• Cyrus Draegur@lemm.eeEnglish
    71·
    11 months ago

    our brains run simulations of awful situations all the time as a diagnostic self-test system. The fact that we recoil in revulsion from destructive intrusive thoughts is a sign that we are still at least nominally sane. Those who yearn for peace prepare for war. Likewise, those who care for their loved ones prepare to face terrible events that might befall them.

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
      47·
      11 months ago

      “why yes indeed brain, it would fucking suck if i jumped off this cliff, thank you for verifying that even if i had no plans of doing so anyways…”

      • fosho@lemmy.caEnglish
        7·
        11 months ago

        I’m the guy who thinks it would be great… for 3 seconds anyway.

        • victron@programming.devEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          Now imagine riding one with your wife and TWO CHILDREN.

          NEVER. FUCKING. AGAIN.

          (Disclaimer: nothing happened, but the fucking horror and constant stress. That’s the kind of shit I have no problem doing by myself or with my wife only.)

      • Obi@sopuli.xyz
        6·
        11 months ago

        It gets used for all of that but I think it’s also more literally the feeling you get standing near a tall edge and picturing what it’d be like to jump. Translated from the French “l’appel du vide” I believe. I have it very strong, all the forms…

        • u/unhappy_grapefruit_2@lemmy.worldOP
          31·
          11 months ago

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    • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
      11·
      11 months ago

      We all do, intrusive thoughts and “call of the void” are basically your brain doing hypothetical situations to get better at prediction and other brain things (or at least that was the hypothesis last time I read about it)

  • baltakatei@sopuli.xyz
    161·
    11 months ago

    Shin Sekai Yori is an light novel / anime about what happens when these thoughts have power and how a society might develop to control the destructive consequences of said thoughts.

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
    11·
    11 months ago

    Intrusive thoughts like that must be human nature. I doubt there is a single person who has never had a single thought about something like that.

  • fossilesque@mander.xyzEnglish
    9·
    11 months ago

    Lol my mom and I have OCD. She’s got a bit of this type, fortunately mine is a bit more of the I really really love filing and collecting things (data hoarding) borderline autistic type.