# Weird urges you get (non-sexual) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 10, 2012, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-urges-you-get-non-sexual/627750 "2012-07-10T01:37:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2012, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-urges-you-get-non-sexual/627750/61 "2012-07-14T23:08:31Z")
Every now and then, I feel compelled to clap the Car Wash clap. People around me may think that I’m rallying an imaginary football team, or a cheerleading crew, but I’m not. It’s just the Car Wash clap. ---
**Author:** ![Enuma\_Elish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5e9695/32.png) [@Enuma\_Elish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enuma_Elish)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2012, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-urges-you-get-non-sexual/627750/62 "2012-07-14T23:23:48Z")
I tend to get anger flashes where I picture myself bugging someone’s eyeballs out and cutting their tongue out. I have had these flashes for as long as I can remember. I will never act on them and consider them a damn nuisance and a waste of mental energy. Part of the reason I accept reincarnation is to explain these flashes as past-life memories. I rationalize, therefore I am. ---
**Author:** ![Corcaigh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Corcaigh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corcaigh)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2012, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-urges-you-get-non-sexual/627750/63 "2012-07-14T23:49:06Z")
I (and other people I have chatted with online, on this subject) have said many a time that I frequently get the urge to fake my own death and live somewhere else under a fake ID. ---
**Author:** ![SticksAndString](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@SticksAndString](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SticksAndString)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2012, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-urges-you-get-non-sexual/627750/64 "2012-07-15T01:39:35Z")
If I’m out somewhere and I hear clock tower bells ring (or any bells for that matter, like church bells), I’m tempted to yell “Sanctuary! SANCTUARY!”. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2012, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-urges-you-get-non-sexual/627750/65 "2012-07-15T01:46:22Z")
> [@Enuma\_Elish](#): > > I tend to get anger flashes where I picture myself bugging someone’s eyeballs out and cutting their tongue out. I have had these flashes for as long as I can remember. I consider them a damn nuisance I’m gonna start being nicer (IRL). Just as a rule. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![XaMcQ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/f9ae1b/32.png) [@XaMcQ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XaMcQ)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2012, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-urges-you-get-non-sexual/627750/66 "2012-07-15T02:10:41Z")
> [@gallows\_fodder](#): > > When I see someone with well-developed deltoid muscles, I have the urge to bite them. Just sink my teeth right into their shoulder, like it’s prime rib. Me too! Kind of disturbing, isn’t it? :rolleyes: For me, it also involves good skin. ---
**Author:** ![scootergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@scootergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scootergirl)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2012, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-urges-you-get-non-sexual/627750/67 "2012-07-15T20:56:21Z")
1. To plant a big hot kiss on my SO absolutely anywhere and not care what anyone thought. 2. To get on my scooter and keep riding… well, until reality set in. I do have resposibilities and people who might miss me…just a little bit, I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![LegsAkimbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f1d935/32.png) [@LegsAkimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LegsAkimbo)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2012, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-urges-you-get-non-sexual/627750/68 "2012-07-15T23:02:46Z")
My mother and I both always wanted to jump off of high places (which would cause our demise). It was a running joke; when we would be at the top of a high building, or at the Grand Canyon, we would look at each other and say “I’ve got the URGE.” So many people here have expressed this same thing–what do you think is the deal with that? We aren’t in any way suicidal but we want to jump off high places. I find that very strange. Every once in a while when I am on a 2-lane road and a vehicle is coming toward me, I find myself wondering what exactly would happen if I drove right into the front of it. It’s not really as strong as an urge, but it’s such an odd thought to even have. (I was recently so far behind in an XBox car racing game that I stopped, turned around on the track (I think it was Sunset Peninsula), waited for an AI car to catch up on its 3rd lap, and drove right into the front of it. Kind of satisfying.) ---
**Author:** ![Heckity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a5b964/32.png) [@Heckity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heckity)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-urges-you-get-non-sexual/627750/69 "2012-07-16T00:19:44Z")
> [@Sacrilegium](#): > > Occasionally when I’m speaking to someone, I get the urge to haul off and hit them in the face as hard as I can. No reason. It’s never when I’m actually angry at them. Just having a conversation and the urge hits me to beat them down. I can’t believe someone else has this irrational thinking. Like you it has nothing to do with what they’re saying. I’m not angry. I have absolutely no reason . . . In my case it’s just a really hard slap. It comes out of nowhere - the other person and I are engaged in mildly interesting or riveting discussion and I just want to slap them. Maybe we could get a two-for-one diagnosis on this one . . . 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-urges-you-get-non-sexual/627750/70 "2012-07-16T01:07:03Z")
