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Alien Hand Syndrome

Zachspyfox033Zachspyfox033
edited July 2009 in Tales of Monkey Island
This is a real medical condition in which a person's hand has a mind of its own and they can't control it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_hand_syndrome

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  • SilverwolfpetSilverwolfpet
    edited July 2009
    Whoah!! Awkward, dude! It's like a new form of schizophrenia, or split personality disorder... This must be discussed!
  • DangerzoneDangerzone
    edited July 2009
    It wasn't me officer... it's my hand! :rolleyes:

    You have just given about 1000 kids a new excuse for shoplifting.
  • EverlastEverlast
    edited July 2009
    Its due to split brain. When you receive a brain damage that hurts the corpus callosum, (Which is the one that enables the 2 hemisphere to to communicate w/ each other). It says this things can happen.

    Poor Guybrush it may not be a voodo hex after all, but brain damage due to a naval accident.
  • SilverwolfpetSilverwolfpet
    edited July 2009
    :))) Guybrush brain damage... makes me laugh!

    ...actually that would be sad...

    I go now and think of my dark sense of humor.
  • EverlastEverlast
    edited July 2009
    Silverwolfpet wrote: »
    :))) Guybrush brain damage... makes me laugh!

    ...actually that would be sad...

    I go now and think of my dark sense of humor.

    Can we expect a new production for the 2nd episode like u and some others did for the 1st?
  • SilverwolfpetSilverwolfpet
    edited July 2009
    Everlast wrote: »
    Can we expect a new production for the 2nd episode like u and some others did for the 1st?

    Hmmm...
    It is a little off-topic, but if you want you can open a new thread and we can discuss all about it. :) Short answer: Maybe I'm working on something as we speak. ;)
  • thatdude98thatdude98
    edited July 2009
    that's stinking crazy!

    *@*

    The hand syndrome, i mean.
  • WDerangedWDeranged
    edited July 2009
    I've seen videos of Alien Hand Syndrome on youtube, it's pretty freaky, looks like actual possession :eek:
  • LuigiHannLuigiHann
    edited July 2009
    This was on House not long ago. Freaky stuff.
  • light_riseslight_rises
    edited July 2009
    Everlast wrote: »
    Its due to split brain. When you receive a brain damage that hurts the corpus callosum, (Which is the one that enables the 2 hemisphere to to communicate w/ each other). It says this things can happen.

    So what they really meant all along was that you shouldn't let your left brain know what your right brain is doing?

    *RIMSHOT*

    Thank you, thank you, I'm here till Thursday!

    On a more serious note ... that sounds like one bizarre and frightening condition to actually live with. There's good reason the idea of one's hand (or other body parts, for that matter) becoming possessed by forces beyond one's control has persisted throughout different cultures and eras -- it's pretty much universal nightmare fuel, if you think about the real life implications enough. *shudders*
  • coolsomecoolsome
    edited July 2009
    Id love an evil hand mabey it can win fights like the bar scene so i can stop getting my ass kicked in fights
  • PirateUnwrittenPirateUnwritten
    edited July 2009
    Poor girls... The pervs will finally have something to defend themselves with :D
  • Secret FawfulSecret Fawful
    edited July 2009
    I apologize for my hand, ladies. Sometimes he can be a bit crass. ;)
  • meandermeander
    edited July 2009
    Wikipedia wrote:
    For example, one patient was observed putting a cigarette into her mouth with her intact, 'controlled' hand (her right, dominant hand), following which her alien, non-dominant, left hand came up to grasp the cigarette, pull the cigarette out of her mouth, and toss it away before it could be lit by the controlled, dominant, right hand. The patient then surmised that "I guess 'he' doesn't want me to smoke that cigarette."

    Hmm... sounds very similar to our favourite poxed pirate! It must be awful to have in real life tho.
  • thesporkmanthesporkman
    edited July 2009
    Given the complex and intricate nature of the actions the alien hand is capable of performing, it almost seems as though the part of the brain controlling it has its own unique, sophisticated, sentient, self-aware consciousness. Now, it's pretty scary to think about your hand being out of your control, but imagine how horrifying it would be to be the part of the brain controlling the hand! :eek: From this entity's perspective, every part of its body except its hand is out-of-control. Someone else is walking around, talking to people, and living your life, and you're completely alone and isolated in your own little section of the brain; your only hope of contacting the outside world and letting people know there's someone in there is by seizing control of the one part of your body you seem to have any influence over...
  • pilouuuupilouuuu
    edited July 2009
    Is that what Dr. Strangelove had?
  • EverlastEverlast
    edited July 2009
    light_rises wrote: »
    So what they really meant all along was that you shouldn't let your left brain know what your right brain is doing?

    *RIMSHOT*

    Thank you, thank you, I'm here till Thursday!

    On a more serious note ... that sounds like one bizarre and frightening condition to actually live with. There's good reason the idea of one's hand (or other body parts, for that matter) becoming possessed by forces beyond one's control has persisted throughout different cultures and eras -- it's pretty much universal nightmare fuel, if you think about the real life implications enough. *shudders*

    Its the opposite, people with split brain syndrome its the inability of right and left hemisphere to comunicate. Our brain works crosslateral, meaning that the right hemisphere of your brain controls the left side of your body, and the left hemisphere controls the right side of your body. The corpus Callosum is the one that communicates what part of your body is doing which order. Split brain happen with traffic accidents or head traumas, strokes and brain operations. I know this because im getting my Psy.D in psychology.
  • wispwisp
    edited July 2009
    i once read an article that mentioned test were performed to "cure" epilepsy by cutting the corpus callosum. this also resulted in severe alien hand syndrome, some patients nearly being strangeled by their own hand during sleep and such...creepy indeed.
    guybrush's hand is different however, because it really has it's own personality, that sometimes takes complete control of his body....
  • Murray the ChaoMurray the Chao
    edited July 2009
    pilouuuu wrote: »
    Is that what Dr. Strangelove had?
    Yes, and it may have been what Peter Pettigrew had as well.
  • SilverwolfpetSilverwolfpet
    edited July 2009
    Well, if we take this to a much deeper lever, it represents a simple yet very efficient way for the uncouncious to manifest itself without fear of cencorship!
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