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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: PBRSTREETGANG
I love it!
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posted on
09/22/2006 1:22:51 PM PDT
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sully777
(You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
To: Millee
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posted on
09/22/2006 1:23:36 PM PDT
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sully777
(You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
To: r-q-tek86
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posted on
09/22/2006 1:25:00 PM PDT
by
sully777
(You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
To: sully777
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posted on
09/22/2006 1:27:03 PM PDT
by
RockinRight
(She rocks my world, and I rock her world.)
To: PBRSTREETGANG
Possibly one of my worst nightmare scenarios.
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posted on
09/22/2006 1:27:28 PM PDT
by
sully777
(You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
To: sully777
Just a tad. :op
What's a girl gotta do to get a drink around this joint????
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posted on
09/22/2006 1:29:56 PM PDT
by
Millee
(A joke then, a joke N.O.W.)
To: sully777
Good afternoon!
287
posted on
09/22/2006 1:33:31 PM PDT
by
EX52D
(Life is a stage, and we are merely players...)
To: Millee
Hang in there. It's almost quittin' time for you.
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posted on
09/22/2006 1:39:15 PM PDT
by
Auntbee
(I have become comfortably numb.)
To: RockinRight; Jersey Republican Biker Chick
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posted on
09/22/2006 1:49:41 PM PDT
by
sully777
(You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
To: Auntbee
One more hour!!!!!!!! Got your beer chilled, AB?
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posted on
09/22/2006 1:50:38 PM PDT
by
Millee
(A joke then, a joke N.O.W.)
To: sully777
Damn it feels good to be a gangsta.
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posted on
09/22/2006 1:52:19 PM PDT
by
Toby06
(Hydrogen is not a fuel source. Hydrogen is an energy storage method, like a battery.)
To: Millee
Yo quero Tequila?
The chihuahua's already wearing the lampshade.
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posted on
09/22/2006 1:53:10 PM PDT
by
sully777
(You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
To: Millee; Auntbee; EX52D
Chicks drink free at Toby's Bar & Grill!
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posted on
09/22/2006 1:53:18 PM PDT
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Toby06
(Hydrogen is not a fuel source. Hydrogen is an energy storage method, like a battery.)
To: Toby06
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posted on
09/22/2006 1:53:48 PM PDT
by
sully777
(You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
To: Millee
You betcha! Got it last night. Just waiting for me!! How about your wine? Or is that a silly question?
295
posted on
09/22/2006 1:54:37 PM PDT
by
Auntbee
(I have become comfortably numb.)
To: sully777
296
posted on
09/22/2006 1:54:58 PM PDT
by
Toby06
(Hydrogen is not a fuel source. Hydrogen is an energy storage method, like a battery.)
To: Toby06
297
posted on
09/22/2006 1:55:20 PM PDT
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Auntbee
(I have become comfortably numb.)
To: Auntbee
How about your wine? Or is that a silly question?
298
posted on
09/22/2006 1:55:50 PM PDT
by
Toby06
(Hydrogen is not a fuel source. Hydrogen is an energy storage method, like a battery.)
To: Auntbee
I'll have my driver pick you up.
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posted on
09/22/2006 1:56:48 PM PDT
by
Toby06
(Hydrogen is not a fuel source. Hydrogen is an energy storage method, like a battery.)
To: Toby06
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posted on
09/22/2006 1:57:05 PM PDT
by
Toby06
(Hydrogen is not a fuel source. Hydrogen is an energy storage method, like a battery.)
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