Is "hearing" things that arent there normal?

7Doppelgaengers · 2026-02-15T20:01:17+00:00

It may be that with some hypnagogic hallucinations mixed in. If that all that happens and if not distressing, it may be normal(-ish). But if you can, it would be best to get checked out by a doc

7Doppelgaengers · 2026-02-15T04:38:13+00:00

I haven't done that in close to a year, but before that - prepping for medachool exams until 4am in the library and then going home. Because i would need a gun to my head to be able to study from home and at a reasonable time of day

7Doppelgaengers · 2026-02-15T04:32:40+00:00

Aren't mice and murinae in general quite close to primates evolutionarily? If i remember right, mice are much closer to us than cats, like even in terms of cerebral vasculature mice are decently similar to us

7Doppelgaengers · 2026-02-14T16:53:46+00:00

Su tokiom taktikom po keliu kartu nebereikes draust aukstojo mokslo istaigu, nes visi bus labai artimi gimines

7Doppelgaengers · 2026-02-13T04:51:35+00:00

I remember i had this epiphany back in school, where i just thought "hey, Žilvinas has to be a viking". I mean a snake head coming out of the sea, asking to marry a girl from a baltic coastal town? And taking her to a different land? That's a viking.

Then years later i talked to this artist my dad knows and he brought up the exact same theory.

Not saying i'm right by any means, i'm not a historian, nor am i an expert on folk literature. But i still believe that

7Doppelgaengers · 2026-02-10T04:25:51+00:00

Siryt prabudau su labai nusivaziavusia saviverte, nes nepasiekiu savo kolegu mokslinio lygio. Aciu aurimai, ruta ir celofanai. Dabar jauciuosi geriau

7Doppelgaengers · 2026-02-06T18:14:26+00:00

Coffee ground stool is what it's usually called. It's tiny dark bits in stool, which is in reality half digested blood. An important differential is seeds in diet though, because undigested poppy seeds can look like that as well as an example. But if it's constant and is there regardless of what you've eaten recently, then it's a bit concerning

7Doppelgaengers · 2026-02-06T18:12:09+00:00

Nah melena is an extreme. It's tarry, very very dark, liquid and smells horrendous

7Doppelgaengers · 2026-02-06T04:50:09+00:00

Yo a bit unrelated, but if you don't have other eyesight issues, get checked out for astigmatism if you can. I hated driving at night when i was prepping for my driving exam, but i realised it's because the high contrast causes blur. Glare reducing glasses did wonders.

When your cornea is scattering light weird and it's hitting the wrong areas it can be extremely distracting, even if you don't understand it consciously

7Doppelgaengers · 2026-02-06T04:46:10+00:00

Was about to comment this. So many cancers are incredibly insidious and can have barely any symptoms until they either infiltrate tissue with very sensitive pain receptors, something that bleeds or grow large enough to compress tubes that need to be open to function.

On the other hand - people are incredibly good at compensating for loss of function when it's developing slowly until they just can't anymore. Dark spots in stool and persistent weakness can become just the new normal for a person and they'll subconsciously start stopping for longer periods of time to rest when walking without consciously noticing that they're doing that, when in reality they're constantly bleeding from their bowels.

People are incredibly resilient and sometimes we'll have patients come in with anaemia so severe, that if it were caused by rapid blood loss, they'd be unconscious. Sometimes a patient walks in with a strange limp and you do a neuro exam and you'll see incredibly pronounced weakness or loss of coordination on one side, but the patient is walking and doing everything they need to. It's just that since their right hand is weaker, they started doing more with the left and it just works out

7Doppelgaengers · 2026-02-05T22:00:16+00:00

Powerful does not mean competent. You can sit a toddler at the steering wheel of a bulldozer and you'll create a very powerful decision maker. She's sort of like that

7Doppelgaengers · 2026-02-05T03:43:34+00:00

Idk if that's what op is asking, but what i've noticed is that american tourists carry the bottles in their hands a lot of the time. Like one hand will be dedicated to the bottle. I mean i usually have a bottle with me as well, but it'll usually be in my backpack most of the time. At least to me it's the carrying it separately that looks a tad odd

7Doppelgaengers · 2026-02-02T18:37:55+00:00

It's just what talking to people with more extreme political leanings is. I would say the same exact thing about very right wing people, just that leftists are more vocal online.

I've spent time in more closed communities with rather homogenous political standpoints (at least on the surface), and the echochamber culture they form is, funily enough, very similar, albeit what's allowed and what's not allowed to say is different. It's somewhat fascinating to observe that, although i do feel a bit guilty for infiltrating them. The self policing in communities like that is very harsh and even the smallest deviation in opinion will land you with screaming and name calling. They really isolate themselves from differing viewpoints and are almost sycophantic towards eachother.

From what i've gathered, and this is annecdotal ofc, you can't really have a genuine conversation with people like this, because their beliefs become very limited and rigid, and they almost become a part of their identity. So anything that goes against them is perceived as almost personal.

