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So... I know this was just a bonus fact, but when you started describing face blindness, I realized that that's a lot of stuff I do when it comes to dealing with people, since I have a hard time putting faces to names. Like literally, I have a really hard time describing people's faces, and tend to remember people more by their General shape then their face
I've had exploding head syndrome in combination with sleep paralysis (including full on "the witch" visual), some of the most terrifying moments of my life.
I have prosopagnosia, so I appreciate your posting about it, because people never seem to believe it's an actual condition. I'm good at covering it, but even after 60 years of practice, I recently confused 2 new acquaintances who both happened to be bald. I hadn't memorized their height and stance yet. . .only their (lack of) hair, and hair shape is a helpful identifier for me. It was pretty embarrassing.
I'm curious, do you have the same issue with drawings or say, comic strips? Comic strips don't always have the same detail that an actual person has. I don't know anyone that has this, but I find the whole thing fascinating.
First realized something was wrong when as a kid my best friends mom (who I saw every day) got a haircut and I genuinely had no idea who she was. Nowadays I’ve gotten a lot better but I’m still below average, so when I mess up I’ll readily admit I’m halfway face-blind. Might have something to do with being close-to-but-not-quite-on “the spectrum”...
I have mild prosopagnosia i only learned it was a thing that was different when I started reading Oliver Sack's books People get super freaked out because I stare at their noses with great intensity but it's like the only part of the face I see enough to be able to remember. I give people big laughs when it's winter season and I can identify everyone I know under their hats and scarves by their protruding honker. I also have experienced EHS, and have photographic memory to go along with it, except when I recall people I can see detailed information about their clothes but their faces are empty except their nose and hair. Also rolling in a bunch of other weird Neurological problems. Most people think it's all because I'm an aspie, but sometimes I think there's more to it.
I have a friend with face-blindness who uses hairstyles and voices to recognize people. Each time we see him we introduce ourselves to him like if we were calling him from a new phone number, "Hey B., it's so and so..."
That's mostly how I do, unless it's a face that's really ingrained I see often and regularly. Also body type and physical mannerisms. When I meet people who I think I might see often I try to pick out at least one distinct thing about them to associate them with.
i have a mild case of this, usually i get by by focusing on one distinctive feature such as hair, moles, scars or glasses (which actually became a problem when two of my co-workers wore the same model frame) people who are balding are also easier because i can recognize the shape of the head.
@David Daivdson One of my long-lived fears is that I would be required to identify someone in a lineup or court of law. I simply can't, after one encounter, be remotely sure of anything. Are there provisions for this in the legal system? I've thought about getting a doctors note or notorized statement that i cannot reliably recognize a face "just in case"
Maybe I've got a bit of prosopagnosia. I can't call up a mental image of anyone, although I know who people are when I see them. I'm much better at remembering names than I am at remembering faces.
I'm an autistic individual who struggles to read faces and recognize people unless I've been around them every day of my life. I didn't really know about face blindness, but that does make sense, it's fun to learn more about yourself. I really do rely on hairstyles and voice to recognize people. Once when I was younger, my mom got a haircut while I was in school and I straight up cried when she came to pick me up because I didn't recognize her and thought she was a completely different person! Thanks for this awesome video, Simon!
I’m also autistic and never properly recognised people, I’d always just say I forgot who they were since my memory isn’t the best as a way to say I don’t recognise who the person is. I usually recognise people I know very well by their voice, habits, hair etc rather than face. I’ve always struggled a lot to recognise myself in pictures n such and mirrors, like I would use mirrors for small details like say getting rid of a spot/pimple or whatever the ones you squeeze are called or to fix my hair if it’s fallen out of place and got caught on an earring but I’d never really recognise what I’m looking at is me which is interesting
In first grade one of my classmates got a haircut over the summer and when one of the teachers asked if there were any new students in the class I said she was new. I thought she was a new student with the same first name (and that the other student had moved away) I was so embarrassed. 😅
I have never clicked a video so fast. I have been experiencing EHS for 2 years and I have had a really hard time finding much real information on it, especially cases of other people who have also experienced it. I have never brought it up to my doctor for fear of sounding insane. Thank you so much for making this video!
I’ve had this only twice in my life, both times I awoke thinking a bomb had gone off near me. The weird thing is that it’s not like an exterior sound, it comes from inside the head.
Hey don’t sleep with your screen and sound on. It makes parts of your brain stay on and you don’t get a restful sleep. Sleep is super important for your health! lol
Hi Simon. As a sufferer I can confirm the feelings terror that ensued when I had my first attack around 15 years ago, I'm 58 now. I have both, sound and a flash of light but thankfully the intensity of these attack have diminished over the years from a loud explosion to what now sounds like a .22 hand gun.
My name is Steve. It sounded so personal and directed that I actually enjoyed the presentation even more. I then thought that your channel had a special identification algorithm. Simon, I am really hooked.
I am David and I hope you're joking. I am also a software engineer and I can assure you that your life will improve the minute you forget the word "algorithm" because it is overused and almost never properly. If you have this syndrome - as I do and have for over a decade - then stop thinking about CZcams and the "algorithm" nonsense and get properly diagnosed. Unfortunately I have never heard of anything doctors can do to cure it. But decreasing anxiety and improving health is fairly obvious. Good luck, I think. Unless you were just goofing or trolling.
EHS is something I experienced 3 times, and this video added a lot of information that really fits. The first time I was jolted awake from my first heavy sleep in days, new mom just home from the hospital. I lurched straight up in bed with my heart pounding and head ringing from the massive explosion that had just rocked through me, only to look around and see my husband and baby sleeping silently in our dark bedroom... I was so confused, none of that made sense. I actually got up and looked out the bedroom window, full expecting to see a downed 747 had crashed on our street.
I sometimes get that explosion in my head. I always assumed it was linked to my epilepsy since there's an aura as well, which I get before seizures, and yet the explosion was not like a seizure at all and happened only at night. So this was really cool, I never thought to bring it up with my doctor, but at least I know it's harmless. Thank you for your passion for random knowledge.
I've been experiencing this every few months for about 20 years. Specifically the electrocution-suffocation-like feeling followed by a moment of terror just as I'm falling asleep. It used to terrify me to go to bed. I began to just expect it and suppress it so I could sleep. It also helped to reduced the frequency of reoccurrence. Nice to see a video covering this subject.
Neurological conditions are always so interesting and dynamic! I'd love to see more videos about them. Things like epilepsy and it's crazy history, synesthesia and fatal insomnia. Story time! I have epilepsy, and there was one time during a seizure I hit my head badly (head smashed through a plaster wall haha). And when I woke up the strangest thing happened. Nothing looked, felt, smelled, heard or tasted the same, and it applied to literally everything. Animals, the drapes, the sky, the dirt beneath my feet and even people. I could easily recognise things without trouble, but something inside me had this horribly off feeling that they weren't real. As if everything had suddenly been replaced by fakes. Perfect replicas. It lasted a few weeks, which of course made me insanely paranoid. My own family felt like imposters, and I couldn't even trust the very floor I walked on because it didn't feel the way I always knew it did. Even my hands gave me weird vibes. In fact, I distinctly remember at one point going into a terrified panic when a bee flew into my house. Not because I'm afraid of bees, I'm not, but because I thought it was an imposter bee that must have nefarious intentions. The whole thing lasted a solid three weeks, and I didn't find out I was experiencing a very extreme episode of something called "derealization disorder" until much later. The brain sure is weird.
Derealization can come from head injuries, and seizures. Happened to me as well, the only real thing that ever helps are benzodiazepines at low doses, or NMDA antagonists.
@@poketcg1592 as a person who has had severe chronic pain for nearly 1.5 decades (dx'd in 2007, so just a bit over), I've developed a weird cross of dissociative amnesia mixed with derealization. My neurologist, psychiatry provider and pain management provider have told me that it is for a variety of reasons that long term chronic pain patients can be at risk of developing a variety of neurological type disorders because of the high amount of faulty rewiring of brain pathways (from the pain sensations always being sent an processed by the brain). Unfortunately, I have also developed adult onset tourettes as well as destruction of various types of neurotransmitter production and receptor sites..... so that sucks......
@@poketcg1592 also can confirm that benzodiazepams and dextromethorphan (one of a few drugs that act on NDMA receptors) does help with lessening the effects of dissociative events, derealization events and mitigate some of the effects of adult onset tourettes (at least when it's caused by long term chronic pain conditions that are moderately severe to severe).
i regularly have bouts of depersonalization, and for a while during my first year of college it was both depersonalization and derealization. thankfully the derealization seems to have calmed down but when my anxiety goes up one of the first things i feel is depersonalization
Another mild (autistic) prosopagnosic case here! I can generally recognise faces I see daily (I can recognise my wife and daughter, although since my daughter is about to hit puberty, I have some difficulty recognising her amongst children her age, due to how quick her face changes because of her young age), but if it is only a portrait photo from some time ago, it takes minutes or even hours to recognise anyone. This has led to many awkward situations: once I even kissed and groped the girl that was standing next to my (untill then) girlfriend. On the other hand, with prosopagnosia you see new faces all the time! So many people to meet that you already know. If you want to know how it feels like, imagine this: when you were very young, and got lost in, for example, the mall. You run around hysterically while crying, and suddenly you see your mother! You run towards her, hug her by her leg, crying. Your mother looks down, and at the moment she says anything, you hear someone elses voice. It isn't your mother, just someone wearing the same color of clothes. Imagine that feeling when you just realised that this women in not your mother. People with prosopagnosia have this multiple time every day, and you don't get used to that feeling, that shame and awkwardness. Other visual clues do actually help very well. I even am so good at it, that I can recognise people by their height relative to me, birthmarks, and women their bosoms and their butt. Indeed, I only recognise ahem... female on an "online adult video sharing and watching service" by their... uncovered bodies. Still, I wouldn't say I am blind to faces. I know when a face is pretty or not, and to some extend I can recognise them if they have enough unique features. And for facial expressions I look for things like context, eye brow shape relative to their neurtal face, things like that. But I can't distinguish expressions like disgust, boredom or the face people show before they sneeze. Also, I am unable to use twitter. How do people say anything in 280 characters? edit: @Today I Found Out So... Is that why you often say "Helloowwww, I'm Simon Whistler, and you're watching... Today I've found out!"? Just to remind us?
