It's been a long time, but I also seem to remember a scene like that in Max Payne. Where Max was drugged out and hallucinating, corridors seemed to disappear, or stretch on forever.

>> ^rottenseed:

You know, ants are a common hallucination for the unnaturally lonesome.
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Ants have Internet. They don't need cellphones.

You know, ants are a common hallucination for the unnaturally lonesome.
>> ^ant:

I don't own a cellphone either.

>> ^dannym3141:

Tough question though.
If "God" appeared to you in such a way as you knew it WAS "God", an omniscient and omnipresent almighty unanswerable power, and you KNEW that you weren't imagining or hallucinating, would you kill your child if that "God" told you to?
Could be an ultimate test of faith, could be an ultimate test of morality.


Test of morality. I suppose you could say faith if you wanted to present the idea of faith that "god" knows what he's doing, but then I would have a lot more questions about why *I* had to be the one doing the killing when a supposedly omnipotent being could just have him keel over. No moral person should ever obey an order to murder a child in cold blood no matter who's authority it was on. If this supposed authority wants it done so badly they can bloody well do it themselves with everything in my power standing in their way.

Tough question though.

If "God" appeared to you in such a way as you knew it WAS "God", an omniscient and omnipresent almighty unanswerable power, and you KNEW that you weren't imagining or hallucinating, would you kill your child if that "God" told you to?

Could be an ultimate test of faith, could be an ultimate test of morality.

Too bad the video medium can't properly demonstrate tactile/olfactory hallucinations. That would REALLY be something else combined with what they've already done here.

While you are thinking about flashback in the psychological sense - "recurrent and abnormally vivid recollection of a traumatic experience, as a battle, sometimes accompanied by hallucinations," - I'm sure the people meant flashback in the typical, layman sense, "a memory of the past; a portrayal of the past in a story".

Over on YT the poster has been defending her father from people who think he has dementia, etc. As you said, he's as smart as you or me - just older.
>> ^dannym3141:

I don't believe he's having a flashback. I think he's just showing them what he said, or what others said, or what he remembers. People are very quick to judge the elderly. Remember, they're me and you, only older.
If he himself stated that he was having a flashback, my guess is that he was just embarassed to admit he was improv'ing for people. He knew what he was doing, he's as smart as you or me - just older.

That's the second time today I have felt compelled to ask, what the Hell am I watching?

Thank you for that.

Oh, and, what hallucination.

>> ^cybrbeast:

This is definitely going into my watch when tripping folder


One of my fondest hallucination memories: sitting under a tall tree in a park late at night, the only sound was that almost magical white noise rushing through leaves, and I was at the peak of an LSD trip, having just inhaled some nitrous oxide. I lay down and looked up, and the canopy of the tree was silhouetted against the sky. The entire view turned into a 3-dimensional animated fractal set for a good minute or so.

Words probably can't convey the amalgamation of sensory experience that made that moment so exhilarating, but a part of this video triggered that memory quite strongly for me. Makes me want to trip again (it's been a long time).

I have a different form of sleep paralysis. I don't have any visual or audio hallucinations, but I do wake up, am aware of my surroundings, can't move whatsoever and can barely breathe. There are only two ways that I get out of this paralyzed state; 1) try breathing and moaning as loud as possible to wake my GF so she can wake me up by pushing on my body. 2) wait for it to subside.

Either way, it's pretty scary, and luckily doesn't happen that often.

I wonder if Sleep Apnea plays any role in sleep paralysis?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_apnea

I get sleep paralysis from time to time. Used to freak me out. I thought there was a ghost in my room. I could "feel" it presense. I was terrified and unable to scream. Them I would feel it slowly pushing on top of me and I thought it was trying to suffocate me. The worse one was when I felt a vibrating inside me which led me to the natural conclusion that this "ghost" was now raping me. It wasn't until I watched a documentary on sleep disorders that the penny dropped. I wonder what would happen to me if I never watched obscure docs late at night... probably be in a cult by now!

Weird thing is I still get it now and it still terrifies me but I don't hallucinate any presemce I just try and scream myself awake. Difference is I'm not freaked out after the event.
THANKYOU SCIENCE

Mm. Problem is that your explanation, if you can call it that, is only slightly more likely to be true than ghosts are. The hypothesis that people who claim to see ghosts are hallucinating, delusional, mistaken, prone to pareidolia, or simply lying, is far more likely than either "ghost" or "eye resonance".


