[UA] Would you like gas with those fries?

[Liam Astley]

From: "Nick Wedig" <mrteapot at disinfo.net>
Subject: Re: [UA] Would you like gas with those fries?...was Ears, nostrils,
mouth, eyes . . . hm, needs one more hole . . .


> (I'm not certain where, but I remember reading about the hallucinations
associated with said event mainly being of women, which is what reminded me,
but now I can't find a source to back that up.)
>

i think the condition itself causes people to see "dark shapes" and feel
like something/someone is sitting on their chest. the idea of it being a
woman probably isn't an aspect of the condition itself but the feeding in of
traditional myths and legends about evil female spirits, ie witches,
succubi, fairies, etc

weirdy sleep conditions reminds me of a cool thing i read a while back. a
comic writer (can't remember his name, he did that steampunk thing) was
talking about a condition he has called hypno-something (yes, i know this
story is missing several key words already). basically it caused his
subconscious to carry on firing off randomly for about ten minutes or so
after he'd woken up and his conscious took over. this would cause him to
carry on seeing and hearing the sort of mad shit that normally gets reserved
for dreams, like little gnomes dancing round his bed or strange faces
peering through the walls at him. sort of like the "funky hallucinations"
part of schizophrenia without the "depressive psychosis" part. bonus!


liam


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