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Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Achiro on November 20, 2008, 03:49:04 am
Ever catch yourself balancing a penny on it's side for no reason while you wait for something, Like a game to finish loading or your food to be done? I have noticed me doing these sort of things alot lately and I'm wondering in what ways do you dillydally?
Heres a list of what I do.
1. Balance pennies on there sides.
2. Use a small item to tap on things.
3. Balance soda on the ridges of the can.
4. Mess with my hair.
5. Rub one of my eyes with the palm of my hand.
6. Tap my foot until it gets into a rythm.
7. Look for something to eat but never eat anything.
8. Messed with my glasses
9. Sometimes on long car trips I'll imagine a little guy running along side the car jumping over things. (mostly it's mario)
10. If i have some blank or useless paper Ill fold it or tear it up after a while.
11. Try to beat myself at imaginery chess.
12. chew on the skin beside my fingernails (biggest habbit, amazed my fingers don't look all Silince of Lambs.)
13. try to balance pencils on there erasers

What are most of your habits?
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Wash Cycle on November 20, 2008, 03:51:34 am
bite my nails I guess

and I tap my feet/fingers like crazy. except I'm the guy who actually knows how to tap a rhythm so its less annoying for others I think
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Achiro on November 20, 2008, 03:53:28 am
bite my nails I guess

and I tap my feet/fingers like crazy. except I'm the guy who actually knows how to tap a rhythm so its less annoying for others I think
Have you ever tapped you foot for so long it takes minor effort to get it to stop?
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Cheesy Doritos on November 20, 2008, 03:56:02 am
I ALWAYS mess with my hair, making sure it doesn't look all bowl-cut but not too messy, either.

I also usually take off my glasses, and put them on some surface to make sure the lenses are all aligned and straight and everything. This isn't so much of a habit, though.

I do that in the car, too, actually. That's kind of weird!
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Brad on November 20, 2008, 04:06:56 am
I always have to pick up something and play with it sometimes for a half hour at a time. Usually in social situations. I explain it by saying I guess I have ADD.

One thing though that sticks out in my mind that pisses my off kind of is I bite/chew the fuck out of the skin on my fingers. All around the nails. My fingers are basically right haggered. New skin starts to grow and I have an uncontrollable urge to bite it off. It's fucked.

Something else is when I'm talking to people sometimes something they say I just completely did not hear or take note of in my mind. Like they'll say "Yeah man my teacher was a dick my cell phone rang and I picked it up and I was sent to the office" and I'll be like "Yeah I hate getting sent there what did you do lol???????"   :shrug:
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: jamie on November 20, 2008, 04:11:57 am
pulling my hair out, biting my nails, biting my fingers cos the nails ran out, tensing all the muscles in my body incessantly. i do a lot of weird shit i don't know. other people think it's weird how my arm is always jerking around but it's cos i tense the muscles in it for some reason and stretch out my jaw tendon or whatever the heck it's called. i try to cut it out in public though cos it probably makes people think things like "he's a weirdo. he's got weird problems i don't want nothing to do with!"
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: missingno on November 20, 2008, 04:15:14 am
i shuffle decks of magic cards all the time when i'm at my computer. like waiting for something to load or watching a video or just staring at the screen thinking for homework or whatever.

i also habitually CLICK the mouse like alternating right and left clicking just relaly quickly while reading stuff on the computer screen. this has actually gotten really insane and i do it just about CONSTANTLY and as a result people always get seriously annoyed if they are looking at the computer with me or something (which very rarely happens anyway so fuckem)

also the leg-jiggling thing.
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Aten on November 20, 2008, 04:20:43 am
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the leg-jiggling thing.

this basically, its so annoying and i dont even know im doing it till im doing it.
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: DoctorEars on November 20, 2008, 04:21:16 am
I bite the fuck out of my nails, and when my nails are gone I bite the fuck out of the skin around the nails. My fingers start to get sore occasionally.

