What did you not believe happened until you experienced it?

MilesMorales1

When I was a kid my mum used to say she was tired from driving all day. I used to think it wasn't true since she were sitting the whole time and how do you get tired from that. Then I grew up and discovered how tiring it is.

One eyed Jack

Multiple orgasms.

Mint Sauce

Not me personally, but never quite understood the term dying from a broken heart.

Then old couple I knew, he cared for her till the end, on the day of her funeral, he took a heart attack, and was buried beside her 2-3 days later.

Grayson

I was once hungry enough to eat a horse and then I went to Ikea.

EPAndlee

A woman admitting she was wrong

Rubberlegs

I never believed that people can still move after death till I saw it with my own eyes. Eeeeeekk!!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

EPAndlee wrote: »

A woman admitting she was wrong

I thought you had to have actually experienced it?




That there's life after work.

myshirt

The you can extract semen from a horse. How does that work? It works just like it works with anyone else I was told. Still didn't make sense.
Send them into a cubicle with a few magazines?
They've got hooves ffs.

Your Face

What did you not believe happened until you experienced it?

The past.

Snugglebunnies

myshirt wrote:

The you can extract semen from a horse. How does that work? It works just like it works with anyone else I was told. Still didn't make sense. Send them into a cubicle with a few magazines? They've got hooves ffs.

They use dummy lady horses!

iamtony

Getting caught be a go safe speed camera van on the opposite of a road. I heard people saying it happened to them but it wasn't till I seen the photo of the back of my van come through the post did I realise they weren't just stupid.

osarusan

Seeing stars after getting punched.

I thought it was just a cartoonish way of explaining disorientation until I was smashed by a left hook to the jaw in a boxing match. Blue white and yellow stars everywhere.

Mountainsandh

That your body gets accustomed to cold water, and it's lovely to swim in then.
You know, when people say : "come in, I guarantee you it'll be grand after a few minutes !"
Then you go in, gingerly, and realize that hell, yeah, it is lovely !

denismc

myshirt wrote: »

The you can extract semen from a horse. How does that work? It works just like it works with anyone else I was told. Still didn't make sense.
Send them into a cubicle with a few magazines?
They've got hooves ffs.

They have blow up dolls for horses.

EazyD

Queef.

Johngoose

osarusan wrote: »

Seeing stars after getting punched.

I thought it was just a cartoonish way of explaining disorientation until I was smashed by a left hook to the jaw in a boxing match. Blue white and yellow stars everywhere.

Interesting, didn't know about that

MilesMorales1

Oh and proper panic attacks. I thought when people described them, they were massively exaggerating. No they were not.

ectoraige

Racism. I always thought it was exaggerated but then I started dressing up in blackface and I immediately noticed people treated me differently wherever I went. They were calling me all sorts of horrible names, told me I should be ashamed of myself and, in one particularly ironic case, told me that I was a racist!

the14thwarrior

ghosts

Academic

I never believed the stories I heard about After Hours ...

Noveight

Fainting. If I ever heard of someone feeling faint I naively used to think "ah come on ffs". Happened to me for the first time last year and it's quite a worrying sensation when the room starts spinning and your legs go weak.

Not that I didn't believe fainting happened as such, just thought it was people being melodramatic sometimes :P

DoozerT6

I actually walked on a rake once a la Sideshow Bob. It flew up and hit me in the face. I saw stars and everything.

I thought stuff like that only happened in cartoons. I was wrong.

odyssey06

DoozerT6 wrote: »

I actually walked on a rake once a la Sideshow Bob. It flew up and hit me in the face. I saw stars and everything.
I thought stuff like that only happened in cartoons. I was wrong.

I had a similar experience with an actual banana skin on O'Connell Street...

thegreatiam

odyssey06 wrote: »

I had a similar experience with an actual banana skin on O'Connell Street...

banana skin flew up and hit you in the face?

sure someone didn't throw it?

odyssey06

thegreatiam wrote: »

banana skin flew up and hit you in the face?
sure someone didn't throw it?

Thankfully no... when I skidded on the banana skin I didn't land on my backside and have the banana skin land on my face.

And sadly my date was no Jessica Rabbit...

In every other respect it was cartoon-esque...

The Young Wan

Sleep paralysis

Burial.

Female squirting. I was convinced it was a porn gag/trick.

daisy123

"The Fear" after a night drinking...it's very real and I was very surprised and that made me more fearful.

Mint Sauce

The Young Wan wrote: »

Sleep paralysis

Now that is scary sh!t!

:eek:

Senna

The old excuse "dog ate my homework", try going to the passport office 2 days before a flight with "the dog ate my passport". Anyone else had of said it I would have called them a idiot for not coming up with a better excuse.

Four Phucs Ache

When people had migraines they couldn't function.Then I had one.

Dark room, no sound and 6 solpadeine please.