I'm curious if your family members have jewelry or clothing ornaments they wear specifically so you can discern them in a crowd and help you avoid the aforementioned awkward situations.
@@wandererjiyuren661 Well, Wanderer, a year has passed since I wrote that, and I have had much practice since then. Taking a leadership role in a Pokemon go community has been very difficult! We grew from 20 to 110 members since I started seven months ago, so this was a really tough challenge, when we all met a few weeks ago! Honed my skills to perfection! Also moved to a new neighborhood. I know my neighbors on one side, the other side... Apparently, I wanted to give directions to my neighbor across the street because I thought he looked lost 🤣 But no, small ornaments do not work in a crowd. Remembering the outfit is still among the best tricks.
I also call it the zaps! And it's periodic. It's cool someone else experiences it I was worried it wasn't exploding head and something else was wrong with me.
I have partial faceblindness, and I'm autistic. I recognize people better by their voice, height, shape or hair. It also gets easier the more I'm around that person; I can recognize my coworkers from the same department pretty readily, but folks from elsewhere in the company I still struggle with.
I'm fucking loving how they are incorporating that sweet sick twisted sense of humor, I say similar things in dead pan face and the reactions you get are priceless. Great video as always guys!!!
Thank you, Simon. This has happened to me twice now when I can't sleep due to my snoring spouse so I move to the living room couch to sleep. While sleeping, I heard knocking that I thought was from my front door but eventually assumed was a creation of my mind. You have confirmed my suspicions and it especially fits because I was tired to the point of extreme frustration both times
the hierarchy goes at the top, the insect aliens (aka insectoids, mantis aliens) followed by the reptilian aliens (aka lizard aliens, dracos) followed by the grey aliens (tall grays then short grays) then comes hybrid aliens (human looking aliens)
I watch his videos as much to see him say things like this in that perfectly deadpan serious tone as I do to see him break when he's trying to read off something that's completely absurd but totally real... And also the baldness thing to which I can relate.
I used to suffer from this quite frequently. The stress i was under in my 20s and 30s was (legitimately) quite high. The episodes began to decrease when i changed careers. The episodes vanished almost entirely after i cut several people out of my life who were causing me undue stress and very frequent tension. I only very, very rarely have an episode any more, and when i do i know its time for me to change something-- typically my focus on a stressful problem, or person.
Holy poop, I have this. In my head it sounds like a sound jack being pulled out of the plug, violently. It's often accompanied by a jolt of a limb. Mental! Oh well, I wasn't that worried. I assumed it was part of the going to sleep process, now I know not to worry about it. Cool, cheers for the info.
Yeah it's a weird one for me, PTSD with this happening occasionally isn't too much fun. Sounds like a mortor explosion jolting me awake followed by me sitting there looking around the dark at my gf wondering why she isn't reacting with the quick realization " Oh yeah, that sound thingy . . .".
Yep... Good description. I don't get anxious or stop breathing as I've had it as long as I can remember. I was an intense day dreamer as a kid, bordering on narcoleptic through physical boredom of having to sit down all day, listening to teachers droning on and on... An electric shock in the brain, Nodding off and 'waking up with a jolt'... If you ask people if they have woken up with a physical jolt of your body almost all will say yes. If you ask them if they've heard a 'snapping sound' in their head many say yes.. -- I've asked this question to 100s of people over the years. It is far more common than 10% in my experience... Maybe Uni kids 30 years ago were more prone though... Perhaps its more common in higher grade kids due to more mental exhaustion, burning the candle at both ends. PTSD probably increases brain jolts too, probably any form of increased levels of intense thinking.
#10 he has a good sense of humor #9 he has a pleasing voice #8 he's bald #7 he pronounces words well(and usually correctly) #6 he has almost 45 channels that he contributes to #5 he knows about the lizard people #4 he doesnt move too much during presenting #3 you dont have to WATCH as the on screen images are just for filler #2 he frames things in an entertaing fashion without giving too much opinion #1 the greatest factor in his success, he's british.
I suffer from both of these conditions ... the exploding head thing happens rarely (sounds like a gun was fired right beside me) but scares the hell out of me. It seems to happen only if I try to nap during the day. I tell people that I have very poor facial recognition so unless I am seeing you on a daily basis and under the same conditions (at work for example) I may not recognize you if I run into you somewhere else. Was at the gym one day and there was a guy riding a stationary bike a couple of bikes over from where I was and I looked at him a few times but really didn't pay much attention to him until someone asked him a question and I heard his voice .... he was my boss who I see everyday in a business suit but, put him in sweats and I had no clue who he was ... very embarrassing ... Is there any connection between these two conditions ...
15:24 I do that, too. It really helps when the sheer mass of people you've met over the years makes it hard to remember. As a performing artist they tend to have a much stronger memory of you than yours of them. Also it's always worth it to have made a friendly impression on someone before you knew it would serve you. Someone who's friendly even though they don't "have to be" is just a gift to the world. You might also have made a great first impression on someone who will become relevant later. Just as the other way around people that treat strangers badly will eventually run into very awkward situations like suddenly finding that stranger to be the person conducting their job interview.
@cat The woman who thought she was dead had Cothard Syndrome (spelling may be wrong). It was HEAVILY dramatised in Hannibal. One ward I worked on a few years ago there was a woman who had the condition. Conversations with her were strange but nothing too outlandish for working in mental health. She responded well to medication and was discharged home in a short time.
i ampretty sure that i suffer from a form of faceblindness because before my vision loss, i had great trouble recognizing people both in real life and in the movies. as soon as someone changed clothes, i thought their wre a different person. i could not recognize collegues from work when i met them without their working outfit , eg. in a supermarket. i also had big problems distinguishing between person with the same hairstyle or outfit. i could not tell if i had already spoken to a specific shop employee or not when they all wore the same uniform clothing. btw, this problen was the reason why i stopped watching american movies. i simply could not follow the plot because all women with the same hairstyle looked the same to me when they wore similar clothes but as soon as a character changed clothes i could not find out who they were supposed to be. i gave up. my father is affected even more severely and we thought it was due to poor oxygeb conditions at birth. but now you say it is a thing and can be inherited, i feel relieved. will tell my dad.
Wow... I’m 41 and had this 2 times (as far as I remember). The first time (when I was a kid) I was sleeping and heard a loud boom and woke up very scared, seeing sparks. I asked my mother about the boom and she heard nothing. The sparks I knew was something I was just seeing as it looked like a funnel (sparks strong at the peripheral vision). The second time I woke up hearing a sound that looked like a very loud AM radio (no distinguishable language, loud and all cracked). This time I woke up to this sound and kept hearing it for a few seconds after I was fully awake while seeing sparks around me. This was strange because I immediately noticed it was in my head only and I experienced the last few seconds of this sound and sparks while I was standing up (because I jumped out of bed when I “heard” the sound). It happened many years ago and I really don’t remember what was going on with my life at the moment of the first incident. The second one was probably 20 years ago and I remember being really tired with little sleep, I spent the nights studying for college exams. Never happened again and I really never connected both incidents until now...
I had this happen to me for about a year while pregnant/after birth probably because I so consistently got barely any sleep.... I used to think everyone else was messing with me for saying they never heard anything
They are not hearing anything because it is all in your head. (Not saying that you are making it up, it literally is all in your head, I have them myself from time to time.)
The loud sound thing is something that happened a few times to me when I was a child. I recall experiencing it as a loud doorbell or explosion. I also had it once in the form of a strange dream ending in a "schock" that made me throw up. For a few minutes after, I could trigger this shock and make myself throw up again by thinking about the dreams conclusion. :\
"Except you, Steve" it's always Steve's fault, why can't he just get my coffee order right? it's not that hard, Venti Bold, Double Double (Two Cream Two Sugar) buut nooo, Steve comes back with some weird science experiment he concocted while at Starbucks, DAMNIT STEVE!
@@princesstamika One of my favorite Groucho lines is, "I never forget a face, but in your case I'm willing to make an exception". Harpo was my favorite of the brothers though. Such a sweet soul.
For more on prosopagnosia, read the book The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Dr. Oliver Sacks. It's a brilliant anthology of case studies in neuroscience, the title story being the one about prosopagnosia.
This subject is a great example of why I watch this channel. I've never heard of this but I have experienced it before. It is startling. Thankfully it's rare for me.
Didn’t know this had a name but I’ve definitely experienced this falling asleep several times. Always happens after several days of intense stress, usually from schoolwork. It would feel like I was being shocked from toes up to my head, ending in a loud shock-like sound in my ears. It even would leave my tongue/lips numb at times. I haven’t had it it so intense in recent years but I will still sometimes feel small shocks throughout the day if I’m particularly stressed.
Basically, exposure therapy for races that you're not use to seeing will help with you realizing that people from those races do indeed look different. It just takes time and frequent exposure either in person or through a visual media (yes...like music videos or pictures).
