Asking questions about life, the universe, and everything in between is the best way to get into deeper conversations with friends. And this list of mind-blowing questions to ask your friends will not only put everyone in deep thought and force them to consider different perspectives, but they might even mess with your mind a little! Get ready to expand your mind and ponder complex ideas!
110 Mind-Blowing Questions To Ask Your Friends
#1. What is the meaning of life?
#2. Is there more than one way to experience consciousness?
#3. What do you want to be remembered for after you die?
#4. If you stand behind a clock, is it still going clockwise?
#5. Why are we always unsatisfied?
#6. At what age do we stop being young? At what age do we start being old?
#7. Where do we go after we die?
#8. Why do we exist?
#9. Why do we crave routine?
#10. Have you ever wondered what your dog named you?
#11. Are we the only life form in the universe? If not, why haven’t we made contact yet?
#12. How would you divide your life into chapters if you wrote an autobiography?
#13. How do you know that you’re not artificial intelligence in a simulation?
#14. If you didn’t know how old you were, how old would you be?
#15. Where does our self-esteem come from?
#16. When you say “forward” and “back,” your lips literally move in the corresponding direction, don’t they?
#17. Does the teacher have the right to give homework to a homeless kid?
#18. If you get fulfillment from wasting time, is time ever wasted?
#19. Is the S or C silent in the word “scent”?
#20. What if your world was a simulation like the movie “The Matrix”?
#21. Why is it that pizza is round but comes in a square box?
#22. How do you decide what “the right thing” is?
#23. How many random people’s vacation photos do you think you’re in?
#24. Is free will imagined?
#25. Is it ever too late?
#26. Is suffering necessary for existence?
#27. Why do we dream?
#28. Why do we remember things as happier than they were?
#29. When you use the word “indescribable” to describe something, aren’t you describing it already?
#30. Is it better to know very few people well or know a ton of people only a little bit?
#31. What if there was no sky?
#32. What could unite all human beings?
#33. Why do we love being in love?
#34. If a vampire bites a zombie, does the zombie become a vampire, or is it the other way around?
#35. Why are humans so drawn to power?
#36. Could someone live their life without ever telling a lie?
#37. Will the movie still show in a theatre if no one buys a ticket?
#38. What is it about death that we are afraid of?
#39. If the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into?
#40. The only time the word “incorrectly” is spelled correctly is when it is spelled incorrectly!
#41. Things aren’t on fire. It’s the fire that’s on things.
#42. Why are there four silent letters in the word “queue” when only Q would have been just fine?
#43. Why must we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway?
#44. What is the best way to be happy?
#45. What if when you sweat, it’s your muscles crying?
#46. Can you cry underwater? If so, is it water or tears coming down your eyes?
#47. If you knew your destiny, would you try and change it?
#48. What is freedom? Is it doing what you want or having the option to?
#49. How old does a person have to be until they can be said to have died of old age?
#50. Why doesn’t glue stick inside of the bottle which holds it?
#51. How do you know that all your memories are true?
#52. What is the shape of the sky?
#53. There is neither pine nor apple in a pineapple? Why?
#54. If Buzz Lightyear didn’t believe he was a toy, why did he freeze every time a human passed by?
#55. What if fiction is reality and we feed on fiction but don’t know it?
#56. Why are elderly people referred to as old people but young children aren’t called new people?
#57. Why does Superman wear his undies outside?
#58. If you eat yourself, would you become twice as big or completely disappear?
#59. Why do they call it a nonstop flight when it stops at least once?
#60. What if Google disappeared from our lives?
#61. Can a person get addicted to counseling?
#62. Can fishes feel thirsty? If so, do they feel thirsty for water?
#63. How come ketchup tastes so good on French fries but not so much on mashed potatoes?
#64. Why do sleeping pills come with a warning that reads “Caution: May cause drowsiness”?
#65. If you lose one eye and wink with the other, are you winking or just blinking?
#66. If we eventually have to die, why are we born?
#67. Is it legal to name a kid “Anonymous”?
#68. Do we control technology or is it controlling us and making us think otherwise?
#69. Are eyebrows considered facial hair?
#70. If you had to re-do your entire life, would you still end up in the same place?
#71. How come our ages don’t include the time we spent in our mom’s womb?
#72. If there is no superpower, where did this concept come from?
#73. Why do people squint when they cannot see?
#74. What if you are the most intelligent person on the planet but don’t know it?
#75. Why do they call it pepperoni when it has no pepper in it?
#76. If you pinch yourself and it hurts, does that make you too strong or too weak?
#77. What is Victoria’s secret?
#78. Once born, are we living or dying?
#79. What is the difference between old things and antique things?
#80. Which orange came first—the fruit or the color?
#81. If Cinderella’s shoe fit perfectly, then why did it fall off when she ran?
#82. If God sneezed, what would you say?
#83. Why do noses run but feet smell?
#84. Why does shaking your head mean no, while nodding means yes?
#85. If you keep replacing old parts of your old car with new parts, does it make your car new or old?
#86. In the word “science,” is the s or the c silent?
#87. If time travel was possible, do you think it would become a weapon or a tool?
#88. Why does it take more genes to make a tomato than it takes to make a human being?
#89. Why do we always “call it a day” at night time?
#90. If everything is possible, could it be possible for something to be impossible?
#91. Do you take from society more than you give back?
#92. How important is it to have fun when you want to live a good life?
#93. Will humanity ever exist without religion?
#94. Why do cats purr?
#95. If past lives are real, do we ever experience memories from them?
#96. What was the first person to milk a cow trying to do? Why was their next step to drink it?
#97. We know the speed of light, but what’s the speed of darkness?
#98. Why do we call it a hamburger if it’s made from a cow?
#99. Where is the universe? With the multiverse theory, there could be more than one, so where is ours?
#100. Can a hearse drive in the carpool lane?
#101. Should life only have one meaning?
#102. How was DNA created?
#103. Should there be a limit on what humans can do?
#104. If you fail on purpose, have you succeeded?
#105. Why do we need to know the meaning of life?
#106. What defines art?
#107. Does repeatedly pushing the elevator button make it show up quicker?
#108. If you were your own best friend, would you be kinder to yourself?
#109. Will it ever be possible for us to know everything?
#110. Is it easier to love or to hate?
