Random Facts Flashcards
Capgras delusion theory
Being convinced that a friend or family member has been kidnapped or replaced by an identical-looking imposter.
Alice-in-Wonderland syndrome (or Todd’s syndrome)
A temporary condition caused by migraines, brain tumors or psychoactive drugs. It is a form of perceptual distortion where the individual thinks they have grown in size or that other people, animals and objects have shrunk in size.
Celebriphilia
An overwhelming obsession and desire to have a romantic relationship with a celebrity.
Cotard’s syndrome or walking corpse syndrome
Believing you are dead and putrefying, or have lost all your blood, or have no internal organs.
Repludicative paramnesia
An unusual delusion where the person believes that a building has been relocated without their knowledge, or exists on two places or dimensions at the same time.
Pica
A rare eating disorder where the person believes that non-edible items are, in fact, edible. Hence, they start eating items like rocks, hair, plastic, and dirt.
First degree murder
You planned it out beforehand and then killed someone
Second degree murder
You didn’t necessarily plan it, but you definitely meant to kill the person.
Acosmist
One who believes that nothing exists
Paralian
A person who lives near the sea
Dwale
To wander about deliriously
Aubade
A love song which is sung at dawn
How to spell favorite
Favourite
How to spell color
Colour
What is the first stage in the life cycle of a sun
Stellar nebula
What is the second stage in the life cycle of a sun
Prostar
What is the third stage in the life cycle of a sun
Main sequence star
What is the fourth stage in the life cycle of a sun
Red giant
What is the fifth stage in the life cycle of a sun
Planetary nebula
What is the sixth stage in the life cycle of a sun
White dwarf
How do you say I would like to eat eggs
I WISH TO DEVOUR THE UNBORN
Side affects of being numb due to mental illness
- Not crying for weeks and weeks on end til one day breaking down over something not actually worth getting upset over
- Not being able to tell if your feelings for people are platonic or romantic or if you’re jus lonely
- Instead of caring too much not caring at all about anything
- Not being able to process anything going on in your life and when you try your brain stalling out
- Loosing your train of thought every five seconds so when you try to have a conversation having to pause and remember what you were trying to say
- Word vomiting
- Mind ‘STATIC’