My favourite part of this is that not only was Simon having to keep from laughing through the last entry, but his reaction to the final sentence made it clear that the timer in his office had JUST crossed the one hour mark.
Did I watch all this is one sitting? Yes. Did it soothe my adhd by going into a controlled rabbit hole by how long this video is? Yes. Please make more of these Simon!!!!!!
I have Exploding Head Syndrome and it wakes me up usually a couple of nights a week, sometimes multiple times in a night. For me, the form it usually takes is someone banging on my door like they're trying to break in. Unsurprisingly, this usually results in anxiety and heart palpitations severe enough. It takes me quite a while to get back to sleep. I also have constant visual snow, and started self-describing it like that years before hearing it described that way by anyone else. It's always noticeable, but gets so bad when I have a migraine coming on that I start having trouble making out faces or gauging distance between myself and objects. I also previously dated someone with both synesthesia and a water allergy.
Thank God. I was suddenly terrified I was special having a bright light wake me up numerous times a week, like someone is holding a flashlight to my face after breaking in.
I have had this in the past. To me it sounded like the “orchestra smash” sound typically found on Pet Shop Boys records😂 but mega loud! I also get hynogogic hallucinations, especially times when anxiety is high. Very, very real hallucinations that at times I’ve got out of bed to “touch”. I feel totally awake when I do this and I’ve now trained myself to understand they’re not real and just go back to sleep.
Just please remember as a very large and disperse group of people, there are some Mormon beliefs that are cultural and not doctrinal, and may be stronger in some locations than others. Also, there are branch-off groups who want to cling to things not practiced/believed by the official church and some people just lump them all together for the scandal value (for example, the polygamists). We are not a hive mind, even if some places and families can be echo chambers.
Cilantro makes me taste soap too! I made tacos for my friends one time. Birria tacos. Spicy slow cooked beef. You put it in a corn tortilla and add cheese and cilantro. I kept wondering how I got dish soap in the food. I then also wondered why no one else at the table was having the trouble. I made my next taco without cilantro, and BOOM. I realized I'm "lucky" to have that gene
I have the same. Having had someone properly describe the "real" taste, anything that calls for cilantro/coriander leaf I now substitute with parsley and lemon juice. Apparently it's not identical but close enough the purists don't mind and I no longer feel like I have a mouthful of soap :)
The first few times I ever tried Pho and added cilantro, I hated it because of the soap taste. Then a few years went by and I didn't notice it as much if the quantity was not so much. Is this the same or did I have the luck of going to a bad Pho restaurant..?
I can sort of get the taste, but it's not really there for me personally. Like if I just eat the plant by itself? I can sort of understand why people taste soap. I still enjoy it, though maybe I enjoy it cause it tastes like soap? 🤣
'I actually have something similar to the first fact, called "cold urticaria". This is where one is allergic to cold air/water/drink/etc and bust out in hives when in contact with the cold. Mostly just hives and itching, nothing extreme.
Same; I have the life threatening type of this, where taking a cool shower or holding a cold drink could induce anaphylactic shock. All treatments have failed, and I’m currently in an experimental study @ John’s Hopkins.
My mom has it too, but hers can cause her airway to close up if it's too cold (for example she can't have ice in her drinks and has to let ice cream get melty before eating it, even then it often makes her cough).
I've experienced the exploding head syndrome thing. I was homeless last year around this time and living out of my car while working 60-70 hours 6-7 days a week trying to save up for an apartment. I would either be falling asleep or just fallen asleep and it would be like a gun shot went off in my head. Not much scares me and I live in a fair amount of chronic pain from work and car accidents, and it was such a strange form of pain, like a knife to the brain. That plus waking up in an absolute panic. When I started getting my sleep schedule back to normal it stopped happening, but I definitely could look back through my Facebook and find multiple posts I put up begging for answers or if anyone I knew had experienced anything like it.
Flashes I rarely have seen in random places. In my mom's yard, growing up. And just randomly seeing a light reflecting on metal with no idea what caused it.
Had a tooth semy explode once after a bothed dentists visit. The infection inside got so bad while being stopped by the cap, that the puss pressure cracked the tooth open, looking for a way out. It was as pleasant as it sound's. That said the relief once it cracked was a god sent
You covered Cyclic Vomiting! I have that. Around June of last year, I weighed 80lbs. As an aside, tooth loss is also a symptom. All that acid and extra tooth-brushing over decades strips the enamel. Oh, it also caused a hiatyl hernia.
I think I may have this because it describes my currently unknown medical condition exactly and I want to suggest it as a diagnosis to my doctor so I can be tested and was wondering what tests you had done to confirm this so I can also request them. I agree it's definitely hell on your teeth I currently have all but a few of my front bottom ones left now because of the routine nausea spells I go through. Your the first person I've found that suffers from the same condition and I would like to chat more about what helps etc.
@@ladylove8565ask your doctor to send you to a gastrointestinal doctor for an EGD test (esophagogastroduodenoscopy). I had one and found out I had a hiatal hernia. It can also be used to check for other conditions
I know someone who has this too. His doctor says it's likely due to cannabis use (though of course most people who use cannabis won't have permanent ill effects, cyclic vomiting is a rare side effect) but they have to rule everything out as he has other medical/mental health issues.
@@matthewcrome legal weed is actually one of the few things that helps calm mine down. Only certain ones though and my doctors actually recommended I try it.
@@ladylove8565 Cyclic Vomiting is one of those things that is diagnosed by its symptoms. There is no simple blood, or dna, test for it. I 100% suggest you bring it up to your doctor. For me, I've had it since childhood, but was not diagnosed until adulthood. I have several other health issues that can effect digestion, like celiac disease and gastroparesis. Even with a gastroenterologist on my team, I continued to get worse and worse. I use Zofran, a prescription anti nausea med, and marijuana to keep the nausea down and help spark an appetite. Last June, an ER doctor saved my life with one simple sentence, "I think you should try the low-fodmap diet".
Was going to watch this in parts, but after recognizing that i might have Aphantasia and maybe i'm not just creatively challenged i benched the rest of it, great work as always.
VSS blew my mind when I learned about it a few years ago. I thought it was normal, too. I was not surprised to find out that migraine is a comorbidity (I have chronic migraine.)
@@medwyn5060 I got it checked out but they said it was "probably just some damage to my optical nerve or something". That was a long time ago though, I should give it another go.
There's so many people in the world that the possibility of such conditions is inevitable. We just need the grace to deal with them as we would like to be treated: With patience and understanding.
I went to school with a girl who suffered from water allergy. Any time she wiped the blackboard with a damp sponge - her hands would breakout in a rash
Started watching thinking let's see how many of these I knew, roughly half dozen of them if you're wondering. I was barely finished watching before I realised that I need to talk to my GP about a couple of these. Some times I feel much taller than I am and everything looks proportionally smaller and at other times the reverse. I got diagnosed with "painless" migraines decades ago and I have pretty much every symptom described for the snow vision accompanied by tinnitus. I appear to be exhibiting symptoms of the totally real and not made up at all final entry.