One of the reasons I prefer watching animated shows over live-action shows is that I can actually tell the characters apart. Stop using actors that look so damn similar please... My face blindness is not very severe, but I have walked past my mother before because she was in an unexpected context. Context is insanely important to me - if I see someone where I don't expect, I assume it is someone else.
I agree with context being very important in recognising people. That's why it's all the more confusing when some random person recognises me but it turns out the last time we saw each other was as children, so I have no way of knowing this is the same person until they tell me their name, or some shared experience. I always wondered how they were able to recognise me until I realised 2 years ago that I'm face blind and most people are not. I can't imagine being able to recognise something about how a person looks that is still the same after 20 or 30 years (except for my husband's unusual pointy eyebrows, which always helped me recognise him). I also would probably not recognise my own mum if it wasn't for the fact she is Chinese in a place where there are few Chinese people.
Ugh, totally feel that similar actors thing. Generic White Guys 1-5 (basically all the famous male actors named Chris) are very hard for me to tell apart. And a lot of the blonde actresses are difficult to tell apart too; I can see they're different people when they're in the same scene but when they're not literally both in frame I'm never 100% sure which character it is if they wear their hair remotely similar and are wearing the same colors. Weirdly enough, I can remember still images I've seen of peoples' faces though; like when I think of my dad I can't actually recall his face in a moment where we've literally talked, only a silly photo of him I had for his contact for a while.
I could have written this exact comment! Same has happened to me. I don't go to movies much unless I am with very good friends or family since I can't identify so many actors. And, I walked past my mother twice in an airport when I was picking her up. I am a dog trainer. I recognize people by their dogs. 🙂
I have experienced a thing that sounds a bit like this, sometimes, when I'm just about to fall asleep, I hear a bang that doesn't exist but it startles me awake again.
Ive had this happen twice in my life while i was trying to sleep. Its like a literal bomb went off inside your head. Loudest sound ive ever hear. It also came with a flash of white light. Its fooken spoopy.
Habitual meditation helps... especially evening times... and you might do well with "focused imagery" meditations... Think of a "happy place" where you'd like to relax. Find a comfortable position, preferably (but not critical) with your eyes slightly elevated... and closing your eyes try to picture the place as you'd experience it... shut out anything that tries to disturb what you're doing... At first, you can even describe the place out loud, and start answering questions about it... flesh it out and explore the place in your mind. What does it sound like? What does it smell like? Are you barefoot? How does the ground feel on your feet? Is it warmer or colder? etc... Try to completely imagine everything to the last detail in your head... AND anything that isn't part of your Place, refuse it... It's "monkey chatter" whether it's the TV in the next room, some people arguing on the street, or just a random thought that popped into your head... Try it in smaller doses first... say... about ten or fifteen minutes. As you practice, see how long and how vividly you can get your mind to produce this place... Maybe twenty minutes? Half an hour? How long can you go... Once you get to about an hour at will... You can start on a new "Place"... You can make them as big or small as you like... You can make yourself as big or small to scale with your place as you like... The point is to FOCUS your mind, and eliminate the "useless noise" thoughts that distract you... AND this is a fun, good exercise that will help you "arrest" the distractions and stresses out of your head so you can relax... and ease into a "sleep mode" before going off to bed. When you get to bed, you can also just close your eyes (as we usually do to sleep) and start the exercise with the intent to shut out "crap" until sleep comes over you, and you can willfully let it. If you get really good, you can even "catch" yourself dreaming, and not have to wake if you don't want... That's Lucid Dreaming... and I rather enjoy it from time to time. ;o)
@@jodroboxes i've been woken up like this a few times. i did go through a period where i had alot of sleep paralysis, like once every two weeks or so. i've experienced it a handful of times but it never fails to freak me out
@@jodroboxes i didn't have any visuals either but i just felt stuck and i couldn't move. i couldn't open my eyes either, but i could feel everything around me. it was scary
I've had exploding head for as long as I can remember. Being overly tired and stressed is the most frequent trigger for me, and sleeping on my back will almost always guarantee an episode of either exploding head or sleep paralysis. If I get visuals, it's usually because I was overly tired before sleeping and possibly dealing with medication side effects (usually withdrawals). Meditation prior to bed, has helped lessen the frequency and stopped the visuals. I can tell I'll likely have an episode tonight as though I'm still awake I can feel an odd trembling pressure in my head. If not explosions, I'll get an odd sensation that I can only try describe as like a deep internal buzzing zap or shock. These zaps I think are a side effect of my medications as I get similar zaps during the day when awake. They're less intense when I'm awake, but still increadibly annoying.
I've experienced the loud explosion in my head twice. I was fully awake. No other sensation, just the sound and then a feeling of terror. It's really weird.
I've never heard anyone else mention this. I thought I was losing it a little 😂😂😂 I'm a 23 yro male but I've had these "bangs" as long as I can remember. Usually 2-3 in 1-3 weeks and then months of nothing. Sometimes I'll be awake but only if I'm sitting very still. Usually it's right before I go to sleep. It starts off like tinnitus but grows exponentially until a massive bang like a gunshot and a huge adrenaline dump. Love the videos and please do an audio book or a sleep story
Wait, so face blindness is actually a thing? I definitely have a light version of it. I have to look for unusual aspects in a person to recognize them, and it doesn't always work. So I've learned to be generally friendly and try to pick up from conversation if I know the person or not. Granted, still had a ton of embarrassing moments c.c Earbuds are a godsend though for pretending I don't notice anyone.
Today I Found Out well the thumbnail and title are intentionally misleading people who have no prior knowledge of the syndrome (the vast majority of the population).
Hello, I have this condition. It began after I had a major brain trauma and skull fracture. The first time it happened, I was in a twilight mode as I call it (between awake and asleep) and suddenly I heard a great crowd of people screaming, this droning long screams of many people. It was like I was listening to hell. As soon as I focused on what I was hearing, it faded. But the sounds can differ, a glass jar being banged on a counter, a door slam, an explosion. It's odd when I get flashes of light with my eyes closed. It doesn't hurt or anything. It's like electrical misfiring and my brain is replaying sounds of trauma. I have PTSD and MDD.
I have this, it starts with a rushing of sensation starting at my stomach and spreads out to my extremities, when it reaches my head a sudden exceptionally loud ringing sound occurs and that's when I jerk awake with my entire body tingling. It's a very uncomfortable and disconcerting event, and seems to me to only take about a second from beginning to end, but it might be longer as it always happens as I'm falling asleep, and a person's perception of time is warped when they're falling asleep. It doesn't happen often enough to make it worth speaking to a doctor, nor is it painful so I just live with it, having said that, it is nice to be able to put a name to it.
Considering how common face recognition software is nowadays, I'm surprised there isn't some kind of camera mounted on glasses with an earpiece that says, "Bob Henderson" when your neighbour approaches you - or says "Happy" or "confused" as you are in conversation with them, letting you know about obvious changes in expression.
I had this for the first time last night. I couldn’t fall asleep, the sun just started coming up last time I remember opening my eyes. Then I was woken up because of a loud noise like a cross between a jet engine, a crashing wave and an MRI machine. The second I opened my eyes it stopped. I looked around, wife and cats are fine. The second I closed my eyes it came back. I was freaked out at that point. After I calmed down I realized I’ve read about this before. Stress and lack of sleep can do some unusual things to your mind.
Oh damn! I had meningitis several years ago and now I can’t recognize faces. Drives me nuts. Once they tell me who they are, I can recount all sorts of details of events we’ve discussed, etc but I have to know them VERY well before I remember. Glad I’m not the only one.
Funny how there are so many videos about EHS but none of them mention hearing voices. I woke up several times in the middle of the night and landed on this video. Every time I was about to fall asleep, I was jolted awake by what sounded like someone talking or humming into my ear. It scared me since it happened six times in the course of half an hour.
Nice try. Everyone knows geologists simply ask rocks to identify themselves, and then listen intently to make out the accent. Of course that's a lot harder than it used to be. With all the identity thefts occurring these days.
TIFO - I'm glad I hit this ! I've had similar experiences, but they were brought on by deep meditation/projection. The first time was a complete surprise, but I repeated it the very next day. It involved what felt like an electric shock travelling up my spine and exploding in my skull. The first time it left me feeling like I had an electric current running through my backbone afterward, and it hadn't stopped by the time I started the 2nd session. As I said, it happened again in that next session too. I was not frightened either time. On the contrary - I was intrigued. Not only was I curious, but I felt like I had broken through some kind of barrier and proceeded to go deeper - but that is another, personal, matter. Anyway, after the 2nd session I felt like I was literally vibrating from my spine/brain and emanating outward. It lasted long enough that I gradually stopped noticing it - it never just disappeared. That took 1-2 weeks if I remember correctly (it was many years ago). Those two episodes had a strong effect on my life afterward. PS - That didn't happen after just 2 sessions. I had been doing it for awhile with a strong sense of purpose when it first happened. Then I repeated it the 2nd day to make sure I hadn't just fallen asleep and dreamed it all up. With the 2nd day's success, I trusted what I learned the 1st day (and 2nd!) which had taken me to my original goal. Overall, it was a wonderful experience ! PPS - You might want to know... the post-death tunnel is REAL. Regardless of beliefs, that thing exists, and so does an entity guarding it. I literally ran into each of them. In fact I annoyed the Guardian enough trying to get into that tunnel that he flicked me back into my body, which ended my 1st session. That is just the bare bones. other interesting things occurred then too.
I have been trying to figure out why this happens to me for so long. I do hear voices in my head, so the loud noises etc I thought was just a symptom of mental illness, but I could never understand the bright (brightest I could ever describe) lights I see with loud noises, been happening since I was little. It’s amazing to have an explanation! Hard to google this experience lol.
