OMG, it's full of cars!
January 29, 2015 9:19 PM Subscribe
Their arms are too short to block the sight!
posted by potsmokinghippieoverlord at 9:42 PM on January 29, 2015
posted by potsmokinghippieoverlord at 9:42 PM on January 29, 2015
"Whoa."
posted by happyroach at 10:05 PM on January 29, 2015
posted by happyroach at 10:05 PM on January 29, 2015
The most fascinating aspect of this, to me, is that every single baby has exactly the same reaction, down to the specific facial expression. The fussy babies were distracted and o_o . The happy babies were distracted and o_o . Curious.
Why do babies do this?
Is it reproducible for all babies, or did the editor of this video just find 20 babies who happened to make the same face?
Is this something that happens every time a baby goes through a tunnel, or just the first time?
How is tunelbabby formd?
posted by Sara C. at 10:23 PM on January 29, 2015 [23 favorites]
Why do babies do this?
Is it reproducible for all babies, or did the editor of this video just find 20 babies who happened to make the same face?
Is this something that happens every time a baby goes through a tunnel, or just the first time?
How is tunelbabby formd?
posted by Sara C. at 10:23 PM on January 29, 2015 [23 favorites]
The purity of their expressions is spectacular—100 percent natural "WUT"
posted by sacramental excrementum at 10:30 PM on January 29, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by sacramental excrementum at 10:30 PM on January 29, 2015 [3 favorites]
I think it's mostly "Whoa..... first flashing lights!"
posted by dual_action at 10:49 PM on January 29, 2015
posted by dual_action at 10:49 PM on January 29, 2015
Those are the most freaked out babies I've ever seen. Why do tunnels freak babies out?
posted by If only I had a penguin... at 10:55 PM on January 29, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by If only I had a penguin... at 10:55 PM on January 29, 2015 [2 favorites]
Don't babies have super high contrast sensitivity until they're much older? Maybe the sudden change in light triggers that component of their vision in an extreme way?
posted by Hermione Granger at 10:56 PM on January 29, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Hermione Granger at 10:56 PM on January 29, 2015 [1 favorite]
Nine months of solitude and darkness, then you get squeezed through your very first tunnel and your whole world changes forever. No wonder they're suspicious — who knows what's next?
posted by roger ackroyd at 11:08 PM on January 29, 2015 [29 favorites]
posted by roger ackroyd at 11:08 PM on January 29, 2015 [29 favorites]
Nominating this for Best Post Title of 2015.
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 11:12 PM on January 29, 2015 [6 favorites]
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 11:12 PM on January 29, 2015 [6 favorites]
It's not so much the response it's the fact it stops immediately they exit the tunnel.
OH MY GOD WHAT IS HAPPE... meh. whatevs
posted by fullerine at 11:17 PM on January 29, 2015 [8 favorites]
OH MY GOD WHAT IS HAPPE... meh. whatevs
posted by fullerine at 11:17 PM on January 29, 2015 [8 favorites]
Ha, I always thought our son had a special tunnel connection. Oh well. Not special after all.
posted by girlhacker at 12:19 AM on January 30, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by girlhacker at 12:19 AM on January 30, 2015 [1 favorite]
Those are the most freaked out babies I've ever seen. Why do tunnels freak babies out?
OH NO IM GOING BACK IN NOBODY TOLD ME BIRTH WAS REVERSIBLE.
posted by JHarris at 2:50 AM on January 30, 2015 [10 favorites]
OH NO IM GOING BACK IN NOBODY TOLD ME BIRTH WAS REVERSIBLE.
posted by JHarris at 2:50 AM on January 30, 2015 [10 favorites]
Watching this yesterday, I initially came to the conclusion that there may be some Freudian implications here, sort of a "Back to the Future Womb" effect going on..... But then I gave it some more thought and decided that the expression would be more blissful and less WTF when they believed they were leaving this crappy world and returning to the warmth and safety from whence they had come.
Or, on preview, what jharris just said...
posted by HuronBob at 2:53 AM on January 30, 2015
Or, on preview, what jharris just said...
posted by HuronBob at 2:53 AM on January 30, 2015
more blissful and less WTF
Might be 'WTF, it's got striplights now?'
posted by Segundus at 3:00 AM on January 30, 2015 [4 favorites]
Might be 'WTF, it's got striplights now?'
posted by Segundus at 3:00 AM on January 30, 2015 [4 favorites]
How is tunelbabby formd?
Well, when a tunnelmommy and a tunneldaddy love each other very much . . . .
posted by KingEdRa at 3:23 AM on January 30, 2015 [5 favorites]
Well, when a tunnelmommy and a tunneldaddy love each other very much . . . .
posted by KingEdRa at 3:23 AM on January 30, 2015 [5 favorites]
This would be awesome even without the music. With the music? God damn.
posted by brundlefly at 3:26 AM on January 30, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by brundlefly at 3:26 AM on January 30, 2015 [1 favorite]
Oh yes, I remember when I saw my first tunnel.