Also, this isn't exactly a habit but all of the males in my Dads family constantly tap/wiggle their feet. So I do it too.
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Brad on November 20, 2008, 04:23:02 am
Fuck guys I was just tapping my leg while reading all these posts.

But I am listening to tunage so
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Pulits on November 20, 2008, 04:37:23 am
1. I always put my wallet and house keys on my left pocket, car and cellphone on right pocket. Seriously, if they aren't arranged in this way I go friggin nuts.
2. Quite often I play with my hair. People call me metrosexual because of this.
3. Similar to Achiro, but usually when I'm on the car and not driving, I imagine this weird blade that cuts every possible tree.
4. When I stepping on a floor that has lines on it, I avoid lines.
5. When I'm climbing stairs, I always try to finish with my right foot.
6. I'm a narcissist sick fuck. But almost everytime before I shower or whatever, I stare at my muscles.
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Beasley on November 20, 2008, 04:45:44 am
i totally do that on long car trips.

also idk everyone has those FIDGETS i guess. i swing my keys which are on a lanyard a lot, spin coins, etc... none of it is really UNUSUAL or STANDOUTISH i think though
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: losc on November 20, 2008, 04:51:14 am
1. Wallet goes in right pocket, cellphone on opposite side of wallet from leg, rubbish goes in left pocket.
2. If i'm climbing stairs I ALWAYS skip stairs, I never step on two consecutive steps.
3. I tap my side with my index finger.

EDIT: I habitually open new tabs and get really pissed of when someone (school usually) is using a horribly outdated browser without tab support.
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: crone_lover720 on November 20, 2008, 04:53:06 am
none except this
3. Similar to Achiro, but usually when I'm on the car and not driving, I imagine this weird blade that cuts every possible tree.
which isn't really a habit so much as something I've done numerous times in the past
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: headphonics on November 20, 2008, 05:03:00 am
when i was a kid i used to peel the skin off my lips when i was nervous/bored.  like nail biting in that i just absent-mindedly did it but you know, not nail biting.  it was weird
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: AdderallApocalypse on November 20, 2008, 05:03:20 am
- I like to beat my hands on things to make sound.
- I mess with my hair almost all the time.
- Sometimes I try to avoid cracks and separations in the floor and concrete pathways.
- Tapping on things with my fingers and feet in general.
-Sometimes I will relate a song to a completely random person I see or know. Whenever I see that person, I think of the song and vice versa.
-I hate using the bathroom in bright lights; I prefer the light to be dim to very dim where I have little light(such as light coming under the crack in the door.)
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: DoctorEars on November 20, 2008, 05:07:34 am
I only just realised what Achiro said about a man running along jumping over things, and I totally do that. Just imagine this dude running fast as alongside the car.
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: TFT on November 20, 2008, 05:08:04 am
I dance/flip a pen on each finger. it's hard to explain. whatever that nerd in golden eye did.
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Alec on November 20, 2008, 05:10:40 am
I only just realised what Achiro said about a man running along jumping over things, and I totally do that. Just imagine this dude running fast as alongside the car.
i did that when i was a little kid like not something i've done in the past six or seven years are you people crazy?
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Boulvae on November 20, 2008, 05:19:56 am
I did that too, except it was a horrible monster out to get me and only at night on long drives.

Anyways mine is shaking my foot rythmatically, i do it to "rock" myself to sleep.
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Elven Guy on November 20, 2008, 06:25:26 am
I say "you know" more than I realize. Annoying as hell, you know?
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: AdderallApocalypse on November 20, 2008, 06:31:15 am
I say "you know" more than I realize. Annoying as hell, you know?
Speaking of which...it seems that Gamestop and EB Games employees around where I live say "actually" a lot more than your average person. I wonder if it's like that everywhere else?
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: DoctorEars on November 20, 2008, 06:33:24 am
I dunno. But I have a funny story about an EB Games clerk pinning me on the ground and dragging me along the carpet.
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Aten on November 20, 2008, 07:57:32 am
- Sometimes I try to avoid cracks and separations in the floor and concrete pathways.

