A thief was about to break into a house. But he overheard a desperate voice from within wailing: “Oh this terrible Dib Dib, will it never leave me alone! Will it always torment me! Please just stop!”
The thief paused - and then his imagination took over: “Maybe the 'Dib Dib' is a monster! A fiend that lives in this house, even now terrorizing its occupant!”
He fled the scene of his planned crime and never went near again. But had the thief been a little braver and snuck a peek through the window, he would have spied an old woman staring at her leaking tap: “Oh Dib Dib,” she wailed, looking at the dripping appliance, “please just stop. You’re driving me crazy!”
Obsessive thoughts, just like the mighty 'Dib Dib', are unwelcome, incessant, distressing, and torturous, but they may not signify anything much at all. Of course, with the right plumbing the old woman’s leaky tap could be stopped and, surprisingly, so too can obsessive thoughts.
So what are some of the more usual kinds of obsessive thoughts?
