Share your weird habits

I was staring at myself in the mirror when I realized "Wow.. this is pretty f'd up. Why am I doing this?" It wasn't anything awful I guess and one might argue it's good hygiene. I wash my feet. If I go outside or I've been cleaning and accidentally stepped barefoot into a pile of dirt/dust my feet feel caked. There's this layer of whatever that's on my foot and it's reducing my ability to feel where I'm walking. So I'll walk into my bathroom and set one leg on my counter while I wash one foot, then the other with hand soap. The up side is they definitely feel much softer after I do it. It might even be related to my attraction to feet. Hey, look at that. You're learning things about me you probably didn't want to know.

I also used to have an issue where I'd have to turn plush animals away from me while I was changing. Possibly more paranoia than a habit. Look... that panda, her eyes are staring at my junk again.

I am an artist who, if I make a mistake I have to have it completely erased before I go on to anything else. I usually find myself without an eraser, therefore I will put my drawing/painting down for days/weeks/months before picking it back up if the mistake is not corrected.

I also hold my breath for as long as I can when someone in my vicinity sneezes. I know the germs are in the room or on me if they sneeze in my direction but I feel if by not breathing them in right away I won't get sick. It's irrational and I know this.

@Flawed_System: I don't think any of that's weird, though I don't prescribe to the washing of utensils and aversion to door knobs. Silverware that's been in someone else's mouth grosses me out, but I just pretend that everything has been cleaned via autoclave. For lunch, or between class though I totally leave campus. My last college I would get ice cream and stand on a street corner opposite the school - usually during cold weather or in the rain. Water ruins your ice cream though :(

@rockyhorrorgerri: Sounds like you're just pursuing a sense of perfection and don't want to be reminded of mistakes you may have made while working on something. I'd say that's much better than just scrapping the entire thing because of an errant line.

Despite a fear of eating utensils being in other people, I have no fear of germs being passed from one person to another (save for diseases/viruses like Herpes/HIV/Hepatitis/etc) as I haven't gotten sick since I was 10.

I sometimes create weird threads on giantbomb. Oh, wait. That's not me.

Whenever I make eye contact with my reflection I always insult or berate myself in my head before looking away. When I notice that I'm staring into someone's eyes while we are talking I instantly get weirded out by it and feel like I'm doing something inappropriate. Not sure why, but it just always seemed like a very personal and intimate thing to me, so doing it with someone you don't know well just feels like if I just walked up to a girl and stared at her breasts while talking to her.

I also have this weird habit of every time I walk out into the kitchen I rinse my hands under water for a few seconds. No reason to it what so ever. I could have just stepped out of the shower, washed my hands in the bathroom, or just walked out to get some water and I always seem to turn on the tap and let it run over my hands for a few seconds. I'm not some germaphobe or anything ether.

I also have to always be fiddling with something in my hands at all times. Doesn't matter what it is. I just need to be wiggling a pen around, picking up and dropping something, or just twitching my fingers up and down. I just can't keep my hands still for some reason.

I move my head to the right randomly, the same with my hands. And I check if I closed the doors multiple times. That's because I have OCD. 
I also think loudly so it seems like I'm talking to myself.

I chew earbuds. Every time I get a new pair, I replace the medium size with the small size and chew the medium and large size like it's gum. I also can't stand the volume on anything, whether it's my Zune (Yes, I have a Zune) the TV, or whatever, if it's an odd number, it has to be an even number, or else I go insane.

I do everything on the 10's and the 5's. For an example when doing my laundry I have to do it at 3:00, 6:00 or 9:00. when getting out of my car for work i have to get out at 9:35. And so forth.

I often readjust my diver watch whenever it doesn't line up with the minutes/hours (I generally don't go diving; I just got the watch as a gift), I flip around my car keys a lot, sometimes I can't stop snapping with my ring and middle fingers,I try to determine patterns in my observations at times, I do useless mathematical calculations in my head frequently, and some other things that I can't remember at the moment. Yeah, I'm weird

Protip: We don't need to know about the horrible/gross things you do when nobody is looking.

This thread shouldn't exist.

This thread shouldn't exist.

I tend to get trapped in the same thoughts over and over again. Why, right now, I am thinking about the role originality plays in the quality of video games, an internal diatribe I have practiced countless times before. I've no idea why, but it just tends to happen.

I have sexy thoughts about women

I leave a glass of water (and sometimes other beverages) in the kitchen so I have to get up and walk to it to when I'm thirsty, even though there's a coaster right next to my laptop.

I also wash my hands and face quite often.

It sounds like there is some serious OCD and lack of confidence going on in this thread.

Good ol' gaming forums.

I have sexomnia. That's sleep sex - with the person you are sleeping with whilst asleep. I don't see it as problem though and it is weird when I wake up during it.

@Contrarian: So... it's like your sleep-walking, but instead you're sleep-boning the person next to you whom is also asleep?

Trolling people on the internet.

I sometimes make random little noises bleep zuguzugugu mrrrrrrrrrrrrr

@Toxeia said:

@Contrarian: So... it's like your sleep-walking, but instead you're sleep-boning the person next to you whom is also asleep?

I like to use more delicate language, but yes it. Sometimes my partner may be woken by me and go, "sure, why not". It is obvious in the morning what went on. Suffice to say, sleep with me at your own risk!

@Contrarian said:

I have sexomnia. That's sleep sex - with the person you are sleeping with whilst asleep. I don't see it as problem though and it is weird when I wake up during it.

