question.

[sacramentalist]

What is the craziest thing you secretly believe?

Do you believe reptilians rule the world? Think vaccines cause lycanthropy?

Anonymous comments allowed, but why bother? I'll start.

I don't believe in ghosts or monsters, but at night I think something will bite me if I dangle a limb off my bed. I also can't sleep with the closet open. I shudder when I consider I've closed more closets in my life than opened them.

Comments

[pen-grunt.livejournal.com]

I can separate myself from this believe and logically deny it, but it still doesn't stop my from doing it:

Sometimes I believe that the outcome of the baseball game is dependent on whether the channel has been properly switched (or not switched) during the inning breaks. I mean...I *don't* believe-believe it. But I still go all flip-happy if my team isn't doing well.

[sacramentalist.livejournal.com]

That's the sort of confession I was looking for. How does flipping work? do you have to do an even or odd number of flips during a break?

[pen-grunt.livejournal.com]

It varies. Usually the number of flips (even to odd) has to match the type of luck on the field. I.e. if they're doing well, and I change the channel, I have to change back to the game and then change the channel again and then change back to the game to make sure the luck doesn't reverse. If they aren't doing well, it has to be an odd flip--so I can change once and change back...or I can change, change back, change, change back and then change again.

Ohgod, I'm batshit insane, aren't I?

[sacramentalist.livejournal.com]

Either that or you need to improve your method if you're watching the Twins: 0.425 isn't very good ;)

[sacramentalist.livejournal.com]

But then, if you go for the Twins, you ARE batshit insane. Wah wah!

[pen-grunt.livejournal.com]

Wah-wah...

Well, you have a point there. I was pretty young in 1991 when they won the World Series (I don't remember the 1987 series), but it was enough to cement a lifetime of futile hope.

The channel flippage for the Twins is seriously crazy. I don't watch too much baseball anymore though.

[sacramentalist.livejournal.com]

You must do this for something else. I'll be your OCD therapist.

When you turn up the TV volume, does it have to go to an even number, or a multiple of 5?

[pen-grunt.livejournal.com]

I think this is the only thing. Though sometimes some OCD stuff comes out I don't have TV volume issues or many things like that. I'm hard-pressed to think of another specific OCD-like tendency, actually.

When I was a little kid I couldn't stand being kissed on just one cheek because the pressure felt "uneven". It had to be symmetrical and equal. I made my mom slightly-late when leaving many a times trying to get the kisses to feel equal on my cheeks.

[sacramentalist.livejournal.com]

Haha. Kids are so frustrating. My sister and I used to fight over whose glass of coke was more full. Even the slightest marginal difference in meniscus would make us bicker. Poor mom.

For a slob, I'm surprisingly fussy. Books on the shelf have to be in order. Same with my CD's and movies. It bothers me so much that they're in a pile in a laundry basket in the basement right now. But if I organize them, it HAS to be done right.

[pen-grunt.livejournal.com]

Along the lines of childhood stuff: I used to believe that inanimate objects had feelings. For instance, I cried a lot when we had to get rid of my old mattress and get a new one, because the old mattress had been a good mattress and I thought it would feel bad and lonely.

[sacramentalist.livejournal.com]

You've reminded me of the Ikea lamp commercial. Did you ever see that?

The Brave Little Toaster must have been a nightmare for you.

[pen-grunt.livejournal.com]

It was REAL.

[londonbard.livejournal.com]

When I was tiny I was the same about evening up kisses - and if I knocked one elbow I had to knock the other. (That was long forgotten until now.)

[morningapproach.livejournal.com]

I truly do think that there are illuminati and giant world conspiracies going on. I believe very strongly in aliens, whether or not they have visited us I don't know. I also believe in a higher plane of existence, and that certain people have the ability to communicate with the dead and to receive messages.

[sacramentalist.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing.

I'm kind of going to the point of NOBODY knows that the fuck is going on in the world.

[lyricmaniac.livejournal.com]

I believe strongly in government cover ups/secret operations, and I'm afraid that if I'm too outspoken, Obama will send his drone my way.

[sacramentalist.livejournal.com]

There's little reason to doubt government coverips and secret operations. All we need to see are the unclassified CIA activities of the past. Coups. Torture. Mind control experiments. And that's the stuff that wasn't expurgated!

[lyricmaniac.livejournal.com]

Watch out or you'll make your way onto the NSA watch list. I really do think the government is one shady ass corporation (run by those with power and money, no real interest in its citizens).

[sacramentalist.livejournal.com]

Hi PRISM!

I'm more prone to a drone strike than you. I'm not a US citizen or on US soil. If a plane crashes into my house in Windsor, suspect US involvement.

[lyricmaniac.livejournal.com]

U.S. citizens are targets too. Just look at that policeman in L.A. who went around offing other police officers in order to prove some sort of cover up. He was taken out by a drone in California. U.S. citizen on U.S. soil.