Yeah I have (had) AiWLS too. Didnt know what it was until I heard a podcast a couple of years ago. Started when I was young, stopped when i was around 45. I also had the snow/firefly thing, and tinnitus, but I never related it to the AiWLS until …. just now.
@@pettermandt9200 The possible AIWLS symptoms I've been getting have only manifested in the last decade after an accident where I landed hard on my left side that damaging nearly all the major joints on that side and left me with some memory issues. I suspect that may be an underlying cause of what I'm experiencing. My "painless" migraine diagnosis pre-exists both the onset of the AIWLS symptoms and the categorisation of Visual Snow syndrome. Personally I don't think the 2 are related, at least not in my case anyway.
Great video! And, yes, I was paying attention all the way through, but at one point I got distracted and so was confused for a moment by the really-real psychological condition at the very end. Lol
I have something like Aphantasia.. I don't visualize things, I just "hear" my thoughts constantly, but I have like a 2nd train of thought or another voice in my head going at all times that basically describes things to me or breaks down problems while my main train of thought continues rushing forward.
It might seem too simplistic but I've found focusing on slowly breathing deeply in, then hold it, then slowly breath out, then hold it... Will quiet the voices, your mind should become so preoccupied with why did my breathing go into manual mode that all you will be able to focus on is breathing
You might have schizophrenia. Hearing a voice other than your own typically isn't good. Granted I only took a semester of psychology and don't know every mental disorder but I don't know of any other that causes multiple voices in your head.
It's like I think the thought quietly until it's ready to be really thought and then finally might be a thing I say. It's more layers than that but idk how else to explain it. My inner thoughts have inner thoughts. 😂
I have Aquagenic Pruritus that was triggered by complications of Ehlers Danlos syndrome. A good shower used to be my favourite way to relax, now I have to psych myself up for it😅
@ashdragon4000 I started saying complication to sort of simplify it, whenever I said comorbidity or mentioned MCAS I just ended up having to explain a whole bunch of different terms.
14:40 Semi-interesting story: When I took Biology 101 (20+ years ago), my instructor had a 3-volume series of books on Mendelian Genetics. One of the books had every known (to that point) genetic disease/mutation. I came across MSUD in this book and thought it was funny, due to the name. The instructor asked if I had internet at home (still a valid question in ‘03-04 range) and I could receive 10 bonus points if I researched the disease and turned in a paper. I did so, and upon realizing how serious the disease was, I kinda felt bad. Pretty neat to see it mentioned in a Fact Boi video, as anytime I’ve relayed that story, no one had heard of the disease. Great job to the author of the script! (I haven’t finished the video, so I’m not sure who it was. I would guess Danny or Katie.) Edit: Ah! It was Kevin all along 😂
25 years of being an OR nurse, I only saw situs inversus once. However, I was also told that Meckel's Diverticulum was exceptionally rare and I've seen about 20 of them! Seen 5 bezoars also.
This is an absolutely perfect thing to have come out on a Friday. I stopped the video for a while so I could get out for a latte, and owing to the format if I forgot something I heard before I left, wouldn't matter.
Oh my goodness, has it really been an hour? I did fast forward a few minutes on a couple of occasions when the condition was too gruesome but I can't believe I kept listening for most of that time. Must be the animated speaking style, that I appreciate! Thanks for a very interesting video.
I've been trying to figure out what I have for years and now suddenly I see exactly what happens to me detailed in number 40 cyclic vomiting syndrome. I'm going to have my doctor test for this and maybe I'll finally be able to get on medication that will help alleviate my symptoms. Thanks Simon
whenever i go to a grocery store chain that is set up the same as all the others of that name, i feel like i can imagine leaving and being in another city. or my sense of NESW direction can flip while in the store.
I had Exploding Head Syndrome for a long time, around 40 years. For me it was around 6 times a year and sounded like a freight train horn. The experience never bothered me, but I didn't know it was an actual thing. I just thought it was something else wrong with me. It went away a few years ago as far as I can tell, after seeing Simon's first video on the topic and doing some research afterward. It seems that having it acknowledged and learning a bit about it really can make it go away. Now if only I could stop becoming paralyzed before I've fully fallen asleep. I wonder if that has a name too?
I suffer from sleep issues, one of which is the exploding head syndrome, and it is extremely annoying. I also have issues with sleep paralysis, but I don't get the hallucination, instead my anxiety takes over and I play the "what if" game, like what if the house catches on fire and I can't get out because I can't move, or what if something happens to a pet and I can't go and help them because I can't move. It takes me a bit to calm myself and just try and focus on just moving a toe, and then eventually my foot, before then my leg so I can kick myself over and wake the rest of my body up, it takes a lot of effort to do this though. I also sometimes struggle with night terrors. And also most nights my body believes that we don't need more than around 3-4 maybe up to 5 hours of sleep. I typically (not always though) can fall asleep easily, my issue is I don't stay asleep. I am going for a sleep study test in a couple months though.
I've had exploding head syndrome for maybe 10 years by this time. I'm currently 34 years old. It happens few and far between, but is very distinct and forces my eye to slam open when it happens. Maybe once to three times a year it happens, but I've had noises in my head that are like a cymbal crashing, a gunshot, or someone yelling my name super loud. My name being yelled is the most common one. It freaked me out for years before I finally found out what it was.
I had a dream where my dog was explaining quantum mechanics over coffee and a cigarette. When I woke up I told him that if he was going to smoke he'd have to do it in the garage.
I’ve had it several times over the years. It’s usually either a blast of my Shiba’s scream, or my name being called as if someone is yelling at the top of their lungs mere inches from my ear. Tears me out of sleep feeling like I narrowly avoided getting hit by a train. My Shiba crossed the rainbow bridge, though, so now it kinda hits different when I hear that shrill scream out of nowhere. Not surprised I’ve got something weird going on, though. Had migraines since preschool and have sleepwalked and had sleep paralysis at different times in my life. Something up there clearly isn’t working quite right.
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I've 100% definitely been diagnosed with Factboius Fixation. No known treatment, and my cats are constantly complaining that I'm late with their swpr. The struggle is real. 👓
I did watch the whole thing so thanks for the last fascinating condition! On another note, I only watched this as my mental health is stable at the moment. If it wasn't, my tendency towards hypocrondriacism, and yes I think I made up that word, would be exploding.
I realize that #50, Factboius Fixation, was intended as a joke. I know Simon used to refer to himself as "Fact Boy" sometimes. Aside from the joke-sounding name though, it sounds like a condition that might really exist!
I had exploding head syndrome in college. It literally sounded like someone slamming a cabinet shut really hard right next to my head. It would startle me awake, and then I would go back to bed. I was also sleepwalking at the time, which has always been stress-related, so my doctor figured it was related to stress, too. Once I graduated, both went away.
