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Oct
5
Feb
5
"No seriously, I’m dead." - Cotard's Syndrome and the walking dead
What if you woke up tomorrow and you believed you were dead? Like really believed it? That’s Cotard’s Syndrome.
It’s almost a Camus-level existential mindwarp. Believing that you do not, in fact, exist. James Byrne writes about its history and recent work to uncover its cause at Scientific American:
The first described patient was presented in a lecture in Paris in 1880 by Jules Cotard as Mademoiselle X who presented with significant self-loathing manifested as a denial of the existence of god or the devil and several parts of her body. As she believed herself to be eternally damned and incapable of dying a natural death and so no longer needed to eat. She later died of starvation in what one must assume came as a shock to her at least.
Mar
1
I haaaaaaate that claaaaaassssss.
Oh NO I have to sit through two hours of APPLIED PSYCH TODAY.
Apr
9
Ha!
But it still is the most wonderful.
Brainy Quote by Valerie van Mulukom.
Jan
29
Motion Induced Blindness
If you look at the image for about 10 seconds, focusing on the flickering green dot, one, two, or all three yellow dots will disappear. Well, they won’t really disappear, they’ll still be there, but you just won’t see them anymore.
This is called motion induced blindness, a perceptual illusion studied in the field of cognitive psychology. The main cause of this perceptual illusion is still debated among scientists, but the effect is clearly cool.
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Apr
8
Hello again quick PSA:
Agoraphobia is not the fear of leaving one’s home.
It is the fear of being rendered helpless or humiliated in an unescapable situation. This will cause the sufferer to want to stay in what they deem as a “safe” place.
Please understand and respect this. Thank you!