Throwing my experience into the ring for others :) I typically get EHS when I'm very tired, normally it takes me a good 30+ minutes to fall asleep, but when I'm tired I'll fall asleep too quickly. As I'm slipping into sleep I'll either: start panicking as my breathing has changed but my brain can't comprehend it so it shocks me awake with a big gasp, or the bees... It will start as a small hum, like bees buzzing around, gradually getting louder until it feels like they're inside my ears. At which point it feels like an electrical shock passes straight through my head, followed by a loud electrical crackle. When this happens my whole body tensions, which can be quite painful (like being electrocuted). So there ya go!
My experience is very similar, but for me the sound is a short burst of white noise coming from inside my head, accompanied by a pulse of pressure in my head like water is swishing through my brain.
I'm autistic and while I *can* recognise people's faces, it's prone to failure. So I realised one day that I tend to recognize people via their speech patterns, sense of style, gait and other non-facial attributes. It works pretty damn well
Except that the "lexia" part makes it specific to reading. You also has dyscalculia and dyspraxia, for example. So we should make a new word for this. Oh wait, they already have...
I've at times in my life experienced a phenomenon like the one described except mine was marked by a sudden and definitely unconscious hallucination of a voice getting extremely louder and very suddenly in that remark until it reached peak loudness and startled me. It never sounded like a gun shot to me, it was a voice in my head that breathed and got very loud. At times I would hallucinate it and hear my own name being called and this is when I chalked it up to just a symptom of a very exhausted brain, and this was evident by the fact that the quirk was accelerated by the use of sleep-inducing chemicals and those that are dissociative or delirious in action, or just any state that allows the brain to get so deep into calm without going fully unconscious (at least long enough for the phenomenon to happen). It felt like the more I accepted it and tried to call on it to happen, the easier it was to avoid it. I will try to find that neural hiccup again and test its ability. It's been a long time since I've experienced something like that.
While I recognize faces most of the time, I can't always pair a face with a name or a context--in my case this is related to the traumatic brain injury I sustained in a car crash at age 15. I've found that people are really tolerant when I say, "I apologize, could you tell me your name again?", and most people talk about how much trouble they have with facial recognition. It does comfort me to know that I have a legitimate excuse for most of the issues that are so widespread, though it also is confusing to know that I could have a faulty memory or sporadic judgment process even if I had NOT broken a windshield with my head at highway speed 31 years ago. I will certainly have to watch this video again tomorrow--thank you for the info, Simon!
I think I have a very mild form of face blindness, and I've been able to improve it as I've gotten older. Sometimes I will reintroduce myself to someone I've meet several times at parties, and I just apologize and say I must have been drunk the last time we met.... But that only works for the second meeting.The only time it's been a real problem is when I was working as a bellhop and my managers expected me to remember people's names and greet them personally every time I saw them. I would carry a person's bags up to the room, get their name, make small talk and go back downstairs. Then the guest would take their coat and hat off and come back downstairs a few minutes later and I'd try to reintroduce myself all over again. I don't know who hated it more - me, the guests, or my boss.
I have this happen once in a while. My doctor kept saying it was my migraines. It wasn't. But I finally found my answer when I spoke with my nuero doc. Though it is scary and after having it start I started having anxiety falling asleep. Thanks for the video.
Teenager nerves are weird. As a teen I often had pretty strong leg twitches when falling asleep. Good thing I didn't have a cat sleeping on my bed back then.
Also, you may have been joking when your advised watching your videos in the background, but that's just what i do when I can't sleep. The soothing sound of your voice imparting knowledge helps me drift off nicely.
I mean... yes. That is exactly what's happening according to the video. Hallucinations are the brain's neurons firing without any input, creating false sensory experiences.
This just happened to me last night, scared the shit out of me. I get sleep paralysis with hallucinations quite frequently and have been for around 14 years ive almost got used to it but this was different from what im used to so i shit a brick. Good job my partner is so Good with it by dealing with it over the years, she hears me calling out by heaving breathing or whatever noise i can make and makes a barrier between what i can see with her body while calming me down till it subsides. Got that woman is amazing. Anyway does anyone else go through this as often as me? Or have gone through it at all and can give advice, thanks.
"... Listening to my voice as you drift off to sleep..." highly recommended for anybody suffering trouble sleeping. All jokes aside, simon's voice and informative monologue is the best sleep aid I have found after giving up the anti-depressant-anxiety medication. Usually my phone plays simon's channels from when I fall asleep until when I wake up. No offense, I enjoy your informative channels at all hours. But for those with problems sleeping etc...
I don't have Simon's videos on all night but I like to listen to one in bed just before drifting off to sleep. The content as well as his voice just feels so nourishing somehow doesn't it?
I'm glad that face blindness is becoming more well known. I can recognize people I know well but recognizing acquaintances is another matter. I'm a collage student right now and I keep running into issues where I'll ask if they have taken such and such class and they'll answer, "yeah, we were in the same lab group." No I just admit straight up that I'm face blind rather than having to try and cover my gaff some other way. I also realized how completely dependent on voice I am for recognizing actors in shows or movies. For example, there's two actors in one season of a particular show that were in the second season as well but playing different characters, the characters had very different personalities and speech patterns and I never would have guessed they were played by the same actors if I hadn't read it.
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"It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times?!?"
Simon great show... Never play with health. I had these symptoms and found out it was caused by TMJ. Stress causes many physical illnesses.
So... I know this was just a bonus fact, but when you started describing face blindness, I realized that that's a lot of stuff I do when it comes to dealing with people, since I have a hard time putting faces to names. Like literally, I have a really hard time describing people's faces, and tend to remember people more by their General shape then their face
You believe in Lizard People?
Out here talking crap about Karl
Steve quit looking in the comments and just call a doctor.
Oh no
But it's so late in the day! Why didn't I see this sooner?!
Poor Steve, it was nice knowing you.
why?
@@Hey_you_guys RIP bro
I've had exploding head syndrome in combination with sleep paralysis (including full on "the witch" visual), some of the most terrifying moments of my life.
Are u okay now?
I have prosopagnosia, so I appreciate your posting about it, because people never seem to believe it's an actual condition. I'm good at covering it, but even after 60 years of practice, I recently confused 2 new acquaintances who both happened to be bald. I hadn't memorized their height and stance yet. . .only their (lack of) hair, and hair shape is a helpful identifier for me. It was pretty embarrassing.
TheWilyTrout ESQ
No reason to feel embarrassed about a medical condition.
No reason at all.
I'm curious, do you have the same issue with drawings or say, comic strips? Comic strips don't always have the same detail that an actual person has. I don't know anyone that has this, but I find the whole thing fascinating.
First realized something was wrong when as a kid my best friends mom (who I saw every day) got a haircut and I genuinely had no idea who she was. Nowadays I’ve gotten a lot better but I’m still below average, so when I mess up I’ll readily admit I’m halfway face-blind.
Might have something to do with being close-to-but-not-quite-on “the spectrum”...
I have mild prosopagnosia i only learned it was a thing that was different when I started reading Oliver Sack's books People get super freaked out because I stare at their noses with great intensity but it's like the only part of the face I see enough to be able to remember. I give people big laughs when it's winter season and I can identify everyone I know under their hats and scarves by their protruding honker. I also have experienced EHS, and have photographic memory to go along with it, except when I recall people I can see detailed information about their clothes but their faces are empty except their nose and hair. Also rolling in a bunch of other weird Neurological problems. Most people think it's all because I'm an aspie, but sometimes I think there's more to it.
Yeah its hard to tell vsauce from tifo sometimes
I have a friend with face-blindness who uses hairstyles and voices to recognize people. Each time we see him we introduce ourselves to him like if we were calling him from a new phone number, "Hey B., it's so and so..."
That's mostly how I do, unless it's a face that's really ingrained I see often and regularly. Also body type and physical mannerisms. When I meet people who I think I might see often I try to pick out at least one distinct thing about them to associate them with.
That's really great that you just work around his impairment. I bet he's got some really neat auditory and tactile abilities as a result.
Aww, that's kind of neat and caring.
i worked with a lady who couldn't see faces - once we understood we would greet her with our name and wore name tags.
i have a mild case of this, usually i get by by focusing on one distinctive feature such as hair, moles, scars or glasses (which actually became a problem when two of my co-workers wore the same model frame) people who are balding are also easier because i can recognize the shape of the head.
My case is not too bad, but I often recognise actors by their voices, rather than by their faces.
@David Daivdson One of my long-lived fears is that I would be required to identify someone in a lineup or court of law. I simply can't, after one encounter, be remotely sure of anything.
Are there provisions for this in the legal system? I've thought about getting a doctors note or notorized statement that i cannot reliably recognize a face "just in case"
@@ThunderBassistJay Meh, all actors look alike anyway. Well, the female ones.
Maybe I've got a bit of prosopagnosia. I can't call up a mental image of anyone, although I know who people are when I see them. I'm much better at remembering names than I am at remembering faces.
I'm an autistic individual who struggles to read faces and recognize people unless I've been around them every day of my life. I didn't really know about face blindness, but that does make sense, it's fun to learn more about yourself. I really do rely on hairstyles and voice to recognize people. Once when I was younger, my mom got a haircut while I was in school and I straight up cried when she came to pick me up because I didn't recognize her and thought she was a completely different person! Thanks for this awesome video, Simon!
