21 Mental Slips That Drove Temporarily Oblivious People Insane

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mattstaff
Jul 26, 2019 12:00 PM EDT

This one's inspired by an AskReddit thread that asks, "What is the human equivalent of Koalas can't recognize eucalyptus leaves unless they're on the tree." You might connect with more than one of these mental slips. 

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  • 01
    Text - d12345678987654321 6h drive there, but I can't give you directions
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  • 02
    Text - silentreese 7h went to my younger brother's apartment after not seeing him for a month or so and he answered the door wearing a hat which he doesn't do very often. I apologized for knocking on the wrong apartment and he had to take off the hat to show me it was him. It was a plain dark blue baseball cap like anyone trying not to be recognized in a movie would wear but he didn't have on glasses or anything to cover his actual face, thats how little it took to make him a total stranger.
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  • 03
    Text - TheMistShadow. 8h When you can't recall your password unless you are typing it.
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  • 04
    Text - Dr_Weirdo 10h "Man, I really want a glass of water." walks into different room* "Uhh... why did l go in here?"
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  • 05
    Text - Goddamnpassword 8h People don't generally look up, if you stand up above eye level most people won't notice you.
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  • 06
    Text - archfapper 6h Not willing to buy something unless it purports to be "20% off!" like how JC Penney tried doing everyday low prices and people dismissed them for not having sales any more. how the A&W 1/3 lb burger sold worse than the McD quarter pounder because 4 is bigger than three and is therefore more meat.
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  • 07
    Text - TheGreatCornlord 7h There was a gif on the front page recently, it showed a woman in a dark room and a source of light was rotating around her face to demonstrate how lighting affects our perception of people's faces. But it was wild because what my brain saw was someone's face morphing into someone else's face over and over. Humans see what they expect to see.
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  • 08
    Text - HHS2019 8h Being unable to recall someone's name unless them in the setting in which you regularly see them. If you see a high school classmate at a homecoming game, the name will pop up relatively quickly. But, if you move overseas to Paris and one day they're vacationing there and you make eye contact on the street, you won't (immediately) be able to recall his or her name. It's almost as though your brain keeps only certain rolodexes close by as needed.
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  • 09
    Text - egrith 7h Humans will look at a clock/watch/phone screen for the time, and then have to check again a second later because they can't remember or didn't read it in the first case, and then do it a third time, because we are loony
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  • 10
    Text - trashy_kitty 5h A "Closed" sign on the glass door of a business is invisible if you can see employees moving inside.
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  • 11
    Text - idontreallygohere 11h Looking for something for ages until someone points out that the item you're looking for right there in front of you all this time
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  • 12
    Text - kitjen 9h We don't know it's the good old times until we're no longer in them. I think it's paraphrased from The Office but still good point.
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  • 13
    Text - tmurrayart 9h People can't accept a fact unless it's told by someone they like.
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  • 14
    Text - KiwilnAust 8h When some one you know, has always had a large beard and then they shave it off. Leaving you lost as to who this new person you are seeing is.
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  • 15
    Text - BlatantConservative 9h The fact that most humans don't think of driving as pushing three tons of metal at high speeds and aren't scared at all. Reply 314 Smallbrowncows 6h Very few cars are 3 tons. Average is closer to 2 tons
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  • 16
    Text - WitnessMelRL 8h Humans can only understand the first sentence of an email. All further information is superfluous
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  • 17
    Text - topvillain66 8h You don't know you're missing money until you open up the app for your bank and wonder where the hell it all went. "Oh yea I bought lunch all week".
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  • 18
    Text - kris10185 4h People avoiding familiar food that is presented in an unexpected way, such as the huge flop that was the purple and green ketchup
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  • 19
    Text - symbiosa S 10h I take the train to work and it amazes me how commuters will try to squeeze into one doorway while completely ignoring another door on the other side of the room. Both doors lead to the same tracks.
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  • 20
    Text - t3hd0n 7h people don't see motorcycles on the road because their brains are only looking for cars and filter everything into car/not car
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  • 21
    Text - DankMEMES-6h Work in retail. Nobody ever reads the signs until I point it out, literally right in front of their eyes.
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