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Face blind."If another demand emerges, however, that requires expert, holistic, spatial processing, the circuitry in the FFA may be honed for that skill as well."https://t.co/9L71tOETxx
Context Free.https://t.co/UbDSTsYywK
I'm ontologically soft - my brain doesn't modeling culturally/social defined axis of meaning. Even when I have a strong ontology internally, my brain doesn't seem to care about arbitrary divides and I need to build rule-sets about expectations explicitly.https://t.co/psfCHye0qH
Ontologically Soft.https://t.co/BJbA6NELdH
Scopophobiahttps://t.co/uxou7gmvm1
Persistent Phantasmagoria.https://t.co/twkKkZvjOX
@pookleblinky @Keith_Not_Kevin Theres a bunch of illusions that people with variations in sensory processing don't get tricked by. Change blindness (and face recognition) seem on a spectrum. https://t.co/pAZxV3hm6vI know i don't get fooled by upsidedown eye or double mouth, but I also haveprosopagnosia.
Evolved for faces?https://t.co/v8VgC2iqOr(study assumes people look at houses the same rate as faces.)https://t.co/Fh5vG7N4Fx"Activation of the FFA to a task without faces challenges the received view that the FFA is restricted in its activities to the perception of faces."
I get Alice in Wonderland syndrome sometimes late at night, or when I'm sick.https://t.co/A1il30TgIrIts how I know i'm coming down with a cold.People close up look like they are giants from Brobdingnag
Where typical people's meaning making circuitry are able to use CONTEXT to figue out the meaning of a scene, my brain sometimes shifts from top-down processing, into bottom up.My world occasionally feels like this: https://t.co/fAxbvGg4tV but all the time.
I'm 95% certain my issue in all of these things is serotonin related.https://t.co/8P5SI3wnV5
This '2d vision' thing reminds me a lot of how it feels like when I get Alice-in-Wonderland like effects.https://t.co/CYV0vFb95Thttps://t.co/3SAUZxJIbB
I wrote a bit more about it here. https://t.co/DqN0HzLhpl
The term "kittenballs" keeps popping up in my head. I just remembered thats how I keep track of stuff having to do with weird eye and vision processing quirks.Gaba/Glutamate excitation causing weird vision problems?Oh my.https://t.co/RYNUjucz65
There are all sorts of weird vision issues in autism and schizophrenia that I've been tracking.I thought the whole world was vibrating once, it turned out my eye muscles were twitching.https://t.co/G0ztOz1Kad
Smooth muscle twitching in my eyes coincides with gut motility issues.Localized seizures?https://t.co/yfcCB6ZGUk
No really "where the fuck do ideas come from?"And other musings on gaba's role in sleep, dreaming, and creativity.https://t.co/hszCX9XiHY
Speaking of creativity.any bets zefrank's kittenballs are GABA weirdness directly related to his creativity?GABA plays a role in Parkinson's Disease, which has noted manifestations of aniscoria. Maybe thru sleep & gut?https://t.co/morJJsBaYRKittenballs as intrusive thought.
NMDA and GABA/(glutamate downregulation) causing 2d vision.What is foxglove for $1000, Alex.Daily double (vision).https://t.co/iUgugg2dDR
I learned of aniscoria via foxglove https://t.co/TvUJOA58IB b/c I was interested in why dogs were licking cane toads. https://t.co/tEjlK9p9st and I suspect many dogs are low on serotonin because we bread them to be high-anxiety breeds as side effect of getting them to bark more.