I’m also autistic and never properly recognised people, I’d always just say I forgot who they were since my memory isn’t the best as a way to say I don’t recognise who the person is. I usually recognise people I know very well by their voice, habits, hair etc rather than face. I’ve always struggled a lot to recognise myself in pictures n such and mirrors, like I would use mirrors for small details like say getting rid of a spot/pimple or whatever the ones you squeeze are called or to fix my hair if it’s fallen out of place and got caught on an earring but I’d never really recognise what I’m looking at is me which is interesting
In first grade one of my classmates got a haircut over the summer and when one of the teachers asked if there were any new students in the class I said she was new. I thought she was a new student with the same first name (and that the other student had moved away) I was so embarrassed. 😅
I have never clicked a video so fast. I have been experiencing EHS for 2 years and I have had a really hard time finding much real information on it, especially cases of other people who have also experienced it. I have never brought it up to my doctor for fear of sounding insane. Thank you so much for making this video!
I don't think your doctor would think you're insane. You should always tell your doctor what you're going through.
To be fair, insanity is also something that might require the help of a doctor :P
But seriously, I hope you can find a cure!
I'm glad you know. If you don't already have it under control, bringing it up with your doctor might help.
I always thought it was a past life memory of being executed ( shot in back of head)
Tessa Ackerman , enjoy it
I’ve had this only twice in my life, both times I awoke thinking a bomb had gone off near me. The weird thing is that it’s not like an exterior sound, it comes from inside the head.
Simon has been my sleeping buddy for a long time now so that's not going to change anytime soon. Auto-play is gold.
So, I'm not the only one. I'm beginning to think I'm weird.
Same!!! Thanks for your comment... It's nice to know that I'm not as odd as I was thinking
Hey don’t sleep with your screen and sound on. It makes parts of your brain stay on and you don’t get a restful sleep. Sleep is super important for your health! lol
@@MsJeanneMarie love your advise for the general population but there are many that don't fit the normal mean. Me being one of them.
Same here, thought i was alone lol.
Hi Simon. As a sufferer I can confirm the feelings terror that ensued when I had my first attack around 15 years ago, I'm 58 now. I have both, sound and a flash of light but thankfully the intensity of these attack have diminished over the years from a loud explosion to what now sounds like a .22 hand gun.
My name is Steve. It sounded so personal and directed that I actually enjoyed the presentation even more. I then thought that your channel had a special identification algorithm. Simon, I am really hooked.
I am Matthew and i can assure you that there is no algorithm and he still said Steve for me too
I am David and I hope you're joking. I am also a software engineer and I can assure you that your life will improve the minute you forget the word "algorithm" because it is overused and almost never properly. If you have this syndrome - as I do and have for over a decade - then stop thinking about CZcams and the "algorithm" nonsense and get properly diagnosed. Unfortunately I have never heard of anything doctors can do to cure it. But decreasing anxiety and improving health is fairly obvious. Good luck, I think. Unless you were just goofing or trolling.
Try business blaze :)
I sent it to you. Don't trust David he's anti algorithm AI.
EHS is something I experienced 3 times, and this video added a lot of information that really fits. The first time I was jolted awake from my first heavy sleep in days, new mom just home from the hospital. I lurched straight up in bed with my heart pounding and head ringing from the massive explosion that had just rocked through me, only to look around and see my husband and baby sleeping silently in our dark bedroom... I was so confused, none of that made sense. I actually got up and looked out the bedroom window, full expecting to see a downed 747 had crashed on our street.
"A bomb singing the song of its people!" That made me laugh so hard that it was fortunate I was already lying on the floor.
I sometimes get that explosion in my head. I always assumed it was linked to my epilepsy since there's an aura as well, which I get before seizures, and yet the explosion was not like a seizure at all and happened only at night. So this was really cool, I never thought to bring it up with my doctor, but at least I know it's harmless. Thank you for your passion for random knowledge.
I've been experiencing this every few months for about 20 years. Specifically the electrocution-suffocation-like feeling followed by a moment of terror just as I'm falling asleep. It used to terrify me to go to bed. I began to just expect it and suppress it so I could sleep. It also helped to reduced the frequency of reoccurrence. Nice to see a video covering this subject.
Me too. About 30 years now after 2 bad reactions to anesthesia
Neurological conditions are always so interesting and dynamic! I'd love to see more videos about them. Things like epilepsy and it's crazy history, synesthesia and fatal insomnia.
Story time!
I have epilepsy, and there was one time during a seizure I hit my head badly (head smashed through a plaster wall haha). And when I woke up the strangest thing happened. Nothing looked, felt, smelled, heard or tasted the same, and it applied to literally everything. Animals, the drapes, the sky, the dirt beneath my feet and even people. I could easily recognise things without trouble, but something inside me had this horribly off feeling that they weren't real. As if everything had suddenly been replaced by fakes. Perfect replicas.
It lasted a few weeks, which of course made me insanely paranoid. My own family felt like imposters, and I couldn't even trust the very floor I walked on because it didn't feel the way I always knew it did. Even my hands gave me weird vibes. In fact, I distinctly remember at one point going into a terrified panic when a bee flew into my house. Not because I'm afraid of bees, I'm not, but because I thought it was an imposter bee that must have nefarious intentions.
The whole thing lasted a solid three weeks, and I didn't find out I was experiencing a very extreme episode of something called "derealization disorder" until much later.
The brain sure is weird.
Derealization can come from head injuries, and seizures. Happened to me as well, the only real thing that ever helps are benzodiazepines at low doses, or NMDA antagonists.
@@poketcg1592 as a person who has had severe chronic pain for nearly 1.5 decades (dx'd in 2007, so just a bit over), I've developed a weird cross of dissociative amnesia mixed with derealization. My neurologist, psychiatry provider and pain management provider have told me that it is for a variety of reasons that long term chronic pain patients can be at risk of developing a variety of neurological type disorders because of the high amount of faulty rewiring of brain pathways (from the pain sensations always being sent an processed by the brain). Unfortunately, I have also developed adult onset tourettes as well as destruction of various types of neurotransmitter production and receptor sites..... so that sucks......
@@poketcg1592 also can confirm that benzodiazepams and dextromethorphan (one of a few drugs that act on NDMA receptors) does help with lessening the effects of dissociative events, derealization events and mitigate some of the effects of adult onset tourettes (at least when it's caused by long term chronic pain conditions that are moderately severe to severe).
i regularly have bouts of depersonalization, and for a while during my first year of college it was both depersonalization and derealization. thankfully the derealization seems to have calmed down but when my anxiety goes up one of the first things i feel is depersonalization
Another mild (autistic) prosopagnosic case here! I can generally recognise faces I see daily (I can recognise my wife and daughter, although since my daughter is about to hit puberty, I have some difficulty recognising her amongst children her age, due to how quick her face changes because of her young age), but if it is only a portrait photo from some time ago, it takes minutes or even hours to recognise anyone.
This has led to many awkward situations: once I even kissed and groped the girl that was standing next to my (untill then) girlfriend. On the other hand, with prosopagnosia you see new faces all the time! So many people to meet that you already know.
If you want to know how it feels like, imagine this: when you were very young, and got lost in, for example, the mall. You run around hysterically while crying, and suddenly you see your mother! You run towards her, hug her by her leg, crying. Your mother looks down, and at the moment she says anything, you hear someone elses voice. It isn't your mother, just someone wearing the same color of clothes. Imagine that feeling when you just realised that this women in not your mother. People with prosopagnosia have this multiple time every day, and you don't get used to that feeling, that shame and awkwardness.
Other visual clues do actually help very well. I even am so good at it, that I can recognise people by their height relative to me, birthmarks, and women their bosoms and their butt. Indeed, I only recognise ahem... female on an "online adult video sharing and watching service" by their... uncovered bodies.
Still, I wouldn't say I am blind to faces. I know when a face is pretty or not, and to some extend I can recognise them if they have enough unique features. And for facial expressions I look for things like context, eye brow shape relative to their neurtal face, things like that. But I can't distinguish expressions like disgust, boredom or the face people show before they sneeze.
Also, I am unable to use twitter. How do people say anything in 280 characters?
edit: @Today I Found Out
So... Is that why you often say "Helloowwww, I'm Simon Whistler, and you're watching... Today I've found out!"? Just to remind us?
I'm curious if your family members have jewelry or clothing ornaments they wear specifically so you can discern them in a crowd and help you avoid the aforementioned awkward situations.
@@wandererjiyuren661 Well, Wanderer, a year has passed since I wrote that, and I have had much practice since then.
Taking a leadership role in a Pokemon go community has been very difficult! We grew from 20 to 110 members since I started seven months ago, so this was a really tough challenge, when we all met a few weeks ago! Honed my skills to perfection!
Also moved to a new neighborhood. I know my neighbors on one side, the other side... Apparently, I wanted to give directions to my neighbor across the street because I thought he looked lost 🤣
But no, small ornaments do not work in a crowd. Remembering the outfit is still among the best tricks.
Somewhere there's a guy named Steve freaking out right now.
I'm hoping it's Miller.
I'm Steve. Wtf
"Somewhere there WAS a guy named Steve freaking out right now..." Fixed it for you. Steve is no longer with us... ;-) -Daven
I'm steve, and I do have EHS, this made my day.
He is probably talking about minecraft Steve.
"...Well, it's the lizard people."
That deadpan look and phrase 😂
I experience this periodically. I’ve always referred to it as “the zaps”
I get it all the time but I scream aloud and wake myself up- i call it "the screams"
I also call it the zaps! And it's periodic. It's cool someone else experiences it I was worried it wasn't exploding head and something else was wrong with me.
For you, is it like a loud buzzing sound that amplifies up to the point you pass out?
