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I just remembered a really old Disney movie playing with Irish tropes had a demonic shapeshifting horse in it. https://t.co/aX1qNtNrgSLooking it up, some made the same connection I had.Shape-shifting aliens? What could that be?https://t.co/u4R1C51iGS https://t.co/LAz0K7ANjY


"I seen the rabbit" (seemingly referring to Roger, who is being wrongfully sought as a murder suspect). He puts his arm around an invisible presence and says, "Well say hello – Harvey!"https://t.co/bHLREIOqGP

Ah yes, Dr. DooLittle. Written by someone with irish ancestry and was probably familiar with the tales?https://t.co/GiuxyA97eHSomeone's made this connection before, perhaps indirectly:"Like Dr. Doolittle, you can talk to the animals."https://t.co/Ddc0Ruwjwf

"Now any man who understands the IrishWell, they can't be reckoned altogether badThe same way that a lunaticWho's Patron Saint is PatrickCan't be reckoned altogether mad"🎶https://t.co/qKv22k4fOw

Cats as pooka? Does this look familiar? https://t.co/0KaovijX3h


Ah yes, the March Hare.Of the Hare Moon of March?Or is that November?https://t.co/52V63D5IYkIt seems to me these moons be switched.Why would a harvest moon be in march and a fertility god in November?https://t.co/sucvk6DPZB https://t.co/iSordmo3x2


I don't do drugs either.https://t.co/gpQ3yjPdnKhttps://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

(or at least I didn't before earlier in the year)https://t.co/ZRhXFUmbkb

@literalbanana @GrumplessGrinch I'm a cannabis addict now. If I stop taking the low-dose THC tincture, my legs slowly stop working and I lose all my grip strength.I mean... that was happening before cannabis, but now I can correlate endocannabinoids impact on immune function & multiple sclerosis / crohn's.

I tried looking for the elves and realized that the reason I wasn't finding them was because they had always been there.https://t.co/NB5Ng014f5

Playing with serotonin production via gut bacteria and sleep.https://t.co/0JpuFt8Djc

@pookleblinky Fun idea: frequency of schizophrenic breaks co-occurring with puberty may be due to hormone driven immune changes impacting serotonin processes in the gut.I find it interesting how schizophrenia often exhibits lack of smell. https://t.co/jZtoYICbpW

Trying to understand that which I am not supposed to know. https://t.co/uFnyVA9u6L

Scary pointed haired clowns.Werewovles.Men with brimmed hats, Witches wearing nisse garb.Subconcious reflections that our brain tries to pattern match agains.Shape shiftier, trickster, spirit.https://t.co/mXyvX5VXNx

Horns, or halos?A reflection of your (sub)Conscience.https://t.co/RKEnMsEYa4

If you are haunted by your demons, find out what they wanted.https://t.co/Gag8eaKqyf

Man in black, brimmed hat.https://t.co/E4sgeqy3dO

Still haven't seen any elves yet. Maybe they don't like the winter's cold either.https://t.co/Z9LdUpMuWr https://t.co/d8x1ELFVwo


Thinking a lot about how one of the recommend gifs for 'succubus' is actually a clip from a lewd story about demonic possession and a young boy getting a surprise visit in the night.https://t.co/V1SwGPzgHT

I find this weird trend where sleep paralysis combines shadowy figures and sensation of things on your chest. If you are having trouble breathing because of a weird cytokine phenomena disrupting dynorphin signaling, it could explain it.Visceral Hallucinations can feel like sex. https://t.co/qasR0Th3UR


You ever try eating your shadow? Or perhaps you recognize the dark night represents the fears in our subconscious.His ears. His ears.https://t.co/rtMc2iXVFWhttps://t.co/JwNoAui3FI

"Wilfred" is a TV show about how your suppressed subconscious desires are reflected in your reality. As a weird looking dog-like shapeshifting trickster spirit.https://t.co/Byl3GnbhFk

The reboot of Battlestar Galactica plays with the idea of pooka, if indirectly. Seems to tie it together with thoughts about the collective unconscious and belief in god(s). It even has explicit reference to the succubus phenomena.https://t.co/3JA3NQCnZB

I... can't even.https://t.co/gFRRZOs80u

> "Nachtmahr" ("Night-mare"), by Johann Heinrich Füssli (1802), depicts an Alp sitting on the sleeper's chest, with a mara staring through the background.https://t.co/iN0gwte5zOWat? (Alp = pengu, Nachtmahr = Pooka!)https://t.co/QrRY2ECAsT

