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KhitomerAccordion lemy.lol KhitomerAccordion@lemy.lol
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f314 lemmy.world f314@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-15
#2 · Quote Reply

Literally me ten minutes ago…

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bw42 lemmy.world bw42@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-03-08
#3 · Quote Reply

Sometimes I do that on purpose for the noise canceling.

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ThunderComplex lemmy.today ThunderComplex@lemmy.today
Joined: 2023-10-08
#4 · Quote Reply

Or when you’re in the pocket doing a task and you have to pee and you know you can’t take a piss rn because afterwards you won’t get back in the pocket

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DudeImMacGyver kbin.earth DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth
Joined: 2025-01-11
#5 · (edited) Quote Reply

I was using my brain as a media player and forgot I put headphones on to listen to media not hosted locally on my brain.

In my defense, it was a really catchy song.

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laz lemmy.dbzer0.com laz@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-07-24
#6 · Quote Reply

Stop leaking state secrets

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baldingpudenda lemmy.world baldingpudenda@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-10
#7 · Quote Reply

Or when you’re in the pocket doing a task and you have to pee and you know you can’t take a piss rn because afterwards you won’t get back in the pocket

My brain will ignore it, until it screams PISS NOW. might as well start on those emails. I ain't getting shit done in the next hr anyway

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MutantTailThing lemmy.world MutantTailThing@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-10-23
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You know that feeling where you want to take your headphones off but you forgot you already took them off a while ago so you just grab into thin air?

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snooggums piefed.world snooggums@piefed.world
Joined: 2025-07-08
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Look the thing I was listenting to stopped 5 mintues ago and I just haven't had a chance to start something new.

Oh, it ended 30 minutes ago. I'll get to that right after this email...

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NessD lemmy.world NessD@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-24
#10 · Quote Reply

Oh, it's the opposite for me. It's sensory overload having something stuck in my ear without having something else to overpower it.

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massive_bereavement fedia.io massive_bereavement@fedia.io
Joined: 2024-06-14
#11 · Quote Reply

Hold on, it's not just me?

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danekrae lemmy.world danekrae@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-11
#12 · Quote Reply

Sitting here thinking "that's kinda weird", only to notice that I'm doing that right now...

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floquant lemmy.dbzer0.com floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2024-05-31
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Oh, it's the opposite for me. It's sensory overload having something stuck in my ear without having something else to overpower it.

That's why I believe in over-ear supremacy. Say no to plastic in your ears, yes to velvet around them.

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Jakylla jlai.lu Jakylla@jlai.lu
Joined: 2023-06-30
#14 · Quote Reply

My brain will ignore it, until it screams PISS NOW. might as well start on those emails. I ain't getting shit done in the next hr anyway

I sometimes forget to go to the toilet : "I want to pee- OH A BUTTERFLY" then remember 45min later

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disorderly lemmy.world disorderly@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-02-27
#15 · Quote Reply

What about deciding to listen to something and then realizing you're already listening to something? I do this at least once a day.

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ViaGetty (fae/faer/faers) lemmy.dbzer0.com ViaGetty@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2024-04-01
#16 · Quote Reply

.... You caught me in the act, damn.

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MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown fedia.io MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io
Joined: 2024-03-07
#17 · Quote Reply

Thanks for the reminder.

It is also tradition to change tasks only to realize the new task is outside the Bluetooth range of one’s phone, which was left in some inscrutable location.

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NessD lemmy.world NessD@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-24
#18 · Quote Reply

That's why I believe in over-ear supremacy. Say no to plastic in your ears, yes to velvet around them.

That would be even worse. It's getting my ears hot.

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DraconicSun piefed.social SalamenceFury@piefed.social
Joined: 2026-01-20
#19 · Quote Reply

I'm in this post and I don't like it.

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🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞 lemmy.world daychilde@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-13
#20 · Quote Reply

Thanks for the reminder. It is also tradition to change tasks only to realize the new task is outside the Bluetooth range of one’s phone, which was left in some inscrutable location.

