top of Hope Gap just tell yourself it is only survival of the fittest... the origin of species...

Since somany people have talked about it on here, I can show off a bit now and be a smartarse.

The big thing in psychology at the moment is controlled process (those run by our thinking brain) and automatic processes (those done without us consciously thinking about it).

Due to evolution, the neocortex is a large bit of brain matter that covers the core brain functions, the neo cortex is responsible for our leaps in logic, reasoning and also it added an extra depth to our emotional reasoning making it incredibly complex.

The other bit of the brain (these are the bits closes to the spinal column) run everything we don't actively think about, breathing heart rate, digestion to a minor extent plusall the other reactions in the body I won't go into.

The problem is that the neocortex is pretty new in evolutionary terms and the automatic processes are so old they're damn near perfect. To use an anology of computer software, we're on version 1.4 of controlled processes and version 2.6million of automatic, it's no wonder automatic nearly always wins out.

That urge you getto jump when on a cliff? The fact you want to impress someone but all you can think is the most terrible things like pointing out the wig they're wearing? Thats because the automatic process are running and telling us not to mention them at a rate controlled processes can't deal with, they 'take over' the controlled processes or to return to the computer software analogy, they crash the controlled processes from thinking about anything else.

It is a survival thing aswell, the automatic process are always there to issue responses to nerve signals we recieve, it acts like monitoring station for our thoughts. When confronted by a cliff it will run through the 'am i thinking about jumping off?' routine automatically ans hence we think about jumping off.

Take a less dangerous example, someone tells you not to think about polar bears, you always end up thinking about polar bears. This is for the same reason, the automatic side of the brain is constanly checking we're not thinking about polar bears, it causes and overloading in the controlled processes and we end up thinking about polar bears.

Crazy huh?

Wilf

Someone call me a nerd at least!

I'm not telling you what i think about when i driving, its too rude

On the way to work today (R-lass was dropping me off) she had to brake for a silly kid who ran accross the road in front of us.

I said "don't slow down, kill him, that'll teach him"

And we both laughed.

How awfull is that? :hihi: :hihi: :hihi: :hihi: :hihi: :hihi:

Someone call me a nerd at least!

I'm awe-struck and breathless ... you're just so clever BT :)

Where do you find this stuff?

I was aboard a large ship years ago crossing the Atlantic, my uncle said, whatever you do don't stare into the water, it'll drag you in! of course thats the first thing I did when it got into the high seas, i stared for ages, nothing happened, but i just had to give it a try.i used to know an old lady years ago when i was a kid,she would come on holiday with us,she would always shy away from paddling in the sea,saying the exact thing your uncle said to you.strange :suspect:

On the way to work today (R-lass was dropping me off) she had to brake for a silly kid who ran accross the road in front of us.

I said "don't slow down, kill him, that'll teach him"

And we both laughed.

How awfull is that? :hihi: :hihi: :hihi: :hihi: :hihi: :hihi:

My husband use to stop the car and wave on a pensioner to cross the crossing,then he would step on the gas while she was in the midddle, dindn't use to half scare them to death.:rolleyes:

Whoa..I thought I was just a bit crazy

Often I have these "urges" usually in a dangerous situation. I remeber me and my fella were walking up a canal, and I kept thinking, If I just pushed him slightly he would fall in, I just "wonder what would happen"

I also do this while in the passenger seat of the car, I just think, I wonder what would happen if I just grabbed hold of the wheel and turned it?

I have also thought while chopping mushrooms what it would be like to loose a finger :( like how much blood would there be, and would my finger roll off onto the floor?

I've never actually gave in to these thoughts, but do often have them. :suspect:

I have a guilty secret...occasionally when I'm driving, especially at speed, I think "god, just one tiny flick of this steering wheel and we're all dead". I even worry that because I've thought it I might do it on impulse...like a driver's Tourettes Syndrome.

also, when a pedestrian is walking too slowly across the road in front of my car, I think...."if I put my foot down now, he won't be doing that again for a while"

Do I need therapy?

No, Sartre talked about it, looking outside oneself and realising the terrifying and awesome possibilities open to us, part of existentialist theory, its even covered in 'Sartre for Beginners'.

No, Sartre talked about it, looking outside oneself and realising the terrifying and awesome possibilities open to us, part of existentialist theory, its even covered in 'Sartre for Beginners'.

it loses something in the translation from french, just like german existentialism requires english to invent new words to get it's message across. Heidegger's essents for example.

German is know as the 'language of thought 'though.

Wilf

I'm awe-struck and breathless ... you're just so clever BT :)

Where do you find this stuff?

