People are discussing “mindf**ks” and here’s 26 that may f**k your mind

“What really mindf**ks you?” says Bran04Elite over on Reddit.

Here’s 26 of the very best answers that might f**k with your head.

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The internal monologue of a (from birth) deaf person. I think to myself “I would like a glass a water”. Does a deaf person just visualize a glass of water? What about reading? Have they created the sounds in their mind to associate with each letter and word?
–jentheoctopus

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Data storage. It fucks with my mind just how much of human knowledge can be stored on a computer.

My phone is something I can hold in the palm of my hand. Nothing spectacular at a glance. But in the palm of my hand rests 1,999 books, and I if I had the funds for it, I could add another another 12k books to it. And my phone storage isn’t that large compared to what’s out there now, and what will be out there in the future.

Sometime in my lifetime it’s going to be possible to hold the entirety of the library of congress (currently 32m books) in the palm of your hand. Access any type of knowledge you want. Study whatever you want in your free time.

And we take it all for granted; we act like it’s no big deal.
–mysterious_baker

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World Infrastructure. Just how damn *connected* everything is. It’s easy to start small and trace a few connections in an ever widening net. But at some point your mind just starts drooling uncontrollably.
–CopaseticDream

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you cant remember what you cant remember… thus you have no idea how well your memory represents your past. there could be whole sections of your life you cant remember and you’ll never know it because you cant remember it.
–clanceZ

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Sometimes when I’m driving my car, I’ll see other people and just think, “They have lives that I’ll never know about. They love, get angry, have jobs, buy houses, everything, and yet they are nothing to me. I will probably never see them again.”
–I_Am_Echo

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That parts of the universe could be destroyed in an annihilating explosion, but we would remain in the dark about it because the light of their demise hasn’t reached us yet due to the massive distances involved.
–kixxaxxas

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When we “go somewhere else” in our minds because we get distracted by whatever — losing track of time watching TV, not realising you were ignoring everyone else while on your phone, having a day dream, suddenly realising it’s 4am and you’re still on Reddit.

We frequently lose track of our consciousness and don’t realise that it happens (if at all) until after the fact. Which means your entire existence at this point could just be some distraction from something else.
–notalwayshere

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How quickly and how far the world has progressed in the last few hundred years compared to the length of time modern man was on the planet beforehand. How did we get so smart so quickly?
–Emrys_Elan

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Light bounces off stuff and into our eyes, and then some biological magic happens and our brain paints a picture. All living beings don’t see the same thing, each eye has evolved to see only what is vital to its survival. These colors and stuff exist in our brain. We are not seeing everything. Or are we? What does reality *really* look like? Or can we even ask that question?
–poopellar

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Quite honestly, the internet. At any given moment you can immediately connect to a person half way around the world without as much of a thought…
–RockNRollMama

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In one of his shows, Brian Cox talks about the Saturn 5 rocket. At maximum thrust, it produced more power than all the electricity plants in the UK. The fuel injector for each of its five F-1 engines was more powerful than a 747, and fed 5 tonnes of fuel a second.
–MisPosMol

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The fact that thinking is having a never ending conversation with yourself, it will never end or have a resolution until you die and even then, there are so many tangents that are incomplete.
–QuandaryofJouska

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Reading. Think about. Some body decades, or even hundreds of years ago, wrote squiggles on a piece of paper. Later your mind can look at those squiggles and create meaning as if the author was speaking directly to you.
–DRW0813

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Every day we rely on and trust in _thousands_ of people just to get up, eat breakfast and walk to work.
–JigglesTheThird

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There are more atoms in a teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the ocean. Mindfucked right there.
–Ihateyouprobablyyeah

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Every time you paint a room, it gets a little smaller.
–bmolly

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That death is entirely based on luck. You might survive a severe car accident yet you could fall from a chair and die.
–monkeyt6

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You were, at one point, the youngest person on Earth and you will be the last person to die in your lifetime.
–Sara_Faerber

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The fact that if I watched you go crashing into a black hole, from my perspective you would actually out live me.
–ShawshankException

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Truly blind people don’t see black or darkness, they *don’t see*
–I_like_forks

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Trying to imagine my own nonexistence from my perspective.

Feels like my brain just wasn’t built for it.
–PM_ME_YOUR_WORRIES

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Vinyl records. How can a few grooves make the sound of a full orchestra? How do you know what grooves to make? No matter how much I look into it, it still totally blows my mind.
–MyMuddyEyes

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Thinking about how vast my own mind and consciousness and history is. Then realizing that every person alive, and every person who is deceased also had their own vast mind and consciousness and history. And each and every single person experiences every single thing in a different way. It shapes us differently, and effects us differently, and we will never truly be able to understand someone else or think like them.
–mstarrbrannigan

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My sister will either be at my funeral, or I’ll be at hers. This one fucks with me
–Mandiisdandi

Source: Reddit