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Posted on Twitter from a thread on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/bghyv5/this_picture_is_designed_to_give_the_viewer_the/ https://
by pgl 7y ago
Posted on Twitter from a thread on Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/bghyv5/this_picture_is_designed_to_give_the_viewer_the/ https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/bghyv5/t...
From the thread's title:
> This picture is designed to give the viewer the simulated experience of having a stroke (particularly in the occipital lobe of the cerebral cortex, where visual perception occurs.) Everything looks hauntingly familiar but you just can't quite recognize anything
- philwelch 7y agoWell, now I know what's going on if the real world starts looking like that. And I bet it will sound like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8
- el_benhameen 7y agoThis is one of the more delightful things I’ve come across on the internet. I always end up watching it all the way through. It’s remarkably catchy!
- TomMckenny 7y agoOh, that's Geordie.
- lqet 7y agoAfter a little therapy, it will sound like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLrnkK2YEcE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLrnkK2YEcE
- deleted 7y ago[deleted]
- matt-attack 7y agoThat song is brilliant. I think the video detracts a bit. I recommend just listening to it. My understanding is that it's entirely comprised of sampled clips. A triumph of sound engineering.
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- aasasd 7y agoI mean, Coldcut, DJ Shadow and the like were making sample-fests in the early 90s. The word is, Shadow's sampler of choise MPC60 can hold only something like 12 or 16 samples at a time, so the magic was him making ‘Endtroducing’ out of that.
- RandomBacon 7y agoFor anyone wondering what that is: > The song is intended to sound to its Italian audience as if it is sung in English spoken with an American accent, vaguely reminiscent of Bob Dylan, but the lyrics are deliberately unintelligible gibberish with the exception of the words "all right". Celentano's intention with the song was not to create a humorous novelty song but to explore communication barriers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisencolinensinainciusol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisencolinensinainciusol
- Mirioron 7y agoKeep in mind though that strokes (and ministrokes) come in many forms. They can affect most brain functions and sometimes you won't even be aware of them.
- aasasd 7y agoA ‘more accurate’ simulation: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Vt4Dfa4fOEY https://youtube.com/watch?v=Vt4Dfa4fOEY And another: https://youtube.com/watch?v=yU2wkD-gbzI https://youtube.com/watch?v=yU2wkD-gbzI
- layoutIfNeeded 7y agoCitation needed. It looks to me like a random deep dream pic.
- taneq 7y agoYeah, that was my first guess. Either a photo that'd been fed through Deep Dream, or a style transfer from one photo to another random photo.
- panic 7y agoI don't think that reddit thread is the original source. Someone in the thread links to a larger-sized image which appears to be from https://funnyjunk.com/Cognitohazard/pxMTMck/ https://funnyjunk.com/Cognitohazard/pxMTMck/. EDIT: here's an even earlier source, from over a week ago (note: thread contains other strange but mostly safe for work images) http://boards.4channel.org/x/thread/22512161/cursed-image-thread#p22515583 http://boards.4channel.org/x/thread/22512161/cursed-image-th.... 512x512 seems like a more likely size for the image to have been generated at, at least. EDIT 2: here's yet an earlier source, from March 10: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu2IkGylneb/ https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu2IkGylneb/. Someone in the Twitter thread mentioned this as being the original source.
- mirimir 7y agoDamn, reminds me of rotten.com ;) This guy[0] is in pretty good shape. Albeit likely drunk and "watch this!" stupid. 0) https://i.4cdn.org/x/1555284615304.webm https://i.4cdn.org/x/1555284615304.webm
- iDemonix 7y agoThere's not much point linking to 4chan images, they disappear fairly quickly.
- mirimir 7y agoOh. Didn't know that https://i.4cdn.org https://i.4cdn.org is 4chan.
- VintageCool 7y agoHere is a more permanent link to the video with sound https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwAqHTFHpAY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwAqHTFHpAY
- screye 7y agoThat's ZooMass for you. Times were different then.
- ktpsns 7y ago> [...] simulated experience of having a stroke (particularly in the occipital lobe of the cerebral cortex, where visual perception occurs.) [...] That sounds pretty scientific. Does anybody have a (citable) reference or scientific publication where this was published? Would like to read more about it.
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- tapland 7y agoI wouldn't trust that title from reddit one bit unless there is a better resource making that claim. The picture has an ear in it, so I guess someone merged two wildly different pictures in GANbreeder and the redditor just took it for some internet upvotes.
- madaxe_again 7y agoI've experienced this, not as a result of having a stroke, but as a result of severe dehydration and depleted potassium making parts of my brain shut down, or at least malfunction horribly. It is terrifying, and even looking at this picture makes me begin to feel the panic I felt during that episode. I could not identify anything, or figure out the connection between what I was touching and what I was seeing. Bath taps became cats, my hands were strange alien objects that kept intruding into my field of view, the ambulance was some kind of great bloody animal that I was about to be fed to. I screamed blue murder and wept while clinging to a towel rail, apparently, until the paramedics sedated me. It's hard to quantify just how scary losing that connection to reality is. I need to go have a cup of tea. Looking at that has really shaken me.
- nkozyra 7y agoI've had this experience before enough times that it's no longer frightening but means I urgently need some Gatorade or I may start shaking and pouring sweat. For me it's more like a moving shade that makes it impossible to see what's behind it rather than not being able to recognize it. Do you have some detail on what you think it's the brain shutting down rather than an effect on the eyes themselves?
- Mirioron 7y agoMaybe it's the electrolytes. An electrolyte imbalance can lead to a situation that mimics the symptoms of a stroke.[0] >For me it's more like a moving shade that makes it impossible to see what's behind it rather than not being able to recognize it. Are you aware of the shade or does it behave like your blind spot? Because I've had a few instances in my life where it felt like my blind spot took up a much larger portion of my vision. I've also had the shaking then suddenly starting to profusely sweat that goes away when I eat something. [0] https://atlasofscience.org/stroke-mimics-why-we-need-to-consider-changing-the-protocol-for-stroke-treatment/ https://atlasofscience.org/stroke-mimics-why-we-need-to-cons...
- michaelgrafl 7y ago
- debacle 7y agoPeople with migraines can have a similar reaction. One of my pre-migraine tells is that I can't "see" text.