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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: sully777

Good afternoon sully.


261 posted on 09/22/2006 12:49:59 PM PDT by Auntbee (I have become comfortably numb.)
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262 posted on 09/22/2006 12:52:14 PM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: sully777
ROTFLMAO!!!
263 posted on 09/22/2006 12:52:46 PM PDT by Irish_Thatcherite (A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!|What if I lecture Americans about America?)
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To: diamond6; Millee


Welcome to Murphy's Pub
264 posted on 09/22/2006 12:53:27 PM PDT by sully777 (You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
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To: r-q-tek86


Truency?



No soup for you.
265 posted on 09/22/2006 12:56:55 PM PDT by sully777 (You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
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To: sully777

Eeeeeekkkkk!


266 posted on 09/22/2006 12:57:07 PM PDT by Millee (A joke then, a joke N.O.W.)
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To: r-q-tek86

LOL This is exactly what I do at night!


267 posted on 09/22/2006 12:58:36 PM PDT by sully777 (You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
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To: BJClinton

268 posted on 09/22/2006 12:59:11 PM PDT by CJ Wolf
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To: sully777

269 posted on 09/22/2006 1:00:02 PM PDT by CJ Wolf
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To: martin_fierro



270 posted on 09/22/2006 1:04:15 PM PDT by sully777 (You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
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To: EX52D


Good afternoon EX52D
271 posted on 09/22/2006 1:06:12 PM PDT by sully777 (You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
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To: fireforeffect

272 posted on 09/22/2006 1:08:48 PM PDT by sully777 (You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
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To: llevrok

D'oh!


273 posted on 09/22/2006 1:09:24 PM PDT by sully777 (You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
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To: sully777

I know... we sit around and watch the security camera footage and laugh our a$$es off...


274 posted on 09/22/2006 1:09:39 PM PDT by r-q-tek86 (Snakes can't be taught to walk.)
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To: CJ Wolf

LMAO.


275 posted on 09/22/2006 1:11:14 PM PDT by sully777 (You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
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To: r-q-tek86
Goat man sez...You see some weird stuff at night.
276 posted on 09/22/2006 1:15:43 PM PDT by sully777 (You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
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To: sully777

Neither can I...

277 posted on 09/22/2006 1:18:00 PM PDT by JRios1968 (Tagline wanted...inquire within)
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To: sully777

I'm out, Sully. Thanks for the fun.


278 posted on 09/22/2006 1:20:54 PM PDT by r-q-tek86 (Snakes can't be taught to walk.)
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To: sully777
9 months of gestation in 20 seconds - New Version!
279 posted on 09/22/2006 1:20:55 PM PDT by Michael Goldsberry (Lt. Bruce C. Fryar USN 01-02-70 Laos)
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To: Auntbee


A little Office Space renovations for Friday

280 posted on 09/22/2006 1:21:45 PM PDT by sully777 (You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
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