talking with someone who has a brain injury is very difficult! everything they're saying makes perfect sense to them and they can't figure out why everyone is pretending not to understand them
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Replying to @browserdotsys
I had an experience kind of like that after a period of school-driven extended sleep deprivation where I was told to get dressed and I couldn’t figure out what that entailed but I felt like I should pretend to
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Replying to @cuniiform @browserdotsys
it kind of feels like the call to the part of your brain that’s supposed to tell you what to do timed out but because it didn’t actually come back with “I don’t know” there’s no backup procedure
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right, my overall impression of the brain is that it has ~0 capacity for telling when things aren't working right, and almost limitless ability to fabricate things so that everything seems "normal"
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Replying to @browserdotsys @cuniiform
I wonder if it is possible to train for emergencies (stroke, injury, mania, dementia) while we are still functional
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I'm guessing that the answer to that is NO.
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Not obvious. I have learned lucid dreaming by frequently alerting myself to the possibility that I might be dreaming, even if nothing indicates that I do, until I reflexively began to consider that in dreams as well
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