You have no idea how happy and relieved I was when I saw the term “brain shocks”.
I wasn’t insane, I wasn’t the only one, and it’s a normal thing.
Now what’s really weird is that I had them at a young age when I don’t think I was on any medication. Certainly in the days before Prozac and the like. And I can’t recall when they stopped.
When I had them (on wellbutrin) they weren’t withdrawal symptoms and could happen at almost any time of day.
It’d present when I’d get up or turn my head. I’d feel/hear a high pitched zing sound and my vision would stutter a little. Very disconcerting, especially when driving, carrying heavy items, or using sharp objects.
Went away when I switched meds.
Imagine how tired their children must be of all this nonsense.
Heard of rather than seen it.
My dad started a rumor that a coworker kept jello in her desk. Just mentioned it from time to time and let it be. Time goes by…
One Monday morning he goes in early and reignites the rumor.
When the coworker arrives there’s a crowd outside her office. She’s annoyed and throws open all her desk drawers to prove her innocence… and finds her file drawer full of lime jello, one unpeeled banana in the middle.
If I recall right she laughed until she peed herself.
The drawer was large enough it took my Dad most of Saturday to fill it. And most of the space in our fridge.
Edit: There was also a time my dad and I rented a small trailer and took some stuff to the dump.
I always loved this as we would look around and see if there was anything worth scavenging and bringing home.
But no, nothing interesting.
On the way home I turn to my Dad and say “Let’s tell mom and sis we found a moose head.”
They believed us, we go out to the trailer and I’m opening it slowly to reveal that it’s empty… and a prior renter had spilled some red paint in the bottom.
My sister screams “IT’S STILL BLEEDING” and runs inside.
I could’ve never predicted it would go that well. I’d of course meant a mounted moose head. And this was in Florida, where I’m fairly sure there are no ‘fresh’ moose.
Love that skit. “Ocean in the Desert”.
Oh hell yes.
I work from home, in the basement. Getting a roomba meant I didn’t have to vacuum, but I did have to pick stuff up off the floor.
So now one 15 minute break is tidying and starting the vacuum. The next is cleaning the vacuum out and organizing dishes, while a third is doing the dishes and sometimes minor dinner prep.
My wife gets to come home to a clean house and I get to do it all on the clock so it’s done when I’m done with work. Total life changer.
I was on a MUD (old multi-player internet text rpg) called Three Kingdoms when Princess Diana died. Over a hundred people online at the time from all over the world.
It was a huge shock for everyone, followed by a strange communal grieving for a well-known and liked international figure.
And forced a sane but disruptive man through a disabling procedure?
No. She went way the hell too far so she could protect her little kingdom and stay in power. She was not concerned with helping her charges improve their lot in life.
And what’s the word in German that means everything you just wrote?
Sure, but a corrupt government can fabricate evidence to keep their enemies silenced.
Look at Russia and their treatment of Alexei Navalny.
Actually the thought is if the government can just imprison you to stop your candidacy, they have too much power.
Thus they can continue to run.
Remove the ‘sovcit’ and that’s a perfectly cromulent title for a poem.
It meant my Dad never played Scrabble with my mom ever again, that’s what it meant.
Across two Triple Word tiles, no less.
Maybe you’re thinking of something along the lines of Bishop Berkeley’s Theory of Immaterialism.
Essentially, things only exist and continue to exist because we agree that they do and expect them to remain that way.
Also featured in the children’s book Mr. Radagast Makes an Unexpected Journey, which I adored when I was younger.
That’s totally bizarre. Every phrase in that headline is a plot twist.
Are you telling me there’s a way for me to become more of a coffee snob?!
Edit: Google says it’s not this way and makes for weak coffee.
Yes, I have had it for 30 years.