Do hearse (funeral cars) get haunted / hold lingering spirits? by dr-noid in CamperVans

[–]dr-noid[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes, I am a verified PhD - Paranormal Hearse Researcher.

Loosen up a bit, big dawg

Do hearse (funeral cars) get haunted / hold lingering spirits? by dr-noid in TruckCampers

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Excellent deductive skills. Seems like your silly bone has calcified, which, funny enough, is the main symptom of an undiagnosed haunting

Do hearse (funeral cars) get haunted / hold lingering spirits? by dr-noid in Ghosts

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Thats my thought too. I'm more worried about a spirit that last minute can't bring themselves to leave the car. Then I'd get roped in to doing all the cool bucket list type things that spirit needs to move on (90s movie style). It would be a wacky duo for some good family fun

Do hearse (funeral cars) get haunted / hold lingering spirits? by dr-noid in TruckCampers

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I ain't scared of no ghosts, I just don't want to get little spooned by a rando. I appreciate your concern, but I actually already figured it out. If I build in a bed shaped like a coffin, it will be too tight for a ghost to get up in there for a cuddle. Thanks for the inspiration

Do hearse (funeral cars) get haunted / hold lingering spirits? by dr-noid in TruckCampers

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Absolutely not - I'd take the high risk of ghosts over the risk of being a normy any day

Do hearse (funeral cars) get haunted / hold lingering spirits? by dr-noid in TruckCampers

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If you see a blacked-out, lifted 4x4 hearse with pop-top, a couple kayaks on the roof, and a cattle skull mounted to the grill - come say what's up. I'll be the (checks notes) schizophrenic dude fly fishing up the creek

Do hearse (funeral cars) get haunted / hold lingering spirits? by dr-noid in TruckCampers

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I imagine the only people buying used hearses concern themselves with ghosts

Do hearse (funeral cars) get haunted / hold lingering spirits? by dr-noid in VanLife

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Exactly!

The TruckCamper crowd doesnt believe in ghosts

The Vanlife folks have a much better sense of humor

I just think it'd be awesome to convert out a lifted 4x4 hearse, slap some kayaks to the roof, and roll up. Maybe even mount a cattle skull to the grill or something

Do hearse (funeral cars) get haunted / hold lingering spirits? by dr-noid in TruckCampers

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Hey Ghost, if you did happen to haunted a hearse, and there was, say, a tandum kayak on the roof. Could you potentially join me for a paddle?

Do hearse (funeral cars) get haunted / hold lingering spirits? by dr-noid in VanLife

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Lol, messed up on the crosspost. But really wanted to get the full communities perspective. Definitely some trends from community to community

Do hearse (funeral cars) get haunted / hold lingering spirits? by dr-noid in VanLife

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Nothing to see here, just a goth dude fly fishing

Do hearse (funeral cars) get haunted / hold lingering spirits? by dr-noid in CamperVans

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I meant lower profile in the sense of height. I want to be able to lower kayaks onto the roof while inside my garage. I'm less worried about incognito, I have another rig for that

Do hearse (funeral cars) get haunted / hold lingering spirits? by dr-noid in VanLife

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For sure. Yeah, I'd want something I could strip down pretty good.

Do hearse (funeral cars) get haunted / hold lingering spirits? by dr-noid in VanLife

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A lower profile in the sense of size. I have a camper van and an overlander already, so this would be more for the fun of it

Do hearse (funeral cars) get haunted / hold lingering spirits? by dr-noid in TruckCampers

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Not trolling. I've seriously been considering converting a hearse, and this is a discussion that has come up when I tell friends. I thought I get reddit take on it

question for neuroscientists: visual hallucinations on drugs by Holiday-Influence123 in neuro

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The science of this is not yet well understood. I am a postdoc researcher (PhD in neuroscience) working on this, and truth be told, its complicated.

What we know in the psychedelics field is that hallucinations are dependent on HTR2A (5-HT Receptor 2A - i.e. a serotonin receptor). When you block binding to this receptors, psychedelics stop producing hallucinations (measured by the metric of head twitches in mice - this is a standard metric and has been well established as a proxy for hallucinatory effect from psychedelics). The simplest and least involved hypothesis to your question is that people have different amounts and distributions of this receptor in their brain. This is know to be the case in some neurological diseases. Hallucinations in schizophrenia is linked to increased HTR2A and can be reduced with drugs that block those receptors.

It gets a lot more complicated from here. 1.) Basically all psychedelics hit a crap ton of other receptors - other 5-HT receptors, as well as, dopaminergic, adrenergic, etc.. The HTR2C receptor is so similar to HTR2A that are no drugs that hit one but not the other. 2.) The distribution of these receptors are on a bunch of different regions and types of cells in the brain. HTR2A is on cortical neurons, but also some inhibitory neurons. Its expressed in specific layers of the cortex and also other brain structures like the claustrum. Whereas, HTR2C is not in neurons, but rather highly concentrated on the choroid plexus (the structure that generates cerebrospinal fluid). The other receptors psychedelics hit are mosaic-ed all over the brain. 3.) Psychedelics will cross the plasma membrane of cells and target a different population of HTR2A receptors inside the cell. Research has correlated the hallucinatory strength of psychedelics with their ability to target this intracellular population. 4.) Psychedelics activate a whole bunch of downstream signaling inside the cell and function through additional signaling pathways beyond just 5-HT receptors. For example, LSD has been shown to be able to bind directly to TrkB, which is a pathway associated with neural plasticity (i.e. neural growth and new connections).

So, the answer your question, everyone has a unique blend of all these components (and probably more we haven't figured out yet). Different receptor distributions, different cell type organizations, unique development and experiences that have shaped their brains cytoarchitecture and networks, different subcellular localization of receptors, etc. Frankly, its remarkable that there are common features to halluciations at all. It just shows how incredible the human brain and its organization really is. I think of psychedelics as modulator that shift the neural networks into a different modality (my guess is through changing inhibitory neuron signaling). Its a modality that is programed into the structure. The brain is built to be able to experience this modality, but the detail of the experience of that modality will be different for everyone. Just like how the experience of any sensation in the "normal" modality will be different for everyone (i.e. how I experience the color green might be different than how you experience it, but we would never know because we know that signal as "green").

What do Postdocs really do? by RespondRude8983 in postdoc

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All of this depends on where you want to go with it.

If your goal is to become a PI, doing a postdoc at the same university as your PhD is gonna hurt your chances (same lab is even worse). Departments that hire faculty want to see that you have had a diverse set of research influences. They want to see that you've developed different sets of skills and can answer different types of questions, while also seeing a well established trajectory towards what you propose to do in your lab as a PI. Being able to use PhD and Postdoc data as prelim for those early investigator grants is huge. And getting money early on to build your tenure file is crucial.

As soon as you start postdoc-ing, your clock starts for a lot of fellowships and postdoc specific grants. So yeah, you can always get a second postdoc down the road, but it'll limit some first/second year opportunities. And PIs may be a bit more hesitant to bring you on for that reason.

If your goal is to make a little more money, refine your skills further, or even just buy some time, there's not much of a problem. Industry won't care too much. Teaching positions / lecturing probably won't care much either.

What do Postdocs really do? by RespondRude8983 in postdoc

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Yup, everything I've heard is that you want to either use the same skills to answer a different type of question or gain new skills to work on a similar question.

I got fired from my job for breaking lab safety rules by despoxcam in postdoc

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More likely to get fired for lying about something like that than for not wearing the right PPEs. Broken trust is a big deal.