Yeah I call them brain zaps
@@russg9371 odd
I have partial faceblindness, and I'm autistic. I recognize people better by their voice, height, shape or hair. It also gets easier the more I'm around that person; I can recognize my coworkers from the same department pretty readily, but folks from elsewhere in the company I still struggle with.
I'm fucking loving how they are incorporating that sweet sick twisted sense of humor, I say similar things in dead pan face and the reactions you get are priceless. Great video as always guys!!!
If you do it well enough, they'll look at you strange all day long wondering if you were serious.
Thank you, Simon. This has happened to me twice now when I can't sleep due to my snoring spouse so I move to the living room couch to sleep. While sleeping, I heard knocking that I thought was from my front door but eventually assumed was a creation of my mind. You have confirmed my suspicions and it especially fits because I was tired to the point of extreme frustration both times
oh, yes, of course it's the lizard people...
the hierarchy goes
at the top, the insect aliens (aka insectoids, mantis aliens)
followed by the reptilian aliens (aka lizard aliens, dracos)
followed by the grey aliens (tall grays then short grays)
then comes hybrid aliens (human looking aliens)
We prefer the term "Reptilian Human"
That's what the [redacted] want you to think.
the straight face with which he delivers that line...
I watch his videos as much to see him say things like this in that perfectly deadpan serious tone as I do to see him break when he's trying to read off something that's completely absurd but totally real...
And also the baldness thing to which I can relate.
I used to suffer from this quite frequently. The stress i was under in my 20s and 30s was (legitimately) quite high.
The episodes began to decrease when i changed careers. The episodes vanished almost entirely after i cut several people out of my life who were causing me undue stress and very frequent tension.
I only very, very rarely have an episode any more, and when i do i know its time for me to change something-- typically my focus on a stressful problem, or person.
Holy poop, I have this. In my head it sounds like a sound jack being pulled out of the plug, violently. It's often accompanied by a jolt of a limb. Mental! Oh well, I wasn't that worried. I assumed it was part of the going to sleep process, now I know not to worry about it. Cool, cheers for the info.
Interesting. Mine just sounds like someone slamming the door to the room (or one next to it). I live alone, so this IS a tad jarring at first.
Yeah it's a weird one for me, PTSD with this happening occasionally isn't too much fun. Sounds like a mortor explosion jolting me awake followed by me sitting there looking around the dark at my gf wondering why she isn't reacting with the quick realization " Oh yeah, that sound thingy . . .".
plug being ripped out of a powered loudspeaker is a GREAT description !
I have it, too. Mine's the sound of a loud knock at the door.
Yep... Good description. I don't get anxious or stop breathing as I've had it as long as I can remember. I was an intense day dreamer as a kid, bordering on narcoleptic through physical boredom of having to sit down all day, listening to teachers droning on and on... An electric shock in the brain, Nodding off and 'waking up with a jolt'... If you ask people if they have woken up with a physical jolt of your body almost all will say yes. If you ask them if they've heard a 'snapping sound' in their head many say yes..
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I've asked this question to 100s of people over the years. It is far more common than 10% in my experience... Maybe Uni kids 30 years ago were more prone though... Perhaps its more common in higher grade kids due to more mental exhaustion, burning the candle at both ends. PTSD probably increases brain jolts too, probably any form of increased levels of intense thinking.
"Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after you" 9:40. LMAO
Top 10 Reasons Why Simon Whistler Does The Best Top 10 Videos
All ten reasons are because he is soothing and very charming but he's also humble. He's like a cranial James Bond and a Carl Sagan at the same time!
#10 he has a good sense of humor
#9 he has a pleasing voice
#8 he's bald
#7 he pronounces words well(and usually correctly)
#6 he has almost 45 channels that he contributes to
#5 he knows about the lizard people
#4 he doesnt move too much during presenting
#3 you dont have to WATCH as the on screen images are just for filler
#2 he frames things in an entertaing fashion without giving too much opinion
#1 the greatest factor in his success, he's british.
#1 Karl Smallwood
Well I don't know that he's #1, but he deserves a place on the list.
#1 He tried to warn Steve.
I suffer from both of these conditions ... the exploding head thing happens rarely (sounds like a gun was fired right beside me) but scares the hell out of me. It seems to happen only if I try to nap during the day.
I tell people that I have very poor facial recognition so unless I am seeing you on a daily basis and under the same conditions (at work for example) I may not recognize you if I run into you somewhere else. Was at the gym one day and there was a guy riding a stationary bike a couple of bikes over from where I was and I looked at him a few times but really didn't pay much attention to him until someone asked him a question and I heard his voice .... he was my boss who I see everyday in a business suit but, put him in sweats and I had no clue who he was ... very embarrassing ...
Is there any connection between these two conditions ...
When he said "except for you steve" I freaked out. For 10 full minutes i thought i was about to explode then i remembered im not a steve.
15:24 I do that, too. It really helps when the sheer mass of people you've met over the years makes it hard to remember. As a performing artist they tend to have a much stronger memory of you than yours of them.
Also it's always worth it to have made a friendly impression on someone before you knew it would serve you. Someone who's friendly even though they don't "have to be" is just a gift to the world. You might also have made a great first impression on someone who will become relevant later. Just as the other way around people that treat strangers badly will eventually run into very awkward situations like suddenly finding that stranger to be the person conducting their job interview.
There was a character on Hannibal that couldn’t see faces and was convinced she was dead
And that one psychic lady from the mentalist
That part in hannibal was amazing. I felt really bad for her but how hannibal did everything else was awesome great show sucks it was canceled
@cat The woman who thought she was dead had Cothard Syndrome (spelling may be wrong). It was HEAVILY dramatised in Hannibal. One ward I worked on a few years ago there was a woman who had the condition. Conversations with her were strange but nothing too outlandish for working in mental health. She responded well to medication and was discharged home in a short time.
i ampretty sure that i suffer from a form of faceblindness because before my vision loss, i had great trouble recognizing people both in real life and in the movies. as soon as someone changed clothes, i thought their wre a different person. i could not recognize collegues from work when i met them without their working outfit , eg. in a supermarket. i also had big problems distinguishing between person with the same hairstyle or outfit. i could not tell if i had already spoken to a specific shop employee or not when they all wore the same uniform clothing.
btw, this problen was the reason why i stopped watching american movies. i simply could not follow the plot because all women with the same hairstyle looked the same to me when they wore similar clothes but as soon as a character changed clothes i could not find out who they were supposed to be. i gave up.
my father is affected even more severely and we thought it was due to poor oxygeb conditions at birth. but now you say it is a thing and can be inherited, i feel relieved. will tell my dad.
I have a similar problem with foreign made series on Netflix - I can be 6 episodes in and still get confused .
🙋🏻♀️ Can confirm Simon's voice can help destress while trying to fall asleep.
Excellent video, lots of detail, I really like the quotations from the academic papers, not many CZcamsrs do that!
Simon was on point with his side comments in this one.
Wow... I’m 41 and had this 2 times (as far as I remember). The first time (when I was a kid) I was sleeping and heard a loud boom and woke up very scared, seeing sparks. I asked my mother about the boom and she heard nothing. The sparks I knew was something I was just seeing as it looked like a funnel (sparks strong at the peripheral vision).
The second time I woke up hearing a sound that looked like a very loud AM radio (no distinguishable language, loud and all cracked). This time I woke up to this sound and kept hearing it for a few seconds after I was fully awake while seeing sparks around me. This was strange because I immediately noticed it was in my head only and I experienced the last few seconds of this sound and sparks while I was standing up (because I jumped out of bed when I “heard” the sound).
It happened many years ago and I really don’t remember what was going on with my life at the moment of the first incident. The second one was probably 20 years ago and I remember being really tired with little sleep, I spent the nights studying for college exams.
Never happened again and I really never connected both incidents until now...
I had this happen to me for about a year while pregnant/after birth probably because I so consistently got barely any sleep.... I used to think everyone else was messing with me for saying they never heard anything
They are not hearing anything because it is all in your head. (Not saying that you are making it up, it literally is all in your head, I have them myself from time to time.)
The loud sound thing is something that happened a few times to me when I was a child.
I recall experiencing it as a loud doorbell or explosion.
I also had it once in the form of a strange dream ending in a "schock" that made me throw up.
For a few minutes after, I could trigger this shock and make myself throw up again by thinking about the dreams conclusion. :\
"Except you, Steve" it's always Steve's fault, why can't he just get my coffee order right? it's not that hard, Venti Bold, Double Double (Two Cream Two Sugar) buut nooo, Steve comes back with some weird science experiment he concocted while at Starbucks, DAMNIT STEVE!
"Have you ever seen my face before?"
"Then how do you know it's my face now?"
*Groucho Marx*
funny you mention groucho, it's been related in anecdotes and by harpo himself that he (harpo) could never remember a face.
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One of my favorite Groucho lines is, "I never forget a face, but in your case I'm willing to make an exception". Harpo was my favorite of the brothers though. Such a sweet soul.
For more on prosopagnosia, read the book The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Dr. Oliver Sacks. It's a brilliant anthology of case studies in neuroscience, the title story being the one about prosopagnosia.
This subject is a great example of why I watch this channel. I've never heard of this but I have experienced it before. It is startling. Thankfully it's rare for me.
Didn’t know this had a name but I’ve definitely experienced this falling asleep several times. Always happens after several days of intense stress, usually from schoolwork. It would feel like I was being shocked from toes up to my head, ending in a loud shock-like sound in my ears. It even would leave my tongue/lips numb at times. I haven’t had it it so intense in recent years but I will still sometimes feel small shocks throughout the day if I’m particularly stressed.