EHS (exploding head syndrome is absolutely reoccurring. I suffered from it for 4-5 years. Every single night i would start to drift off and i would get woken up by the sound, light & a feeling of instant pressure build from within my skull. It was caused by abuse of opioid painkillers. I have no idea why but i assume it was due to a miss communication within my brain where i was tired enough to start falling sleep but there was still high brain activity going on from the opioids. It disappeared after a few years despite still suffering from opiate abuse there after.
Please like this for anyone who has severe refractory “allergic” conditions so they can see this (potential solution explained below), such as chronic inducible urticaria. If your allergy meds or immunosuppressants aren’t working, please please talk to your doctor about monoclonal antibodies (xolair, dupixent, ilaris, etc…). I struggled for years with life threatening cold urticaria & allergies, and no known medication worked (I tried EVERYTHING + experimental studies) until ilaris (IL-1 inhibitor). Please ask your doctor about these if you’re struggling with severe allergies or urticaria, refractory to standard meds (like antihistamines); only 2 injections into my treatment and it’s been life changing for me.
You should have elaborated more on the Factboius fixation. Like: Patients suffer from having an attention span of under three minutes, need to be supplied with facts constantly, regardless of them being of any use, and display withdrawal symptoms if the stream of information is unavailable for longer than twelve hours.
I have mild prosopagnosia (face blindness). I have to meet someone 3 or 4 times before their face sticks in my mind. It can be a bit embarrassing sometimes.
19:21 didn’t know I had aphantasia until 4 years ago. So much made sense afterwards. Still dream very very vividly. Many with aphantasia also have more accurate memory as they don’t imagine things that weren’t there and instead remember it as a list of facts.
42:34 Ive had that on a couple of fever trips its realy weird u just be chilling the sudenly it just looks like your schrinking quite the weird expierience actually scared me a couple of times as a kid
I have aphantasia and I actually dream the same way my imagination works. Everything is abstract, and if I try to "look" at something I just end up getting frustrated because it doesnt work.
I have acquired aphantasia following brain surgery. I knew I had lost my ability to picture things in my mind, but it's only recently that science has caught up and given it a name. It's been 15 years now, so I've basically forgotten what it was like pre-aphantasia.
I have EHS. It can happen as you wake up too. I usually hear a door slam, a loud door knock, or a doorbell ring. Sometimes it's other less distinct loud sounds but usually those three things.
I often get a doorbell ring and door slam. It took me a long time to work out what it was because while I heard it, my cats didn't react when they normally did.
@winterzee yeah, I have to lay there for a minute and try to decide if someone is really trying to get my attention at the door or if it was all in my head 😂
I used to get the smell of gas with it. I had the gas company out in the middle of the night several times sure there was a leak but it was just my narcolepsy aiding and abetting the process because why not? Basically I had to ignore the smell every night until it stopped happening. Ehs still happens though. I can also hear myself swallow and blink and can "click" my ears. I didn't know this wasn't true for everyone until my 30s.
I had pica when my haemoglobin levels got insanely low, I'd crave ice and chalk like crazy, playing mine craft would make me so hungry from the digging dirt sounds, it went away after I got an iron infusion
I get a really loud bang which shocks me, but only when my neck is twisted in a way which would give me a severe headache if I tried to sleep like that. Or if my breathing is obstructed, if I remember right. It's rare.
I get loud bangs or crashes or someone calling my name, yet he said it should only happen once or twice a lifetime, mine happens about once a month or two
@@reapersritehand Oof! I think when mine started, it might have been about once a month or 6 weeks. Sometimes it was a loud doorbell instead of a bang. Taking a bit better care of myself has reduced the frequency to the point where I was surprised it happened once this year, but I'm not quite sure which of my many life changes have helped.
When I'm wearing earbuds and there is silence for a long period of time I will hear vague orchestra music. Like piano and violins down the street. It's weird.
Had exploding head syndrome for years. But haven’t had it recently. It sucks because it causes adrenaline rush after it happens. Not great for falling back to sleep.
48:53 i have this and it’s so ducking traumatizing each time I get sick bc i never know if another cycle is gonna happen (had a cycle lasting 7 months and between 5-15 episodes a day)
I've experienced exploding head syndrome. Didn't know it was a thing. I've also experienced musical ear syndrome which while being annoying it was also interesting to see how effective the unconscious mind is at creating music despite little to no skill at playing an instrument.
I suffer from a few of these conditions, Conversion Disorder being the most debilitating. I learned of a new one I thought was just a normal thing for everyone, Geographic Tongue.
I think I have the EHS one. Like once or twice a year as Im dosing off its like a jolt of electricity surges through my brain. Pretty scary the first few times it happened
57:05 I experienced this a lot as a small child. I remember hiding under my blankets because I thought they were “good bacteria” and “bad bacteria” coming to get me.
That last one about binge watching fact boi videos -- how'd you know?! Probably neither of us wants to know how many of your videos I've watched in the last week😆!
My older son was born very prematurely and ended up with severe cerebral palsy brought on by a massive brain bleed when he was 2 days old. Subsequent CT scans show he has no corpus callosum. While I have no idea whether he has a form of alien hand syndrome, he has almost no control over his left arm. If he wants to move it somehow, he has to grab it with his right hand and pull. (Not that his right side is normal. He has virtually no fine motor control.)
Factboius Fixation :D Lmao I actually missed bits as I used this as part education and part sleep assistance (asmr). Multiple tarlov cysts on my spinal cord, multiple work injuries, chronic pain causing sleep to be intermittent.
I have aphantasia! It was always weird when people said to visualise stuff in the “minds eye” until i learned that aphantasia was a thing. (I cant visualise anything in minds eye, as per the description in this video) I also have some face blindness though its pretty mild and only happens for random people or acquaintances.
Aphantasia is likely far more common than what was specified given that it can vary in whether someone can picture something in their mind at all or can do so with some effort. Personally I struggle to picture things in my mind and what I do picture is more a memory of a picture rather than a visualisation. I also do not have a inner monologue (anaduralia) which most people apparently have even though I do sometimes have conversations in my mind as a means of preparing for difficult conversations (and sometimes I even come to a conclusion that I think is most likely and do not even bother with the actual conversation lol). On a side note I also have the cilantro gene which also affect the taste of celery (celery tastes like vegetation to me and I find the flavour overpowering even if the amount of celery in the dish is minute). I don't have the asparagus one that makes your urine smell like bad breath (apparently caused by the metabolism of a compound called asparagusic acid).
A friend of mine has severe face blindness. She once almost took home the wrong little boy from preschool, because the kid was wearing a red shirt and blue shorts. Now the school staff know to take her child and lead him straight to her car, so there will be no more mixups. My friend's husband is a great "seeing eye dog", and announces the names of people as they come into the room. He'll say something like "Hey Bob, good to see you. That green tie is pretty snazzy." From there, his wife can track who's in the room. If Bob comes over the next day in a purple tie, he'll have to be reintroduced.
