100 good questions to ask your friends at 4:02 am when you can’t sleep (can also function as an asks list)
- Are you bothered by your cosmic insignificance?
- Do you mourn for a place or person you’ve never known?
- Do you really think there is somebody for everybody?
- Do you place any value in gender roles?
- Do you have to be related to be family?
- Are your platonic relationships just as valuable as romantic or family ones?
- Are you in love? Do you want to be?
- Do you think you can put love into categories (family, platonic, romantic, etc.) or is it just one general sensation?
- Would you be happy with a life without romance?
- Are you always going to be a little in love with somebody?
- Would you change your appearance if you could?
- Do you have the feeling you’ve lost something you might have had in another life - whether it be a person, a place, a world, a language, etc.?
- Do you believe in reincarnation?
- Would you want to be reincarnated?
- Do you think you’re special, or just another person amongst billions? Can you be both?
- Do theoretical ethical debates have any value? Is it important people discuss ethical dilemmas, e.g. the trolley problem?
- Did you have imaginary friends? Do you still have them?
- Are you religious? Do you think your religion is ‘correct’?
- If you aren’t religious, do you wish you were? Why?
- Do you want a grand adventure?
- Do you have somebody, whether it be a friend or stranger, who you think you could have loved if the circumstances were different?
- How long does it take you to fall in love with somebody?Is the sensation of ‘falling in love’ or ‘being in love’ better?
- Is love about convenience or something more? Can it be about both?
- Do you think you really understand your gender and sexuality?
- How fluid is your concept of gender and sexuality?
- What’s the most life-changing choice you’ve made so far?
- Are you afraid of growing old?
- Would you want to live forever? How about for a billion years, a million, a millennium, a century?
- Do you believe in some form of god/s?
- Are your choices fated or of your own free will?
- Do you have a hunch about how you’re going to die?
- Do you believe in star signs?
- How old do you have to be to be considered an adult?
- Was your childhood happy?
- What are you missing from your life?
- Have you ever met someone who had a very similar personality to your own? Did you get along?
- Do opposites attract?
- Is your life what you expected it would be five years ago?
- Do you know what you want out of life?
- What makes a person ‘good’? Are you a ‘good person’?
- What fundamentally matters do you?
- Is freewill an illusion?
- Do you create art? How do you define art?
- How often do you lie? Is all lying inherently bad? Are you generally truthful?
- Do you want to be remembered after your death? What for?
- Is true world peace ever possible?
- Do you have to suffer to truly understand the human condition? What is the human condition? How can you really experience it?
- Are you free? Will you ever be? Can anyone be truly free?
- Do you hold yourself to higher standards than you hold others?
- What do you expect from a friend or partner?
- What question could you ask to find out the most about a person?
- Do you justify all your beliefs or have you just inherited/absorbed some?
- Which beliefs do you have that is most likely to be wrong?
- Can human really understand the complete nature of the universe, space and time?
- Is a conscious what makes someone a person?
- What do you think about artificial intelligence?
- Do you thinks humans are obsessed with escapism (books, video games, movies, etc.)? Are you looking for an escape? Do you think that’s a bad thing?
- Are we eventually going to ‘run out’ of new combinations for music, art, language, etc.? Is there a limit to human creativity?
- What do you think the next era of music will be like?
- What do you think the next era of fashion will be like?
- Do we live in tumultuous times, or do they just seem so strange because we’re living in them?
- Would you want to meet a clone of yourself? Would you like them?
- How confident are you, really?
- How consistent is your perception of time?
- What age should people be allowed to vote? Should children and teenagers be allowed to vote?
- How do you feel about the idea ‘an eye for an eye’?
- What’s the worse thing a person can be?
- How do you feel about monogamy?
- Can you be in love with someone and still fall in love with someone else?
- What’s the tragedy of your life?
- Would your life make a good play?
- Should people be prosecuted for crimes that weren’t considered crimes at the time?
- Would you fight for your country? Do you feel a sense of loyalty to your nation?
- Do you believe in gender equality in every aspect?
- Do we have a moral obligation to care for others? To what extent?
- Do you crave approval and/or praise?
- Is there comedy in all tragedy and tragedy in all comedy?
- Are you ever going to be satisfied?
- When you are sad, do you listen to music that conveys your emotions or music that makes you happy?
- Is your music organised by mood or sensation or do you just listen to everything at any time?
- Would you marry a friend if they needed you to (e.g. for citizenship)?
- Are you a deep person?
- Given the chance to live your life on Mars, with no hope of returning to Earth but with the promise of scientific discovery and glory, would you take it?
- Are you who people think you are?
- Do you think you would be happier if you had been born a different gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, nationality or religion?
- What’s your toxic trait? Are you trying to improve yourself and fix it?
- Do you anger easily?
- Are you a jealous person?
- If you lost all your memories, would you have the same personality?
- Given the chance to reset your life (with none of the knowledge you currently have), would you take it?
- Is hate as strong as love? Who do you hate?
- Do you speak multiple languages? Which do you dream in? What language would you want to learn?
- Do you draw meaning from your dreams, or do you disregard them?
- How would you describe yourself when you love? Do you love forcefully, unconditionally, gently, quietly, desperately?
- Is unrequited love real love?
- Is your perception of yourself similar or the same to how others perceive you?
- Are you overly analytical?
- Do you ever feel that you are really a terrible person, and only act good out of societal or some other obligation?
- Do you believe in magic? Are you superstitious?
- What belief do you have that isn’t logically grounded, but you still firmly believe in?