[sacramentalist.livejournal.com]

Was that a drone? I thought they just bombed the shit out of that.

And that was after the police shooting up people who didn't match his description. Crazy.

[lyricmaniac.livejournal.com]

I thought I had read that Christopher Dorner was indeed taken out by a drone.

[lyricmaniac.livejournal.com]

Here's another. I don't think Obama likes Israel too much and is doing what he can to help destroy it quietly without pissing off his major Jewish contributors. I really don't like Obama and am upset that so many in this country are duped by his charisma.

[sacramentalist.livejournal.com]

I think he's not making an effort to destroy it as to just not give it the attention his contributes are accustomed to.

He's definitely an opportunist. But they all are.

[lyricmaniac.livejournal.com]

I think he's making every effort to support those who wish to destroy it. I don't think that he is treating Israel as the U.S.'s closest ally in the middle east.

Yes, they all are opportunists. I wish the American public would see that and dislodge themselves from up his rectum.

[quickly-9.livejournal.com]

No specific beliefs I guess, but if I were single and had more money, I would probably be dangerously close to one of those doomsday prepper, live-in-a-cabin, learn-to-throw-tomahawks guys.

[sacramentalist.livejournal.com]

"I might be moving to Montana soon"

[pork_chop]

i have zero reasons to believe in ghosts or hauntings, but i've watched enough scary movies that i hate looking into a reflective surface in the dark because i'm afraid i might see something scary behind me. and lately? i'm even afraid to look into my bedroom window's reflection when i go to shut the curtain. i should definitely stop watching scary movies.

[sacramentalist.livejournal.com]

My parents cottage has a bed in the front room, which is essentially an enclosed porch. They don't have curtains. I HATED that bed because I felt like I was in an aquarium and I was just surrounded by inky darkness.

Add the occasional screaming animal... ((shudder))

[clevortrevor]

That my cat might actually save me from a burning house.

[sacramentalist.livejournal.com]

If my house ever catches fire, Chester is the top suspect.

[dancingleaf.livejournal.com]

I cannot go swimming alone because I am afraid of sharks.

this also applies to swimming in fresh water AND swimming pools.

if I am standing up, or someone else is there I'm fine - but the second I get horizontal in the pool - I freak out.

[sacramentalist.livejournal.com]

Oh. Do not watch the upcoming Sharknado, then. Tornados + sharks = Sharks in swimming pools.

[immemor.livejournal.com]

I have the same issue with the closet door. I don’t think there are monsters in there. But for some reason, the closet door being cracked open makes me uncomfortable.

Also, I need to shower every time I poo. I’m OCD about it. If I’m away from home or my hotel room or whatever, I’m just not able to function until I can take a shower. I know it’s gross and weird but I hate poo. I hate it so much.

[sacramentalist.livejournal.com]

Well, I can't see without my glasses, so the blobby noise of an open closet can be a little surprising at 3am. the visual cortex is made to find patterns.

[audacian.livejournal.com]

i'm still skeptical about the moon landing. a tiny, tiny, amount.. i've read through the debunking, and I get it, and we've probably been there, sure.. but idk... lol.

[sacramentalist.livejournal.com]

I have to admit the way they sort-of levitate is a little surprising, but it does make sense that their suits inflate like a football stadium roof.

[verucas-chaos.livejournal.com]

Divination - meaning Tarot, runes, astrology. I believe it all in regard to helping figure out your own life (I don't believe predicting the future is part of it though).

[libco.livejournal.com]

I absolutely refuse to look in a mirror in a darkened room. It causes me severe anxiety. When I was a kid I refused to play Bloody Mary, cuz well, you never now.

[sacramentalist.livejournal.com]

Oh man!

One time I looked into a mirror in a dark room and said "Sunday Bloody Sunday", and I saw Bono!

[verucas-chaos.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't play that either.

[libco.livejournal.com]

Right? It seems like tempting fate!

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[zeldakitty.livejournal.com]

I freak the hell out if I'm in a body of water that is NOT a swimming pool and someone picks something up and throws it at me, whether it's sand (or clay) from the bottom, or a starfish or sand dollar, or twig or anything. I freak the hell out.

[morgyne.livejournal.com]

This sounds like I've made it up just for this post, but I have a talisman (plastic Scotty figure from ST) I have for restriction enzyme cloning luck/success. I keep it above my bench and only bring it out when I really need it. I feel it senses if I really need it or not, and that influences if it will lend me its ~powers~. I've had it since grad school, been to every lab bench I've had :)

I set it so it can see every step (except for the overnight incubation--people don't like Scotty in the incubator.) I'm sure it has some localized effect on the 5' and 3' ends of the insert and vector. For sure.

This looks extra crazy written out :)