That's an actual thing, and it has been used as a valid legal defense in at least one sexual assault case.

@Video_Game_King said:

@Contrarian said:

I have sexomnia. That's sleep sex - with the person you are sleeping with whilst asleep. I don't see it as problem though and it is weird when I wake up during it.

That's an actual thing, and it has been used as a valid legal defense in at least one sexual assault case.

Yeah, I have seen it used as a defence several times myself. If I get caught raping someone who is asleep, at least I have a defence!

Seriously though, I could see how that could get abused and shouldn't really be a defence.

@Contrarian:

Which is why the courts will actually study your sleep patterns and REM whatevers to make sure you're not full of shit.

@Video_Game_King said:

@Contrarian:

Which is why the courts will actually study your sleep patterns and REM whatevers to make sure you're not full of shit.

Just to be fair on me, I would need a naked lady sleeping with me during the test ....... just to be ensure an accurate result.

Just so you know, I think sexomnia is an awesome problem to have.

@Contrarian:

There are other, far less stupid ways of testing this shit.

@Video_Game_King said:

@Contrarian:

There are other, far less stupid ways of testing this shit.

Well, without the naked lady it is just sleep masturbation/wet dream ..... no as good a result.

@Napalm said:

Protip: We don't need to know about the horrible/gross things you do when nobody is looking.

This thread shouldn't exist.

No. I must know.

I care too much.

@Zacagawea said:

I have sexy thoughts about women

Seek help, that's disgusting.

I tend to get trapped in the same thoughts over and over again. Why, right now, I am thinking about the role originality plays in the quality of video games, an internal diatribe I have practiced countless times before. I've no idea why, but it just tends to happen.

@MikeGosot:

Yea, I don't find it at all connected with quality. I wish to convince gamers to divorce the two ideas from each other entirely.

@Fistoh said:

I chew earbuds. Every time I get a new pair, I replace the medium size with the small size and chew the medium and large size like it's gum. I also can't stand the volume on anything, whether it's my Zune (Yes, I have a Zune) the TV, or whatever, if it's an odd number, it has to be an even number, or else I go insane.

I don't chew earbuds, but I did have a Zune for a long time and I do have to keep the volume on either an even number or a number divisible by 5.

@crusader8463 said:

I just walked up to a girl and stared at her breasts while talking to her.

...since when has that been wrong?

(I kid. Of course.)

Air Drumming....

think of that as you will.

@MikeGosot:

Yea, I don't find it at all connected with quality. I wish to convince gamers to divorce the two ideas from each other entirely.

@MikeGosot:

Worse yet is when people malign a game for being similar to a game they've admitted on previous occasions to enjoying. I see not the logic in this system of belief.

I play lava on the floor with black and white colored tiles. I only cross on black tiles while white ones are lava. Weird huh?

@MikeGosot:

Worse yet is when people malign a game for being similar to a game they've admitted on previous occasions to enjoying. I see not the logic in this system of belief.

@Phatmac said:

I play lava on the floor with black and white colored tiles. I only cross on black tiles while white ones are lava. Weird huh?

Thats weird as fuck, everyone knows the black tiles are the lava and the white ones are safe.

I collect Vinny Caravella's toe nail clippings in a jar.

@MikeGosot said:

you know how teenagers are.

They're apprehensive about molting their baby skin and growing hair in places that have hair?

@MikeGosot said:

you know how teenagers are.

They're apprehensive about molting their baby skin and growing hair in places that have hair?

@MikeGosot:

Although the odd thing about this situation is that it's not just teenagers doing it. Either that, or Alex Navarro and Jeff Gerstmann haven't got hair downstairs.

im a smoker, when i walk down the street and somone is about to pass me i hold my breath until they are behind me if i have already inhaled and i hold it so me hand covers it completely. if there's a kid i avoid them completely. its not a weird or odd habit its more polite. i always put my right shoe on before my left i put my right arm though the sleves of my shirt or jacket before the left and so on. i properly have some odd or weird habit but cant think of any

@MikeGosot:

Although the odd thing about this situation is that it's not just teenagers doing it. Either that, or Alex Navarro and Jeff Gerstmann haven't got hair downstairs.

@MikeGosot said:

Sometimes you expect more from a game(Specially if it's a sequel.)?

Ah, and therein lies the problem. To form expectations is a capital offense, as it amounts to nothing more than forming an opinion before you have any experience or information regarding the game.

@MikeGosot said:

Sometimes you expect more from a game(Specially if it's a sequel.)?

Ah, and therein lies the problem. To form expectations is a capital offense, as it amounts to nothing more than forming an opinion before you have any experience or information regarding the game.

@Dagbiker said:

I do everything on the 10's and the 5's. For an example when doing my laundry I have to do it at 3:00, 6:00 or 9:00. when getting out of my car for work i have to get out at 9:35. And so forth.

Huh. Any real reason? Is there some story behind this or...?

@MikeGosot:

That does not make it advisable or right to expect anything.

@MikeGosot said:

"It's all just variations on a singular theme." That's what sequels are.

That's what all games are: variations on but a scant few themes and mechanics. And this is the part in my thought process where I fucking plunge down the rabbit hole, and usually where I become nostalgic for Lunar: Eternal Blue and just watch this scene again. Or maybe I just watch the Unbirthday scene from Alice in Wonderland. (I told you it was a weird habit.)