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Post by CableNinja »

saulpw wrote: post #199
CableNinja wrote: post #196

Interesting, something that wasnt covered on your site, although the inverse is. I sometimes get the opposite of the troxler effect, the center of my vision goes "black" while the edges stay visible. The black center gets "worse" if my eyes stay still, and is usually accompanied by a halo of various colors. It goes away after a few minutes. Ive never found a consistent trigger for it, sometimes light changes will do…

Sounds like a migraine.

No migraine associated with it when this happens, just "inverted tunnel vision", goes away after 5-10 minutes

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Post by ProllyInfamous »

WA wrote: post #169

Monday is a light brownish, Tuesday black, Wednesday blue, Thursday ochre, Friday dark blue, Saturday white/silver, Sunday black. January blue, February brownish, March is black and white, April green, May black, June yellow, July darker yellow, August dark green, September ochre, October blue, November brown, December black. Thanks for coming to my synesthesia TED talk.

Science folder is green; mathemathics folder is red; langauge class is yellow; social studies is blue.

Thanks for coming to this school assembly.

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Post by ProllyInfamous »

robinduckett wrote: post #183
WA wrote: post #169

Monday is a light brownish, Tuesday black, Wednesday blue, Thursday ochre, Friday dark blue, Saturday white/silver, Sunday black. January blue, February brownish, March is black and white, April green, May black, June yellow, July darker yellow, August dark green, September ochre, October blue, November brown, December black. Thanks for coming to my synesthesia TED talk.

“Prime numbers are bright orange” - Sheldon Cooper

Having read plenty of Dr. Oliver Sacks (e.g: Man Who Mistook Wife for Hat), there has almost-certainly been a savant ("idiot," or not) with this actual ability – and nobody knew how it worked (it just did), similarly to the documents Sacks-patient that immediately knew how many toothpicks were on any table (in the hundreds-to-thousands)... but could otherwise not talk.

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To explain this with a DCC metaphor:

NEW ACHIEVEMENT: All prime numbers now glow bright orange, including entire mobs (if they contain prime number of living members). This includes those cute little toes of yours, Carl. Don't question this, it just is.

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My favorite Sacks patients were the non-verbal aphasics laughing at Nixon's public TV appearances (because they were experts at telling if people were lying [by laughing at non-verbal cues]), otherwise disconnected from society.

Re: Show HN: Bodily Oddities

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Post by saulpw »

CableNinja wrote: post #211
saulpw wrote: post #199

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds like a migraine.

No migraine associated with it when this happens, just "inverted tunnel vision", goes away after 5-10 minutes

Migraines don't have to be painful, and 'inverted tunnel vision' is one of the effects I've experienced.

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Post by vesterde »

prmph wrote: post #179

Interesting project. One small suggestion though: try to always make the first sentence show fully in the card. Several times I was a bit miffed I had to actually click to find out what a card was about, when it would have been better for me to get the gist in advance to know if it was something I wanted to read about.

That makes sense, thanks!

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Post by NoImmatureAdHom »

alexpotato wrote: post #181
NoImmatureAdHom wrote: post #108

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Do you like to eat? Or do it out of a sense of duty?

I def have taste preferences e.g. I like grapefruit better than orange juice. Another example is Sriracha tastes great to me as it's spicy but not too spicy. Too spicy and I just can't taste anything. In other words, I have the same 5 basic tongue tastes that you do e.g. salt, sweet, bitter, sour and "umami". Flavor is usually taste + smell and that's the part I'm missing. If you are more interested, I wrote a Twitte…

Neat, thanks for the reply

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Post by MiloLeo »

intrasight wrote: post #185
cameronh90 wrote: post #130

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I was prescribed Xanax for a bit and it gave me the absolute worst sleep paralysis imaginable, with nested false awakenings.

Nested false awakenings are the worst. Now I have a phrase to use for when that happened to me. I dreamt that I was attacked and killed by a monster. Getting killed in a dream makes one wake up immediately, lol. I was hanging out with a friend of mine and telling him about the dream and as soon as I told him what happened he turned into a monster and killed me. I was driving down the road with my friend Lloyd who was…

ugh, I would get those as a kid. I've never heard the term 'nested false awakening' applied to them, but I like that. I'm glad I don't get them anymore.. the feeling of wondering if it is a dream or not and feeling like you are locked onto a roller coaster you can't get off of. Luckily in my experience once I actually woke up I would know for sure that it was real. I think it would mess with your psyche if you couldn't tell or convince yourself you weren't in another nested dream.

Re: Show HN: Bodily Oddities

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Post by EGreg »

minimaxir wrote: post #143
rideontime wrote: post #141

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How bizarre. He's attempting to troll you by leaving a negative comment on a different person's post?

The logic is supposed be that "someone else did the same thing as I did, so what I did was correct and your criticism is therefore wrong". It's on me for randomly checking comments to see if people are acting in bad faith. Sometimes, they are.

Alright since you’re going to express moral indignation, allow me to say what I really think.

I think it is incredibly rude to go on a SHOW HN where a person may have (as in this case) spent months on an actual project and finally shows it, only to completely ignore everything about the actual project and snarkily announcs to everyone that it was “TL;DR” or these days “it smelled like LLM wrote the front page, so I didnt read anything! Haha nyeh nyeh.”

Imagine someone raised a child to play the piano, they ask you to listen to their performance and you leave a comment “didn’t bother watching — the thumbnail sucks, and this child is wearing unappealing clothing”.

In real life, you’d never do that. You know it’s wrong. You would probably get ostracized and rightly considered a jerk or in any case the parents would really take it badly.

You can just privately ignore the post. But to announce it as the first comment and make sure everyone else sees it — I would never shit on people’s projects like that.

In frustration, I left your exact comment on another SHOW HN that happened to have a nice AI-generated page, but the difference was … it was already trending and had many comments, so my comment barely registered.

So I did what you did — which was wrong and uncouth — but on something where it was the 20th comment, all the way on the bottom.

But here’s the best part. Then you show up, and explain, in your self-righteous way, that, you see, actually, what you did was right, but the exact same comment on another AI-generated website is totally wrong, because of ad-hoc nuance analysis you just made up. And everyone should be aware of this exact nuance, which you are now handwaving, because you are morally right and the other person than you shit on is morally wrong.

Suffice it to say that I think your whole analysis is backwards. What you did was rude, and what I did was a milder version of that. The bad faith is you then trying to further invent nuance as to why what you did is great and I’m in bad faith. Sorry buddy. Totally backwards.

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Post by adamgordonbell »

greenbit wrote: post #202
adamgordonbell wrote: post #34

Rare but useless Voluntary tube opener here. Ask me anything. https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/oddities/voluntary-eustach...

I scrolled the whole list looking to see if there was anything about being able to stop hiccups by conscious effort alone. Suspect that there would be some overlap between voluntary tube openers and hiccup stoppers, as the internal sensations are kind of similar.

Dude I wish. If there is some hicup trick I would love to learn it.
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