Psychology Today | 12.11.2026 20:51
One of the greatest things about the internet is finding out you’re not alone. I feel sorry for those Victorian souls who had a weird thought and simply had to live with it. Instead of going on Reddit and searching, “Does anyone else pretend to be a chicken to get to sleep at night?” they sat there in their little nightcaps by candlelight, feeling like the biggest weirdos on Earth, when they could have been doomscrolling for three hours about how many people had the exact same fantasy and, even more comforting, even weirder and more bizarre ones. Which brings me to my most recent discovery. It not only made me feel less of an oddball, but it also gave me that now-familiar feeling: Has anyone on this planet ever had a truly unique experience?
