- ❝the brain doesn’t record videos of experiences. it takes snapshots of important parts and leaves the person to fill in the gaps. this can also lead to false memories.❞
- ❝din plads i søskenderækken har betydning for hvilke skygger du tager med dig. fx vil den ældste ofte have en dyb angst for fiasko og blive dygtig og ambitiøs.❞
- ❝a giraffe sleeps for only 2 hours a day.❞
- ❝effective multitasking is an urban myth as the brain can only fully concentrate on one task at a time. any more than that leads to a decrease in performance.❞
- ❝there are no pain receptors in the brain.❞
- ❝blind people dream. their dreams are auditory if they were born blind. if they became blind at an early age, they still dream of what they remember.❞
- ❝people who suffer from a personality disorder lack dream activity.❞
- ❝8 cups of water a day will:
- increase metabolism (cold water)
- fill you up (hot water)
- aid in weight loss
- flush out toxins
- get you healthier skin
- reduce risks of certain cancers
- help digestion and constipation
- relieve fatigue
- improve overall health❞
- ❝the fregoli delusion, or the delusion of doubles, is a rare disorder in which a person holds a delusional belief that different people are in fact a single person who changes appearance or is in disguise. the syndrome may be related to a brain lesion and is often of a paranoid nature with the delusional person believing themselves persecuted by the person they believe is in disguise. a person with the fregoli delusion can also inaccurately replicate places, objects, and events. this disorder can be explained by "associative nodes." the associative nodes serve as a biological link of information about other people with a particular familiar face (to the patient). this means that for any face that is similar to a recognizable face to the patient, the patient will recall that face as the person they know.❞
- ❝fitzcarraldo. n. an image that somehow becomes lodged deep in your brain—maybe washed there by a dream, or smuggled inside a book, or planted during a casual conversation—which then grows into a wild and impractical vision that keeps scrambling back and forth in your head like a dog stuck in a car that’s about to arrive home, just itching for a chance to leap headlong into reality.❞
- ❝Capgras Delusion is a phenomenon when a person believes that a close friend or a family member has been replaced with an identically looking one. This illusion is often met in people with schizophrenia.❞
- ❝Prosopagnosia is a phenomenon in which a person is unable to recognize faces of people or objects he knows. People who have this disorder are usually able to use the other senses to identify individuals, such as the person’s perfume, the sound of his voice or his hairstyle.❞
- ❝ambedo n. a kind of melancholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details—raindrops skittering down a window, tall trees leaning in the wind, clouds of cream swirling in your coffee—which leads to a dawning awareness of the haunting fragility of life.❞
- ❝saudade. (abstract noun) european portuguese [sɐwˈðaðɨ], brazilian portuguese [sawˈdadi] - is a unique portuguese word that has no immediate translation in english; saudade describes a deep emotional state of nostalgic longing for an absent something or someone that one loves; saudade was once described as “the love that remains” after someone is gone; saudade is the recollection of feelings, experiences, places or events that once brought excitement, pleasure, well-being, which now triggers the senses and makes one live again.❞
- ❝a euphemism is a generally innocuous word, name, or phrase that replaces an offensive or suggestive one.❞
- ❝adolescence is like a heavy rain. even though you catch a cold from it, you still look forward to experiencing it once again. everyone has those impetuous times, the time when every boy likes the same girl in class, rushing days with mischief and pranks. then, youth departed without a sound―那些年，我們一起追的女孩.❞
- ❝infatuation. (n) the state of being carried away by unreasoned passion or love.❞
- ❝walking corpse syndrome (cotard delusion.) sufferers of this disorder believe that they are dead. it is connected to brain trauma. they often loose an emotional connection to their own reflections, similar to capgras syndrome.❞
- ❝(factitious disorder is a bit like hypochondria. hypochondriacs actually think they are sick, but people with factitious disorder lie about being sick for attention. they will sometimes harm themselves in order to gain attention. there is no cure for this disorder. this disorder is also referred to as hospital hopper syndrome.)❞
- ❝you actually live 80 milliseconds in the past, because your brain waits to process information.❞
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