Basically, exposure therapy for races that you're not use to seeing will help with you realizing that people from those races do indeed look different. It just takes time and frequent exposure either in person or through a visual media (yes...like music videos or pictures).
I have experienced it ... was waiting until the end of the video to find out if I will die or not but didn't make it died at 6:34
One of the reasons I prefer watching animated shows over live-action shows is that I can actually tell the characters apart.
Stop using actors that look so damn similar please...
My face blindness is not very severe, but I have walked past my mother before because she was in an unexpected context. Context is insanely important to me - if I see someone where I don't expect, I assume it is someone else.
I agree with context being very important in recognising people. That's why it's all the more confusing when some random person recognises me but it turns out the last time we saw each other was as children, so I have no way of knowing this is the same person until they tell me their name, or some shared experience. I always wondered how they were able to recognise me until I realised 2 years ago that I'm face blind and most people are not. I can't imagine being able to recognise something about how a person looks that is still the same after 20 or 30 years (except for my husband's unusual pointy eyebrows, which always helped me recognise him).
I also would probably not recognise my own mum if it wasn't for the fact she is Chinese in a place where there are few Chinese people.
Ugh, totally feel that similar actors thing. Generic White Guys 1-5 (basically all the famous male actors named Chris) are very hard for me to tell apart. And a lot of the blonde actresses are difficult to tell apart too; I can see they're different people when they're in the same scene but when they're not literally both in frame I'm never 100% sure which character it is if they wear their hair remotely similar and are wearing the same colors. Weirdly enough, I can remember still images I've seen of peoples' faces though; like when I think of my dad I can't actually recall his face in a moment where we've literally talked, only a silly photo of him I had for his contact for a while.
I could have written this exact comment! Same has happened to me. I don't go to movies much unless I am with very good friends or family since I can't identify so many actors. And, I walked past my mother twice in an airport when I was picking her up. I am a dog trainer. I recognize people by their dogs. 🙂
The humor in this episode is top-notch. It's wonderful.
I have experienced a thing that sounds a bit like this, sometimes, when I'm just about to fall asleep, I hear a bang that doesn't exist but it startles me awake again.
Ive had this happen twice in my life while i was trying to sleep. Its like a literal bomb went off inside your head. Loudest sound ive ever hear. It also came with a flash of white light. Its fooken spoopy.
Had it twice as well. First time was an explosion, second time a loud school bell. I also had sleep paralysis twice, without the visuals luckily.
Habitual meditation helps... especially evening times... and you might do well with "focused imagery" meditations...
Think of a "happy place" where you'd like to relax. Find a comfortable position, preferably (but not critical) with your eyes slightly elevated... and closing your eyes try to picture the place as you'd experience it... shut out anything that tries to disturb what you're doing...
At first, you can even describe the place out loud, and start answering questions about it... flesh it out and explore the place in your mind. What does it sound like? What does it smell like? Are you barefoot? How does the ground feel on your feet? Is it warmer or colder? etc... Try to completely imagine everything to the last detail in your head...
AND anything that isn't part of your Place, refuse it... It's "monkey chatter" whether it's the TV in the next room, some people arguing on the street, or just a random thought that popped into your head...
Try it in smaller doses first... say... about ten or fifteen minutes. As you practice, see how long and how vividly you can get your mind to produce this place... Maybe twenty minutes? Half an hour? How long can you go...
Once you get to about an hour at will... You can start on a new "Place"... You can make them as big or small as you like... You can make yourself as big or small to scale with your place as you like... The point is to FOCUS your mind, and eliminate the "useless noise" thoughts that distract you... AND this is a fun, good exercise that will help you "arrest" the distractions and stresses out of your head so you can relax... and ease into a "sleep mode" before going off to bed.
When you get to bed, you can also just close your eyes (as we usually do to sleep) and start the exercise with the intent to shut out "crap" until sleep comes over you, and you can willfully let it.
If you get really good, you can even "catch" yourself dreaming, and not have to wake if you don't want... That's Lucid Dreaming... and I rather enjoy it from time to time. ;o)
@@jodroboxes i've been woken up like this a few times. i did go through a period where i had alot of sleep paralysis, like once every two weeks or so. i've experienced it a handful of times but it never fails to freak me out
@@jodroboxes i didn't have any visuals either but i just felt stuck and i couldn't move. i couldn't open my eyes either, but i could feel everything around me. it was scary
I've had exploding head for as long as I can remember. Being overly tired and stressed is the most frequent trigger for me, and sleeping on my back will almost always guarantee an episode of either exploding head or sleep paralysis.
If I get visuals, it's usually because I was overly tired before sleeping and possibly dealing with medication side effects (usually withdrawals). Meditation prior to bed, has helped lessen the frequency and stopped the visuals. I can tell I'll likely have an episode tonight as though I'm still awake I can feel an odd trembling pressure in my head. If not explosions, I'll get an odd sensation that I can only try describe as like a deep internal buzzing zap or shock. These zaps I think are a side effect of my medications as I get similar zaps during the day when awake. They're less intense when I'm awake, but still increadibly annoying.
I am one of those CZcams autorunning sleep listeners. Thank you for helping me out dozing off! Had to pick my phone up in the dark to comment 😂❤️
I always assumed it was sleep apnea, I just thought it was my body making me take a breath. Very rare for me mind.
Yay, finally an answer for why I hear phantom loud sounds on the edge of sleep or wakefulness. Like a door slamming, a loud bang or bells.
"Listen to more of our podcasts and watch more of our show," LMAO!!!
I've experienced the loud explosion in my head twice. I was fully awake. No other sensation, just the sound and then a feeling of terror. It's really weird.
Poor Steve. His hypochondria is gonna be through the roof.
Is it really being a hypochondriac if there is actually something wrong with you, as in the case of Steve? -Daven
@@TodayIFoundOut yeah poor Steve
@@TodayIFoundOut I'm so glad you're not letting fans gaslight the fellow.
I've never heard anyone else mention this. I thought I was losing it a little 😂😂😂 I'm a 23 yro male but I've had these "bangs" as long as I can remember. Usually 2-3 in 1-3 weeks and then months of nothing. Sometimes I'll be awake but only if I'm sitting very still. Usually it's right before I go to sleep. It starts off like tinnitus but grows exponentially until a massive bang like a gunshot and a huge adrenaline dump. Love the videos and please do an audio book or a sleep story
I experience EHS consistently when i forget to take my SSRI's for more than 2 days straight. It's super uncomfortable
Yep, I get that as well. You hear/feel crashes and get head zaps.
@@meh_lady hey, at least it's a good reminder you've forgotten your medication?
Yes! This. It’s a brain zap. I went to the hospital once several years ago because of it.
Hello fellow zappees.
I'm just switching from SSRI to SMS and it seems i got a tinnitus as a bonus.
Thirty years of dealing with this. I’ve come to enjoy it.
I also enjoy it! We seem to be a minority though. Most people seem to dislike it a lot.
God damn it.
11:00
Say no more, Steve. Say no more.
Wait, so face blindness is actually a thing? I definitely have a light version of it. I have to look for unusual aspects in a person to recognize them, and it doesn't always work. So I've learned to be generally friendly and try to pick up from conversation if I know the person or not. Granted, still had a ton of embarrassing moments c.c Earbuds are a godsend though for pretending I don't notice anyone.
And the award for the best click bait title of 2019 goes to...
End yet we deliver 100%... So not clickbait at all. Making compelling content != clickbait :-) -Daven
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@@TodayIFoundOut Dunno if you were trolling the whole Video so i had to google it.... Strange Simulation we life in truely..
This is funny, because the comment is written like a clickbait
Today I Found Out well the thumbnail and title are intentionally misleading people who have no prior knowledge of the syndrome (the vast majority of the population).
Hello, I have this condition. It began after I had a major brain trauma and skull fracture. The first time it happened, I was in a twilight mode as I call it (between awake and asleep) and suddenly I heard a great crowd of people screaming, this droning long screams of many people. It was like I was listening to hell. As soon as I focused on what I was hearing, it faded. But the sounds can differ, a glass jar being banged on a counter, a door slam, an explosion. It's odd when I get flashes of light with my eyes closed. It doesn't hurt or anything. It's like electrical misfiring and my brain is replaying sounds of trauma. I have PTSD and MDD.
Thought I was stroking out as he slowed down to say "brought to you by Skillshare" lmao
Shen Storm
You need to chill out.
Frankly I'd rather listen to a youtuber stroke out rather than 1 more second of shilling for skillshare tbh
I have this, it starts with a rushing of sensation starting at my stomach and spreads out to my extremities, when it reaches my head a sudden exceptionally loud ringing sound occurs and that's when I jerk awake with my entire body tingling.
It's a very uncomfortable and disconcerting event, and seems to me to only take about a second from beginning to end, but it might be longer as it always happens as I'm falling asleep, and a person's perception of time is warped when they're falling asleep.
It doesn't happen often enough to make it worth speaking to a doctor, nor is it painful so I just live with it, having said that, it is nice to be able to put a name to it.
man I wake up every day, roll myself a joint, and watch youtube. My name is Steve. Extrapolate.
Considering how common face recognition software is nowadays, I'm surprised there isn't some kind of camera mounted on glasses with an earpiece that says, "Bob Henderson" when your neighbour approaches you - or says "Happy" or "confused" as you are in conversation with them, letting you know about obvious changes in expression.
