15 "Normal" Things That Are Totally Weird When You Think About Them

One word: eggs.

It goes without saying that you're a weirdo. Yes, you. Your life started as a race between between 100 million sperm, slowly forming into a creepy little embryo and eventually entering the world via vagina. We're sorry to impose such beastly abuse on you so early in this article, dear reader, but we might as well kick things off being honest. The world is a weird, weird place; and things are about to get a whole lot weirder. You know when you say a word, like, five times in a row, and it starts sounding like it isn't a word? The more it's repeated, the more it becomes a meaningless alien sound coming from your mouth? Well, that's called "semantic satiation", and you're not the only one who does it. And what about when you really think about snogging? Like, really think about it, what it involves and how totally odd the whole notion of it is: we'd love to know what the first people were doing when they decided to start swapping saliva and rubbing tongues. Actually, we probably wouldn't. We all know overthinking is bad for us, so if you've a penchant for indulging in exhaustive analysing of the world, what's to come will probably keep you awake for days.

15. Sleeping

Time to turn off your body and die for eight hours. You'll probably have surreal or horrifying hallucinations, but we call them dreams and they're quite normal. Seriously, who made up this stuff that is life?
 
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