Lots of children's stories are also pooka-esque."Little Monsters" creates an entire framework and narrative around the idea of horned things living under the bed.https://t.co/obwOK2OaGC

A scary pooka and an weird looking alp... https://t.co/GA2E0x6LAX


"I have many names. I have many faces"https://t.co/L33IKqBjDa 😱https://t.co/WUKl3rEibu

Thinking a lot about Devilman Crybaby and it's 'psycho jenny'. She's a "Blemmyae"? https://t.co/FlDgigjua4It's weird how often folklore of various kinds intertwine. The Philippines' "Manananggal" might be a vampire? I wonder if they also had pellagra.https://t.co/NfMbuCs0R8

Have you seen this abstraction?https://t.co/k6oQfmGoYw

Inter-demon-sional beinghttps://t.co/jHfya3bj8d>Star TrekSeason 4 Episode 20."Demons"Vulkan Human Hybrid. A moonchild.https://t.co/chaTrhFyhjThe ears. The ears. Why are they pointed?https://t.co/iHz8lUzdvi

Anybody else trying to hear "spirits"?https://t.co/ibT9NLfu5Ehttps://t.co/NXoEk2i1Pq"They wanted to understand, [...] those who do not suffer when “the mind deviates from consensual reality.”https://t.co/JGGSRXnBkbhttps://t.co/nH7DVJe4Rs

I get something like it, but it's just my inner voice wandering a bit like during meditation.https://t.co/XZ1LB3YBo1

I want to be able to speak to my ancestors outside of a dream but without drugs.https://t.co/Qar8rjyRVx

I'm creating this, but in myself by creating a split actor model to allow me to be attuned with other aspects of my knowledge.https://t.co/q3I8OEnUdv

@liminal_warmth If you can create a rough approximation of someone's peers and take into account the medium they used at the time (say Einstein's extensive penpals), we could use this technique to even create novel conversations.https://t.co/cVewfFtDB5https://t.co/jUJlHYiYGE

I made a joke about this in the past, on how I'm trying to create models of Einstein and using it to think with. But I want them to appear before me like a nightmare.https://t.co/y2QqHatraU

I see friendly faces in my dreams, but I do not see him yet.A trickster spirit, has he.https://t.co/4BTsEm9VvE

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


I want to channel the ancestors of the past by activating latent parts of my brain built to model people.https://t.co/HQE9I77zp2

Have you tried ignoring the problem for a little while and then upregulating what Karl Fristron describes as "Free energy" so Freuds 'wish fullfilment' mechanisms embedded in dreams create epiphanies, approximating the Ancient Greek ritual of incubation? https://t.co/FHVdOsCMIX

My dreams are leaking into the real world during states of paralysis, but no penguins yet.https://t.co/5sB9RfI8jS

Managed a succubus. Had my first wet dream in my entire life.Wouldn't recommend, was actually kind of terrifying feeling, lol.https://t.co/QB8BXHy6SO

"You can talk?Talk? We can sing!Garbage!"https://t.co/LDT11pvaD5https://t.co/1f40uzOtXA

I bet the Viking 'Fylgja' is a pooka-esque entity.A shape shifter.https://t.co/l5DaoD28U2

Man in black, brimmed hat.https://t.co/CzPztkMHEQhttps://t.co/uSRSTxCu0x https://t.co/KhwB4VomLS


Looking up pepe silvia ("crazy man conspiracy theory") on google image search.A bunch of tinfoil hat memes show up.But one meme in particular resonates.Someone is playing a fun game. I like this meme.Reminds me I should shower to boost anandamide.https://t.co/psQO1G6xC9 https://t.co/qjH80aMgge


"It's you and meI know it's my destinyOh, you're my best friendIn a world we must defendA heart so trueOur courage will pull us throughYou teach me and I'll teach you" 🎶 https://t.co/CxXZLy8cCE


Summon a familiar, they said.It would be fun, they said. https://t.co/Ez3cwoN6ve


So this creature, it lives in this ball?And you can summon it to do your bidding?What is he telling you right now? https://t.co/untVfEqo5r


This is a picture of a bunch of angry balls and one eyed flying snake/dragons.From the Art of Magic Knight Rayearth, Volume 1Hmm. HMMMMhttps://t.co/jhCYIb4UtD https://t.co/MllQl3SRH6


You ever eat too much mellified man and start hallucinating pink elephants?https://t.co/ywf3jpmXq6

"They are hallucinations that Dumbo and Timothy Mouse have after drinking the champagne that the clowns accidentally drop in Dumbo's water bucket."https://t.co/vDd8CA9cdcBut it's Electro-Swing remix.https://t.co/6LsWZGNQhV

I want someone to look at me like this hallucinatory elephant looks at honey. https://t.co/4KEfANZhuN


"He became so very hungry, that his mind began playing tricks on him." https://t.co/pAM7XkacEfThe temptations of pooh.

