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Scientific Fact #10: She's Not Your Roommate Anymore

Mar 09, 2007 01:14

Yesterday you two were watching Jeopardy and your roommate went to get some pickles during the commercial break. She made all the normal pickle-getting noises but suddenly there was a thump. Not like anything falling, this terrible wet sort of sound maybe like bones and organs evacuating one's skin ( Read more... )

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I'm working down the list... spiritgod March 20 2007, 14:47:30 UTC

12 confused me, but I think I eventually got it. (The wife stole the baby from the hospital, right?) But this one just leaves me in the dark... is she a zombie? A pickle zombie?

A pickle vampire?

I don't think I'm going to figure this one out on my own...

Re: I'm working down the list... scientificfacts March 21 2007, 03:50:21 UTC

There is a cognitive disorder where you become convinced that someone you know really well isn't really that person. They may look like them, and you can't exactly explain why they're not, but you just know they aren't. I'm not quite sure what it's called, but I read about it in a text book and realized it happens to me from time to time.

Thankfully it goes away and I've never had to do anyone in with a lamp.

Re: I'm working down the list... spug March 25 2007, 20:11:16 UTC

We watched a film about cognitive disorders in class (introduction to cognitive sciences), and a guy with this disorder was in it. It was creepy watching him interact with his imposter parents.

Re: I'm working down the list... torrain March 26 2007, 13:38:54 UTC

Capgras' syndrome?

It's (roughly, said the layman) recognizing people but not getting any emotional reaction to that recognition, thus leading naturally to the conviction that something is *very not right* about this thing that looks like your friend or lover, but does not feel like them.

(Here via theweaselking, myself.)

none fozadomain June 2 2007, 18:30:10 UTC

i'm just so utterly blown away by your writing. this entry is fascinating, but so is every other one of them. i'm a reader and to this day i have never read anything that pulled me out of my physical reality into wherever (and whatever) you want reality to be. never stop writing; the world is a richer, fuller place because you do