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
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.
I haven’t put that on my playlist in for ever, mostly its just been improvisational stuff that’s all over the place genre wise.
Waitwhat? I must hear this! 😱🔥
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. 🙇🏼♂️😅
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
I love that story. Thanks for sharing!
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
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.
Literally me ten minutes ago…
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…
Stop leaking state secrets
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.

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. :(
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.
4’33" on repeat.
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.
Headset is locked in mode
Sitting here thinking “that’s kinda weird”, only to notice that I’m doing that right now…
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.
… You caught me in the act, damn.
Hold on, it’s not just me?
It never is. spaceman-with-gun-behind-other-spaceman.bmp :)
And yet another trait I share.










