Ever have funny impulses, like wanting to walk through traffic?
 

Not that I ever would. But I'll get these impulses to say, want to walk through a busy intersection just to see if I make it. I think its from my OCD, as that can give you odd thoughts. But anyone else like this? Or perhaps I'm just an adrenaline junky.

When I went to Six-Flags in the 6th grade in Dallas, they had a 300ft tower with a viewing platform up top.
I remember looking down at the ant-people and having an urge to jump.

I've since read that that's a fairly common phenomenon.

i get some really wierdo impulses sometimes. Sometimes I act them out, usually not. I've recently wanted to do what Fremen mentioned, in fact every time I get up somewhere elevated i consider my survival rates if i were to jump. but mostly they're more of the socially-awkward impulses, like wanting to get up and walk away or hide under my desk during a conversation at work, or go home for the day rather than complete simple tasks. and don't even get me started on the sexual impulses

Sometimes when I'm with people I get the strangest impulse to be completely honest. I've always managed to keep my shit under the lid, though.

i have the urge to duel random people. not with pistols because you dont really get to know someone that way. i'm talking about the old-school sword dueling. i found that the most touching quote on realizing the character of a person come from something in The Matrix, "you do not truly know someone until you fight them." i had an experience like this when i did boxing. you just feel like you know a complete stranger so much better after kicking the crap out of them or having you ass handed to you.

i think i'll go out and buy 2 wooden katanas and just challenge random people now

hah, i get that too, but usually I can't keep a lid on it.


EventHorizon- lol go for it! Just remember bokken can still easily kill.

every time a subway train comes I always think I should walk off the platform.

This is what I do - to a T:

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/post_office_showdown.png

I'd say our brains are precisely designed for this; living instanced moments - processing the discrete moments in the past, examining the immediate instance of life and then predicting as many "possible scenarios" of the future as we can so that we can determine the best route to take. We're hunters, after all.

I assume you're referring to the awareness color scale. I assure you that most people live so far into the white that they're see-through and that those that actually live in the yellow range are considered total nutjobs. I have no illusions either; I'm in the white 90% of the time when I'm back at home.

Just be careful, you might come across someone who knows how to use it.

And you'd be better off with a bamboo shinai than a wooden bokken. A shinai will hurt but a bokken could kill you.

I often find myself feeling an impulse to quickly turn into a median and into oncoming traffic. Obviously I have never acted on the impulse because I am typing this from my personal computer and not the prison library or hell's library.

I also do a lot of play by play of insane situations similar to that of the illustration provided by Jinn.

Sometimes when I see a really pretty girl I get a desire to "play" with her body.
That's really weird, huh.

I'm always in yellow, but some call me paranoid :P

I'm always looking at reflections to see who's behind me. Watching cars behind me, make sure they aren't following, constantly aware of noises outside the house, etc.

Just thought of another impulse. Whenever there is light traffic I have the impulse to floor it. Like really floor it. Sometimes I do and go over 100. Thank gawd no cops have caught me.

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Sometimes when I see a pretty girl with a boyfriend I get the impulse to break them up. So far never works. But I'm kind of a bastard in that situation.

Back when I was in my teens and riding in a car, I had the urge to jump out to see if I could survive without any injuries. I blame the movies and t.v. shows.

Occasional impulses to do something dangerous are relatively normal and are typically indicative of temporarily low dopamine levels. Thrill seeking and novelty seeking behaviors as a personality trait are also linked to dopamine; although they are likely moderated by several genes, a known abnormality the 512C/T gene, which codes for the D4 dopamine receptor, is present in a statistically significant number of individuals exhibiting novelty seeking behaviors over a long period of time.

It's not you, your brain is broken.

Yeah, that I knew awhile ago.

What's your job btw? Did you major in neurology? Biochem?

No, I work at a university and have access to pretty much every journal out there through it, plus the whole faculty to ask if I don't understand something. This particular fact came up in a psych professor's colloquium a few years ago. What I posted is actually on Wikipedia with citations.

all the time. driving on the highway i want to slam on the breaks and cause a pile-up sitting in the backseat i want to choke the driver. i imagine cars ramming into me. things poking through my eyes.... etc

I get an urge to get drunk sometimes on the weekend and then have one drink and stop. Party hard.

Also every time I see a cop car on the road I get the urge to pass them but then that little voice in my head shoots me down.

I also get the urge to kill threads by posting in them. Take that!

I've gotten the urge to slice my fingers off when using a table saw.

I think we all have strange thoughts along these lines, when we're lost in our own world of thought. I don't see it as a problem unless you start acting out on these passing impulses. Fingers crossed that's not the case for any of us here.
I've often been walking with a friend and thought to myself about popping a cap in their ass. It's just a thought that I amuse myself with when conversation may run dry. I'm sure there's been other numerous odd thoughts that have entered my head on occasion, but screw it if I can remember.

Like...punching someone when they're eating?
And then dancing?

ha-ha, yeah, all the god damn time. That would be instantly satisfying, not sure I'd want blood on my hands though.

I have the urge to walk up to guys with really bad hair pieces and tell them to get over it, they are bald.

Go for it.

i have the urge to buy a really powerful magnet and grind it into powder then sprinkle it over everything in Best Buy. i dont do it though