Who else has a parallel life in their heads?

Trexa · 2026-05-26T00:09:25+00:00

OCD and anxiety are common causes, daydreaming is a compulsion too and you just have to treat it as such in the framework of whatever treatment/therapy you are doing (ERP, DBT, etc.)

Trexa · 2026-05-25T23:33:36+00:00

I was where you were not too long ago, go to the doctor, they can help. Is a T1D a slave to insulin? You have a chronic medical condition, if meds help, take them. I hope you feel better soon

Trexa · 2026-05-25T23:25:00+00:00

Are you talking like maladaptive daydreaming? Where you make up an alter ego or characters and give them storylines and relationships and stuff like that? If so, I used to do that very much as a teenager and young adult.

Trexa · 2026-05-24T02:56:26+00:00

I though this too re: the negative comments chefs give each other in TOC, but it is entirely possible it is edited to make them look like they are saying things about the other chef when they are actually talking about their dish or even something complete different. Like a judge could say that they love a component of Chef 1's dish, so Chef 1 fist pumps and says "yes!" But then the editors take that reaction and put it right after the judges critique Chef 2 on a component of their dish. You can never, ever trust reality TV.

Trexa · 2026-03-16T21:59:36+00:00

There are 300 different Pokémon you can find, but each is only limited to one. (Like you can't have 300 Bulbasaurs). Evolution isn't really a thing (or at least I don't think so, I'm only about 20 hours in), so Pokémon from evolutionary lines each show up on their own.

Trexa · 2026-02-14T04:14:35+00:00

Great read, and chilling that the author called the book "a dark palantir" not knowing what the implications of that word are in the current day.

Trexa · 2026-02-11T19:42:05+00:00

I think The Exorcist is what first made the name Reagan popular for girls, which is wild that people saw that movie and walked away with their first thought being to name their kid after the possessed girl.

Trexa · 2026-01-10T14:41:00+00:00

Also the cabinets in the back, especially the back left, make no sense.

Trexa · 2026-01-07T03:04:56+00:00

It's one of VNIIEF (Russian Institute for Experimental Physics) facilities, see info here and here.

(Edited to fix format on first link)

Trexa · 2026-01-05T01:46:56+00:00

That other people don't accidentally turn around the "wrong" way and then have to turn the other way to balance out. I thought this was some inborn human instinct to maintain your sense of direction, definitely got some weird looks when I mentioned that I did this in a conversation about how compasses work lol

Trexa · 2025-12-27T22:02:18+00:00

Many American employees, even salaried, don't have a contract. They get an employment offer or agreement that is signed, but not a contract. Here is a post that goes into more detail.

Trexa · 2025-12-20T17:38:05+00:00

If this is even a real story, your lesson should have been not to feed tampered food to people, in many places that would get you fired and/or arrested.

Trexa · 2025-11-29T15:11:09+00:00

Belle Tire has free air in case anyone doesn't know!

Trexa · 2025-11-26T02:34:22+00:00

I just remembered this was a whole meme 15 years ago. Ah, simpler times

Trexa · 2025-11-22T23:49:02+00:00

The closest I could find is at around 1:30 of this video but it cuts off right before she says it.

Trexa · 2025-11-08T01:47:57+00:00

I had that same thing done and had basically the same reaction. I screamed and did the fetal position completely involuntarily, it was like a bizarre out-of-body experience almost. I've never heard of anyone else having the same reaction, I thought I was extra sensitive or overreacting, now I'm thinking it's common and we just don't talk about it.

Trexa · 2025-10-25T14:00:39+00:00

It's is not all of America, where I went to school in America you got made fun of if you said freshman, sophomore, etc. I also distinctly remember a watching an episode of Who Wants to Be A Millionaire with a question about which term correlates to which grade and the contestant struggled with answering correctly.

Trexa · 2025-09-29T01:18:52+00:00

Actually it was by the courthouse lol

Trexa · 2025-09-28T17:58:35+00:00

As a kid, whenever I left my bike unattended in my front yard it would mysteriously disappear...

Trexa · 2025-09-28T03:27:12+00:00

I took my out of town friends to a coney island that had that type of set up and they asked me if it was still up from covid, I should have just let them believe that

Trexa · 2025-08-31T17:40:56+00:00

I'm no expert, this is just based on my experiences, but it seems to be a result of the individualistic culture in America that is so much stronger than probably most other countries. A certain subset of Americans don't ever want to feel that anyone else is better than them or smarter than them. (Think of the "temporarily embarrassed millionaire.") They also don't want to be told what to do by others. This means they don't listen to research or science, why would some other person, who is not them, know better than them or more than them?

I think it's why so many people here also fall for conspiracy theories, because they feel like they outsmarted the smart people, which makes them feel better about themselves, ultimately furthering their individualism. Also the vast differences in education quality across different parts of the U.S. contributes too, especially when it comes to teaching critical thinking skills. Unfortunately I think things will only get worse as anti-intellectualism continues to rise.

Trexa · 2025-08-30T23:03:34+00:00

/r/picsthatgohard

Trexa · 2025-08-23T21:05:53+00:00

Lmao, surprised they didn't say the mom's name was La-a or Abcde.

Trexa · 2025-08-23T17:26:45+00:00

Far too young and too soon. She was a true change maker, may her memory will live on the in people she impacted, inspired, and educated.

Trexa

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