I've now had bluetooth headphones for a couple of years and I still feel very weird moving away from my desk and being able to continue listening. Brains are weird. lol

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🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞 lemmy.world daychilde@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-13
#21 · Quote Reply

What about deciding to listen to something and then realizing you're already listening to something? I do this at least once a day.

Oh, that is the worst. I want to listen to this song BUT ALSO that song AND that other song RIGHT NOW. ALL OF THEM.

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🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞 lemmy.world daychilde@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-13
#22 · Quote Reply

I sometimes forget to go to the toilet : "I want to pee- OH A BUTTERFLY" then remember 45min later

"Eh, I'll go in a few mins, I want to work on THIS right now" and a few hours later you're in pain.

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🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞 lemmy.world daychilde@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-13
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You know that feeling where you want to take your headphones off but you forgot you already took them off a while ago so you just grab into thin air?

Not at all the same thing, but you've reminded me of one annoyance. heh.

I have dialysis three times per week that involves being in a chair, laid back for 4.5 hours. For some, they watch the provided television, but I can't stand it. I have over-the-ear headphones and I play a particular playlist every time and try to nap, and even if I can't get to sleep, I have my eyemask on, so it's a dark place with nice music to hang out.

Multiple times now I've been in a dream after having successfully gotten to sleep, and someone will talk to me in my dream, but I can't hear them because I have music playing in my headphones. (When I dream at night, no headphones, I never hear any audio in my dreams, so the lack of them talking is not unusual, except the musci playing I can hear). So in the dream, I realize I have headphones on, and I tell them - sorry, jsut a sec, lemme take these headphones off so I can hear you. And I take the headphones off, and te music is still going. So I take my headphones off again...... but the music is still playing. And I will take my headphones off a half dozen times, getting more and more frustrated that I can't make te music stop so I can hear them.

It's quite annoying, but somewhat hilarious (in an eye-rolling way) when I do wake up and remember it happening. lol

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🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞 lemmy.world daychilde@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-13
#24 · Quote Reply

That would be even worse. It's getting my ears hot.

Let me jokingly say: Clearly if headphones can get your ears too hot, your A/C isn't down enough to be comfy.

But let me seriously say: I'm sorry, that sucks. :(

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🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞 lemmy.world daychilde@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-13
#25 · Quote Reply

Hold on, it's not just me?

It never is. spaceman-with-gun-behind-other-spaceman.bmp :)

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lukaro lemmy.zip lukaro@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-06-05
#26 · Quote Reply

And yet another trait I share.

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MehBlah lemmy.world MehBlah@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-04-16
#27 · Quote Reply

Been rocking the aux headphone input in my care lately. This morning I was thirty minutes down the road before I realized I never hit play.

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NessD lemmy.world NessD@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-24
#28 · Quote Reply

Let me jokingly say: Clearly if headphones can get your ears too hot, your A/C isn't down enough to be comfy. But let me seriously say: I'm sorry, that sucks. :(

In Germany there is no AC :D
Thank you, but it's not much of a problem. When I don't listen to music I just put them down.

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Sundray lemmus.org sundray@lemmus.org
Joined: 2023-12-19
#29 · Quote Reply

Me: working in silence

Headphones: "Your battery is low"

Me: heart attack

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Sundray lemmus.org sundray@lemmus.org
Joined: 2023-12-19
#30 · Quote Reply

I was using my brain as a media player and forgot I put headphones on to listen to media not hosted locally on my brain. In my defense, it was a really catchy song.

This is pretty much running in my head 24/7.

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DudeImMacGyver kbin.earth DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth
Joined: 2025-01-11
#31 · (edited) Quote Reply

This is pretty much running in my head 24/7.

Love that song! I haven't put that on my playlist in forever, mostly its just been improvisational stuff that's all over the place genre wise. The last one was like if Deltron and Parov Stelar did a collaboration and then Apashe walks in and they call Beardyman to help. Then it gets kind of Amon Tobiny...

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Rakonat lemmy.world Rakonat@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-01
#32 · Quote Reply

I'm feeling attacked by the meme, then I read the comments and am contacting the FBI for witness protection.