This. Alternatively, sometimes I try to step so my foot is directly in the center of them.

- I whistle the tune of whatever song/music I'm listening to, like, 80% of the time.
- when I have nothing to do, I go to GW...
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Doktormartini on November 20, 2008, 07:59:56 am
pulling my hair out, biting my nails, biting my fingers cos the nails ran out, tensing all the muscles in my body incessantly. i do a lot of weird shit i don't know. other people think it's weird how my arm is always jerking around but it's cos i tense the muscles in it for some reason and stretch out my jaw tendon or whatever the heck it's called. i try to cut it out in public though cos it probably makes people think things like "he's a weirdo. he's got weird problems i don't want nothing to do with!"
Weird I do all of these!
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Warped655 on November 20, 2008, 09:06:54 am
I used to think that I was alone in my weird "guy running along side the car" thing.... But I expanded upon that, I'd actually use my hand to make it appear my hand was the guy and I try to avoid the 'obstacles'. I also some time stuck my hand out and made my hand into a airplane shape by putting my index and ring finger sitting next to each other on top of my middle finger to form a cockpit and stuck my Pinky and thumb out like wings.

After I had grown out of that, I began envisioning horrifically violent wars and shit going on outside of the bus i rode and imagined the houses along the way to be exploding and shit. I did this when ever I was bored... I did it while in church when I was a catholic kid and thought "I am so going to hell for this". That also reminds me of the say "peace be with you"
shake hands with everyone thing, Me and my little brother turned it into a game to make church go by faster, we'd see who got the most hand shakes and in order to show score we merely showed our hands. kind of went off topic... sorry about that.
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Lars on November 20, 2008, 09:11:04 am
fiddle with my dick

i do it so much its not even funny and i dont even notice it myself. and sometimes its really awkward if im in a social setting
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Saleop on November 20, 2008, 09:16:29 am
I bite my nails, but that's a good thing since I don't have to trim them with clippers.

I seriously used to think everyone bit their nails until I learned otherwise recently.

I also chew the collar of my t-shirts.
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: headphonics on November 20, 2008, 09:49:49 am
fiddle with my dick

i do it so much its not even funny and i dont even notice it myself. and sometimes its really awkward if im in a social setting
yeah man idk i feel like a STUPID GUY but my hand just naturally gravitates to REST IN PANTS sometimes and i wish it was socially acceptable to PLAY WITH DICK///ALSO BALLS in public but it's not so i don't do it.  it doesn't really HAPPEN in public so it's not like i have to fight some urge or unconscious action or anything like that; i just don't do it.  i kind of wish i could though!
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Achiro on November 20, 2008, 09:53:17 am
Seems like almost all of us bite off skin from our body, Were all self cannibals.

1. When ever I find a group of object I try to arrange them so they evenly align with each other.
2. I use to bite the skin on middle of my upper lip until i was like 10, still do it when I'm really really nervous.
3. Also do that hand thing with the car.
4. When it's raining and I'm in a car I pretend the raindrops are racing down the windshield.
5. Scratch my arm even if it doesn't itch.
6. I say "Ok" alot when people are talking to me, I feel like punching there face when there like "No, It's not okay."
7. I also say Like and What If and Hey when I start most sentances when talking to a close friend.
8. I draw on shit, Alot, even myself, I've done it so much and gotten so good at it some of my friends and there friends ask me to draw shit on them.
9. I go "Fssst!" at cats when they annoy me, even if there not doing anything at all.
10. I sometimes see a small black blob on the floor out of the corner of my eye and always wonder if it's following me or just a figment of my imagination.
11. I blow bubbles with my mouth randomly out of boredom.
12. I constantly clean my glasses even when there not dirty.
13. I will clean my nose (pick it, sniff inward) even if it's clean.
14. When I get an itch in my throat Ill flex the muscles on the inside of my neck and use the pressure to try and itch it causing a Ck or Hkck sound.
15. I'll swallow air and burp alot, for those who don't know how to do it you wont understand just how important it is to practice it daily.
16. Suck on the collar of my T-shirt.
17. Pull the tag off of ANY shirt or cloths I have, even if they don't bother me.
18. Pick off any scab I can, I don't care if it needs to heal, I will pick that sucker with all the power I can muster.
19. Make clicking sounds with my tongue.
20. Clean my teeth with my tongue, even if there already clean.

Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Kaworu on November 20, 2008, 12:05:47 pm
Spin pens round my fingers all the time.
Make horse noises.
run my hands through my maine.
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Mince Wobley on November 20, 2008, 03:13:39 pm
I chase pidgeons. It's funny because if you walk to their right they start walking to the left and vice versa. If there is no space to walk to they fly away, and they make that funny pidgeony sound.
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Christophomicus on November 20, 2008, 03:33:03 pm
I tend to stick pens in my mouth and chew on them or suck on them, but like... I dunno, it's weird. At work, I'll be like "HEY A PEN" and pick it up and stick it in my mouth and just leave it there for a couple of hours, twirling it around or biting it or something.
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Achiro on November 20, 2008, 05:07:47 pm
I tend to stick pens in my mouth and chew on them or suck on them, but like... I dunno, it's weird. At work, I'll be like "HEY A PEN" and pick it up and stick it in my mouth and just leave it there for a couple of hours, twirling it around or biting it or something.

I do the same, Almost ruined one of my best pens that way too so I'm trying to stop.
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Warlin on November 20, 2008, 05:28:40 pm
Me? Oh, I just snap my fingers a lot and pop my neck and hands and thumbs and toes and aarrrghhggghhh.
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Vellfire on November 20, 2008, 05:32:16 pm
When I go to cracker barrel with my mom, we play that little peg game and pass it back and forth.  Every time she passes it to me, I remove whichever pegs are still in there, and then reinsert them with some sort of color pattern (depending on what awful mismatched colors are available, I just somehow make it balanced).

I didn't realize I did this until recently, but I've done this for as long as I can remember.
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Dale Gobbler on November 20, 2008, 05:34:16 pm
I twirl a pen with my fingers fast while looking around the room/zoning out. also fingernails.
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Ragnar on November 20, 2008, 09:20:32 pm
wiggle my toes and grind/lick my teeth

hell I'm not exactly sure what I do all the time because I'm doing random body stuff to see if it seems like something I'd do, but I'm not really sure if it's something I'd do if I weren't thinking about it

but definitely the toe thing because shoes are annoying and I immediately take them off upon entering the house like some Asian
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Arcan on November 20, 2008, 09:58:22 pm
9. Sometimes on long car trips I'll imagine a little guy running along side the car jumping over things. (mostly it's mario)

Holy crap man, I do the exact same thing except its usually sonic.

I like to spin objects in hand when I am just sitting around and I am bored.

Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Achiro on November 20, 2008, 11:48:14 pm
Holy crap man, I do the exact same thing except its usually sonic.

I like to spin objects in hand when I am just sitting around and I am bored.


Off topic, your avatar made me laugh, hard.
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Brown on November 20, 2008, 11:52:31 pm
i usually just zone out when im waiting for something or just have nothing to do
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Mr. Actionist on November 21, 2008, 02:07:43 am
I sniff a lot, it drives everyone else nuts, and I'm trying to stop it.

I also tap the mouse on the desk when I use a computer, or tap the scroll wheel with my finger, or something.