I've experienced Alice in Wonderland syndrome twice in my life, (maybe not the syndrome, but the hallucinations). During the falloff to sleep and during a dream about gym class lol. I felt infinitely large while infinitely small. It was wild and felt somewhat like a roller coaster.
I have aphantasia, and didn’t know what it was until recently or that it’s not normal lol. I can describe what my mum looks like, I know what she looks like, but I can’t bring up an “image” in my head of her.
I have aphantasia. I didn't realise until late on in my life until everyone around me said they could mentally visualise objects. I also have the gene that makes coriander taste soapy 😂
Born Mainer, also second gen American with grandparents straight from Qubec I’ve never heard of jumping Frenchmen now I have to spend part of my day reading about this lol Sacre bleu!
Thankyou for mentioning the condition Uner Tan Syndrome. I watched a documentary that kept calling what they were suffering from "De Evelution" and comparing them to monkeys. I wanted to reach back in time to the filming of that video and slap the scientists for treating them so rudely.
Interesting Fact about “Exploding Head Syndrome”: Morphine, specifically, and it’s derivatives (codeine etc) was studied for causing this in patients, while other opioids didnt. The most reported phenomenon patients had was the sense of somebody screaming their name inches from their ear, jolting them awake. So maybe this could point us in the right direction as to what it’s caused from, some neurotransmitter imbalance or something possibly A friend I lived with experienced this one night, too. And later when I experienced it while sleeping on morphine, let me just tell you… it’s lucidly terrifying. I can vividly recall waking up, still feeling the breathe blowing on your ear. The sensation is so real, it really rattles you to your core. Let alone the weird, dystopian sleep realm opoids give you (feeling of love and bliss while awake, gloomy nightmares of nothingness and nowhere-ness as you sleep), it’s terrifying for something to feel so real that isn’t
I have what I guess would be partial Situs Inversus, but, in me they’ve always just called it Mirror-Image Dextrocardia. My heart is on the right side of my chest and flipped around backwards. Everything else is, more or less, in the right place, which makes me more rare. Usually if one thing is flipped, everything is flipped (although I did just recently find out that my spleen is also in the wrong place).
Oh, so there's a name for it! EHS! I get these bright flashes and loud noises about once a month or more. It's not extreme, but it does stop me from falling asleep in that moment of course. It is definitely not just once or twice in a lifetime...
I suffer from a severe case of factboius fixation, and my big concern is that it might be contagious. It might be some sort of delusion on my part, but I feel like even telling people about it could cause the condition to spread, like some sort of memetic disease. Is there any research into whether I should worry about this?
My favourite part of this is that not only was Simon having to keep from laughing through the last entry, but his reaction to the final sentence made it clear that the timer in his office had JUST crossed the one hour mark.
This comment made me skip to the end so I could see it before I inevitably fall asleep listening to Simon's soothing tone. 🤣
@@lucyst8 Glad it made you laugh!
Did I watch all this is one sitting? Yes. Did it soothe my adhd by going into a controlled rabbit hole by how long this video is? Yes. Please make more of these Simon!!!!!!
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Fascinating! ❤
I feel you girl
Gang gang 👊 😅
But I really do live down in a rabbit hole I fell into. It's called the world today.
I have Exploding Head Syndrome and it wakes me up usually a couple of nights a week, sometimes multiple times in a night. For me, the form it usually takes is someone banging on my door like they're trying to break in. Unsurprisingly, this usually results in anxiety and heart palpitations severe enough. It takes me quite a while to get back to sleep. I also have constant visual snow, and started self-describing it like that years before hearing it described that way by anyone else. It's always noticeable, but gets so bad when I have a migraine coming on that I start having trouble making out faces or gauging distance between myself and objects.
I also previously dated someone with both synesthesia and a water allergy.
Thank God. I was suddenly terrified I was special having a bright light wake me up numerous times a week, like someone is holding a flashlight to my face after breaking in.
I remember checking twitter and news websites because i was positive some serious ish had gone down.
I might have it too, I wake up sometimes because I heard someone shout my name or someone rang the doorbell(they didn't )
I have had this in the past. To me it sounded like the “orchestra smash” sound typically found on Pet Shop Boys records😂 but mega loud! I also get hynogogic hallucinations, especially times when anxiety is high. Very, very real hallucinations that at times I’ve got out of bed to “touch”. I feel totally awake when I do this and I’ve now trained myself to understand they’re not real and just go back to sleep.
For me it's the sound of a large balloon being popped
More longform Sideprojects of this nature please.
Enjoyed that. I'd love a Part 2 as there are so many more rare and strange conditions.
requesting a brain blaze on all the weird stuff mormons believe
Yes please!
Soon as I return from my home planet and don a fresh set of Star Trek underwear, I'll send Simon some factoids.
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Just please remember as a very large and disperse group of people, there are some Mormon beliefs that are cultural and not doctrinal, and may be stronger in some locations than others. Also, there are branch-off groups who want to cling to things not practiced/believed by the official church and some people just lump them all together for the scandal value (for example, the polygamists). We are not a hive mind, even if some places and families can be echo chambers.
Yes! What the hell is “Soaking”?
@megangabriell7583 and anthrposophists too please ❤
OMG! I have Factboius Fixation. Maybe. It's so hard to self-diagnose when Simon has a smile on his face.
Cilantro makes me taste soap too!
I made tacos for my friends one time. Birria tacos. Spicy slow cooked beef. You put it in a corn tortilla and add cheese and cilantro. I kept wondering how I got dish soap in the food. I then also wondered why no one else at the table was having the trouble. I made my next taco without cilantro, and BOOM. I realized I'm "lucky" to have that gene
I have the same. Having had someone properly describe the "real" taste, anything that calls for cilantro/coriander leaf I now substitute with parsley and lemon juice. Apparently it's not identical but close enough the purists don't mind and I no longer feel like I have a mouthful of soap :)
The first few times I ever tried Pho and added cilantro, I hated it because of the soap taste. Then a few years went by and I didn't notice it as much if the quantity was not so much. Is this the same or did I have the luck of going to a bad Pho restaurant..?
I can sort of get the taste, but it's not really there for me personally. Like if I just eat the plant by itself? I can sort of understand why people taste soap. I still enjoy it, though maybe I enjoy it cause it tastes like soap? 🤣
I do not taste soap, but its absolutely disgusting for me, I'll gag
Very interesting. I particularly enjoyed it being a longer edition than usual.
'I actually have something similar to the first fact, called "cold urticaria". This is where one is allergic to cold air/water/drink/etc and bust out in hives when in contact with the cold.
Mostly just hives and itching, nothing extreme.
Same; I have the life threatening type of this, where taking a cool shower or holding a cold drink could induce anaphylactic shock. All treatments have failed, and I’m currently in an experimental study @ John’s Hopkins.
