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Re: Show HN: Bodily Oddities

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Post by nurbl »

hermitcrab wrote: post #98

Interesting site. I get the occasional Hypnopompic auditory illusion ( https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/oddities/hypnagogic-halluc... ). This is when you think you hear a sound as you wake up. For me it is normally an illusory door bell. It is very convincing. You rush down to the door and there is no-one there and my wife heard nothing. Maybe happens 2 or 3 times a year. I also get the occasional weird nerve shock.…

Funny, that happened to me just this morning, I awoke from some kind of alarm signal, very close by. But I could not find any possible source for it, so I am sure it was part of a dream. In fact I forgot about it until now.

About the second thing, I have felt something similar. Especially the part about it originating around the collar bone and neck. It's probably something like a nerve misfiring. I sometimes think it's weird that the body doesn't misbehave more often than it does, it's an enormously complex system after all.

Re: Show HN: Bodily Oddities

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Post by vesterde »

lpghatguy wrote: post #103

The artifacts from some of the AI-generated images are a pretty significant detraction. For a site with so many pictures of hands, so many of them being malformed or having the wrong number of fingers (hithhiker's thumb, palmaris longus) is really off-putting.

Generating those has been its own little project inside the project. Many iterations to go.

Re: Show HN: Bodily Oddities

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Post by hermitcrab »

nurbl wrote: post #111
hermitcrab wrote: post #98

Interesting site. I get the occasional Hypnopompic auditory illusion ( https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/oddities/hypnagogic-halluc... ). This is when you think you hear a sound as you wake up. For me it is normally an illusory door bell. It is very convincing. You rush down to the door and there is no-one there and my wife heard nothing. Maybe happens 2 or 3 times a year. I also get the occasional weird nerve shock.…

Funny, that happened to me just this morning, I awoke from some kind of alarm signal, very close by. But I could not find any possible source for it, so I am sure it was part of a dream. In fact I forgot about it until now. About the second thing, I have felt something similar. Especially the part about it originating around the collar bone and neck. It's probably something like a nerve misfiring. I sometimes think i…

>About the second thing, I have felt something similar. Especially the part about it originating around the collar bone and neck. It's probably something like a nerve misfiring.

Possibly. Or a pinched nerve.

I don't think it is a cosmic ray, or it wouldn't always occur in the same part of the body. ;0)

>I sometimes think it's weird that the body doesn't misbehave more often than it does

Indeed.

Re: Show HN: Bodily Oddities

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Post by nurbl »

ulrikrasmussen wrote: post #85

The geometric nightmares! I had those as a kid whenever I was very tired or had a fever, and kept having them until my late teens. Never seen them described and didn't know it was a thing.

I had a recurring abstract nightmare as a small kid (don't think it was related to fever but I guess those were pretty common) which was basically about a line, gradually becoming messier and messier until it was all just a big jumble. I could never explain it to anyone else, but it terrified me for a time.

Re: Show HN: Bodily Oddities

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Post by bogwog »

It should be illegal to publish AI horrors like this: https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/oddities/gleeking/

Life in prison (at least)

But more on topic, this site is a cool idea but with the lamest execution ever. Whatever effort you might have put into collecting these phenomenon is overshadowed by the lazy AI slop. It doesn't seem like you're earning anything from this, so you just donated money to Anthropic/OpenAI/whatever in order to underwhelm/revolt/possibly-mislead some people. You could've done that with a simple goatse link for free.

Re: Show HN: Bodily Oddities

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Post by hermitcrab »

K0balt wrote: post #109
hermitcrab wrote: post #98

Interesting site. I get the occasional Hypnopompic auditory illusion ( https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/oddities/hypnagogic-halluc... ). This is when you think you hear a sound as you wake up. For me it is normally an illusory door bell. It is very convincing. You rush down to the door and there is no-one there and my wife heard nothing. Maybe happens 2 or 3 times a year. I also get the occasional weird nerve shock.…

I get the someone pounding on the door at night thing, wakes me out of a heavy sleep. Never anyone actually knocking.

Hypnogogic and hypnopompic auditory hallucinations occur when you are falling asleep or waking up, so it might be something different if it is happening if you are in deep sleep. (not an expert on this)

Re: Show HN: Bodily Oddities

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Post by morningsam »

jwrallie wrote: post #31
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.

I used to have them as a kid, even long stretches that prevented me from sleeping. I don’t remember having hiccups in the last 15 years. It just stopped happening at some point.

I once met a guy who said the same thing and was convinced that this was the usual case, whereas me still getting them as an adult was very unusual (this came up when I got them, apparently his first time seeing an adult do so).

Re: Show HN: Bodily Oddities

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Post by EvanAnderson »

NoImmatureAdHom wrote: post #108
alexpotato wrote: post #42

An interesting story about the Photic Sneeze Reflex [0]: it's one of the things that fighter pilots are screened for. The reasoning is that they can't have a pilot looking down and dark ground, look up to scan for enemy fighters and start sneezing. Some people with the reflex can also have multiple sneezes in a row. I find this all fascinating as: - I have this - I was also born with no sense of smell 0 - https://en.…

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

Yeah-- no kidding. When I was anosmic with COVID I couldn't eat much of anything. Food was just terrible. I still remember the soulless paste that was peanut butter. (Ugh. It was so bad...)

Re: Show HN: Bodily Oddities

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Post by nvalis »

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.

I learned diaphragmatic breathing pretty early in childhood. Later, I noticed that whenever I got the hiccups, taking a deep belly breath early on, usually within the first two or three hiccups, would make them stop. Over time, I learned to do this unconsciously, so nowadays it's basically a reflex as soon as a hiccup starts. Since then, I haven't really had any hiccups longer than one contraction.
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