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Re: Show HN: Bodily Oddities

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Post by krapp »

pavel_lishin wrote: post #50
intrasight wrote: post #40

Sleep Paralysis is for sure my favorite oddity. I've not experienced it in 20 years and I miss it. It happened about once a year when I was young and into my early 20s. Mine often had weird noises and hallucinations and creatures floating around. The first few times it was rather scary but then I realized it was pretty neat. The trick I learned is to tell myself I just have to move my toe.

I've experienced it once or twice, and mine was the classic "can't move, malevolent presence just barely in the corner of your vision". Once, I think I was actually still half-asleep-ish, and trying to yell and my wife woke me up. Definitely not pleasant, even when I'm rationally aware of what's going on.

I had it happen twice that I can remember. Once I hallucinated that I had a third arm that snaked around to my desk lamp, and just last night that someone whispered "hello" into my ear. Apparently that last one's pretty common.

I've never seen the shadow man or anything.

Re: Show HN: Bodily Oddities

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Post by royal__ »

echelon wrote: post #22
bonsai_spool wrote: post #20

Very cool site! It's got some Claude-isms but they're not overwhelming which leads me to wonder: how did the author get the overall aesthetic to be so un-Claude-like?

People downvote me when I say we're back in the "Geocities era" / "indie web" of the 90's and 00's, but LLMs have enabled us to build cool side projects to completion and give them love. This is 100% a good thing. I love this website. It's fantastic. I don't care if it's AI. The world is better for it existing.

I agree that this is an example of interesting and good AI usage. The person who made it obviously put thought into it. Unfortunately a lot of vibe coded sites do not have that same level of care

Re: Show HN: Bodily Oddities

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Post by VCFundedGenYer »

echelon wrote: post #22
bonsai_spool wrote: post #20

Very cool site! It's got some Claude-isms but they're not overwhelming which leads me to wonder: how did the author get the overall aesthetic to be so un-Claude-like?

People downvote me when I say we're back in the "Geocities era" / "indie web" of the 90's and 00's, but LLMs have enabled us to build cool side projects to completion and give them love. This is 100% a good thing. I love this website. It's fantastic. I don't care if it's AI. The world is better for it existing.

What world are you living in where you’re okay with this?

Phoned in websites / AI slop is not a good thing.

Code something yourself on neocities.

Re: Show HN: Bodily Oddities

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Post by echelon »

krapp wrote: post #49
echelon wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People downvote me when I say we're back in the "Geocities era" / "indie web" of the 90's and 00's, but LLMs have enabled us to build cool side projects to completion and give them love. This is 100% a good thing. I love this website. It's fantastic. I don't care if it's AI. The world is better for it existing.

People were already building cool side projects to completion and giving them love before AI. You get downvoted for being weirdly ecstatic about AI "enabling" things that were already possible, while not caring about the human element that AI lacks.

People that say "things [...] were already possible" don't dream enough.

Maybe you were born a few decades too late. I feel I was born (a few decades?) too early.

I want the world with cures for cancer, holodecks, brain uploads, immortality, jet packs, surfing on Titan, etc.

I legitimately enjoy the future we're hurtling towards. It's the most exciting thing that has ever happened to our species. I hated the world where "Apple iPhones" were the pinnacle of human achievement.

We might be able to vibe engineer our own iPhones in a few years. That'll be fun.

Re: Show HN: Bodily Oddities

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Post by krapp »

echelon wrote: post #54
krapp wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People were already building cool side projects to completion and giving them love before AI. You get downvoted for being weirdly ecstatic about AI "enabling" things that were already possible, while not caring about the human element that AI lacks.

People that say "things [...] were already possible" don't dream enough. Maybe you were born a few decades too late. I feel I was born (a few decades?) too early. I want the world with cures for cancer, holodecks, brain uploads, immortality, jet packs, surfing on Titan, etc. I legitimately enjoy the future we're hurtling towards. It's the most exciting thing that has ever happened to our species. I hated the world wh…

But building a website like the one posted here was already possible. you compared it to the early "indie" web.

There is literally nothing about generating websites with AI that merits being called "the most exciting thing that has ever happened to our species."

FFS we've stood on the moon.

Re: Show HN: Bodily Oddities

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Post by OisinMoran »

tompark wrote: post #47

I immediately looked up whether it had "piss shiver" and it did. It was disappointing when Cecil (Straight Dope) refused to investigate it. (Don't suppose you'd include orgasmic quiver?) Synesthesia is multifaceted. When I was a kid I used to feel a shape in my hand whenever I felt a certain emotion. That went away in my 20's. Later as an adult I guessed it was a kind of synesthesia.

Ooh this is the closest description I've heard to one odd thing I had which was a satisfying feeling associated with two specific thicknesses (one around the thickness of a school copy book, the other around the thickness of a school maths book). At some points it could be activated by thinking about the thickness but long gone now.

Also had 3 more complex emotions/feelings/states that were a blend of certain particular things, not always that connected. For example one was mostly a combination of memories of my grandad's past (he died before I was born), and the Ratchet and Clank level "Metropolis". Similarly, the actual feeling of these is now gone. Anyone else have something similar?

The closest I've heard to that was Brian Eno in his film talking about something similar he seemed to have growing up with the colour purple.

Re: Show HN: Bodily Oddities

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Post by OisinMoran »

vesterde wrote: post #26
amelius wrote: post #25

Do we have a theory yet why people hiccup? Wait, I just see you have a page on it :)

Not that I know of. But some people so far visiting the site have voted that they do no get hiccups, which is very odd.

Have a friend who has never had a headache!

Re: Show HN: Bodily Oddities

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Post by autoexec »

jwrallie wrote: post #44

Something not mentioned that I’m curious about, if I’m about to fall asleep and I happen to hear a loud noise nearby, I also see a flash of light with my closed eyelids.

Weird. A spike in blood pressure maybe? Can you do reproduce it consistently on purpose with an alarm or by holding something as you fall asleep that will make a loud noise when it falls?

Re: Show HN: Bodily Oddities

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Post by HDBaseT »

OisinMoran wrote: post #57
vesterde wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not that I know of. But some people so far visiting the site have voted that they do no get hiccups, which is very odd.

Have a friend who has never had a headache!

That is insane to me, as someone who suffers from chronic headaches every single day.
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