Yes! Oh gosh yes, it never makes any sense to me why sometimes impulses come paired with a weird sense of urgency (that bit where you just want to do it now) and no explanation or justification for it....

I didn't know anyone else had that too!

Yeah, but I'm a strong mix of extremely impulsive and extremely hesitant. One will eventually win, but it's a weird internal struggle. Especially because my impulsive decisions often turn out bad lol.

I do occasionally. But it's usually like really weird and disturbing things that I should not do at all. So I can almost always keep myself from doing those things. Good times.

i think, maybe... i get that way with music? like, i get urges to play an instrument or sing and i have to be content with imagining the notes in my head because i'd be in class or doing something else.

i'm not even that good at playing the instruments i know, but it's so satisfying to play music. kind of scratches that itch for me.

I was thinking more of things like using sidewalk chalk to write out an Ogden Nash poem on the sidewalk leading up to the library or something. It's the sort of impulse you usually feel walking up to the door, but sometimes it feels weirdly urgent? Like you somehow think, "if I don't do it tonight, someone will come by with an e. e. cummings poem instead!" or whatever other weird justification your brain is using to try and make it seem important to do it soon.

Well if it's just chalk I don't really see what the harm of it would be. It washes off with just some water.

Sure, but... the question wasn't about necessarily harmful stuff, just if you get those feelings like you need to do something RIGHT THAT SECOND.

Like Moi's initial example of hugging someone isn't a bad impulse, just weirdly timed.