What little mind games do you play to pass the time?
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I like to imagine that I'm talking to my past self and explaining things from 'the future'.
I'll just sort of imagine a conversation between my present self and my past self and it'll go back and forth. It's usually things about myself.
I clamp down on my teeth repeatedly until I get a satisfactory noise from the sound it makes. I also make beats when I do this, but I don't do it loud enough for others to hear. I also sometime swish around saliva in my mouth to make little beats too.
I chew on my thumb, or straws and pen caps if they're available.
I also make up stories in my head, done it since I was just a lad.
I angrily stare at children who are being to loud or are misbehaving in public until they either shut up, start behaving, or I get into a fight with the father.
Sexual fantasies, but not the usual things, but things like "oh wow they just invented something, I wonder what possible sexual applications it has" and then I spend the rest of the bus ride or whatever thinking of them. I also have a handful of extremely long stories I have been "writing" pretty much every time I've daydreamed, ever since before elementary school.
[QUOTE=Slater;38527901]In cars I used to imagine a video side scroller game and make my character jump on fences and stuff. [/QUOTE]
It so weird that EVERYONE I know did this at some point in their life, me included, its like a constant thing among everyone.
Same with the stuff like going up stairs at and night freaking you out because you get the feeling you're being chased.
I usually think up of fragments of stories that I can usually jam together to make some sort of riveting tale should I ever be assed to make it.
Also "If life was like a turn-based rpg, what stats would exist and what would mine/people I know/characters I made up be? What would our attacks or powers be? What would happen if two of these characters fought? What about theme music?" usually keeps my mind busy.
I close my eyes and pretend I'm flying amidst all the stuff around me, like the landscape. Do it alot in cars.
Never in planes though!
[QUOTE=Tark;38874638]I close my eyes and pretend I'm flying amidst all the stuff around me, like the landscape. Do it alot in cars.
Never in planes though![/QUOTE]
When I'm in a plane, I like to pretend we're crashing so that if it actually happens I won't be surprised
Every time I cook food in the microwave, I wait for the timer to get down to 10 seconds, then I run away from it like it's a bomb, and dive onto the couch.
Every time I listen to a song on my phone,I imagine in my head that I'm the singer.
[sp]My voice sucks tho :c[/sp]
I think up things I wanna draw. Usually something with sci-fi or fantasy, or boobs - or a combination of them.
I imagine a little guy jumping over obstacles that happen to be where ever I am at that moment.
I talk to a character in my head (usually me)
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I sometimes make up stories or create characters. Like making up an apocalyptic scenario.
Sometimes I imagine how I would react in various situations from films or books.
Lord of the rings turned into a short story about riding giant eagles, and harry potter was the story of how I defeated all the dark wizards by repeatedly kicking them in the testicles.
Seriously, have you ever tried to recite Latin-ish spells while being repeatedly kicked in the testicles?
[I]It's difficult.[/I]
I pull on my eyelashes repeatedly. It makes a satisfying clicking noise.
I have one of those daydreams like in Scrubs when I'm bored.
Pretty much that sidescroller thing in the car. Usually imagined Samus shinesparking, or Godzilla stomping around though.
Edit: I also do what PyroCraz3d mentioned with the Flash Drive. I carry mine to school, and when I'm bored I spin it around and push the metal part in/out if that makes sense.
depends. if i have my ipod and i am able to use it, i usually just fall deep into thought. if i am unable to use it, like in a classroom, i just shift positions a lot and play with small things like a pencil or paper. today, i had a flashdrive in my hand because i had to show a project, so i was playing with that while waiting for my name to be called.
Sometimes when I'm alone in the woods I'll imagine I'm being chased by a horde of zombies, cannibals, satanists or whatever. This has caused me to sprain my ankle multiple times as a child.
Other times if I'm sitting alone, I'll just start singing in my best impression of a character I'm thinking of. 2 days ago I was singing Out of Touch by Hall and Oates in my best impression of Mr. Mackey from South Park. Yes, it sounded as dumb as you think it did.
Playing the drums has plagued me with the inability to not drum on everything that exists. I can also (sort of) beatbox, so I do that too.
Usually though, I just talk to people. I like knowing how people react and dig into their personalities, so I crack ridiculous jokes and ask really crazy questions all out of the blue.
For instance, I asked a lot of people, [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem]"Say you have a monkey. This monkey lives forever. You give him a typewriter with infinite resources. If he were to push letters at random for infinity, would he eventually type the entire works of Shakespeare?"[/url] Some laughed, some really thought about it and tried to answer, and some were simply confused. (Usually in these situations if they're the kinds of people that would act negatively in response, they're probably not going to be the type of people I'd hang with anyway.)
When I'm feeling silly, I ask things like, "How can you love someone if you can't eat a brick?" in all seriousness. I know that was someone's title around here - I thought it was pretty funny. I actually got the teacher to make it the writing prompt of the day once. Oh man.
That's not really within the idea of "mind games", but it's definitely something I do to past the time.
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I also most definitely think of how to recreate everything as if it were a level in the Hammer Editor. And then I think of the compile time. :(
I think of how someone from the medieval times would react to the modern day and I'm explaining everything to them, like they're doing tourism in the modern world. I also imagine what would happen if we met aliens with silly traits.
Like what if our piss tastes great to some alien race? Would companies buying piss to people and selling it to aliens crop up? Would the government then enact measures to control who can sell piss and who can't? Like, maybe they make these laws that require the piss moguls hire only homeless people, maybe the pissoda industry would stop poverty.
I like to sit and watch things, and imagine what a visiting intelligent alien would have thought about it.
Its happening more often now though.
Like for example, imagine an alien sitting in a theater to enjoy some of our cultural things we have to offer, and like, when they are done everyone start smashing there hands together to sort of tell everyone that "HEY. IM HERE. I SAW IT."
Is'nt that so wierd?!
[QUOTE=Camper99;38528732]I dive into my thoughts and fantasize about how I am some kind of epic hero, fighting against demons n shit.[/QUOTE]
I usually like to imagine that the life we are living in is some sort of virtual reality and that we are in some sorts of pods in the "real life" and I am some sort of a rebel who seems to be the only one who knows about this and that I must save everyone and reveal the truth. Sometimes I might also imagine a completely different scenario.
Oh and in cars I used to imagine all sorts of characters running on the ground and jumping over obstacles.
I like to imagine myself in fictional universes from video games and film/television. One of which was in the mass effect universe, where I was put into cryo by some super secret organization in present day, and the crew of the Normandy stumbles upon the facility and brings me onboard. Then when they thaw me out I explain how life today as a human was to like Liara or Garrus.Also situations in real life with fictional elements from games and film/television. Like having a power a character in a game has where I use it to resolve some issue in a certain scenario.
I recall everything I know about subjects like my favourite Pokemon, character classes, game mechanics and numbers.
Did you know I know the base stats of over 15 Pokemon by heart?
I think of stories I've heard or read but with some retarded twist, like how Darth Vader was his own father all along or that the One Piece is a huge diamond embedded into Luffy's skull.
I imagine scenarios in my head such as "what if nazis attacked the school cafeteria" etc.
When my school would make us go to church and I got bored I would imagine Darth Vader being the priest.
I note numbers around me and find what goes into them that are nearby that number.
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