Inanimate objects - do you think they are ALIVE ?

[Easy 10]

I get this strange feeling sometimes that inanimate objects are "alive" in some way, and want to be treated nicely, so I try to be nice to them. I find this most potent with my car. When driving home from work the other day prior to having a few days off, I told it that "at least you'll have a break from this bloody journey for a few days anyway". I also advise my car of any upcoming services and/or MOT's, and thank it when it passes without too much expense, sometimes with an additional little pat on the steering wheel.

I think it's only the car that I actually speak to, but I get this feeling with other stuff as well. I took our old patio set (table and chairs) to the dump last week, and as I cast it into the giant skip, I couldn't help but feel a pang of guilt as it lay there forlornly in the rain amongst the rubbish. I had to stuff my fist into my mouth to stifle a sob as I turned my back on it and walked away when that big rolling crusher thing started to do its work on it.

I think its called "animism" - the belief that inanimate objects also have souls and feelings. Does anyone else experience anything similar, maybe in a milder form ? Or am I deeply disturbed in some way ?

 

[Titanic]

There's a bit of a clue in the word INANIMATE

 

[Marc]

My snowboards (I have two of them) are my "Babys", I always talk to them whilst on the mountain..."go on....catch that edge" and "ouch....sorry....did'nt see that rock!"

In the summer its "only a few months my precious....then you'll feel the snow again!"

I sometimes dust them down and service them in the summer too just so they feel wanted.

 

[Easy 10]

There's a bit of a clue in the word INANIMATE

Yes yes yes, I KNOW its irrational, stupid, mawkish and senseless. But Its just a vague feeling that creeps around my brain sometimes.

 

[Icy Gull]

You've read Christine by Stephen King haven't you Easy? You're just scared what will happen to you if you're not creepy to your car

 

[Easy 10]

You've read Christine by Stephen King haven't you Easy? You're just scared what will happen to you if you're not creepy to your car

Seen the film...maybe it is something like that.
Thinking about it, when you're a kid there's always books and stories with inanimate objects having faces talking to you. Cars, telephones, clocks...Disney is a prime offender, with candlesticks, brooms, cutlery, all appearing to have lives and feelings. Maybe it all leads back to Fantasia. Its no wonder I still think these things have real LIVES. Stuff like Toy Story just reaffirms the idea of pieces of plastic being alive.

I might need help.

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

I might need help.

might

 

[Brightonfan1983]

I had my bike nicked a couple of years ago. I was absolutely gutted, it was my longest relationship, bore the marks of a well-lived life, each one a memory, and I sometimes find myself imagining it lying rusting in some hedgrow which makes me so sad. I know it's just waiting for me to find it and give it a good servicing...

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I get this strange feeling sometimes that inanimate objects are "alive" in some way

Like with Darius Henderson you mean?

 

[timseagull]

I'd go along with this. I tend to talk to trains.

"you useless piece of shit...why are you broken again" "Why won't the doors open" etc!