*sigh*
posted by kinnakeet at 3:41 AM on January 30, 2015
*sigh*
posted by kinnakeet at 3:41 AM on January 30, 2015
A nutshell with striplights
posted by The corpse in the library at 6:34 AM on January 30, 2015
posted by The corpse in the library at 6:34 AM on January 30, 2015
Babies do this because they are babies. Look at those tiny heads. They're not doing calculus, they can't even figure out how to not poop on themselves. They have no object permanence. They are small and dopey and confused by their own limbs. They fall down all the time. They react like this to pretty much every new experience.
come on just look at their dumb little faces
posted by poffin boffin at 7:03 AM on January 30, 2015 [11 favorites]
come on just look at their dumb little faces
posted by poffin boffin at 7:03 AM on January 30, 2015 [11 favorites]
also if you have never fed your baby a lemon slice i urge you to do so immediately.
posted by poffin boffin at 7:11 AM on January 30, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by poffin boffin at 7:11 AM on January 30, 2015 [2 favorites]
But then I gave it some more thought and decided that the expression would be more blissful and less WTF when they believed they were leaving this crappy world and returning to the warmth and safety from whence they had come.
maybe life in the womb is much more terrifying than we imagine
flesh prison
posted by forgetful snow at 8:01 AM on January 30, 2015
maybe life in the womb is much more terrifying than we imagine
flesh prison
posted by forgetful snow at 8:01 AM on January 30, 2015
a flesh prison which tries to crush you and then squeezes you down a tube into a bright terrifying world with huge noisy creatures and then one of them hits you on the butt.
posted by poffin boffin at 8:05 AM on January 30, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by poffin boffin at 8:05 AM on January 30, 2015 [3 favorites]
Undeveloped visual cortex gets overwhelmed by confusing stimulus that has an off-on binary thing going on, making it even more confusing and difficult for a tiny brain to keep up with, resulting in a deer-in-the-headlights sort of freeze state.
posted by mudpuppie at 9:13 AM on January 30, 2015
posted by mudpuppie at 9:13 AM on January 30, 2015
Jesus, people--can you not see that they think they're being recalled to the mothership, so it's safe to resume their true alien form?
THEY'RE HERE! THEY'RE ALREADY HERE!
posted by yoink at 9:16 AM on January 30, 2015 [1 favorite]
THEY'RE HERE! THEY'RE ALREADY HERE!
posted by yoink at 9:16 AM on January 30, 2015 [1 favorite]
yoink: "THEY'RE HERE! THEY'RE ALREADY HERE!
"
but THEY ARE SOOO CUTE!!!
I, for one, welcome our Cute and Constantly Pooping overlords.
posted by TheLittlePrince at 9:30 AM on January 30, 2015 [1 favorite]
"
but THEY ARE SOOO CUTE!!!
I, for one, welcome our Cute and Constantly Pooping overlords.
posted by TheLittlePrince at 9:30 AM on January 30, 2015 [1 favorite]
"I, for one, welcome our Cute and Constantly Pooping overlords."
...mumbles every groggy new parent in the middle of the night since 1994.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 10:00 AM on January 30, 2015 [2 favorites]
...mumbles every groggy new parent in the middle of the night since 1994.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 10:00 AM on January 30, 2015 [2 favorites]
I'm going to make and sell simulated tunnels. I will be rich!
posted by orme at 10:01 AM on January 30, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by orme at 10:01 AM on January 30, 2015 [2 favorites]
yeah but babies don't have any money. they are too lazy to get jobs, they just want to lie around kicking their feet in the air like pudgy little freeloaders.
posted by poffin boffin at 11:16 AM on January 30, 2015
posted by poffin boffin at 11:16 AM on January 30, 2015
I'm with poffin boffin. Babies - particularly babies from 3 to 10 months or so, right as their vision starts getting better, look like tiny little humans that are completely stoned out of their minds, much of the time. Every new visual input is just like... whoa man. Did you see that? Especially if they're still awake but are starting to fade out into napsville.
I enjoy looking for Babies Who Look Completely Stoned in public.
posted by deludingmyself at 12:12 PM on January 30, 2015 [3 favorites]
I enjoy looking for Babies Who Look Completely Stoned in public.
posted by deludingmyself at 12:12 PM on January 30, 2015 [3 favorites]
also if you have never fed your baby a lemon slice i urge you to do so immediately.
Yeah, and why stop there. Altoids! Wasabi! Dave's Insanity Sauce!
posted by JHarris at 1:25 AM on January 31, 2015 [2 favorites]
Yeah, and why stop there. Altoids! Wasabi! Dave's Insanity Sauce!
posted by JHarris at 1:25 AM on January 31, 2015 [2 favorites]
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