I also play with my slinky when I'm waiting for something (usually a loading time).
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Alec on November 21, 2008, 02:10:54 am
i don't know i'm not aware of them.
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: YourHero on November 21, 2008, 03:12:07 am
i don't know i'm not aware of them.

a ha.

i trace my fingertips along the contour of things (ie seams of clothing or couch, bricks of a wall, ears) during serious conversations. its pretty weird and often pisses the other person off.
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: esiann on November 21, 2008, 03:28:27 am
i imagine a ball bouncing around the room and try to make it bounce off all the major surfaces, sometimes i just get it off all the walls but if that's the case then i go through the rest of the building in my head. i don't really know how it starts
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: kermit the toad on November 21, 2008, 03:40:24 am
9. Sometimes on long car trips I'll imagine a little guy running along side the car jumping over things. (mostly it's mario)
Holy shit, I used to do almost this exact thing when I was younger, except that it was Ghostrider riding his hellcycle in the ditch.
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Achiro on November 21, 2008, 03:47:54 am
Holy shit, I used to do almost this exact thing when I was younger, except that it was Ghostrider riding his hellcycle in the ditch.
that one is by far hands down more awesomer then mine.
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Strangeluv on November 21, 2008, 03:48:57 am
Hahaha, I used to do that mario thing too! I still do it!
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: dragonx on November 21, 2008, 03:51:51 am
I have a habit of saying really rude things without realizing it to people

then i just say "OH I WAS KIDDING LOL" after i realize i say it


that and biting nails
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Achiro on November 21, 2008, 03:53:41 am
I have a habit of saying really rude things without realizing it to people

then i just say "OH I WAS KIDDING LOL" after i realize i say it


that and biting nails

Thats a really really bad habit, you should work on that it could ruin your relationships with people, Biting your nails is no laughing matter.
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: goldenratio on November 21, 2008, 04:04:09 am
whenever i am sitting at my computer, i always end up holding a pen or lighter in my left hand, especially when im just reading stuff.
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Dulcinea on November 21, 2008, 04:22:31 am
I shake my leg while I"m sitting sometimes.
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Shepperd on November 21, 2008, 05:04:04 am
oh at class I always plug and unplug the tap on the rear end of the pen, continuously.

I also love having mantras. This is something I came up with by my own, I mean, apparently it is Hindu and Buddhist thing, but fuck that.
These mantras are very cool and make me feel smart.
The funny thing is that they dont usually have any substantive meaning, or actually are negative phrases that for some weird reason it makes me feel better and proud. Several are stuff I read and for some reason have some romantic significance.
Such mantras include:
"Suckerpunch"
"On his back"
"All things must pass"
"He isbring raped in prison"
"All I wanted was a cheeseburger"
"Plan your escape route"
"Listen for alarms"
"Crown"
"play easy"
etc
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Arcan on November 21, 2008, 05:50:26 am
oh at class I always plug and unplug the tap on the rear end of the pen, continuously.

I also love having mantras. This is something I came up with by my own, I mean, apparently it is Hindu and Buddhist thing, but fuck that.
These mantras are very cool and make me feel smart.
The funny thing is that they dont usually have any substantive meaning, or actually are negative phrases that for some weird reason it makes me feel better and proud. Several are stuff I read and for some reason have some romantic significance.
Such mantras include:
"Suckerpunch"
"On his back"
"All things must pass"
"He isbring raped in prison"
"All I wanted was a cheeseburger"
"Plan your escape route"
"Listen for alarms"
"Crown"
"play easy"
etc

What exactly is a mantra? Is that kind of like a chant?
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Achiro on November 21, 2008, 06:07:32 am
What exactly is a mantra? Is that kind of like a chant?
Yeah.
Am Mi Sha Ko is also considered a mantra, basically a mantra is a spoken word which holds power of any kind, even if it's jsut sentimental power.
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Arcan on November 21, 2008, 06:10:01 am
So its self motivation to help you focus? Yeah, I do that all the time.
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Shepperd on November 21, 2008, 02:31:14 pm
first, I dont speak them aloud, they are just spoken in my mind.
It is not a thought because it has a focus on the sounds of the word, it just sounds aloud but in my mind.

Also I don't use them to keep focus, it has a certain motivational thing, but it is mostly an artistic, romantic thing.
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Ragnar on November 21, 2008, 02:56:30 pm
What exactly is a mantra? Is that kind of like a chant?

it's from Faxanadu
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Cheesy Doritos on November 21, 2008, 09:03:05 pm
Also I disassemble and reassemble my pen when I'm bored or whatever.
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: YourHero on November 22, 2008, 07:31:09 am
oh at class I always plug and unplug the tap on the rear end of the pen, continuously.