Great balls of fire that speak to you.https://t.co/z8TvKKGPxD https://t.co/uXITTzCPCC


Saw some pooka-esque characters and variations on spirit guides within The Legend of Korra.https://t.co/mI7qXyclep https://t.co/IVbLL6t4sh


"The Guide" story arc is fun here. It showcases how one's ego and knowledge can hide the truth. Tenzin has been researching this stuff all his life, but it was his child who actually managed to act as a guide.Should have ate some onion banana juice TBH.https://t.co/hrT8pI22VU https://t.co/q1S1YGf4zy


Batman as spirit demon https://t.co/kPDXaHJ1eB


“They are coming for your dreams, and most people don’t even know they can do it.”https://t.co/OB5ZJyG5ywGreat piece by @Sofialmdo summarizing some deep fears in my subconscious.

> One participant "heard the questions transposed over their dream as though it was God talking to them," Konkoly says.https://t.co/DAfFDZo4zuLucid Dreaming, lol. https://t.co/hBWywbWgub


Oh hey, its @Sofialmdo again with a piece on lucid dreaming that predates that NPR article by a significant time frame.https://t.co/AfUF1EmiFUWhat do you see Sofia?

Incubate -> Incubus -> Succubus https://t.co/yx9vdhp0w4

Sleep demons driven by"Chronic intermittent hypoxia and hedgehog (Hh) pathway dysregulation are associated with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) progression." ?https://t.co/QymunXULJvhttps://t.co/cbd86Qc3g7

'Hey look! It's a giant talking egg!'"Mammals have three Hedgehog homologues, Desert (DHH), Indian (IHH), and Sonic (SHH), of which Sonic is the best studied."https://t.co/rtSiXVcAlM

"If you should die before you wake... hyehheheahaahaaa.Can't sleep, clown will eat me"https://t.co/DB3953cqCxhttps://t.co/jdAWKIzCjh

Of all the things that upset me, the most annoying is when people mistake a pooka as bugmen.The antennae on real insects come from their nostril, like a funny mustache. Top of their head like ears is an incorrect trope.We hear with our feat.https://t.co/rPbIgFJIsJ

Every-time I hear a cough, my Arrector pili muscles react and I suddenly am attuned to slight modulates in air and temperature. I begin to detect direction of air vents by feeling fan harmonics thru feet. Shifting back & forth nervously as my emotions compute it all in real time.

Ah neat, Joe Rogan took DMT saw the same clown I did when I was 3 years old and became petrified of IT."only crazy people do drugs"https://t.co/fgPBvL2HOtOr you have hypoxia from sleep apnea, or a maybe a mitochondrial dysfunction tied to HIF-1 α.https://t.co/wVuJPEnB41 https://t.co/ukS0oQW0T6


It's funny how these sleep demons can change shape depending on how your brain project's meaning onto them. https://t.co/eob1QDxscA


I read a paper in my dream describing how overlap between garlic's impacts on gut bacteria and its impacts on nerve regrowth related to an IRL finding aroud THC+Akkermansia muciniphila.I keep going to search for tweets I wrote about it. I keep forgetting it was in a dream.

I can hallucinate ideas in my dreams that drive meaningful insights into real biology."We have shown that gut dysbiosis plays a causal role in the development of hypertension in a rat model of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA)."https://t.co/QCkiSYLcNgLMAO https://t.co/uFnyVAr4Yj

The apnea related headaches are really bad. Sadly I didn't do this on purpose, but I'm getting close.https://t.co/b9zGys8KDJ

"only crazy people do drugs"https://t.co/onx1ueCWDN

@ChielMuurling Links btw synesthesia, eidetic memory, creativity, and mental illness are everywhere.Also dynorphin is triggered via "Diviner's Sage" which was used traditionally to 'speak w/ ancestors'. I am figuring out how to do this w/out drugs during sleep states.https://t.co/ubhfAEB9Fy