SAME! I live in an area where the air causes me to break out in hives during the winter.
My mom has it too, but hers can cause her airway to close up if it's too cold (for example she can't have ice in her drinks and has to let ice cream get melty before eating it, even then it often makes her cough).
I've experienced the exploding head syndrome thing. I was homeless last year around this time and living out of my car while working 60-70 hours 6-7 days a week trying to save up for an apartment. I would either be falling asleep or just fallen asleep and it would be like a gun shot went off in my head. Not much scares me and I live in a fair amount of chronic pain from work and car accidents, and it was such a strange form of pain, like a knife to the brain. That plus waking up in an absolute panic. When I started getting my sleep schedule back to normal it stopped happening, but I definitely could look back through my Facebook and find multiple posts I put up begging for answers or if anyone I knew had experienced anything like it.
I haven't had pain, but I see the flashes a couple times a week and it makes me jump awake just to see if someone broke in and I didn't hear them.
Flashes I rarely have seen in random places. In my mom's yard, growing up. And just randomly seeing a light reflecting on metal with no idea what caused it.
0:45 - N°1 - Water allergy
2:20 - N°2 - Pemphigoid gestationis
3:35 - N°3 - Paris syndrome
4:55 - N°4 - Uner tan syndrome
6:05 - N°5 - Face blindness
7:30 - N°6 - Capgras delusion
9:00 - N°7 - Cotard delusion
10:10 - N°8 - Alien hand syndrome
12:05 - N°9 - Exploding head syndrome
13:25 - N°10 - Fish odor syndrome
14:40 - N°11 - Maple syrup urine disease
15:55 - N°12 - Jumping frenchmen of maine
16:55 - N°13 - Synesthesia
18:30 - N°14 - Aphantasia
19:40 - N°15 - Gluten psychosis
20:55 - N°16 - Alpha gal syndrome
21:50 - N°17 - Fregoli delusion
23:05 - N°18 - Reduplicative paramnesia
24:05 - N°19 - Syndrome of subjective doubles
25:15 - N°20 - Erotomania
26:25 - N°21 - Apotemnophilia
27:30 - N°22 - Autophagia
28:25 - N°23 - Clinical lycanthropy
29:35 - N°24 - Human werewolf syndrome
30:35 - N°25 - Koro
32:40 - N°26 - Dysautonomia
33:40 - N°27 - Persistent genital arousal disorder
35:00 - N°28 - Auto brewery syndrome
36:15 - N°29 - Pica
37:30 - N°30 - Congenital insensitivity to pain
38:55 - N°31 - Proteus syndrome
40:20 - N°32 - Stendhal syndrome
41:25 - N°33 - Jerusalem syndrome
42:25 - N°34 - Alice in wonderland syndrome
43:50 - N°35 - Stoneman syndrome
44:55 - N°36 - Geographic tongue
46:15 - N°37 - Clinical vampirism
47:10 - N°38 - Xeroderma pigmentosum
48:10 - N°39 - Sweating blood
48:55 - N°40 - Cyclic vomiting syndrome
50:20 - N°41 - Situs inversus
51:35 - N°42 - Situs ambiguus
52:20 - N°43 - Exploding teeth
53:50 - N°44 - Pathological lying
55:20 - N°45 - The cilantro gene
56:15 - N°46 - Visual snow syndrome
57:30 - N°47 - Ekbom syndrome
58:50 - N°48 - Conversion disorder
59:50 - N°49 - Selective mutism
1:01:20 - N°50 - Factboius fixation
How do doctors keep all these straight?
I'm glad #50 is finally getting some recognition, it's a lot more common than people think!
Loved every minute of this, especially the last one! I definitely have a pretty severe case of factboius fixation.
Had a tooth semy explode once after a bothed dentists visit. The infection inside got so bad while being stopped by the cap, that the puss pressure cracked the tooth open, looking for a way out. It was as pleasant as it sound's. That said the relief once it cracked was a god sent
It happens twice to me, too. After the " Explosion ", my recurrent abscesses on these theet, simply disappear.
Yes Kevin, I caught factboius at the end...
Me too
Yep. Definitely have it also.
Lol
I think I may have Factboius Fixation
😂😂😂
Me too! It affects many aspects of my life, such as sleep and socializing.
I have a terminal case of Factboius Fixation. The only relief I can get is when I'm listening to one of his 27 channels.
I am suffered by the same thing!
Hahaha I have it so bad my husband will ask me most nights what Factboi was up to today 😂😂
You covered Cyclic Vomiting! I have that. Around June of last year, I weighed 80lbs. As an aside, tooth loss is also a symptom. All that acid and extra tooth-brushing over decades strips the enamel. Oh, it also caused a hiatyl hernia.
I think I may have this because it describes my currently unknown medical condition exactly and I want to suggest it as a diagnosis to my doctor so I can be tested and was wondering what tests you had done to confirm this so I can also request them. I agree it's definitely hell on your teeth I currently have all but a few of my front bottom ones left now because of the routine nausea spells I go through. Your the first person I've found that suffers from the same condition and I would like to chat more about what helps etc.
@@ladylove8565ask your doctor to send you to a gastrointestinal doctor for an EGD test (esophagogastroduodenoscopy). I had one and found out I had a hiatal hernia. It can also be used to check for other conditions
I know someone who has this too. His doctor says it's likely due to cannabis use (though of course most people who use cannabis won't have permanent ill effects, cyclic vomiting is a rare side effect) but they have to rule everything out as he has other medical/mental health issues.
@@matthewcrome legal weed is actually one of the few things that helps calm mine down. Only certain ones though and my doctors actually recommended I try it.
@@ladylove8565 Cyclic Vomiting is one of those things that is diagnosed by its symptoms. There is no simple blood, or dna, test for it. I 100% suggest you bring it up to your doctor.
For me, I've had it since childhood, but was not diagnosed until adulthood. I have several other health issues that can effect digestion, like celiac disease and gastroparesis. Even with a gastroenterologist on my team, I continued to get worse and worse. I use Zofran, a prescription anti nausea med, and marijuana to keep the nausea down and help spark an appetite. Last June, an ER doctor saved my life with one simple sentence, "I think you should try the low-fodmap diet".
Was going to watch this in parts, but after recognizing that i might have Aphantasia and maybe i'm not just creatively challenged i benched the rest of it, great work as always.
I... I actually didn't know I might suffer from visual snow syndrome until now. I just thought that's how things were. Thank you, Simon!
VSS blew my mind when I learned about it a few years ago. I thought it was normal, too. I was not surprised to find out that migraine is a comorbidity (I have chronic migraine.)
I have visual snow, but I also have a brain disorder that causes it. You should get checked by an ophthalmologist and make sure it's just that.
@@medwyn5060 I got it checked out but they said it was "probably just some damage to my optical nerve or something". That was a long time ago though, I should give it another go.
@@batty_cats I get migraines too. Maybe my VSS is connected to it too. Mine have gotten better with age though, hope yours do too!