I also love having mantras. This is something I came up with by my own, I mean, apparently it is Hindu and Buddhist thing, but fuck that.
These mantras are very cool and make me feel smart.
The funny thing is that they dont usually have any substantive meaning, or actually are negative phrases that for some weird reason it makes me feel better and proud. Several are stuff I read and for some reason have some romantic significance.
Such mantras include:
"Suckerpunch"
"On his back"
"All things must pass"
"He isbring raped in prison"
"All I wanted was a cheeseburger"
"Plan your escape route"
"Listen for alarms"
"Crown"
"play easy"
etc

these make you feel smart/proud? any significance behind these?
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Jayce on November 22, 2008, 04:57:02 pm
I have a slide-open phone so I just sit there sliding it open and shut constantly making a rapid *shshshsuck* *shshshsuck* *shshshsuck* *shshshsuck* sound.

I crack the bones of pretty much every joint I can crack...
Neck, Fingers, Toes, Ankles, Elbows, Back, nose on occasion... Jaw...

Otherwise I just find myself clicking the same bookmarks over and over even though I had just been to the page.
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: YourHero on November 22, 2008, 05:19:53 pm
Otherwise I just find myself clicking the same bookmarks over and over even though I had just been to the page.

i do this too. i think i'm too lazy or forgetful to type in new urls, so whatever is in my history gets revisited multiple times a day... for no reason at all. maybe that's why i've been on gw a lot lately lol.
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Shepperd on November 22, 2008, 08:29:57 pm
these make you feel smart/proud? any significance behind these?
nope, no significance.
I'm pretty absurd, so
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Barack Obama on November 23, 2008, 01:35:57 am
sometimes I get a huge boner when a babe walks by
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Stormi on November 23, 2008, 01:54:16 am
-I have the usual habit of fidgeting/wiggling and playing with random objects that everyone seems to have.
-When I'm concentrating, I bite, stroke, or pinch my bottom lip, usually until it hurts.
-I have a habit of running my nails across or digging them into my skin... Not enough to leave marks, just enough to hurt slightly.  I really don't understand why I do it.
-I shake everything I drink before pouring it, unless it's carbonated.  Including water.
-When I hold hands with someone, I always make sure my hand is behind theirs, or underneath if we're sitting. 
-Whenever I walk with one person, I stay behind and slightly to their right.  If I'm with more than one person, I usually stay behind them, but in the middle (basically I make them my meat shields).
-Everything I carry is usually on my right.  Purse on my right shoulder, objects in my right hand.  But I usually shift items to my left hand to use them, such as keys, and my cell phone is always in my left front pocket.
-I neatly stack or sort things, but only outside my own home.  If I visit a friend and see a stack of DVDs or paper or something that's tilted, I always have to fix it. 
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: kermit the toad on November 23, 2008, 04:45:34 am
I have a MASSIVE nervous tick. Like, my entire fucking face twitches. Most of the time I don't notice it, unless someone points it out to me. However, when I'm really tired, it becomes a lot worse, and I become consciously aware of it.
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Shepperd on November 23, 2008, 05:29:58 am
every once in a while, I kiss the air
not that I think I'm kissing, I just put my lips in that closed kiss shape for a second.
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Shinobars on November 23, 2008, 06:49:08 am
For me, I'll end up just dazing off into the distance as I start to think about something completely irrelevant to anything I had been doing. Then I'll snap back to what I was doing and have no idea what it was I was just thinking about. Other than that, just the normal stuff of tapping my toes, rubbing my eyes, and holding a glass of water in front of my mouth. I won't drink anything from the cup, I'll just leave it there and breathe into it. It makes a nifty sound.

