Weird Tension
Has anything like this ever happened to anyone?
I was just drinking some bubble tea - which isn't really tea but is a sweet cold drink with rubbery balls of tapioca on the bottom. They give you a big straw to suck the tapioca up with. Because it's a cold drink, it comes with ice too. So I started drinking it, first chewing the ice from the top which was really good, but then before all the ice was gone I switched to the straw to get some of the tapioca balls. For some reason, eating the tapioca and seeing the ice still there made me really uncomfortable. I have no idea why. But when I switched back to eating the ice off the top with tapioca still on the bottom, I felt happy again. Just to experiment, I went back to trying the tapioca with ice still there and that weird (it was a physical sensation of discomfort) came over me again.
What is that? Or is it just some dumb thing that I alone in the universe experience?
I was just drinking some bubble tea - which isn't really tea but is a sweet cold drink with rubbery balls of tapioca on the bottom. They give you a big straw to suck the tapioca up with. Because it's a cold drink, it comes with ice too. So I started drinking it, first chewing the ice from the top which was really good, but then before all the ice was gone I switched to the straw to get some of the tapioca balls. For some reason, eating the tapioca and seeing the ice still there made me really uncomfortable. I have no idea why. But when I switched back to eating the ice off the top with tapioca still on the bottom, I felt happy again. Just to experiment, I went back to trying the tapioca with ice still there and that weird (it was a physical sensation of discomfort) came over me again.
What is that? Or is it just some dumb thing that I alone in the universe experience?
Don't know if it's happened to me because I don't know what it is....
Maybe it's your brain's "this does not match what I expect -- something is wrong" signal...?
Were you were thinking that you were going to eat all the ice and then eat the tapioca, but switched your plan halfway through eating the ice? If so, maybe for whatever reason some part of your brain didn't adjust to the new plan, so your brain gave you the "something is wrong" signal.
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Yes, this happens to other people too. It's simple, like what one of the other posters said. Your brain was in an ice eating pattern. Changing to eating the tapioca balls before the ice was gone went against the pattern, so you felt uncomfortable. I sleep with radio white sound on low, to partially cover and blur outside noises. When I wake up, before turning off the radio I gradually lower the sound. Simply shutting off the radio without doing that is unsettling. I also do the same thing before shutting off radio programs.
It is actually normal for brains to seek and be comfortable in patterns. The problem comes when we become too obsessed with a pattern, to the point it interferes in our lives, or harms us or someone else. Your issue with ice vs tapioca balls is not a problem, so don't worry about it.
I think there's the problem right there....
^THIS^
To me tapioca is meant to be in a cold pudding, not stuck in the bottom of a glass! It sounds absolutely horrid to me and I don't think I'd care for it. It sounds like a very lame-brained concoction at best....
I think there's the problem right there....
^THIS^
To me tapioca is meant to be in a cold pudding, not stuck in the bottom of a glass! It sounds absolutely horrid to me and I don't think I'd care for it. It sounds like a very lame-brained concoction at best....
Tapioca pudding to me is absolutely revolting, but I like the tapioca balls in bubble tea. They are like gummy bears.
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