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Anyone here ever have completely random thoughts?

I was driving a lot over the weekend. At some point it just popped into my head:

I wonder what it would be like to set my car on fire and just watch it burn.

I haven't done anything with that thought just yet...But I wondered if anyone else ever had completely random ideas.

...Or am I crazy?

I don't think "random" is the word.

Scary thought, my friend...

Me, on the other hand, have wondered what it would be like to ...

well, never mind.

Dude needs lots of attention, seems like...

My wife claims that all of my thoughts are completely random.

Random thoughts are like dreams.....you never can explain them fully although many try.

Trouble with me is I can't remember what they were for very long and then they disappear like a cloud.

If you have them all the time well........

random has become the catchall word for those not sportin gray hair yet toltec




and uh no, I've not thought about burning any of my chit, unless I'm working on it and it's going bad, then once in awhile the idea or copious amounts of gasoline and a match seem to hold some logic. (grin)


last thing I burned up was a lawnmower that was cranky, a pick thru the middle of it just didn't seem final enough, so a match went down the gas tank.

Mrs. heard the whoosh and saw black smoke, came out and just shook her head. I had a temper back in those days, but I've mellowed.

still it served it's purpose, word got around, the snowmachines, current lawn mower, chainsaws have all pretty well been on good behavior once they found out what they were dealing with.

hmmmmmm.....may have to try that with one of my printing presses so the others get the message....they dont fear me like they do my father-in-law....dont know how many times ive run into a problem with a press, went and asked for his help only to have it magically start working the second he enters the shop.....sacrifice one to scare the others....i think the idea has merit.........

Once had a VCR (not sure of the spelling :)) that had embarked upon a career of eating tapes. Took it outside, put in into an empty softener salt bag, laid it on the sidewalk, and proceeded to repeatedly drop a cement block on it. Wife asked the standard question about whether that did any good. Gave her the standard affirmative reply. Next day the neighbor asked why I was breaking up that bag of ice - did we have a party and not invite them?

When I was a kid, it occurred to me once to wonder whether my bones had tactile sensors the way my skin did; so I got a serrated steak knife and deliberately cut the side of my index finger to the bone to find out. I remember feeling the boogety-boogety-boogety sensation of the serrations sliding across the bone, and of course the cut hurt (not so much during as after), but the bone itself felt nothing.

So my experiment was conclusive: no. (But if you don't believe me, you're of course free to try it for yourself.)

Interestingly, I no longer carry the scar. I have just as many knife (and other edged-instrument) scars on my left hand as any other clumsy right-handed guy does, but I guess I prepared for and patched up that particular cut well enough not to leave a scar.

Ya'll sound like you have seen Office Space one too many times, this thread bring me pictures of the guys destroying the Copier.

I have that same thought every time it is in for repairs. Crazy, not for me to decide.

I've read thousands of posts on this website. It is abundantly clear that random thinking is more the rule than the exception.

Yeah, I miss being right close to something big that's burning up. The metal nameplate from the Bucyrus-Erie Hydrocrane fire that almost killed me is in my barn to remind me of that feeling.

There's nothing really wrong with my car...It's an '08 with 21,000 miles on it. I just couldn't help but how it would go up.

Oh well. I have destroyed a lot of stuff in my day. I guess I just miss it.

Nothing wrong with having random thoughts, what gets you in trouble is acting on them.

No but sometimes when I dream, people in my dreams tell me some really funny jokes. When I wake up I remember the jokes and swear I hadn't heard them before I heard them in the dream. Some of them are damn funny, and do to the subject matter of the jokes, noway I could see myself making them up, I'm just not that imaginative. I wake up thinking, where did that come from?

Still not sure what the hell is going on with that,anyone else have that happen?

Hell, at my age, 50% of my thoughts are random.I can't remember what I was thinking about 2 minutes ago

I think I might torch that snowthrower if it doesn't sell here soon.

There is a censor in your mind that generally filters out that sort of drek. It's a normal part of mind's workings. It keeps the conscious mind free of all the stuff constantly being dredged up by the sub-conscious. Actually the stuff that lies in the self-conscious is pretty nasty stuff. If you've ever been around a brain-damaged person whose censor is not functioning properly, you know what I'm talking about.

I had a mother-in-law #1, who had almost no capacity to stifle the muck coming out of her sub-conscious. What's more, she spouted it to others quite freely. She was not a particularly violent woman, but she was quite the nutcase. Her biggest problem was that she thought the whole world should know about it. As a result, she became the dreaded "Helen from Westwood" on all the local radio talk shows back in the Nineties. Yikes!!!

The fact that you've kind of scared yourself with this recent random thought tells me, that you're a guy who is wrapped pretty tight and normally does not have these thoughts. They're nothing to worry about. You can have a lot of them, all the time, and they still won't be a problem. You'll only need to seek professional attention if:

a) the thoughts become bothersome
b) the thoughts become disconnected from you-- as though someone or something is putting those thoughts there.
c) You feel the compulsion to act on those thoughts.

. . . then I would seek medical attention. An occasional thought of setting your mother in law on fire is normal. In some cases, it would be the only possible sane reaction.