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The Official Friday Silliness Thread Explores Creepy Brain Stimulations (Did you see that???)
Reuters ^
| September 22, 2006
| Sully777
Posted on 09/22/2006 1:00:00 AM PDT by sully777
LONDON (Reuters) - Stimulating a certain area of the brain can produce a creepy feeling that someone is watching you when no one is, scientists said Wednesday. Swiss researchers made the discovery while evaluating a young woman for surgery to treat epilepsy...When they electrically stimulated the left temporoparietal junction in her brain, which is linked to self-other distinction and self-processing, she thought someone was standing behind her. If they repeated the stimulus while she leaned forward and grabbed her knees she had an unpleasant sensation that the shadowy figure was embracing her..."Our findings may be a step toward understanding the mechanisms behind psychiatric manifestations such as paranoia, persecution and alien control," said Olaf Blanke, of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, in the journal Nature...
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To: EX52D
Hey, young lady. How's you?
161
posted on
09/22/2006 9:41:44 AM PDT
by
r-q-tek86
(Snakes can't be taught to walk.)
To: sully777; All
To: r-q-tek86
Doing well, and yourself?
163
posted on
09/22/2006 9:46:15 AM PDT
by
EX52D
(Life is a stage, and we are merely players...)
To: EX52D
Pretty good. Been kinda busy... not much time to play.
164
posted on
09/22/2006 9:54:59 AM PDT
by
r-q-tek86
(Snakes can't be taught to walk.)
To: sully777
165
posted on
09/22/2006 10:05:46 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: BibChr
Gotcha. I'll have to tell you my "babysodafish" story sometime. Like naptime, maybe. Not one of my better stories.
Right now, I'd rather be blonde than sick, and that's saying something. I like my hair!
166
posted on
09/22/2006 10:07:03 AM PDT
by
grellis
(I don't know, let me ask my I Ching)
To: sully777
Hey, Sully, what's UP?
167
posted on
09/22/2006 10:11:06 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: sully777
168
posted on
09/22/2006 10:14:48 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: sully777
169
posted on
09/22/2006 10:21:55 AM PDT
by
fireforeffect
(A kind word and a 2x4, gets you more than just a kind word.)
To: martin_fierro
Afternoon Martin
170
posted on
09/22/2006 10:30:50 AM PDT
by
sully777
(You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
To: PBRSTREETGANG
171
posted on
09/22/2006 10:38:53 AM PDT
by
sully777
(You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
To: YouPosting2Me
172
posted on
09/22/2006 10:46:51 AM PDT
by
sully777
(You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
To: sully777
173
posted on
09/22/2006 10:47:39 AM PDT
by
Lucky9teen
("War is about killing & destroying their property, not about covering your asses in a conf. room")
To: Pookyhead; Slings and Arrows
Hope you don't mind the borrow...
174
posted on
09/22/2006 10:50:14 AM PDT
by
sully777
(You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
To: nuke rocketeer
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175
posted on
09/22/2006 10:52:28 AM PDT
by
backinthefold
(David, a teenage Jew, beat Goliath, a 9 foot tall palestine, with a rock and faith in God)
To: nuke rocketeer
Eve to Adam: "What do you mean you don't think the kids look like you?"
176
posted on
09/22/2006 10:59:13 AM PDT
by
acad1228
(Faithful servant of the Dark Lord Xenu!)
To: sully777
Sir Paul McCartney was asked about his upcoming divorce, "Sir Paul, will you ever go down on one knee again?"
He replied, "Her name is Heather and hell no!"
177
posted on
09/22/2006 11:01:44 AM PDT
by
llevrok
(When you take my gin from my cold, dead hand....)
To: acad1228
You know you're in trouble when
... Your accountants letter of resignation is postmarked Zurich.
... You have to hitch hike to the bank to make your car payment.
... The little league puts you on waivers.
... Your suggestion box starts ticking.
... Your secretary tells you the FBI is on line 1, the DA is on line 2, and CBS is on line 3.
... You see your stockbroker hitchhiking out of town.
... You see the captain running toward the railing wearing a life jacket.
... They pay your wages out of petty cash.
... The moths in your money belt starve to death.
... You make more than you ever made, owe more than you ever owed, and have less than you've ever had.
... You tell the barber what you think about his prices before you get your haircut.
... Getting there is half the fun and three-fourths of the vacation budget.
... The simple instructions enclosed aren't.
... People send your wife sympathy cards on your anniversary.
... Your wife starts charging you rent.
... A black cat crosses you path and drops dead.
... You take an assertiveness training course and you're afraid to tell your wife.
... The plumber floats by on your kitchen table.
... Your pacemaker has only a thirty day guarantee.
... There are two elephants, two giraffes, and two zebras in your yard and your next door neighbor is building an ark.
... The candles on your cake set off your smoke alarm.
... The pest exterminator crawls under your house and never comes out.
... A copy of your birth certificate comes in the mail marked null and void.
Shalom.
178
posted on
09/22/2006 11:06:01 AM PDT
by
ArGee
(The Ring must not be allowed to fall into Hillary's hands.)
To: JRios1968
zzzzzzz
Afternoon, JRios1968.
179
posted on
09/22/2006 11:06:17 AM PDT
by
sully777
(You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
To: ArGee
I went to buy some camouflage pants the other day but I couldn't find any.
180
posted on
09/22/2006 11:10:06 AM PDT
by
r-q-tek86
(Snakes can't be taught to walk.)
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