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Post by wipash »

nurbl wrote: post #114
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.

Crazy, I used to have the exact same (well, as best as I could describe them they were the same) dreams. I can still vividly remember the feeling of them, of the perfection of the line, and the growing pressure of some external force trying to mess it up, until eventually it always did.

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Post by abustamam »

smusamashah wrote: post #124

I can move my ears. But it's not ears alone, whole scalp skin seems to move and ears get pulled from behind as a result. I learned it from my uncle as kid though by trying to do the same as him.

So you can move the entire ear rather than just wiggle the tip?

I can wiggle one ear, very slightly, and it looks like im having an aneurysm when I do it.

Re: Show HN: Bodily Oddities

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Post by abustamam »

RobotToaster wrote: post #88

Since you have deja vu, you could add Jamais vu, the opposite. Also prosopagnosia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia

My wife swears that I have prosopognosia because whenever she shows me a celebrity face I'm like who's that? And shes like "Brad Pitt!"

I dont think I actually have it, because there's enough times where I'm at a social gathering and I know i recognize a lot of people but I may not remember their names, but it's funny nonetheless.

Re: Show HN: Bodily Oddities

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Post by abustamam »

andai wrote: post #133
RobotToaster wrote: post #88

Since you have deja vu, you could add Jamais vu, the opposite. Also prosopagnosia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamais_vu The feeling that you haven't experienced something before, which should by all accounts feel familiar to you. >A study by Chris Moulin of Leeds University asked 92 volunteers to write out "door" 30 times in 60 seconds. He reported that 68 percent of volunteers showed symptoms of jamais vu, such as beginning to doubt that "door" was a real word. I also like this poster: https://…

Thats an interesting poster. Is it real? Im just trying to understand what an MTA employee would do with that information. This seems very portal-y.

On the jamais-vu front, I once had to write "school" a few hundred times in detention and it stopped having meaning because I began to just see it as the jumble of letters id been writing for the previous hour, perhaps as a coping mechanism, rather than doubting it was a real world. Thats interesting though.

Re: Show HN: Bodily Oddities

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Post by rossy »

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 enabled people to build cool side projects in the actual 90's and 00's and what stopped them from doing it in the period afterwards but before LLMs?

Re: Show HN: Bodily Oddities

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Post by phrotoma »

abustamam wrote: post #174
andai wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamais_vu The feeling that you haven't experienced something before, which should by all accounts feel familiar to you. >A study by Chris Moulin of Leeds University asked 92 volunteers to write out "door" 30 times in 60 seconds. He reported that 68 percent of volunteers showed symptoms of jamais vu, such as beginning to doubt that "door" was a real word. I also like this poster: https://…

Thats an interesting poster. Is it real? Im just trying to understand what an MTA employee would do with that information. This seems very portal-y. On the jamais-vu front, I once had to write "school" a few hundred times in detention and it stopped having meaning because I began to just see it as the jumble of letters id been writing for the previous hour, perhaps as a coping mechanism, rather than doubting it was a…

Definitely a gag.

Re: Show HN: Bodily Oddities

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Post by prmph »

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.

Re: Show HN: Bodily Oddities

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Post by troupo »

abustamam wrote: post #172
smusamashah wrote: post #124

I can move my ears. But it's not ears alone, whole scalp skin seems to move and ears get pulled from behind as a result. I learned it from my uncle as kid though by trying to do the same as him.

So you can move the entire ear rather than just wiggle the tip? I can wiggle one ear, very slightly, and it looks like im having an aneurysm when I do it.

There are two motions you can do.

One is the "smile". When you smile, your ears (mostly the lower part, the lobule) go up. You can isolate the muscles that pull the skin/ear and donit without smiling.

The other one is the "surprise". Extreme surprise pulls the skin towards the back of the skull. The upper part (the lobe) goes back. You can isolate those muscles, too. John Hamm has this often in Mad Men

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