GerryDerpy

Stars in your eyes.

Littlehorny

Projectile vomiting , food poisoning is a bitch!

Alun

That when you're in a really bad car crash everything is in slow motion, everything goes quiet and then when you finally come to a stop your hearing suddenly returns with a loud bang.

hairyprincess

How your life flashes before your eyes.

Yep, I can verify it actually does.

myshirt

Blaithnaid No Chofaigh's contract renewal at RTE. She is bad. Really bad. Lovely lady though and I do feel sorry for her because she is really appallingly bad at her job and overpaid if receiving any more than minimum wage.

Someone ought to tell her, besides me. It's time she packed it in.

Fanny Wank

A **** in work is more enjoyable than a **** at home

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Fanny **** wrote: »

A **** in work is more enjoyable than a **** at home

... as long as you're not a teacher ...

KungPao

Dry hair. Always thought 'what you moaning about', stick a bit of brylcreem in it, be grand.

It's not that simple. 'Tis like having straw stuck to your bonce. Very inconvenient.

Unpossible

73Cat wrote: »

I never believed that people can still move after death till I saw it with my own eyes. Eeeeeekk!!

WTF? Is it like a death spasm or something?

retro:electro

The Young Wan wrote: »

Sleep paralysis

Actually terrifying. Trying to explain how terrifying it is to people who haven't experienced it is futile as well. They're like "ya ya bad dream whatever". It's feels paranormal.

_Whimsical_

Falling in love.
I thought it was a way over dramatised social construct that people saw on TV and read about in books and then sort of acted out themselves in their own lives, pretending to be devastated and elated over the smallest things, claiming to think of someone all the time etc. I innocently assumed that was all somewhat weakmindedness or plain untrue. Despite having had boyfriends and fancying people I didn't think I would actually ever fall prey to its full clutches.

Then eventually it happened to me, the full nine yards, the song lyrics, the butterflies, the full hormonal imbalance and of course the inevitable heartbreak.

And then I believed!

Drumpot

Until my dad died, I don't think I really believed in death, in the sense that my own mortality didn't really seem real... Losing him was devastating on a personal level and has forced an existential crisis that I am yet to resolve.

pawrick

anna080 wrote: »

Actually terrifying. Trying to explain how terrifying it is to people who haven't experienced it is futile as well. They're like "ya ya bad dream whatever". It's feels paranormal.

Another one somewhat connected - insomnia, didn't believe it was really a thing until I suffered from it a few years back. Stress can do strange things to a person.

KKkitty

Real grief. Never experienced it before my dad died. Had other relatives pass away before like my grandmother on my dad's side and his brother but I was only a teenager when my grandmother and uncle died so didn't understand it really. My uncle lived in England all my life before he died so I didn't really know him as such. My grandmother was a stern woman. She wasn't warm and loving. That wasn't her fault though. She lived in a different time. My dad though no matter how much we locked heads on different things was and still is my dad. His death was horrible. He was a stocky build. He was tough. He died at home gasping for breath. His heart and lungs gave in. My last memory of him being alive was him on his hands and knees begging for air. I'll never forget it.

metaoblivia

The blue/black v white/gold dress debate. I genuinely thought people were taking the piss until I was able to see it as white/gold.

eviltwin

The intensity of the love you feel for your own child.

god's toy

Water Dowsing or Water Divining (or whatever it's called)

'Seeing those people hold metal rods and watching them turn when in the path of water... yea right...' That was me until one day at work we needed to locate a water pipes under the ground and this bloke turns up with those rods.

At first I just didn't want believe, but after on-lookers started queuing up to try this hocus pocus trick while other non believers looked on giggling, I said I should at least try it if only to prove me right..

I was wrong.

myshirt

My wife told me she was going to leave me because of my obsession with the Monkees. I didn't believe her, but then I saw her face.

retro:electro

That cancer isn't always an immediate death sentence. My mother has been receiving treatment for uncurable, but treatable cancer for the last five years. When I think back to her original diagnosis, to think she is still here doing okay five years later amazes me. They even told her that if this was ten years ago, there would be nothing more they could do for her. Treatments and cures have come on so much in ten years it really is fantastic.

leahyl

_Whimsical_ wrote: »

Falling in love.
I thought it was a way over dramatised social construct that people saw on TV and read about in books and then sort of acted out themselves in their own lives, pretending to be devastated and elated over the smallest things, claiming to think of someone all the time etc. I innocently assumed that was all somewhat weakmindedness or plain untrue. Despite having had boyfriends and fancying people I didn't think I would actually ever fall prey to its full clutches.

Then eventually it happened to me, the full nine yards, the song lyrics, the butterflies, the full hormonal imbalance and of course the inevitable heartbreak.

And then I believed!

Hope it happens for me, except the heartbreak part obviously...:D