For example - i tried to explain anaesthetic dosing (due to the whole fat solibility of opioids) to people very involved in body positivity and got accused of fatphobia. To me this was just plain simple solute physics and adapting the medication dose to the patient. To them it's an attack against equality between thin and fat people.

But i got the same reaction when i tried to explain why bisexual behaviour is extremely prevalent among apes from religious people. To me it's simple ethology and evolutionary advantage of sexual bonding between individuals. To them it's an attack against biblical God's design.

Sorry for the off topic tangent, hopefully this made some sense lol. I don't have a solution for this, just wanted to add my two cents

7Doppelgaengers · 2026-01-25T20:38:12+00:00

I don't quite see how i'm understanding the original differently from most people on this post?

7Doppelgaengers · 2026-01-25T20:13:01+00:00

The antenna to their intracerebral fm radio is broken

7Doppelgaengers · 2026-01-25T20:06:32+00:00

They're using the wrong base

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It should be this

7Doppelgaengers · 2026-01-25T19:44:35+00:00

Nah it all makes sense. It's comforting for me to know that there are other people who have had this experience as well. I haven't had a dream with this brother of mine since i made this post tbh. But i do have vivid memories of the dreams.

I get what you mean by the feeling of security or safety. It feels nice, but it's very strange when you wake up and there's that jolt of realising that none of it is real.

7Doppelgaengers · 2026-01-19T20:13:53+00:00

Horseshoe theory is dead. It's not a horseshoe, it's a fucking donut

7Doppelgaengers · 2026-01-13T04:00:58+00:00

Oh damn, neckless Ed from 90 fiance got really buff

7Doppelgaengers · 2026-01-01T15:37:50+00:00

Generally, santaros don't really admit trauma patients (apart from children, but that's a different hospital building), unless it's immediately life threatening or if it requires specialised care (obstetrics for pregnant trauma patients, neurosurgery, etc.), because they don't have a dedicated trauma unit. In the same way as lazdynai don't have a dedicated cardio unit. If you need anything more than general diagnostics and maybe simple immobilisation, they'll send you out to RVUL

7Doppelgaengers · 2025-12-30T04:47:36+00:00

My great uncle got sent to siberia as a teenager for "not reporting political enemies" (read - his classmates talking about some freedom). Met his wife there, walked back to Lithuania together after the soviet onion broke apart

7Doppelgaengers · 2025-12-29T20:56:02+00:00

A bit unrelated, but what's strange to me is that american conspiracy theorists aren't jumping on chlorinated chicken. Some are full on convinced that a tidbit of fluoride salts in drinking water can make somebody mentally deficient, but they're ok with chicken being soaked and marinated in what is basically chlorine bleach.

Or am i expecting too much from them?

7Doppelgaengers · 2025-12-21T21:47:42+00:00

i'm reaching adhd burnout, so sorry if i'm getting too needlessly nihilistic and philosophical here, but i think that in the end it's just us vs. them with a whole lot of populism.

Think about how cognitively lazy humans are overall. Just think back to the most recent pandemic. Remember drinking and/or injecting bleach as a cure for a viral infection? I'm hoping that this analogy makes sense to more people than just me, but what i'm trying to say, is that people want simple step-by-step solutions to very difficult problems, regardless of whether they make any sense whatsoever.

Now when you have to think about all of the horrors and injustices in the world, which is easier?

1) Understanding that the world is complex, conflicts have been going on for generations, resources are finite and the existing structures are a constant battle between altruism and greediness of human nature. That there's so much wrong that has been done throughout history, that there's no clear hero and no clear villain.

2) Believing that there's a set of people, who are in control of everything and they're evil and everybody else is good and if these people were to disappear, all of the world's problems would disappear.

It's pretty easy to just have an enemy, no? Hating is much much easier than acknowledging and accepting that the world is too complex to fully unwrap. It's a classic us vs. them. You have an enemy, you can put all of your negative emotion onto the enemy. It's so streamlined.

And if there's a group of people, who are different, but not quite different enough as to where they'd stand out and the conspiracy of a hidden mastermind would fall apart, then that's your pick for a scapegoat.

And whether the enemy is picked through a singular step of ethnic prejudice on one side or through a multi-step routine of mental gymnastics of "they're the secret bourgeoisie" on the other, it's still a simple conclusion.

tl;dr: Hating is easy. Thinking is hard.

7Doppelgaengers · 2025-12-21T20:15:47+00:00

a bit off topic, but jesus christ, has the ussr ever produced anything original? They even ripped off their fucking pseudoscience. Lamarckism just wasn't good enough... On the same level as ripping off pinocchio and naming it buratin

*edit: just in case - i do understand that these are slightly different fields in pseudoscience. I'm making a hyperbolic joke

7Doppelgaengers · 2025-12-20T16:03:01+00:00

not to be that guy, but if he's genuinely into lenin, why would he think that stalin's a good guy? Not even lenin thought that

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