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Goodlucksil lemmy.dbzer0.com Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-08-15
#33 · Quote Reply

I'm feeling attacked by the meme, then I read the comments and am contacting the FBI for witness protection.

The FBi denies your request because you're not neurotypical.

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Jul piefed.blahaj.zone irotsoma@piefed.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2025-09-25
#34 · Quote Reply

God I love reading these just to confirm I'm not the only one. Lol

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Rakonat lemmy.world Rakonat@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-01
#35 · Quote Reply

The FBi denies your request because you're not neurotypical.

FUCK. I mean... uh... nice, dog? Director?

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wyldrstallyns lemmy.dbzer0.com wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2026-05-16
#36 · Quote Reply

Love that song! I haven't put that on my playlist in forever, mostly its just been improvisational stuff that's all over the place genre wise. The last one was like if Deltron and Parov Stelar did a collaboration and then Apashe walks in and they call Beardyman to help. Then it gets kind of Amon Tobiny...

Waitwhat? I must hear this! 😱🔥

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lonefighter sh.itjust.works lonefighter@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2024-03-12
#37 · Quote Reply

Sometimes I do that on purpose for the noise canceling.

I used to do it all the time at my old job so coworkers would see them and leave me alone. It worked most of the time.

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kryptonianCodeMonkey lemmy.world kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-13
#38 · Quote Reply

Too real

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kryptonianCodeMonkey lemmy.world kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-13
#39 · (edited) Quote Reply

Me: working in silence Headphones: "Your battery is low" Me: heart attack

I was walking around with some open-ear bone-conducting headphones on the other night before bed trying to corral my daughter. They were connected to my phone but with no audio playing. I had forgotten I had them on.

And also didn't realize that the volume was all the way up.

Then, as I was walking into my daughter's dark bedroom, silent but for the calming white noise of a fan, I got a work email to my outlook app and it felt like the notification sound was coming from every direction, emanating from the very walls directly into my soul. I stopped and said out loud "What the actual fuck was that?!" before I remembered the headphones were on. A nice corporate jump scare to start the evening right.

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DudeImMacGyver kbin.earth DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth
Joined: 2025-01-11
#40 · Quote Reply

Waitwhat? I must hear this! 😱🔥

Yeah, thing is I can't play it anywhere but my own head.

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Fmstrat lemmy.world Fmstrat@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-04-27
#41 · Quote Reply

I do this with tea. Poor cold cup.

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wyldrstallyns lemmy.dbzer0.com wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2026-05-16
#42 · Quote Reply

Yeah, thing is I can't play it anywhere but my own head.

Phase, think of the rest of us who have an ever-hungry void in our hearts where Amon Tobin used to be. There must be a way. 🙇🏼‍♂️😅

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definitemaybe lemmy.ca definitemaybe@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-09-08
#43 · Quote Reply

Been rocking the aux headphone input in my care lately. This morning I was thirty minutes down the road before I realized I never hit play.

I know it's a typo, but my ADHD really enjoyed trying to imagine a situation where an aux cable would be important/meaningful enough to "be in your care".

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definitemaybe lemmy.ca definitemaybe@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-09-08
#44 · Quote Reply

Not at all the same thing, but you've reminded me of one annoyance. heh. I have dialysis three times per week that involves being in a chair, laid back for 4.5 hours. For some, they watch the provided television, but I can't stand it. I have over-the-ear headphones and I play a particular playlist every time and try to nap, and even if I can't get to sleep, I have my eyemask on, so it's a dark ...

I love that story. Thanks for sharing!

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Zarobi aussie.zone Zarobi@aussie.zone
Joined: 2026-06-23
#45 · Quote Reply

Sometimes I do that on purpose for the noise canceling.

Headset is locked in mode

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MehBlah lemmy.world MehBlah@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-04-16
#46 · Quote Reply

I know it's a typo, but my ADHD really enjoyed trying to imagine a situation where an aux cable would be important/meaningful enough to "be in your care".

Didnt notice. I think I'll just leave it.

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