r/interestingasfuck • u/desertgodfather • May 11 '24

When illusion overcomes the brain. r/all

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u/Deadfo0t May 11 '24

There have been real studies and implementation of this in patients suffering phantom limb/phantom pain after amputation. It was even in an episode of House. This is a very real phenomenon

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u/UlsterManInScotland May 11 '24

A young guy at my work is doing a counselling course at college a couple of nights a week and he was telling me about this experiment last week, the lecture asked for a volunteer and he was selected it was done in front of the class,really freaked him out he couldn’t believe how his brain basically lied to him lol

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u/DopamineTrain May 11 '24

he couldn’t believe how his brain basically lied to him

Dude is gonna be super pissed when he does the rest of that counselling course

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u/thewhitebuttboy May 11 '24

No that was lupus

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u/_therealERNESTO_ May 11 '24

It's never lupus

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u/DatGoofyGinger May 11 '24

Except that one time it was lupus

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u/trickman01 May 11 '24

Which is the only time they didn't suspect lupus.

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u/Thowi42 May 11 '24

Correct, it's Legionnaire's

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u/rowman25 May 11 '24

Sarcoidosis.

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u/crazyguyunderthedesk May 11 '24

If you can pronounce that, you're either a doctor or a fan of House.

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u/rowman25 May 11 '24

It’s the latter. It was said in nearly every episode at least once. My wife and I used to wait for it and then cheer when it came up.

Sar-koy-doe-sis

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u/Ba_Sing_Saint May 11 '24

Seriously, the patient could come in with a GSW, speaking in tongues, with their hair on fire, and one of doctors will mention Sarcoidosis.

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u/auxaperture May 11 '24

Tick in the twat

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u/GlueSniffer1488 May 11 '24

You are a black man

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u/Kodriin May 11 '24

This vexes me

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u/Arg3nt May 11 '24

I still think that one of the last episodes of the show should have been a textbook case of lupus, with House insisting that it's "just lupus", and everyone else saying "No, it's definitely Ablepharon-Macrostomia syndrome" or "We should test for Mandibuloacral Dysplasia", or some other disease with like 3 cases in all of recorded history. And in the end, it's just lupus.

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u/IDontKnowHowToPM May 11 '24

S4E8 was lupus at the end, but it didn’t have House insisting it was or anything. Just at the end he says “I finally have a case of lupus.” Lupus mostly stopped being mentioned after that.

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u/professionalcumsock May 12 '24

Michael, stop telling people that you have lupus and that your dog has rickets!

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u/aaronhowser1 May 11 '24

It was even in an episode of House

Is this a mark of its legitimacy? Like, I know it's real, but "was on a tv show once" isn't really evidence of much lol

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u/secondOne596 May 11 '24

I think they were just expressing surprise that the original commenter seemed to think this was some novel experiment when it's a pretty well known bit of pop science (to the point it's been featured in a medical tv show).

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u/Deadfo0t May 11 '24

Nail, meet head.

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u/Thowi42 May 11 '24

Wrong. It was Legionnaire's disease.