What are you thinking about?

Is one of those questions I can never answer.

The second someone asks this my mind blanks.Then I am frantically searching in my mind for something to say.

On the off chance that I do know what I was thinking about, it is usually some totally off the wall thing, that I would have a hard time describing or something totally irrelevant and stupid.

So again I am searching my brain for some way to answer the question without sounding totally insane.

If the person has a subconscious desire to drive me nuts, they will ask this question several times a day.

I get into real trouble then because when I get irritated, I get sarcastic.

Bubble brained ex girlfriend- "What are you thinking about?" (the 10Th time in a day)

U.A. "All of my waking thoughts are of you.", "I spend every second of every day just dreaming of your beauty."

She drove me to it. Do we always have to be thinking something?

What if we are thinking of more than one thing? What thought do we start with? What if we are thinking something we do not want the other person to know?

But what I am really wanting to know is how many people will answer or respond to the thread title without reading the post I made.

 

I fucking hate that question more than anything ever. It's so invasive, not to mention, I'm obsessive compulsive and have some really really messed up thoughts I'd rather not share. And also the whole going blank thing. Ugh. I knew it was love when Daniel and I were together a week and I never heard that question once.

 

"Fucking your mom" is always a valid answer.

Extra points if the asker's mom is dead.

 

I used to have a girlfriend that did that all the time. She used keep saying, "penny for them!", all the time when the conversation went dry. We didn't last long.

 

lately

Hall thrusters.

usually my answer.

either that or aeroelastic control surfaces.

or pulsejets

or pulse detonation engines.

edit: that is to say, it doesn't irritate me per se, because I usually am thinking about something

I usually don't have someone ask me more than once.

 

I usually just tell the asker to "fuck off"

 

I ask that question too much, and I feel bad about it.. only.. some people I just really wonder just what are they thinking about? and at the same time, they could just lie to me.. and honestly I don't think that many people have ever told me the truth about what they were truly thinking about.

I've asked that randomly, out of curiosity, without really caring and also at specific times and really wanting to know.. just read the lyrics in my sig, that's why I've chosen them..

I like it when people ask me what I'm thinking about. Personally I take it as a compliment that they care.. and I like sharing my thoughts.

 

I think you mean thread title...not tread title:hat:

 

now Im thinking about how I skip over some members posts...and for others I read every single word

 

That was what I planned on posting when read the title

Yeah, I know I'm not original

But for real, who actually wants to know what you're thinking? It's usually random drivel and bs. If it was worthy of conversation I'd be talking about it already....

 

My answer is always nothing. That answer always irritates the person asking me, but I don't feel that they have the right to know what I'm thinking if I have no urge to tell them in the first place.

 

I'll usually answer sincerely, but like you, I sometimes draw a blank when asked.
If I'm asked repeatedly, I'll explain that I'm not always thinking about something and also that some thoughts are better left in my head.

 

That reminds me of Baseketball.

Kenny "Squeak" Scolari: Your mother's deaf...
Ed Tuttle: My mother's dead, you little twerp.
Kenny "Squeak" Scolari: I guess that why she didn't move around much.

 

Wow, it is good to know I am not the only person that feels that way.

I mean I can understand asking if there is a reason. Like if I am giving them a mischievous look or something.

But hell usually I have no clue what is going on in my head. I suppose that is why the question bugs me so much.

Some great answers.:cheers2:

 

I also hate it when someone asks me that question,sometimes when someone asks me what Im thinking, Im actualy thinking your a tit shut-up.But I always say.....'thinking about what to eat'

 

I hate that question, too. I always lie or extremely water down what I'm thinking.

 

i'm currently thinking about getting off the forums and finding something else to do for the remainder of the evening.

yes i did read the OP, but i have no answer because nobody ever asks me that except occasionally a thread on HF.

 

it's not something I'll ask often at all... but if I'm sitting with someone one on one and there is a silence, I'll usually just smile and say what's on your mind.

 

trains, furry people, and living by myself, with the somewhat fantasy option of building and living in my own kind of shelter myself.

odd little trains in odd little corners not only of this world, but on worlds where people don't look like humans do here. (and aren't motivated to tear up the contryside, pave it over and live in cities trying to impress each other in the stupidest most ignorant ways they can think of while almost totally ignoring what doing so is doing to where the air they breathe comes from)

 

I ask the question a lot, but when people ask me, I feel like if I layed everything out on the table that's on my mind, they'd probably stop talking to me.