70 Questions to Make You See the World Differently
This Might Rewrite Your Brain
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Ever feel like your brain is just…stuck? Trapped inside the same cycles of thought, replaying stale opinions and second-guessing decisions from last week? Yeah, me too.
Are we even fully alive if we’re not challenging ourselves to view reality from new angles once in a while? Questioning our beliefs, doubting our doubts, and using that incredible human brain power for more than just memorizing French vocabulary or checking social media?
That’s what these 70 devious little queries are designed to do. Shift your perception. Make you go “Hmm…”
Questions About Life
What is the meaning of life? What is the meaning of your life?
Do people possess souls and if so, where are they in the body?
If you found out the world was ending in a year, how would you spend your time?
If you could have a second chance at one event in your life, what would you choose? What would you do differently?
What is your favorite thing about yourself?
What do you wish you could change about yourself?
What is keeping you from changing the things you’d like to change about yourself?
If you could choose to be any animal, what animal would you choose to be?
If you could have the credit for creating any piece of art, which would you choose?
If you had to make the case that you were living in a Truman Show situation, what evidence would you use?
If you didn’t have to work to make money, how would you spend your time? What would you do or create?
What is your worst habit, and what is keeping you from dropping it?
What superpower would you choose if you could develop one?
If you won the lottery, what would your “today” look like in five years?
If you found out you would die in 10 years, what would you change starting today?
If you knew you wouldn’t fail, what would you try?
Thought Experiments
Is life a computer simulation?
What if aliens are real? What if they’re really hot?
Do we have control over technology, or does technology control us?
If there were no experts and everyone knew a little about everything, what would that be like?
If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, what about reality? Is it subjective?
How much influence does someone’s name have over their life?
If aliens weren’t real, how could you argue against their existence?
Who decides what is “right”?
Is time a real construct or just a human conception?
Why do most people work 5 days per week instead of 4, 3 or 2?
What shape is the sky?
Who knew what time it was when the first clock was invented?
Would you rather be a big fish in a small pond or a small fish in a big pond?
Was math created or discovered?
Self-Reflection
What was the moment you felt most motivated? What fired you up?
Do you feel older or younger than your actual age?
How long is your personal “now” — how far do you live in the present?
Do you “work to live” or “live to work”?
Do you hate better than you love, or vice versa?
Would you rather lose all memories or never make new ones?
How do you define and measure success?
If you restarted life from scratch, would you end up in the same place?
What’s one part of your routine you could eliminate?
Can you commit a truly selfless act, without any benefit to yourself?
What’s a question you wish people asked when first meeting you?
If you could have coffee with one person dead or alive, who would it be?
Do you find your relationships with family/friends fulfilling? How could you improve them?
Are you able to comfortably communicate your desires and boundaries?
What’s your relationship and attitude towards sex and intimacy?
Hypothetical Scenarios
If two mind readers read each other’s minds at the same time, whose mind are they reading?
If you could upload your memories to a spreadsheet, would you do it?
If you could spend a day talking to an animal, which one and what would you ask?
If there was another identical Earth/You in a parallel universe, would you want to meet them?
Listen to your inner voice. Do you think it’s inherent or learned from your external speaking voice?
Does social media make you happier or sadder? Why do you keep using it if it’s the latter?
What do you think dogs/fish dream about?
If celebrities lost their fake teeth, how would people react?
If the moon disappeared, how would people react? What about if we suddenly had two moons?
If you became a mermaid, would you like living underwater or would it be too scary?
Do you think you’ve ever seen the same wild animal multiple times?
If you didn’t have to sleep, how would you spend those extra 8 hours per day?
If you had to be trapped in one TV show for a month, which would you choose?
Would you want to know everything the government knows about aliens/UFOs if you could?
If ghosts existed in your home but were invisible, would you want to be able to see them?
Strange Hypotheticals
What if aliens invaded and were extremely attractive? How would humanity react?
Do you think you’ve ever swallowed a bug in your sleep? Which insect do you think you’ve eaten most by accident?
What’s the most whimsical life-changing decision you’ve made? How would your life be different if you didn’t?
What do you think your neighbors know about you that you don’t know they know?
What’s your most justifiable paranoia/conspiracy theory?
Is fate a real force or just an elusory concept?
Does the “truth” exist, or is everything subjective?
Can you actually cry underwater?
If two mirrors face each other, where does the reflection go into infinity?
Why is it called a “building” if it’s already built?
Most of us are far too consumed treading life’s day-to-day hamster wheel to ever gaze inward and upward at the strange metaphysics underlying this grand cyclical cosmos we all share.
So keep pondering, dear humans — that’s the only way to keep peeling back layers of personal truth! Ruminate, cogitate, question, and theorize.
Because at the end of the day, that’s what life’s all about. Not just screaming our own dogmatic opinions into the abyss, but peering over the precipice together with open minds and open hearts.