There's so many people in the world that the possibility of such conditions is inevitable. We just need the grace to deal with them as we would like to be treated: With patience and understanding.
I went to school with a girl who suffered from water allergy. Any time she wiped the blackboard with a damp sponge - her hands would breakout in a rash
Started watching thinking let's see how many of these I knew, roughly half dozen of them if you're wondering. I was barely finished watching before I realised that I need to talk to my GP about a couple of these. Some times I feel much taller than I am and everything looks proportionally smaller and at other times the reverse. I got diagnosed with "painless" migraines decades ago and I have pretty much every symptom described for the snow vision accompanied by tinnitus.
I appear to be exhibiting symptoms of the totally real and not made up at all final entry.
Yeah I have (had) AiWLS too. Didnt know what it was until I heard a podcast a couple of years ago. Started when I was young, stopped when i was around 45. I also had the snow/firefly thing, and tinnitus, but I never related it to the AiWLS until …. just now.
@@pettermandt9200 The possible AIWLS symptoms I've been getting have only manifested in the last decade after an accident where I landed hard on my left side that damaging nearly all the major joints on that side and left me with some memory issues. I suspect that may be an underlying cause of what I'm experiencing.
My "painless" migraine diagnosis pre-exists both the onset of the AIWLS symptoms and the categorisation of Visual Snow syndrome.
Personally I don't think the 2 are related, at least not in my case anyway.
@@jackvos8047 AiWS is a bitch, I have had it alongside my migraines before.
Great video! And, yes, I was paying attention all the way through, but at one point I got distracted and so was confused for a moment by the really-real psychological condition at the very end. Lol
LOL. That last one was great and I definitely have it! Thanks guys.
Paris Syndrome - sounds like what I'm experiencing right now due to PTSD.
Apparently you can be rendered speechless and slide off your chair in shock
The fun part of any video like this is trying not to apply any of the symptoms to yourself
I like the long Sideprojects lists like this ..... more please!
I have something like Aphantasia.. I don't visualize things, I just "hear" my thoughts constantly, but I have like a 2nd train of thought or another voice in my head going at all times that basically describes things to me or breaks down problems while my main train of thought continues rushing forward.
Yeeaahh, I think you're just psychotic because hearing 2 voices in your head is absolutely not normal at all. Get help.
I feel the same sometimes. I want the running dialog in my head to shut up for awhile and give me some peace and quiet.
It might seem too simplistic but I've found focusing on slowly breathing deeply in, then hold it, then slowly breath out, then hold it... Will quiet the voices, your mind should become so preoccupied with why did my breathing go into manual mode that all you will be able to focus on is breathing
You might have schizophrenia. Hearing a voice other than your own typically isn't good. Granted I only took a semester of psychology and don't know every mental disorder but I don't know of any other that causes multiple voices in your head.
It's like I think the thought quietly until it's ready to be really thought and then finally might be a thing I say. It's more layers than that but idk how else to explain it. My inner thoughts have inner thoughts. 😂
I have Aquagenic Pruritus that was triggered by complications of Ehlers Danlos syndrome. A good shower used to be my favourite way to relax, now I have to psych myself up for it😅
Complications of EDS or a comorbidity? Like a lot of us have MCAS. If complication can you elaborate a little?
@ashdragon4000 I started saying complication to sort of simplify it, whenever I said comorbidity or mentioned MCAS I just ended up having to explain a whole bunch of different terms.
Oh wow that sounds like major suck, getting POTSy from any shower long enough to soothe is bad enough. Zebra hugs
Always nice to see fellow zebras!
14:40 Semi-interesting story: When I took Biology 101 (20+ years ago), my instructor had a 3-volume series of books on Mendelian Genetics. One of the books had every known (to that point) genetic disease/mutation. I came across MSUD in this book and thought it was funny, due to the name. The instructor asked if I had internet at home (still a valid question in ‘03-04 range) and I could receive 10 bonus points if I researched the disease and turned in a paper. I did so, and upon realizing how serious the disease was, I kinda felt bad. Pretty neat to see it mentioned in a Fact Boi video, as anytime I’ve relayed that story, no one had heard of the disease. Great job to the author of the script! (I haven’t finished the video, so I’m not sure who it was. I would guess Danny or Katie.)
Edit: Ah! It was Kevin all along 😂
0:50 woah, hang on a minute! If that's what it looks like normally, what on earth is it like when he's excited?! Good god...
I mean... He does talk about bellends now and then...
25 years of being an OR nurse, I only saw situs inversus once. However, I was also told that Meckel's Diverticulum was exceptionally rare and I've seen about 20 of them! Seen 5 bezoars also.
This is an absolutely perfect thing to have come out on a Friday. I stopped the video for a while so I could get out for a latte, and owing to the format if I forgot something I heard before I left, wouldn't matter.
Oh my goodness, has it really been an hour? I did fast forward a few minutes on a couple of occasions when the condition was too gruesome but I can't believe I kept listening for most of that time. Must be the animated speaking style, that I appreciate! Thanks for a very interesting video.
I've been trying to figure out what I have for years and now suddenly I see exactly what happens to me detailed in number 40 cyclic vomiting syndrome. I'm going to have my doctor test for this and maybe I'll finally be able to get on medication that will help alleviate my symptoms. Thanks Simon
I love these longer videos!
whenever i go to a grocery store chain that is set up the same as all the others of that name, i feel like i can imagine leaving and being in another city. or my sense of NESW direction can flip while in the store.
Never eat soggy waffles.
I definitely have several of these. The last one, more than likely as I have another fact boi video queued up next
I had Exploding Head Syndrome for a long time, around 40 years. For me it was around 6 times a year and sounded like a freight train horn. The experience never bothered me, but I didn't know it was an actual thing. I just thought it was something else wrong with me. It went away a few years ago as far as I can tell, after seeing Simon's first video on the topic and doing some research afterward. It seems that having it acknowledged and learning a bit about it really can make it go away.
Now if only I could stop becoming paralyzed before I've fully fallen asleep. I wonder if that has a name too?
Why are your "Sideprojects" longer than your "main projects"? Asking for a friend. Keep those memes coming.
Also watched the whole thing in a sitting. Your audience demands ENCORE!
I suffer from sleep issues, one of which is the exploding head syndrome, and it is extremely annoying.
I also have issues with sleep paralysis, but I don't get the hallucination, instead my anxiety takes over and I play the "what if" game, like what if the house catches on fire and I can't get out because I can't move, or what if something happens to a pet and I can't go and help them because I can't move.
It takes me a bit to calm myself and just try and focus on just moving a toe, and then eventually my foot, before then my leg so I can kick myself over and wake the rest of my body up, it takes a lot of effort to do this though.
I also sometimes struggle with night terrors.
And also most nights my body believes that we don't need more than around 3-4 maybe up to 5 hours of sleep.
I typically (not always though) can fall asleep easily, my issue is I don't stay asleep.
