The uncontrollable subconcious urge to chew

[sao123]

It would seem that there is a subconcious urge to chew, i see many a people chewing on pens/caps...

but i am curious...
When you are sucking on an entity, which I will call: "the dissolvable lozenger"...

A dissolvable lozenger is my term for any of the following: Candy Cane, Cough Drop, Root Beer Barrel, Butterscotch Drop, Peppermint Swirl, Certs, Velamints, Fireballs, Jawbreakers, something which when placed into the mouth, is kept there until it is dissolved.

but back to the question:
Up putting the "dissolvable lozenger" into your mouth...Immediately you notice the flavor and become distracted by it (yum or blech)... then eventually it becomes normal to the point where you just seem to forget about it, and focus on something else. Minutes later, CRUNCH... O crap... I just chewed my cough drop.

Does this happen to you? Do you think this is more common among Gum/Pen chewers?
Is this a hunger reflex, or merely a chewing reflex because somethign was placed in your mouth?

Discuss

 

[KarmaPolice]

whenever i have a mint or anything like it I end up biting into it very soon. Yeah I suck on it for a bit but not for long. This really isnt a important issue.

 

[hjo3]

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[Braznor]

I chew on stuff which will give me a vacation here.

 

[sao123]

Originally posted by: hjo3
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thats some weird shiznt there. They actually believe that stuff?

 

[JulesMaximus]

Never has so much thought been devoted to something so inconsequential...

 

[Bootprint]

Originally posted by: sao123

Originally posted by: hjo3
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thats some weird shiznt there. They actually believe that stuff?

LOL, did you read the next stages? "Be careful, little Timmy is in his anal stage"

 

[sao123]

Originally posted by: Bootprint

Originally posted by: sao123

Originally posted by: hjo3
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thats some weird shiznt there. They actually believe that stuff?

LOL, did you read the next stages? "Be careful, little Timmy is in his anal stage"

Did you read the phallic stage?


Castration Anxiety for Boys:
Around this time in males, according to Freud, the young boy falls in love with his mother and wishes that his father was not in the way of his love. At this point he notices that women have no penis and fears that the punishment of his father for being in love with his wife is castration. This fear is enhanced if he is castigated for masturbation at this stage. Once the fear of retaliation has subsided the boy will learn to earn his mother's love by becoming as much like his father as possible. Thus, the superego is born. He will adopt his father's beliefs and ideals as his own and move on to the latency stage.





Penis envy For girls:

Soon after the libidinal shift to the penis, the child develops her first sexual impulses towards her mother.
The girl realises that she is physically not equipped to have a sexual relationship with her mother, as she has a clitoris and vagina, rather than a penis.
She desires a penis, and the power that it represents. This is described as penis envy. She sees the solution as obtaining her father?s penis.
She develops a sexual desire for her father.
The girl blames her mother for her apparent castration (what she sees as punishment by the mother for being attracted to the father) assisting a shift in the focus of her sexual impulses from her mother to her father.
Sexual desire for her father leads to the desire to replace, and eliminate her mother.
The girl identifies with her mother so that she might learn to mimic her, and thus replace her.
The child anticipates that both aforementioned desires will incur punishment (by the principle of lex talionis)
The girl employs the defence mechanism of displacement to shift the object of her sexual desires from her father to men in general.
The offshoot of these events, often cited in the media and colloquially, is that a girl really wants to become her mother, so that she can control her father.

 

[TwinkleToes77]

I'm a chewer when it should be dissolved. I also have a habit of swallowing my gum.

 

[Jeff7]

I try to keep the chewing to a minimum - I have quite a high tendancy to bite the inside of my mouth, and anytime I do, it usually turns into a white open sore, which can last up to two weeks. It of course swells up a bit, which makes it easier to bite again. Quite unpleasant.

 

[thecoolnessrune]

I cant believe people honestly ever believed that Freud moron! XD

 

[thirtythree]

Originally posted by: thecoolnessrune
I cant believe people honestly ever believed that Freud moron! XD

Some of his theories were a bit out there, but I don't think he was a moron.

EDIT: Oh, and yes, I do chew hard candies, usually intentionally. It's a bad habit though and caused me to chip one of my front teeth.