Okay, I'll bite and watch. Sounds curious af ( o.o)
It sounds like EHS is some sort of seizure activity.
when to bonus fact is more interesting than the main topic
I had this for the first time last night. I couldn’t fall asleep, the sun just started coming up last time I remember opening my eyes. Then I was woken up because of a loud noise like a cross between a jet engine, a crashing wave and an MRI machine. The second I opened my eyes it stopped. I looked around, wife and cats are fine. The second I closed my eyes it came back. I was freaked out at that point. After I calmed down I realized I’ve read about this before. Stress and lack of sleep can do some unusual things to your mind.
I've had it a few times. To me sounds like someone pounding hard on my door, just on the edge of sleep.
Oh damn!
I had meningitis several years ago and now I can’t recognize faces. Drives me nuts. Once they tell me who they are, I can recount all sorts of details of events we’ve discussed, etc but I have to know them VERY well before I remember.
Glad I’m not the only one.
I love your videos❤❤
Funny how there are so many videos about EHS but none of them mention hearing voices. I woke up several times in the middle of the night and landed on this video. Every time I was about to fall asleep, I was jolted awake by what sounded like someone talking or humming into my ear. It scared me since it happened six times in the course of half an hour.
Geologists recognize different rocks by their taste.
*me sitting on a beach licking some fresh fragmented cliff face feeling a bit attacked*
Nice try. Everyone knows geologists simply ask rocks to identify themselves, and then listen intently to make out the accent. Of course that's a lot harder than it used to be. With all the identity thefts occurring these days.
Licking rocks 🪨 is slightly distasteful. Don't you think? 🤔
TIFO - I'm glad I hit this ! I've had similar experiences, but they were brought on by deep meditation/projection. The first time was a complete surprise, but I repeated it the very next day. It involved what felt like an electric shock travelling up my spine and exploding in my skull. The first time it left me feeling like I had an electric current running through my backbone afterward, and it hadn't stopped by the time I started the 2nd session. As I said, it happened again in that next session too. I was not frightened either time. On the contrary - I was intrigued. Not only was I curious, but I felt like I had broken through some kind of barrier and proceeded to go deeper - but that is another, personal, matter. Anyway, after the 2nd session I felt like I was literally vibrating from my spine/brain and emanating outward. It lasted long enough that I gradually stopped noticing it - it never just disappeared. That took 1-2 weeks if I remember correctly (it was many years ago). Those two episodes had a strong effect on my life afterward.
PS - That didn't happen after just 2 sessions. I had been doing it for awhile with a strong sense of purpose when it first happened. Then I repeated it the 2nd day to make sure I hadn't just fallen asleep and dreamed it all up. With the 2nd day's success, I trusted what I learned the 1st day (and 2nd!) which had taken me to my original goal. Overall, it was a wonderful experience !
PPS - You might want to know... the post-death tunnel is REAL. Regardless of beliefs, that thing exists, and so does an entity guarding it. I literally ran into each of them. In fact I annoyed the Guardian enough trying to get into that tunnel that he flicked me back into my body, which ended my 1st session. That is just the bare bones. other interesting things occurred then too.
So you're saying it could be lizard people.
Yes
I have been trying to figure out why this happens to me for so long. I do hear voices in my head, so the loud noises etc I thought was just a symptom of mental illness, but I could never understand the bright (brightest I could ever describe) lights I see with loud noises, been happening since I was little. It’s amazing to have an explanation!
Hard to google this experience lol.
Throwing my experience into the ring for others :) I typically get EHS when I'm very tired, normally it takes me a good 30+ minutes to fall asleep, but when I'm tired I'll fall asleep too quickly. As I'm slipping into sleep I'll either: start panicking as my breathing has changed but my brain can't comprehend it so it shocks me awake with a big gasp, or the bees...
It will start as a small hum, like bees buzzing around, gradually getting louder until it feels like they're inside my ears. At which point it feels like an electrical shock passes straight through my head, followed by a loud electrical crackle. When this happens my whole body tensions, which can be quite painful (like being electrocuted). So there ya go!
My experience is very similar, but for me the sound is a short burst of white noise coming from inside my head, accompanied by a pulse of pressure in my head like water is swishing through my brain.
I'm autistic and while I *can* recognise people's faces, it's prone to failure. So I realised one day that I tend to recognize people via their speech patterns, sense of style, gait and other non-facial attributes.
It works pretty damn well
Face blindness seems more like "face dyslexia".
Except that the "lexia" part makes it specific to reading. You also has dyscalculia and dyspraxia, for example. So we should make a new word for this. Oh wait, they already have...
I've at times in my life experienced a phenomenon like the one described except mine was marked by a sudden and definitely unconscious hallucination of a voice getting extremely louder and very suddenly in that remark until it reached peak loudness and startled me. It never sounded like a gun shot to me, it was a voice in my head that breathed and got very loud. At times I would hallucinate it and hear my own name being called and this is when I chalked it up to just a symptom of a very exhausted brain, and this was evident by the fact that the quirk was accelerated by the use of sleep-inducing chemicals and those that are dissociative or delirious in action, or just any state that allows the brain to get so deep into calm without going fully unconscious (at least long enough for the phenomenon to happen). It felt like the more I accepted it and tried to call on it to happen, the easier it was to avoid it. I will try to find that neural hiccup again and test its ability. It's been a long time since I've experienced something like that.
I read the title as: "cant see facts" and was like: "oh, so flat earthers, anti vaccers and religious people?"
So, no religious people can see facts? What a fact-based opinion of yours ...
@@tomt6963 if you are religious, that fact was true since you couldnt see the fact that this was a joke!
lol jkjk
While I recognize faces most of the time, I can't always pair a face with a name or a context--in my case this is related to the traumatic brain injury I sustained in a car crash at age 15. I've found that people are really tolerant when I say, "I apologize, could you tell me your name again?", and most people talk about how much trouble they have with facial recognition. It does comfort me to know that I have a legitimate excuse for most of the issues that are so widespread, though it also is confusing to know that I could have a faulty memory or sporadic judgment process even if I had NOT broken a windshield with my head at highway speed 31 years ago. I will certainly have to watch this video again tomorrow--thank you for the info, Simon!
Who else is looking for a very startled Steve in the comments XD
Hello!
@@steveharrison76 thank you for your reply, you've made my evening 😂😂
I almost jumped out of my chair!
I was startled by it and my name isn't even Steve.
The lizard people are coming for you, Steve.
I think I have a very mild form of face blindness, and I've been able to improve it as I've gotten older. Sometimes I will reintroduce myself to someone I've meet several times at parties, and I just apologize and say I must have been drunk the last time we met.... But that only works for the second meeting.The only time it's been a real problem is when I was working as a bellhop and my managers expected me to remember people's names and greet them personally every time I saw them. I would carry a person's bags up to the room, get their name, make small talk and go back downstairs. Then the guest would take their coat and hat off and come back downstairs a few minutes later and I'd try to reintroduce myself all over again. I don't know who hated it more - me, the guests, or my boss.
Who is steve?
More like "Who was Steve?..." ;-) -Daven
I have this happen once in a while. My doctor kept saying it was my migraines. It wasn't. But I finally found my answer when I spoke with my nuero doc. Though it is scary and after having it start I started having anxiety falling asleep. Thanks for the video.
I experienced this phenomenon a couple times as a teenager.
Teenager nerves are weird. As a teen I often had pretty strong leg twitches when falling asleep. Good thing I didn't have a cat sleeping on my bed back then.
Also, you may have been joking when your advised watching your videos in the background, but that's just what i do when I can't sleep.
The soothing sound of your voice imparting knowledge helps me drift off nicely.
.... i didn't know this was a thing. i thought i was just having anxiety and that the loud noise was an auditory hallucination.
I mean... yes. That is exactly what's happening according to the video. Hallucinations are the brain's neurons firing without any input, creating false sensory experiences.
This just happened to me last night, scared the shit out of me. I get sleep paralysis with hallucinations quite frequently and have been for around 14 years ive almost got used to it but this was different from what im used to so i shit a brick. Good job my partner is so
Good with it by dealing with it over the years, she hears me calling out by heaving breathing or whatever noise i can make and makes a barrier between what i can see with her body while calming me down till it subsides. Got that woman is amazing.
Anyway does anyone else go through this as often as me? Or have gone through it at all and can give advice, thanks.
Poor Steve
"... Listening to my voice as you drift off to sleep..." highly recommended for anybody suffering trouble sleeping. All jokes aside, simon's voice and informative monologue is the best sleep aid I have found after giving up the anti-depressant-anxiety medication. Usually my phone plays simon's channels from when I fall asleep until when I wake up. No offense, I enjoy your informative channels at all hours. But for those with problems sleeping etc...
I don't have Simon's videos on all night but I like to listen to one in bed just before drifting off to sleep. The content as well as his voice just feels so nourishing somehow doesn't it?
I had my mother tell me "I was going to be late" this morning and I responded "for what" out loud only she lives 30 minutes away from me
Did you end up being late?
I called her when I woke up fully she said nothing to hurry about over here ..... Strange rite 🤷
I'm glad that face blindness is becoming more well known. I can recognize people I know well but recognizing acquaintances is another matter. I'm a collage student right now and I keep running into issues where I'll ask if they have taken such and such class and they'll answer, "yeah, we were in the same lab group." No I just admit straight up that I'm face blind rather than having to try and cover my gaff some other way. I also realized how completely dependent on voice I am for recognizing actors in shows or movies. For example, there's two actors in one season of a particular show that were in the second season as well but playing different characters, the characters had very different personalities and speech patterns and I never would have guessed they were played by the same actors if I hadn't read it.
I was really hoping there was a disorder that caused people’s heads to literally explode outward
This video had me going from "that's really weird, who can't see faces?" to "i totally have some mild form of this"