When walking over a tiled floor...

[Corny]

.. do you too make up rules in your head?
Like .. do not/do only step on the dark tiles, always skip one row, only step on the joints .. etc?

 

[gsdx]

Slow day?. . . . .

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

It can get to be a habit...drugs are like that. (4:20)

 

[Lukeee]

Yes, it depends on how big the tiles are though.

 

[Cumcake]

I do it only when I take my time to watch the tiles, if its a boring tile I dont care, but if its a really nice tile style/print then i tend to stare at it and make rules like those

 

[SonOfSlobone]

Sidewalk -- crack -- mother...

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

 

[LilBit]

Yes, but I'm obsessive-compulsive. When I was a kid, I had to step on each block of the sidewalk exactly twice. That's not a problem in nicer neighborhoods, but in my neighborhood, the sidewalks were really irregular due to incompetent and hastily-performed repairs. Some blocks were barely a foot wide, while others were as wide as five feet.

Now that I'm medicated, I still count steps, but I don't get anxious if I mess up.

 

[Corny]

Now that I'm medicated, I still count steps, but I don't get anxious if I mess up.

I'd refuse to take medication against that. However I don't get really anxious if I violate my own made up rules

 

[Daximus]

I don't bother with what I step on but I do see patterns where others do not.

 

[LilBit]

I'd refuse to take medication against that. However I don't get really anxious if I violate my own made up rules

The medication is actually for depression, but it has the fortunate added bonus of reducing my anxiety. Given that I've had points in my life where my anxiety made it very difficult to function on a day-to-day basis, this is a very good thing.

 

[giftart]

.. do you too make up rules in your head?
Like .. do not/do only step on the dark tiles, always skip one row, only step on the joints .. etc?

I do that. I step on the red tiles instead of the white one. lol.

 

[trawler69]

Um no!.......

 

[BlueD]

.. do you too make up rules in your head?
Like .. do not/do only step on the dark tiles, always skip one row, only step on the joints .. etc?

Yes, sometimes, when walking on sidewalk with big tiles (about 3-4 normal steps), I would try not to step on the lines and will adjust my steps accordingly so that the footsteps will be ~ constant... And other time, I won't care.

 

[CudDULL]

No I make sure that I don't step on anything wet because I'll slip with flip flops on D: it happens a lot

 

[Kester]

Yeah when I was younger I used to do that.

Step on a line, you break your spine
Step on a crack you break your back

HAHA. We used to say that at school all the time.

 

[honooryuu]

i make patterns. but only when im not in a hurry to get to class

 

[blackbeltninja]

My only rule is to scuttle across them at speed if it's cold and I'm barefoot.

Otherwise, I just tend to count them as I go. /rain man

-d-

 

[tidimus]

Wow, I knew I wasn't the only one with OCD but who knew there were so many.

Lol I've been caught many times, especially by my bf but sometimes by strangers, counting tiles, only stepping on certain ones etc.

Luckily it won't cause me too much anxiety, but I don't forget easily if I don't finish. Two weeks later I may still think (I didn't finish stepping through that "column" of tiles, that type of thing). Generally counting is my issue though. If I start counting I do get a bit anxious (though not disfunctionally) if I don't get to finish.

 

[kallipolis]

Some manifestations of the obsessive, compulsive personality can also teach the rest of us that skipping across a tiled floor, is akin to a simple arithmetical formula that trains, the conscious mind to exercise its awareness of its peculiar way of crossing a tiled floor.