All I do here on twitter these days is talk to myself.https://t.co/KsMRUBpqpY

"To sleep—perchance to dream. Ay, there’s the rub!For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,Must give us pause"Shakespeare, Hamlethttps://t.co/E7YTGV6DtNhttps://t.co/kMOrkqyMdB

Reminds me of the cool hardware I saw @DashBarkHuss working on that could literally let me tweet about the things I've been able to read in my dreams. (please someone fund them!) https://t.co/IjGsFtf3GI

Speaking without speaking.https://t.co/h41c7x2eJZ

Oh neat, I selected this gif entirely because of the ears looking like elf ears.Coincidentally turns out it's a 'monster girl' centaur.https://t.co/36cvz3WcG4https://t.co/uW82G50fZO

I wonder how many succubus/incubus phenomena are echoed in 'monster girl' representations.The know your meme entry covering historical versions mentions *shapeshifting* as a common motif?!https://t.co/oqm5Kw16PC https://t.co/bj5NWlaVqs


It's fun to explore possible cross-species infections tie to mythos about shapeshifting "spirits".https://t.co/q5zXD4gZqp

Can you become possessed by a hallucination of a god-like figure?https://t.co/Sh9SmGpDdo https://t.co/JzwKF4HImo


Theophany.https://t.co/qjtweI3zSR

@pee_zombie @ecree429 @esrtweet haha, I figured this out. Cerebral palsy is a demyelinating disorder (similar to my multiple sclerosis). the reason it's rare for men to embody pan is because it's hormone based. Same reason why autoimmune disorders show up more often in women. https://t.co/L4qqmUziCF

Mapinguari - A short stocky one eyed biped with a mouth in it's stomach area. Might be a sloth?https://t.co/7qstjb1QRjBut what if its just very rare mutation?https://t.co/gmFYG0MvdZhttps://t.co/ppD09KvBLD https://t.co/M7wJ69o50O


Fucking sleep demons, how do they work?And I don't wanna talk to a hypnotistY'all motherfuckers scrying, and getting me dismisssed.https://t.co/NiFLUTFx4j

Please forgive me, Jon. I had too much coffee.https://t.co/yeBFM0iUdYhttps://t.co/BPXiC4ivID

"The incredible paintings in the Chauvet cave in South-eastern France include images of bears. This artwork depicts the now extinct cave bear and is around 30,000 years old! [...] native fauna until around the sixth century" https://t.co/aH2r10UgZr

"By studying the DNA extracted from Brown Bear remains found in Irish caves, scientists were able to confirm that Irish brown bears were the maternal ancestors of the Polar Bear." https://t.co/FXM0iIwufl

"Seuss might have dreamed up, a binturong has a face like a cat's and a body like a bear's, long, shaggy black hair, stiff white whiskers, and a prehensile tail that's as long as its body."https://t.co/IgBVXatqrx

"A project to reintroduce the Iberian lynx began in 2009. The lynx is a medium-sized wild cat with a short tail and pointed ear-tufts. Once common throughout Europe, it was in Ireland around 9,000 years' ago"https://t.co/zwbqJjkO8X

"were the Skogkatt (Norwegian, meaning literally "Forest Cat"), a wild breed native to the North. In Denmark, these cats are called Huldrekat (huldre are female forest spirits, literally, "the hidden folk")."https://t.co/XW407L3RCaForest spirits my ass.https://t.co/swXmqCodJT

Bears don't walk on two legs.https://t.co/ie1RquNath

"A dream is a wish your heart makesWhen you're fast asleepIn dreams you will lose your heartachesWhatever you wish for, you keep" 🎶https://t.co/ks2jFmdToLhttps://t.co/f1CMeJsfd2

You know... I'm not supposed to speak to strangers, but we've met before.I know you. I've walked with you once upon a dream. 😇https://t.co/4yCSORu8gr

💊⚕️ Diphenhydramine (Benadryl)https://t.co/AqmwhyjEIWHmmm.Why would that cause someone to see a puck ("the hat man"). It sounds like its hitting the same stuff as Zolpidem/Ambien.https://t.co/Bw4hNhqoJP

"it appears I can't stop talking about bears on this channel but I swear it's all a big coincidence and the and the bears are not holding me hostage"https://t.co/nfRvQDnA9w

Are we haunted by bears?https://t.co/i6fF1qv7mj https://t.co/yVpbbhbKfx


If you see this in your dreams, you may need alp. https://t.co/9CzQw2fQvc https://t.co/oUUNW4V9cn


