Glider

Korsakoff's is essentially a type of degenerative brain condition characterised by anterograde amnesia and is (as far as I recall) caused by Vitamin B1 deficiency related to alcoholism or long-term alcohol abuse. Anterograde amnesia is the loss of the ability to form new memories (loss off short-term memory). Retrograde amnesia is losing memories you already have (loss of long-term memory). It is recognised as forgetfulness and confusion (in varying degrees) and sometimes vision impairment and disorientation accompanying long-term alcohol abuse, and characterised by confabulation. Confabulation is where the person will make up stories to account for sections of their recent past. It is not lying. The person has no idea, but because it's very distressing to have large holes in your memory, and to not be able to account for where you were or what you were doing at a given point in time, the person confabulates; i.e. makes up ficticious events, based on what was most probable, to fill in the holes. In most cases, they believe what they are saying, because it is (to them) the most likely, and they have nothing else to go on. If you present then with solid evidence that refutes what they have said (e.g. a video of them somewhere else, doing something else), they tend to get very distressed. Not because they have been caught in a lie, but because it undermines their grasp on reality, such as it is. A problem with Korsakoff's is that it is extremely hard to define an onset time. By the time the symptoms appear in sufficient force for clinical diagnosis, the condition may have been present for some considerable time.

Yeah, it's a bugger ain't it? The Army tends to use that one (among others) as a 'training aid' for anyone who screws up. It usually involves holding your rifle or a drill shell out at arms length too, which doesn't seem to make it any better.

No. The tingling is just random firing as the nerve 'resumes normal service'. Severe compression or ischemia can do damage, but this is usually signalled by complete lack of sensation, or tingling/burning sensations that don't go away.

I don't think it can be fixed.

Trees? Grass? That don't look like no Antarctic I ever heard of.

"I told you I was ill" Spike Milligan's headstone.

It would try to do both at the same time. It would boil due to the vacuum, and it would lose heat rapidly. If there was enough of it, whatever didn't boil off before it reached freezing temperature would freeze solid.

I think it's prbably because sleep deprivation will induce psychosis and then kill you (it doesn't take as long as you'd think either). As for muscle fatigue, you should try to maintain for just 5 minutes one or two of the 'stress positions' that certain captives are held in for hours. Here's an acute one: Place your back against a wall. Slide down the wall until your thighs are parallel to the floor and your lower legs are vertical. Stretch your arms out in front of you at shoulder height parallel to the floor, hands palm down. Stay there. Do not move.

It's because the bone you pinch the nerve against is the humerus (geddit?). It's the Ulnar nerve (the median and radial nerves can be found either side of the brachial fossa). The tingling feeling (parasthesia) is due to the sudden compression disrupting transmission. The Ulnar nerve innervates the C8 dermatome (the outside of your forearm and little and ring finger and the pad of your palm below those fingers) which is why the sensation appears to come from those areas.

If it lands on the tip, socket holding the ball is pushed out of shape, so the ball will no longer roll.

Not a placebo, they do have an effect (e.g. eroding resistance/conscious control or increasing suggestibility [hypnotics]). It's that they are in no way a guarantee of 'the truth'.

Well, again, there is no such thing as a 'truth drug' (insofar as there is no drug that will make a person tell the truth). The efficacy of drugs used for that purpose is highly questionable.

The problem with lie detectors is that they don't detect lies. There is no such thing as a 'lie detector'. Moreover, it has been shown that Polygraphs can be fooled. With minimal training, most people can fool the polygraph reader, and absolutely everybody can render the printouts meaningless.

Partially. A lot of caffeine results in lowered levels of glucose. Low levels of glucose result in feelings of hunger. Blood is diverted to the gut only when you've eaten.

Then it is uncommon, but not weird. It does happen, as does that startling combination of dark brown/black hair and blue or green eyes.

All those depend on the loudness of the sound. Loud enough, and they will all cause permanent damage. Loud noise with frequent and protracted exposure will obviously do the most damage. However, an explosion can render a person permanantly deaf too.

Not really, no. It is perhaps less common than the standard 'blond hair, blue eyes', but it does happen. Hazel is only a shade from green. Are you light or dark blonde?

That's the way I see it. That way, I've probably made about as much as I have lost, so it seems to balance out in the end. I don't feel bad about it because I've never found a huge amount. If the error is correctable (being given too much change; seeing a person drop their wallet/purse/money etc.) then I correct it. I suppose the question I would have to ask myself is: How much would I have to find before I handed it to the police? I have sometimes lost £5 or £10 or even £20 out of my pocket. That's my carelessness and the good fortune of whoever finds it. I feel the same if I find amounts like that. But at some point; i.e. at some value, I think I would feel wrong about keeping it. I wonder what I would do?

Perhaps, but are they your honest answers?

Hi Sophia It's not weird at all, and no, it's not an emotional disorder and you're not sick. I sometimes get the same feeling, and you're right, it is always stronger with a picture of somebody you like. But there's a reason for that. Because you like them, you feel a kind of attachment to them and what they do and think are more important to you than for people you don't like. So, when you have a picture of them, you are always thinking about what they would think if they could see you. This is natural. It is a part of the reason people carry pictures of people they love with them sometimes. It makes them feel closer and looking at the picture always makes you think about them more in a kind of "I wonder what they're doing or thinking now" kind of way. The important thing is that what you feel is only what you think they can see and what you think they think about it. I'm sure you already know that really, they can't see you at all (they're only pictures after all), but because you like them, you can't help making them more real in your mind (everybody does that). I'm sure you must have seen a film where somebody puts a picture of their husband or wife face down before they do something bad. They put that in films because the film makers know that everybody (i.e. the audience) recognizes that feeling; the feeling that you don't want to do anything wrong while somebody you really like can 'see you'. But of course, they can't see you. Their picture just makes you think of what they might think if they could see you. It probably doesn't feel like it right now, but this will pass in time. You'll get interested in other things and do other stuff and you'll worry about it a lot less. What you need to do right now though, is to remind yourself that they are only pictures, and the people can't really see you. You might have to do that a lot at first. You just need to try to behave normally in front of them; do what you would normally do if they weren't there, and don't let them control what you do. It will soon become habit, and you'll start to ignore them. Something else you could do is to ask your friends if they ever get the feeling that pictures are looking at them. You don't have to tell them everything (or anything at all if you don't want to). Just ask them if they ever get the feeling. I think you'll find that most people do. You could also ask your parents if they ever get the feeling too (I bet they do, sometimes). Ask your mother if she ever got the feeling when she had posters on the wall when she was younger. I bet she had posters of people like The Beatles or Rolling Stones or Jimmy Hendrix on her wall, and I bet she felt exactly like you do If it's really bad, you should talk to your parents about it anyway. I'm certain they will understand, because like I say, everybody recognizes the feeling that pictures look at them. Anyway, I hope it goes better for you. Try not to worry so much about it, you're not disturbed or anything like that, and more important, you're not alone. Like I say, everybody knows the feeling and I'm certain you'll feel a lot better about it when you prove that to yourself by asking your mother or your friends. All the best Glider

Yep. I'd say there's more than enough evidence. I have met people (patients usually) with those camp numbers tattooed on their arms too. That many people don't conspire to tattoo themselves just to support a false case.

Oh yeah. Option 1 would work: "Would the owner of this $20 please form a queue!".

1) Stick it in me pocket 2) Give it back to the owner. 3) Give it back to the owner. 4) Give it back to the owner.

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