I am going for a sleep study test in a couple months though.
I've had exploding head syndrome for maybe 10 years by this time. I'm currently 34 years old. It happens few and far between, but is very distinct and forces my eye to slam open when it happens. Maybe once to three times a year it happens, but I've had noises in my head that are like a cymbal crashing, a gunshot, or someone yelling my name super loud. My name being yelled is the most common one. It freaked me out for years before I finally found out what it was.
Same here. Hearing my name yelled is also the most common for me but I've also had the gunshot and loud door-knocking. It's rare but super annoying.
I had a dream where my dog was explaining quantum mechanics over coffee and a cigarette.
When I woke up I told him that if he was going to smoke he'd have to do it in the garage.
I’ve had it several times over the years. It’s usually either a blast of my Shiba’s scream, or my name being called as if someone is yelling at the top of their lungs mere inches from my ear. Tears me out of sleep feeling like I narrowly avoided getting hit by a train.
My Shiba crossed the rainbow bridge, though, so now it kinda hits different when I hear that shrill scream out of nowhere.
Not surprised I’ve got something weird going on, though. Had migraines since preschool and have sleepwalked and had sleep paralysis at different times in my life. Something up there clearly isn’t working quite right.
I've 100% definitely been diagnosed with Factboius Fixation. No known treatment, and my cats are constantly complaining that I'm late with their swpr. The struggle is real. 👓
Kinda neat to see some of my issues on here!
I really hope there's a cure for the last one, before there are even more channels
I did watch the whole thing so thanks for the last fascinating condition!
On another note, I only watched this as my mental health is stable at the moment.
If it wasn't, my tendency towards hypocrondriacism, and yes I think I made up that word, would be exploding.
I realize that #50, Factboius Fixation, was intended as a joke. I know Simon used to refer to himself as "Fact Boy" sometimes.
Aside from the joke-sounding name though, it sounds like a condition that might really exist!
Maybe it is a Form of Platonomania (erotomania but platonic) ... wait. I think the Kids today call this "a parasocial relationship" 😅
I had exploding head syndrome in college. It literally sounded like someone slamming a cabinet shut really hard right next to my head. It would startle me awake, and then I would go back to bed. I was also sleepwalking at the time, which has always been stress-related, so my doctor figured it was related to stress, too. Once I graduated, both went away.
I experienced an instance of exploding head syndrome around one to two years ago - it was incredibly startling.
I have gluten psychosis and had to go to the hospital and while in psychiatric treatment, I got diagnosed with celiac.
EHS (exploding head syndrome is absolutely reoccurring. I suffered from it for 4-5 years. Every single night i would start to drift off and i would get woken up by the sound, light & a feeling of instant pressure build from within my skull. It was caused by abuse of opioid painkillers. I have no idea why but i assume it was due to a miss communication within my brain where i was tired enough to start falling sleep but there was still high brain activity going on from the opioids.
It disappeared after a few years despite still suffering from opiate abuse there after.
Please like this for anyone who has severe refractory “allergic” conditions so they can see this (potential solution explained below), such as chronic inducible urticaria. If your allergy meds or immunosuppressants aren’t working, please please talk to your doctor about monoclonal antibodies (xolair, dupixent, ilaris, etc…). I struggled for years with life threatening cold urticaria & allergies, and no known medication worked (I tried EVERYTHING + experimental studies) until ilaris (IL-1 inhibitor). Please ask your doctor about these if you’re struggling with severe allergies or urticaria, refractory to standard meds (like antihistamines); only 2 injections into my treatment and it’s been life changing for me.
I've experienced EHS... it's absolutely terrifying
I could hear Simon's face chance at the end and I love it
I need more. I crave more knowledge Simon. I want more KNOWLEDGE
You should have elaborated more on the Factboius fixation. Like: Patients suffer from having an attention span of under three minutes, need to be supplied with facts constantly, regardless of them being of any use, and display withdrawal symptoms if the stream of information is unavailable for longer than twelve hours.
I have mild prosopagnosia (face blindness). I have to meet someone 3 or 4 times before their face sticks in my mind. It can be a bit embarrassing sometimes.
19:21 didn’t know I had aphantasia until 4 years ago. So much made sense afterwards. Still dream very very vividly.
Many with aphantasia also have more accurate memory as they don’t imagine things that weren’t there and instead remember it as a list of facts.
25:05
Okay. Bowing out now. Too many things that sound like problems I've developed after some injuries including head injury 😅
42:34 Ive had that on a couple of fever trips its realy weird u just be chilling the sudenly it just looks like your schrinking quite the weird expierience actually scared me a couple of times as a kid
I have aphantasia and I actually dream the same way my imagination works. Everything is abstract, and if I try to "look" at something I just end up getting frustrated because it doesnt work.
I have acquired aphantasia following brain surgery. I knew I had lost my ability to picture things in my mind, but it's only recently that science has caught up and given it a name. It's been 15 years now, so I've basically forgotten what it was like pre-aphantasia.
I have EHS. It can happen as you wake up too. I usually hear a door slam, a loud door knock, or a doorbell ring. Sometimes it's other less distinct loud sounds but usually those three things.
I do too, i thought it was a normal thing everyone had ... I always hear a loud bang, kinda like a firework... the more you know
I often get a doorbell ring and door slam. It took me a long time to work out what it was because while I heard it, my cats didn't react when they normally did.
@winterzee yeah, I have to lay there for a minute and try to decide if someone is really trying to get my attention at the door or if it was all in my head 😂
I used to get the smell of gas with it. I had the gas company out in the middle of the night several times sure there was a leak but it was just my narcolepsy aiding and abetting the process because why not? Basically I had to ignore the smell every night until it stopped happening. Ehs still happens though.
I can also hear myself swallow and blink and can "click" my ears. I didn't know this wasn't true for everyone until my 30s.
I also get someone calling my name, almost like screaming it to wake me up
1:01:00 Simon trying his hardest to keep a straight face and not laugh. Good one Jevin.
I had pica when my haemoglobin levels got insanely low, I'd crave ice and chalk like crazy, playing mine craft would make me so hungry from the digging dirt sounds, it went away after I got an iron infusion
I’ve heard ringing bells just before falling asleep, wasn’t too loud but watching the part about EHS brought back some memories
I get a really loud bang which shocks me, but only when my neck is twisted in a way which would give me a severe headache if I tried to sleep like that. Or if my breathing is obstructed, if I remember right. It's rare.
I get doors banging & one particular daughter shouting 'mom'. Drives me crazy 😅
I get loud bangs or crashes or someone calling my name, yet he said it should only happen once or twice a lifetime, mine happens about once a month or two
@@reapersritehand Oof! I think when mine started, it might have been about once a month or 6 weeks. Sometimes it was a loud doorbell instead of a bang. Taking a bit better care of myself has reduced the frequency to the point where I was surprised it happened once this year, but I'm not quite sure which of my many life changes have helped.