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9. Sometimes on long car trips I'll imagine a little guy running along side the car jumping over things. (mostly it's mario)

I've got to try that. xD
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: headphonics on November 23, 2008, 07:07:34 am
I have a MASSIVE nervous tick. Like, my entire fucking face twitches. Most of the time I don't notice it, unless someone points it out to me. However, when I'm really tired, it becomes a lot worse, and I become consciously aware of it.
i used to have this a bit when i was a kid!  how often does yours happen?
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Jayce on November 23, 2008, 07:20:42 am
Sometimes when I'm listening to music I'll randomly start saying the alphabet in tune to the song
or
I'll start making up my own words related to whatever I'm doing in tune to the song.
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Master Tea on November 23, 2008, 07:41:07 am
I cram my oral hole with burgers. I do not know where the burgers come from. I reach, grab, and there's a burger. Instinct maybe.

I scratch the pads of my thumbs with my fingernails sometimes. Actually it's probably all the time because I don't know I'm doing it. But I figured it out one day when I broke skin on one thumb and it hurt. "What in the tarnation?" I said, very animated. (ture story)
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Sephiseraph on November 23, 2008, 08:02:51 pm
When Im on the top deck of a bus, sitting right at the front, I look out the front window and down at the line markings on the road and imagine myself running along the road at the pace of the bus, with huge strides. My feet land in between the road markings with each stride. I run with the poise of a cactuar.

I tap my fingers onto the keyboard with enough force to make a noise but not enough force to constitute a keypress. It's a fine but ultimately useless art.

I tap my feet, bite my fingers(nails), run my fingers through my hair, stroke the underside of my chin with a single finger while my left eyebrow is raised (my arrogant/intrigued expresion), crack my fingers, make silly clicking noises with my mouth... tick most of the usual suspects here.

I use my hands to tap a beat out onto my chest. I tap my belly for the bass, even though theres practically no difference in the sound that's produced.

When I'm buzzing I chew straws, then straighten them out again with my mouth and blow'n'suck through them, then chew them all over again.

Some of my friends get a bit put off because when I'm having a serious conversation I pace around.
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Herr Artischocke on November 23, 2008, 08:14:14 pm
1. Certain things have to be in certain pockets for me (cell phone in right, keys in left)
2. I shake my right foot
3. I play drums on the table with my knuckles
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Mince Wobley on November 23, 2008, 08:18:20 pm
My legs are always moving. When I'm waiting in a line I do the same thing with my body unless there is someone else doing it (usually a child).
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Carrion Crow on November 23, 2008, 08:31:06 pm
When walking along the street I may randomly sing "In the carrrr I just can't waaaait"

It is entirely involutary.
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Cheshire Cat on November 23, 2008, 09:18:54 pm
I do double bass drums with my feet. Hand movements vary from blastbeats to straight 4/4.

I cannot play the drums.


Also, the mario thing. I do that sort of, except i use a fleck of dirt on the window and make it jump the objects by moving my head. A similar sort of thing is biting my teeth in a rhthym and seeing if it works so that i only bite when we're not parralel with any cars/lamposts etc.
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Vellfire on November 23, 2008, 10:19:13 pm
When I was little I did the mario thing only it was Simba from the Lion King because that was my favorite movie.

Nowadays I space out completely in the car so I don't do that anymore.
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: FrostyPink on November 23, 2008, 11:48:30 pm
Achiro, I have the same fucking problem as you with biting the skin next to my nails...
I KEEP DOING IT WHILE TYPING THIS POST (unintentionally). God, it's worse than I thought!
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Yeaster on November 24, 2008, 06:17:36 pm
Looking at every car window I walk pass.

I don't know why I do this.
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Death Gulp on November 24, 2008, 06:44:16 pm
sometimes i try to guess peoples cars just by the headlights while driving at night, i always remember doing this.
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: King of Spooks on November 24, 2008, 06:54:53 pm
I somtimes give cars dap when im walking down the street.
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Achiro on November 27, 2008, 10:29:51 pm
you ever look at walls/ceilings and try to look for patterns, faces, and images?
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: YourHero on November 28, 2008, 01:34:05 am
you ever look at walls/ceilings and try to look for patterns, faces, and images?

this is usually preceded by mushrooms
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Achiro on November 28, 2008, 07:39:35 am
this is usually preceded by mushrooms
With acid you can even find colors inside the wall.
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Sarevok on November 28, 2008, 10:12:19 am
I've got a rubix cube by my PC, but I only really have it for ridiculously long loading screens or when I have to wait 3 minutes for something to finish downloading/installing rather than a habit.

