Obsessions You Can't/Can Explain

I'm very much into rock and heavy metal and my newest obsession is the band Ghost. I spent all day Friday watching music videos and interviews... I just love their dark theme but with that kind of 80s rock sound.

I hadn't heard that one, clever!

You've probably heard the similar joke, "Champagne to my real friends; real pain to my sham friends."

I have/had both obsessions I find inexplicable and ones which are possible to explain.

Some of the stranger ones include cacti when I was a teenager (I still know the Latin names of quite a few) and uranium glass (the stuff that glows in UV light).

Some which can be explained include language and writing systems (begun as a teen and still ongoing decades later, including at an academic level), medieval times, horses and cats.

I can also explain my weird and inconvenient obsession with collecting Victorian clothes! I liked the TV series The Paradise where they wore bustle dresses, and I was on Pinterest a lot in those days, spending hours a day pinning bustle dresses. Then I actually saw one for sale in an antique shop and it wasn't as expensive as I expected, so I bought it and it was so fascinating examining how it was made and mended, I got really sucked in to researching lots about them, and parasols, and other accessories. It was amazing to me that there were so many things on ebay ranging from silly cheap to more than I would pay. I did eventually manage to stop when I scared myself by paying too much in a bidding war for a dress which I do not need! I can't display them or keep them well so one day I am thinking I might send most of it to auction.

I'm not quite sure whether being able to explain it makes it any less peculiar though...

I like to play with words too. For shampoo though I can't get past a pseudo etymology: sham = fake. I'd rather use shampoo than the authentic kind on my hair!! Haha.

You should try the Gear4Music site. They have a great selection of guitars to view. I like the guitar as well. I tried learning once but it became impossible because my fingernails were too long.

I have an obsession with plant pots lol. Like you with guitars I look them up and love the different styles, colours, sizes, architecture. I have some of my own but spend long time looking for them online as well.

I should change the title to 'Obsessions I Can Explain', lol. Weeks after I became strangely obsessed about the music of My Bloody Valentine, I've finally realised why this was and is. It's because, to this autist at least, their blurred sound - even at its most noisy or beauteous - makes sense to me...because my perceptions of things (even emotions) are often similarly vague and mystifying, yet tantalisingly clear and strongly-felt somehow. Blurred is clear, clear is blurred - that's my normal state of mind.

Life is like a state of trying to break through my skin in order to touch and feel a world beyond my own mind, to know other lives in the round; as fey as that reads, it's true for me.

I will now forever giggle as I write shampoo on a shopping list. I love it!

Lately (the last few months, maybe longer, I'm not sure) I've been obsessively checking words to see if they're an anagram of anything. I'm not good at anagrams and haven't found any hilarious ones (unless you're amused that 'shampoo' is 'oops, ham' or 'ooh, spam!'), but I am amused when other people point them out to me. I think it's another autistic pattern-seeking thing, only with letters instead of numbers. And, no, I'm not good at cryptic crosswords.

That's a really cool idea and sounds very pleasing to the eyes!

I like the blue guitar!

My friend recently sent me this screenshot: 

I am currently obsessed with Our Flag Means Death, a romantic comedy about pirates.  I think about them all the time and they cheer me up when I'm feeling sad.  I think it's affected several other people in similar ways.  

I used to collect the wrappers from roses chocolates and used them to cover the back of my bedroom door to make it shiny. :)

You're very welcome.  I have a Fender Strat that I never play (I need to sell it really) so your post caught my attention.  I love guitar music and was a big BB King fan back in the day.

Thank you for a terrific and helpful post, Jay.  

I love forms of communication. I think a lot of us love language or communication in general. That's exciting and interesting. 

Hi

Firstly, it has to be Sunburst every time! 

About my obsessions, I can relate in a small way.  I love language and words and spend a lot of time looking up dictionaries and other books about language, linguistics, etc. online.  I have added some to an Amazon wishlist and I monitor the price of them waiting for them to go down.  Whether I will buy them or not, I'm not sure.  I find it difficult to remain calm enough to read at the moment and haven't finished a book in years, yet I love the look and feel of them. 

Also, just a thought...  I don't know your medical prognosis but it may well be that playing guitar might be just the thing you need to encourage rehab and exercise of your fingers.

Jay

For me it's Star wars, always. That has lead me into looking at philosophy. Mythology and psyolagy. Thank god for goerge lucas Lol.

Anyhow it may not ever be guitar's you like but music. Writing music I mean or history of music, rock bands as guitar are measly todo with rock. 

Some one at my work said hid nephew loves dinosaurs, I told him to encourage it as he may became a bone surgeon, paleiatoliagiest, extra. 

I find autistic people are generally the most intelligent people on the planet.

Problem is our civilation is not made for us, if it were you think the world would be on the edge of destruction.

I think Japanese text is beautiful and expressive enough to justify your obsession.

I have many obsessions but the most random one I can think of is my infatuation with food packaging. Especially brightly coloured candy wrappers, chocolate bars etc. I don't know why, I just really enjoy looking at them and reading all the info on them. Japanese food packaging in particular really catches my eye. I used to get Japanese snacks imported straight from Japan and then collect all the nicest packaging, like all the different limited edition Pocky boxes and things like that

I get obsessed with songs.

And I'm becoming obsessed with learning to play an instrument. I can't read music though, but I did puzzle out how to play a few nursery rhymes on my Kalimba.