When I'm wearing earbuds and there is silence for a long period of time I will hear vague orchestra music. Like piano and violins down the street. It's weird.
Had exploding head syndrome for years. But haven’t had it recently. It sucks because it causes adrenaline rush after it happens. Not great for falling back to sleep.
48:53 i have this and it’s so ducking traumatizing each time I get sick bc i never know if another cycle is gonna happen (had a cycle lasting 7 months and between 5-15 episodes a day)
I've experienced exploding head syndrome. Didn't know it was a thing.
I've also experienced musical ear syndrome which while being annoying it was also interesting to see how effective the unconscious mind is at creating music despite little to no skill at playing an instrument.
I suffer from a few of these conditions, Conversion Disorder being the most debilitating. I learned of a new one I thought was just a normal thing for everyone, Geographic Tongue.
I think I have the EHS one. Like once or twice a year as Im dosing off its like a jolt of electricity surges through my brain. Pretty scary the first few times it happened
57:05 I experienced this a lot as a small child. I remember hiding under my blankets because I thought they were “good bacteria” and “bad bacteria” coming to get me.
That last one about binge watching fact boi videos -- how'd you know?! Probably neither of us wants to know how many of your videos I've watched in the last week😆!
My older son was born very prematurely and ended up with severe cerebral palsy brought on by a massive brain bleed when he was 2 days old. Subsequent CT scans show he has no corpus callosum. While I have no idea whether he has a form of alien hand syndrome, he has almost no control over his left arm. If he wants to move it somehow, he has to grab it with his right hand and pull. (Not that his right side is normal. He has virtually no fine motor control.)
I have VSS (migraines / tinnitus too) :)
suffered from cvc too but that went away.
You mean it can actually be cured? I've been suffering from what I'm sure is CVS for years now and I feel as if it's never going to end
I took the whole hour in and almost bought that BS at the end. 😂
Factboius Fixation :D
Lmao
I actually missed bits as I used this as part education and part sleep assistance (asmr). Multiple tarlov cysts on my spinal cord, multiple work injuries, chronic pain causing sleep to be intermittent.
I have aphantasia! It was always weird when people said to visualise stuff in the “minds eye” until i learned that aphantasia was a thing. (I cant visualise anything in minds eye, as per the description in this video)
I also have some face blindness though its pretty mild and only happens for random people or acquaintances.
Aphantasia is likely far more common than what was specified given that it can vary in whether someone can picture something in their mind at all or can do so with some effort. Personally I struggle to picture things in my mind and what I do picture is more a memory of a picture rather than a visualisation. I also do not have a inner monologue (anaduralia) which most people apparently have even though I do sometimes have conversations in my mind as a means of preparing for difficult conversations (and sometimes I even come to a conclusion that I think is most likely and do not even bother with the actual conversation lol).
On a side note I also have the cilantro gene which also affect the taste of celery (celery tastes like vegetation to me and I find the flavour overpowering even if the amount of celery in the dish is minute). I don't have the asparagus one that makes your urine smell like bad breath (apparently caused by the metabolism of a compound called asparagusic acid).
A friend of mine has severe face blindness. She once almost took home the wrong little boy from preschool, because the kid was wearing a red shirt and blue shorts. Now the school staff know to take her child and lead him straight to her car, so there will be no more mixups. My friend's husband is a great "seeing eye dog", and announces the names of people as they come into the room. He'll say something like "Hey Bob, good to see you. That green tie is pretty snazzy." From there, his wife can track who's in the room. If Bob comes over the next day in a purple tie, he'll have to be reintroduced.
I've experienced Alice in Wonderland syndrome twice in my life, (maybe not the syndrome, but the hallucinations). During the falloff to sleep and during a dream about gym class lol. I felt infinitely large while infinitely small. It was wild and felt somewhat like a roller coaster.
I definitely have that last one! Should I see a Dr or just subscribe to the channel?
I have aphantasia, and didn’t know what it was until recently or that it’s not normal lol. I can describe what my mum looks like, I know what she looks like, but I can’t bring up an “image” in my head of her.
So glad there is a Simon and crew
I have exploding head disorder, I find that it usually happens when I'm ridiculously tired and start falling asleep quicker than normal
I have aphantasia. I didn't realise until late on in my life until everyone around me said they could mentally visualise objects. I also have the gene that makes coriander taste soapy 😂
Had EHS or similar a few times. Fast asleep then I hear three large loud, what seem like knocks on a door and I'm awake. Very bizarre
Born Mainer, also second gen American with grandparents straight from Qubec I’ve never heard of jumping Frenchmen now I have to spend part of my day reading about this lol
Sacre bleu!
I experienced sleep paralysis a couple months ago, that was quite scary.
Thankyou for mentioning the condition Uner Tan Syndrome. I watched a documentary that kept calling what they were suffering from "De Evelution" and comparing them to monkeys. I wanted to reach back in time to the filming of that video and slap the scientists for treating them so rudely.
Interesting Fact about “Exploding Head Syndrome”: Morphine, specifically, and it’s derivatives (codeine etc) was studied for causing this in patients, while other opioids didnt. The most reported phenomenon patients had was the sense of somebody screaming their name inches from their ear, jolting them awake.
So maybe this could point us in the right direction as to what it’s caused from, some neurotransmitter imbalance or something possibly
A friend I lived with experienced this one night, too. And later when I experienced it while sleeping on morphine, let me just tell you… it’s lucidly terrifying.
I can vividly recall waking up, still feeling the breathe blowing on your ear. The sensation is so real, it really rattles you to your core.
Let alone the weird, dystopian sleep realm opoids give you (feeling of love and bliss while awake, gloomy nightmares of nothingness and nowhere-ness as you sleep), it’s terrifying for something to feel so real that isn’t
I have what I guess would be partial Situs Inversus, but, in me they’ve always just called it Mirror-Image Dextrocardia. My heart is on the right side of my chest and flipped around backwards. Everything else is, more or less, in the right place, which makes me more rare. Usually if one thing is flipped, everything is flipped (although I did just recently find out that my spleen is also in the wrong place).
20:13 "under the influence of gluten" is a phrase i never thought i would hear
Oh, so there's a name for it! EHS! I get these bright flashes and loud noises about once a month or more. It's not extreme, but it does stop me from falling asleep in that moment of course. It is definitely not just once or twice in a lifetime...
I have number 50 proudly lol great job as always
2:50 allergic to kids I’m running wild with this one 😂 4:46 culture shock yup move from a giant metro to a poedunk hicktown 😂
I suffer from a severe case of factboius fixation, and my big concern is that it might be contagious. It might be some sort of delusion on my part, but I feel like even telling people about it could cause the condition to spread, like some sort of memetic disease. Is there any research into whether I should worry about this?
Yoo I have exploding head syndrome fairly often. It's awful. Sometimes it even leaves my ears hurting which doesn't make a lot of sense either 😅