I do the breaking/disassembling/reassembling stuff though, ESPECIALLY with pens. I think I took apart over 100 pens in my shop when I used to manage it...and 'forgot' to put them back together.

Other than that I can't really think of anything. It's only twitchy stuff when I'm bored/tired, or clicking my teeth/humming along to music, but EVERYONE does that stuff.
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: FQGamer on November 28, 2008, 02:51:28 pm
Tapping foot, pulling hair out, playing with little inanimate objects on the table, scratching balls (yes, wether it was in church on christmas, around my girlfriend, employer, coworkers,) and i tend to touch my gages and smell my fingers. sometimes smells like pussy, but its pretty much because I know they get gross and stinky.
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Kezay on November 29, 2008, 07:10:16 am
Well I was only notified of it recently but a friend asked me why I would sometimes stare at my forearm and flex it.  Confused at first I managed to catch myself doing it and it was because I would open and close my hand slowly (palm facing up) because I hurt my wrist a couple of weeks ago and I can still feel a dull pain in it.  Clenching and unclenching my hands kind of allows me to feel where it hurts still but it does kind of look like flexing.

I also don't strictly affirm to things when people ask me stuff, I'll usually say "I guess" or "maybe" before I say yes or no.

Oh and sometimes I'll make this weird noise, it's hard to describe, but the way it's done, is you put your tongue to the roof of your mouth and suck in air to one side until it makes this weird suction sound although I can make two quick sounds like that pretty fast and tend to do it when I'm doing homework or something.  Not sure why and it seems to be the only time I notice myself doing it... which makes me wonder if I'm inadvertently freaking people out elsewhere. :D
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: hero_bash on November 29, 2008, 10:54:09 pm
Quote from: Achiro
9. Sometimes on long car trips I'll imagine a little guy running along side the car jumping over things. (mostly it's mario)

I seriously thought I was the only oone who have this habit.. Since I was a child as I can remember I always imagine a fireman guy running, jumping whatever throught the obstacles on the side of the road..
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Artis Leon Ivey Jr on November 29, 2008, 10:57:28 pm
I had an inkling "this topic is kind of full of habits people are aware of by nature of the fact they know they do it most of the time AND it also kind of sucks" and looked and sure enough it's an achiro topic.

I don't have any habit I'm not aware of most of the time. I am aware when I jiggle my knees or get a neck crick or pop my knuckles. the only thing even close to unconscious behavior I only catch late is the whole IM SCRATCHIN MY DICK....OOPS.
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Warped655 on November 29, 2008, 11:04:11 pm
you ever look at walls/ceilings and try to look for patterns, faces, and images?

After waking up from a dream I'll see a after image on the wall of the last thing I saw in the dream... it is really weird.
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Achiro on December 01, 2008, 03:29:36 am
I had an inkling "this topic is kind of full of habits people are aware of by nature of the fact they know they do it most of the time AND it also kind of sucks" and looked and sure enough it's an achiro topic.

I don't have any habit I'm not aware of most of the time. I am aware when I jiggle my knees or get a neck crick or pop my knuckles. the only thing even close to unconscious behavior I only catch late is the whole IM SCRATCHIN MY DICK....OOPS.

don't scratch it off, that would be an awful thing to have to tell the doctor.
"What happened to it?"
"I scratched it off"
"What did you think it was a scratch and sniff?"
Title: Habits that you are not aware of most of the time
Post by: Kole on December 01, 2008, 07:45:25 am
I have this weird habit of putting my hands in my pants while I sit in front of the computer and play with my balls.