When stopped at an intersection where people are crossing in front of my car I realize that I could kill or injure someone simply by putting my foot on the gas. Sometimes I get the urge to do so. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-urges-you-get-non-sexual/627750/71 "2012-07-16T20:34:46Z")
When I’m behind a car that’s going slower than me, especially one driven by an old person and they are holding the brake pedal downhill, I get the urge to just ram into the back of their car and push them. Would be so satisfying… ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-urges-you-get-non-sexual/627750/72 "2012-07-16T23:42:56Z")
I played too much Grand Theft Auto, and now every time I see something that could be turned into a ramp, I want to drive my car up it and see how far it will fly. I also want to climb giant piles of dirt I see at construction sites and slide down when I reach the top. And every time I play too much Skyrim, I feel the need to pick almost every plant I see. ---
**Author:** ![cedarking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@cedarking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cedarking)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-urges-you-get-non-sexual/627750/73 "2012-07-17T06:41:39Z")
This is so boring compared to everyone elses but when i got my braces off as a teenager and got my retainer I always had this uncontrollable urge to whip it out the window when I was driving. Not in a 'I hate wearing this" way but an actual itchy finger gotta do it way. Eventually I took to taking it out and putting it in its case while I drove. First hint that I was weird. Apparently I also have weird urges to be a massive lurker since this is my fourth post in eleven years. ---
**Author:** ![Surly\_Chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Surly\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surly_Chick)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-urges-you-get-non-sexual/627750/74 "2012-07-17T15:01:09Z")
I get the urge to trip people who are walking rapidly down the sidewalk. No idea why and obviously I have refrained from doing so. I also get the urge to run down bicyclists who are hogging the road so you can’t get by them. I have also refrained (so far) from doing so. ---
**Author:** ![TheFaerie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c57346/32.png) [@TheFaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheFaerie)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-urges-you-get-non-sexual/627750/75 "2012-07-17T15:10:26Z")
When riding as a passenger in a moving car, I used to have the urge to open the door and jump out, knowing full well that I would be badly injured if not killed by it, just to know what it would feel like. I always have the urge to straighten men’s ties on TV. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-urges-you-get-non-sexual/627750/76 "2012-07-17T17:53:32Z")
Sometimes I get the urge to eat my own … _reads thread title and OP again_ …never mind. ---
**Author:** ![happycamper\_5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/cab0a1/32.png) [@happycamper\_5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happycamper_5)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-urges-you-get-non-sexual/627750/77 "2012-07-17T18:29:58Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > I played too much Grand Theft Auto, and now every time I see something that could be turned into a ramp, I want to drive my car up it and see how far it will fly. I also want to climb giant piles of dirt I see at construction sites and slide down when I reach the top. > > And every time I play too much Skyrim, I feel the need to pick almost every plant I see. The bottle caps & bobby pins I see on the sidewalk almost end up in my pocket thanks to many hours of playing Fallout. Also, when I walk near any decently high building, I always wonder, if there was someone standing on a balcony or the roof of said building, could I really tag them in the head with a sniper rifle? I do it to raiders & super mutants all the time, after all. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Toucanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-urges-you-get-non-sexual/627750/78 "2012-07-19T18:16:42Z")
Strawberry milkshakes. About once every two months, I develop an overpowering craving for one. But they have to be high-quality milkshakes with real ice cream and strawberries. Why is this odd? Because I am highly lactose-intolerant. Yes, I pay dearly for my craving, but that’s TMI so I’ll spare y’all the details. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![chizzuk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@chizzuk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chizzuk)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-urges-you-get-non-sexual/627750/79 "2012-07-19T20:07:55Z")
When I’m at a Metro station, I often get urges to either jump down onto the tracks myself or run up behind someone and shove them onto the tracks. Not while a train is there, just to see what happens. It’s gotten so I’m afraid to get too near the edge of the platform for fear I’ll actually do it. ---
**Author:** ![perfectparanoia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a5b964/32.png) [@perfectparanoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/perfectparanoia)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-urges-you-get-non-sexual/627750/80 "2012-07-19T20:37:07Z")
> [@Gesturing\_Mildly](#): > > I am not at all suicidal, but whenever I’m driving fast, I frequently fantasize about just jerking the wheel and driving off a bridge, or into a building or something. I think it’s just the fact that my life and well-being are so precariously balanced. I have this problem every time I go over a tall bridge. It’s to the point where if it is a multilane bridge, I try to be in a centre lane to reduce the temptation. I also have the urge to fix people’s clothes. Tags sticking out, crooked ties, pants falling down or lint. I have to restrain myself from just fixing it. (I blame this on motherhood. I am constantly doing this to my kids.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-urges-you-get-non-sexual/627750.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-urges-you-get-non-sexual/627750.md?page=5)