"Foxglove contains apigenin, which has antagonistic effects on GABA and NMDA channels in vitro (72). The effects of foxglove with neurologic agents are not well understood." 😏https://t.co/2ixIZc2e7B
hmm... Go ask alice."Carroll also draws his young readers' attention to the foxgloves in the picture of Alice and the Cheshire Cat, informing them that the word "foxglove" comes from "folk's glove" and that "folk" means "fair folk" or "fairies"."https://t.co/NrWnknRRPe
Hoc est corpus meum. It's latin.https://t.co/BJClhaWdpZ
gallic, protocatechuic, chlorogenic, caffeic, syringic, ferulic, sinapic, gentisic, isoferulic, rosmarinic and p-coumaric acids, vanillin, epicatechin, epicatechin gallate, catechin, resveratrol, kaempferol, myricetin, apigenin, luteolin, quercetin, rutin.https://t.co/eN2TKdJqLW
I saw a witch in a dream and she hugged me and said to eat the flowers.https://t.co/uX0qh6VGSz
It'll get rid of the pain. The witch, she said.and I found this. Someone had already done the legwork to find anesthetic herbs. https://t.co/VHGFPVKDlkhttps://t.co/zdwX28F0xV https://t.co/rM79GijcTJ
Thru the looking glass a spirit is summoned. A model of another person in my head that I can talk.I miss my witchy friend. A Seiðr.https://t.co/mhEB9Q2W6G
I may have figured this out. and I also have figured out how to prove it by measuring the part of my brain that processes speech.https://t.co/NjRAHn4Exb
I dug into the history of seeing and reverse engineered what it si to hear your ancestors in the blaze of a fire.I am a natural seer, no drugs required. I just had to try.https://t.co/NzrkQw4rBr
Pooka Made Manifest“I somehow knew that it was all coming out of my head. And they never frightened me. I got used to them. Years later, in the 1960s, when everyone was freaking out on drugs and deciding that they’d seen God, it didn’t seem that unusual”https://t.co/fEhYtbVUAC
Its not magic, it's science.Rekindling the bicameral mind.https://t.co/OfptdNBJID
It's fleeting. This skill. I have to reinforce it by practicing and remylinating my brain cells toward those ends.https://t.co/ITFU8InHaT
Steelmaning a guy who invented the theory of relativity by listening to farmer in a dream.https://t.co/hghiadI2hY
"A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way. That means it is not reached by conscious logical conclusions. But think it through afterwards you can always discover the reasons"https://t.co/9mQqRoelcq
Buy my friend's book. It'll make you laugh.https://t.co/FVRgOepDr1
I, quite literally, share a lineage with Einstein's gene line. The ~3% of my genes that encode for Crohn's, IQ, and calcium metabolism associated longevity? They're from the same group he was from. I reasoned I should be able to do what he did. And I did.https://t.co/dBUZiFEWCj https://t.co/nRlesul9bV
"The shapes which the layman believes the patient only imagines are really seen and are rendered visible through the excitation of the pineal gland, which now is the rudimentary organ of what once was psychic vision."https://t.co/cZKHgbYAzi*gigglesnort*https://t.co/jKwCtLLwoK
Where the fuck do ideas come from?https://t.co/QQZ1NZ9VIV
Why bother to wake up to write down a thought?https://t.co/iF8nQPCX9V
To sleep perchance to dream. Aye, there's the rub."Here, we show that the brain activity common to the twilight zone between sleep and wakefulness (nonrapid eye movement sleep stage 1 or N1) ignites creative sparks."https://t.co/OI8UlOk0bIhttps://t.co/rxAXHFL0IC
Watering a garden bed.It's like pissing yourself during a stage of sleep paralysis, but from it ideas bloom.https://t.co/tdP554yt4R
Do you ever go bananas over an idea?https://t.co/ptCQD42kXa
"Unlike other forms, the serotonin found in bananas doesn’t cross the blood-brain barrier, which means it can’t get into the brain to supplement the serotonin that's naturally produced by the body"https://t.co/D8B5WPy1V5So what about gut-brain-axis tho?https://t.co/dMy0P06nws
What happens if you feed colonies of gut bacteria a bunch of prebiotics that bias toward the production of serotonin and melatonin? Does it help you sleep?https://t.co/a4wFWnPPR1
Nobody knows! But we have some theories.https://t.co/TBUYzq8qgA
"But exactly what is adjusting, and what's causing the rebound effect?The short answer is: nobody really knows the whole story—because nobody fully understands sleep yet. But, neurochemically, we have some theories."https://t.co/Vrsz9QNC17😇https://t.co/KcBoqweyfn
Something always happens to me the day after I am physically hurt from trying to move things. It's like I get a rebound of some kind and it seems way easier to get a fever dream state.https://t.co/X5tVwmgqUk
It's really consistent pattern. So much so that I even prepared a head of time by getting beers to help dull the after pain.https://t.co/FADAzkL3kz
Next time I get Alice-In-wonderland syndrome, I'm going to tilt my head to see if the problem is some kind of eye-rolling-in-head phenomena tied to gut-peptide/immune system induced convergence causing my DOF to distort.https://t.co/ie35y2CIKs
I bet my AIWS & car-sickness was driven by this tied to my IBD+gut bacteria interplay."Furthermore, we suggest that this cyclovergence response in humans is a vestige of the response of lateral-eyed animals to vertical linear acceleration of the head." https://t.co/rllJDtYvy7
Does that mean if I fix my gut I'll stop getting vertigo? I know the only times I've been able to climb thing without weird fear feelings was when I was eating well in college.https://t.co/pyXWcf6LDr