Klippel–Feil syndrome + Sprengel's deformity + Holoprosencephaly could lead directly to someone that... if described second hand... would look like a Blemmyae https://t.co/ayuwMSvkFUhttps://t.co/j1G36srBIN

@loremasterLuigi @SupaMalaman We draw dog faced people on a map. thinking they are figments of inventive minds.https://t.co/Gmoy4gSBj2Meanwhile, in indonesia, somewhere between India and Sumatra there are a people who sharpen their teeth taht could be describd as dog-like. https://t.co/FlW32BlLNX

How many rare mutations & epigenetic abnormalities get relegated to myths and stories retold thru generations, get compared to visions in dreams, or thought of as hallucinations?https://t.co/EmLnSohxXD

How many monsters are now simply myths?"As temperatures rise and the oceans change, our fate has become linked to that of our terrible but beloved sea monsters, our squids and whales and sharks. Our challenge will be to not let them fade into myth."https://t.co/9GgbHekM0d

What if they are real* * but not what you think they are.What did we miss?https://t.co/n1RxCYdYcn

@meta_nomad Tapping into networks of information?I buy books from landfills. Old ideas someone has discarded, but ones once relevant to public consciousness.Ideas having long since filtered thru to me, now to be re-imagined with fresh eyes. What did they miss?https://t.co/XqjejBOmTI

I think its funny how close this looks to a 4 legged chicken."Zhu told reporters that the chicken is about a month old and despite its deformity, it was able to run around normally like any other chicken."https://t.co/pwAQeAULLshttps://t.co/uomwytq09E

Turns out spirit bears are real.https://t.co/QczC8OqS1D

In this case, the "spirit animal" story is a reminder.> "When the Raven — or Wee’get — created the world, he also created the Ice Age. When the ice finally began to melt, Raven wanted to do something to remind himself of that time."

"The people who accuse me of being obsessed by devils are all the type of right wing fundamentalists who rolls around and speaks in tongues, and gives all the signs of being possesses by the devil themselves." https://t.co/iK72bmi1ZP

"So it depends on who I'm talking to; which of these metaphors I use to explain where these weird patterns come from that jump out of the books and take hold of the readers and change their lives... It's not me, its a 6 foot white rabbit from [Ireland]"https://t.co/dwI1EEfhkz

"Many religions, from zen Buddhists to Christian sects to satanists would practice speaking in tongues, where they repeat nonsense words to confuse the language part of the brain and disable itThat’s how mantra meditation works"https://t.co/ibqkompyAj

What does the white rabbit say?https://t.co/sPuZkC7gqy

Exformation: when you trust a small proportion of your audience will follow the white rabbit of curiosity, so you can leave out necessary context.Laughing at a pun in subtext of ideas I never spoke, but implied. The shared experience of the Wired.😇https://t.co/8LVsLIkq7i https://t.co/8SS7TNFKrl


The stuff of dreams, and the way of nightmares.https://t.co/2HcFkIgzoI https://t.co/FGNeEORDq1


"He is an iconic image in the artwork of many cultures"https://t.co/HwQHxNIFOkLmao, The Lone Centurion, from Dr. Who?Technically he's framed as a pooka... too. https://t.co/W0LE9vieNg


Funny looking trickster spirit.https://t.co/FgnwURlYsc https://t.co/NgvHvFKTfa


I have seen the spiders. Have you?"It appeared in the old texts suddenly, emerging from some now-forgotten lost older oral tradition, creepy-crawling onto the pages of recorded folklore from out of nowhere." https://t.co/kvulMkbN3g

Thinking about what might happen if I get my dad into a DMT clinical trial for stroke recovery."let's see them aliens"https://t.co/AEJbyF003ehttps://t.co/vU0GUJKn1C https://t.co/eEpi6QAnUs


So weirdhttps://t.co/b5ohjXhiOM

"significant finding within the work of Ly et al. is that they show these effects for DMT–which was found to be endogenous in the brain. Based [...] we propose that ASD may be affected by abnormal metabolism of endogenous DMT"https://t.co/usf2lcrC7vhttps://t.co/Jp4oyPiIIC https://t.co/d3BHs8yu6E


Laughing at the dumb clowns to see if they get sadge.https://t.co/cVwxANQWim

Tired: unprocessed trauma from a bad trip.Wired: haunted by a mære.Inspired: laughing at how bad the sleep clowns are at trying to be funny.https://t.co/9LKu2921gb