Read the book 'The happiness Hypothesis'. It is amazing and is in the process of changing my life.

Wilf

Today i had some people just decide to cross the road, when i was driving, they were way too bothered about the fish and chips they were eating to think about being run over and it made me think god when people do that i wish i could just 'clip' them with the car! :o make them realise they shouldn't just walk across without looking.

Oo err, then I'm in trouble. I have mischevious little urges now and again.
On a subconscious-related tack, I used to count the steps I was climbing up or going down without thinking. I'd find myself 1/2 way up a staircase counting 23...24...25. I had to take a conscious decision to not count before I reached the stairs. In time I noticed it happening less and less till I hardly ever do it now. But I started to think "what am I doing that for?" Worrying!

don't worry - we could form a support group for people with this affliction..;)
What a good idea i think we should :hihi:.
Harleykim I do that as well and it makes me feel terrible cause the whole scene plays out in my head, and really it's the last thing you want to happen :rolleyes:

They used to say that about some people, that water calls to them ... I was talking about this once when crossing a small bridge with no sides in Ecclesall Woods, when the stream was in full spate - that I had the urge to just walk off the edge - the next thing my niece was in the water :o

I hate going anywhere high up as I also get that urge mentioned, how would it feel if I just stepped off now ... and the driving thing ... maybe I wont turn the wheel at the next bend? Scarey AND insane!

there are a set of neighbours who constantly park across the bottom of my parents drive despite having an empty drive all of their own, blocking in any cars visiting my parents. I have quite often wished I had a really old battered landrover so I could just reverse down the drive at top speed into their people carrier, then just drive off! Similar "old car" wishes combined with superpowers to survive accidents often cross my mind when driving to work trying to avoid all the tailgaters and numpties who dont know how to indicate..."if only I had a crap car and knew I wouldnt get hurt I would slow right down and make them £^&£ their pants".

Therapy? then we all do!! lol

What about 'if i swerve slightly I could get that puddle splash right over that childs head'

Or, 'come on you old far* get a move on or I will!'

Or, 'Ahhh yes' Said with excitement and enthusiasm to passengers 'do I get extra points if I hit a student with books'?

Or, 'Oooh you wish you were undertaking me' - as you put your foot down and drive like a maniac for a few yards, when he's back there again up your bottom forcing you to give the normal hand gestures...to be followed by - 'hahahahaha how good are your brakes'?

Or...when driving up a narrow road with double parked cars - 'If i just focus on the horizon I can fly like the wind - oooh what if someone steps out? well they'll be practicing somersaults over my car hahaha'

I have a 'throw away' car that already has a small patch of paint missing from a parking war I had with a wall, so 'if you'd like to bring it on I'll take it on' seems to be my motto most of the time when out in it and the big boys are playing silly beggars and 'picking' on me!

I convinced myself I was trapped whilst I was motorway driving on saturday... I *really* didnt like it because the middle lane was full of cars and no-one would move over, I was stuck in the inside lane behind some slow moving vehicle doing about 55mph and I really wanted to move into the middle lane to overtake, aswell as allow other vehicles to come on at the next junction.... Oh god I did not like it! I felt sooooo trapped and like I didn't have a voice! Middle lane drivers, I'm not happy with you! :rant:

I was in a car that a friend was driving and we were going round a roundabout then we saw a funeral procession coming towards the roundabout from another road. My friend stopped patiently waited as the hearse and all the black cars entered the roundabout. Then lots of other cars followed them and my friend got quite annoyed and started to blow his horn at them. He stopped when I pointed out that these cars had people in them wearing suits and black ties as well. That was about 10 years ago and I haven't stopped reminding him of it yet.

I was driving near work and a blind guy with a guide dog walked across.. I thought "How bad would I feel if I knocked the dog over?"

Originally posted by sazk23
Things you shouldn't think whilst driving!
Sex, naked women, naked men or anything along them lines
*Spits bits of grass, mud and brick crumbs out of mouth whilst surveying the heaving crumpled mass formerly known as Roxy Renault.

Thanks for the tip, guys! :thumbsup:

*staggers off to A&E...

there are a set of neighbours who constantly park across the bottom of my parents drive despite having an empty drive all of their own, blocking in any cars visiting my parents. I have quite often wished I had a really old battered landrover so I could just reverse down the drive at top speed into their people carrier, then just drive off! Similar "old car" wishes combined with superpowers to survive accidents often cross my mind when driving to work trying to avoid all the tailgaters and numpties who dont know how to indicate..."if only I had a crap car and knew I wouldnt get hurt I would slow right down and make them £^&£ their pants".

Your parents aren't in the Firth Park region are they?