>> ^joedirt:

What that means is that neurons fire at a certain rate to transmit data, communicate, change state, whatever. The neruon paths fire in the tens of Hz or slower, so maybe the visual cortex or visual nerve cells have a certain frequency they fire at and if you in an environment with EM or visual stimuli that is at certain frequencies, it makes sense this could have impact on what you "see", much like modulating and to create FM communication. Though you might call it more of a pulse stream shift keying.

>> ^Drachen_Jager:
>> ^Farhad2000:
I read some shit a while back that said the reason we experience paranormal events in certain environs is because of resonance factors that resonate with the same frequency as our eyes thus creating peripheral visions.
Seem interesting as a theory.

That's not a theory. A theory has to contain an actual explanation of the cause of the phenomena. What you gave is pseudo-scientific mumbo jumbo.
Our eyes resonate? WTF does that even mean?

A question: do you know how much the anti-psychotic medication has been researched on children? Children and adults do react very differently to substances. An example: children and young teenagers need a lot more alcohol to show signs of being drunk (relative to body size), than adults do.

What I'm coming at is this: is it unethical to give very strong medication to children, when there is little scientific evidence? Might it damage more than it helps?

In reply to this comment by brycewi19:
Being a psychotherapist myself who works mostly with children, schizophrenia is one of the toughest emotionally for me to deal with. Mostly because the person is innately aware of their disorder and they almost always hate it. Their acceptance of their hallucinations is almost always universal, which makes it easier to team with them, but it's also nearly impossible to completely eradicate the symptoms.

I've worked with a handful of kids with this and the onset usually doesn't happen until just after puberty (usually 13-16 y.o. age range). This has got to be the earliest onset I've seen.

The best thing these parents can do for themselves is really form a strong support system team around them to give them breaks, think of different parenting strategies, etc. I certainly hope there's mental health services in their area that can help meet the entire family's needs and not just Jani's. Jani needs two strong and refreshed parents to help her out just as much as medications (though I'm not entirely certain how well anti-psychotics work on pre-pubescents, actually).

Sad.

Being a psychotherapist myself who works mostly with children, schizophrenia is one of the toughest emotionally for me to deal with. Mostly because the person is innately aware of their disorder and they almost always hate it. Their acceptance of their hallucinations is almost always universal, which makes it easier to team with them, but it's also nearly impossible to completely eradicate the symptoms.

I've worked with a handful of kids with this and the onset usually doesn't happen until just after puberty (usually 13-16 y.o. age range). This has got to be the earliest onset I've seen.

The best thing these parents can do for themselves is really form a strong support system team around them to give them breaks, think of different parenting strategies, etc. I certainly hope there's mental health services in their area that can help meet the entire family's needs and not just Jani's. Jani needs two strong and refreshed parents to help her out just as much as medications (though I'm not entirely certain how well anti-psychotics work on pre-pubescents, actually).

Sad.

How silly.

What economic issue is it that this video is claiming is the Fed's fault?

Income inequality? Good argument for a more progressive tax, and a larger system of social welfare.

Fraud? Good argument for a strong regulatory regime for banks, and a Fed chair who's got a basic mistrust of corporate greed.

Inflation? Maybe, but it seems like low, constant inflation is a good thing in everyone's theory of macroeconomics, and a central bank is a key tool for keeping your inflation where you want it.

Unemployment? Maybe, but again, fixing your money supply to some constant (e.g. pegged to the dollar, or the dollar pegged to gold) takes a big tool for managing unemployment out of your toolbox.

Mostly though, people need to remember that all money is ultimately fake.

Gold is just as worthless as paper money -- you can't eat it, you can't smoke it, you can't drink it, you can't even use it as a raw material for anything useful unless you're a jeweler, a dentist, or a semiconductor fabricator (and even then, you really should use something more common like copper or tin).

Money is a consensual hallucination meant to keep us all working. I'm really, really sorry if you reached adult age thinking that stuffing cash into your mattress was the route to riches.

Rich people understand that cash is intrinsically worthless. It's why they invest, rather than build giant Scrooge McDuck-style money bins full of coins.

All money is the same, whether it's in the form of stamped $20 gold coins, promissory notes (i.e. a green piece of paper that says "this $20 bill can be redeemed for an ounce of gold at the US treasury office"), or fiat currency, it's only worth whatever you can buy with $20.

Part of basic financial literacy is understanding that the overall trend is for prices to go up, and therefore that if you aren't getting a raise equal to or greater than the inflation rate every year, you're taking a pay cut.

Which is a good argument for unionizing, even if you're a salaried professional...