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- sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -2/+71This was happening to me for a while. Thankfully I Chmod'ed my family 444 and it hasn't happened since.
- jsg7, on 10/12/2007, -3/+68I'm sure this is a duplicate, but I can't seem to find the original digg post...
- jsd8cc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+42We learned about this in my Human Memory psychology course. It would happen to people who suffer damage to the limbic system (amygdalae, specifically)...whereby emotional connections are severed from memory. So you see your mother, but since you do not have any emotional connection with this person, she can't be your mother. They also had instances of patients having completely normal conversations with loved ones over the phone, but if the interaction happened in person, they were convinced the people were imposters (which is why they mention Prosopagnosia).
- Blizaine, on 10/12/2007, -8/+42For a second I thought this was Crapgas' Syndrome... which is what I have.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20"Last night, I came home and realized that everything in my apartment had been stolen and replaced with an exact duplicate. I told this to my friend -- he said, `Do I know you?'" -- Steven Wright
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18They neglect to state the obvious. The Illuminati is replacing our loved ones with shape-shifting reptillians. The new world order is here. All who stand in their way will be replaced. There is no stopping the global fascism now. Or something like that.
- spyda45, on 10/12/2007, -5/+19*Sees reflection in lake*
Oh no! I'm drowning!
*jumps in lake* - clubmasta2, on 10/12/2007, -6/+17I think it should be renamed Cylon Syndrome
- CrimsonBlur, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14Dear God, that would be insanely scary to have to endure your whole life! I can't even begin to imagine what that would be like...
- Arahka, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Now I'm very curious whether they have a normal range of fear response in most situations or if they're always "laid back" about things that would be disconcerting to most people. Their mostly laid back attitude about their perception of "duplicates" may be another symptom of the chemical/physical problem in the brain.
- thatsmyaibo, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14Reminds me of the Simpsons episode where homer was replaced by that German guy that that shaved his head in the living room and blamed his oddities on a new tie.
- rudy23, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12Can someone clone Jessica Biel, Alba and Simpson for me as my relatives I never met. I have some soul searching left to do with them.
- hackwrench, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Your post is better than the article, which appears to consist mainly of vague anonymized anecdotes
- psygnisfive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7If anyone's interested in reading more about this, and similar cognitive malfunctions, I suggest reading V. S. Ramachandran's A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness, as an introduction, and then move on to his Phantoms in the Brain, which explores the ideas in greater depth.
To sum up Capgras Syndrome, a lesion is present in the connections between, I believe, the fusiform gyrus, and the amygdala. The mechanical recgonition of faces occurs in the fusiform gyrus, while the connection to the amygdala triggers emotional responses that provide the brain with the sense of familiarity. When a lesion is present, this emotional trigger is absent, and thus so is the sense of familiarity, so people and even pets can seem to be imposters. You're consciously capable of saying, "yes, he looks EXACTLY like my friend", but because there's no familiarity, you perceive the person as not actually being your friend. - orientis, on 10/12/2007, -7/+12Well according to the article it isn't scary at all. Just strange. That's the part I find most intriguing - though they were in a situation most of us would perceive as inherantly fearful, no fear is displayed. Dubble Youtee Eff
- Vapor17, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6At first i thought this was Capgras' but then i realized it wasn't it was another disorder excactly like Capgras', but different
- jd33, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Look at the postive side: You get to have sex with a different spouse on a regular basis.
- rabidg00se, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7jsg7's joke
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H3LLSL337's head - craigyjack, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I watched a documentary on this disorder in my Anthropology class last semester. It was very interesting. If I remember correctly, it is believed to have something to do with some parts of the brain either communicating wrongly or not being able to correctly recognize certain things (I believe the memory recall and sensory parts of the brain may have been 2 of the conflicting parts).
I wish I could remember the title or maker of the educational documentary but I cannot recall its title or the affiliated network.
edit: just read jsd8cc's post and I believe that is correct and what I learned and what the documentary was about. - glowend, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This was described in a great book by V.S. Ramachandran.
- CrazyWolf, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Ramachandran's book is a very interesting read, and makes much more sense that this article.
- jsd8cc, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I believe this was the show - Dr. Ramachandran on PBS's Nova.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/listseason/28.html#2812 - MisterMocie, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Yeah, it doesn't really seem that scary. I mean, if they still look and act exactly the same, it's basically the same person (durr) anyway. Nothing would be changed. The only weird thing to imagine is where they would be keeping the real deal.. and if they will come after you too, eventually..
Holy *****, that's pretty scary actually - dreamlayers, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I knew about this but I didn't know that some people felt that the doubles were continually replaced by new doubles. I wonder if that is common. If it is then this disorder has something to do with what is associated with an entity in the mind, kind of the label and internal model. It's like you forget the handle to an open file and instead open another handle to the same file.
- Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2This reminds me of p-zombies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie
The real issue is, so freaking what? If they are identical, then they are identical, so same difference. - silent, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1the first wave is here. :)
- neozeed, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Sounds like something Phillip K Dick would invent.... Although it makes me wonder if he had it. Then again it could have been the drugs.
- kjkessler, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Reminds me of another recent post to digg regarding BIID (Body Integrity Identity Disorder). The sufferers become convinced that one or more their own limbs don't belong to their own body and can go to extreme lengths to try to amputate their 'disowned' limbs.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I wonder who would even want to clone a boring nondescript family like mine. I have no such delusions. Otoh, if I were someone in Larry Ellison's position, then...
- coviecarbine, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5http://duggmirror.com/offbeat_news/An_Impostor_in_the_Family/
duggmirror caught it. - coviecarbine, on 10/12/2007, -8/+8if I had an Alba clone I would be doing a lot more than "soul searching" with her.
- hiPpymIck, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2the first Invasion of.. is still the best
- philpot, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1dugg for donald sutherland's face
- waz67, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Laugh all you want, but this can be deadly serious. And old friend of my brother has this, and ended up killing his parents because he thought they were imposters and had somehow done away with his real parents.
- robdiggity, on 10/12/2007, -6/+5Yeah, uh, no.
- ronsanto, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1What I don't understand is what he means when he says "this test also rules out mental illness as a definitive cause, since the emotional center of the brain would subconsciously react even with impaired perceptions." I thought the whole point was that this is a mental illness with the emotional center of the brain.
- andyrobo60, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2@Blizaine
your not the real Blizaine are you.
your an impostor. - duczduczducz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0damn, someone beat me to the "I uh am a new tie wearing" reference
- jonesin, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4So they think their relatives are doppelgangers?
- dlsspy, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2@sockpuppets
I think you may have overshot and chmodded my family 444, too. I can't get a word in... - stonebear, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2I had this for a while during puberty; I was sure my mother had been replaced by an impostor, yet knew at the same time the idea was absurd. A very strange and unsettling experience which I suspect is related to a past life.
- Jolls, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3@op12
you betcha. That series rocked - krazykor, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0I had this once. I cured myself by punching my reflection and realizing that I'm not made of glass.
- SteveyDevey, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3Yeah! A memory was on the tip of my mind, but couldn't quite bring it out. HARDAC forever!
- qualish, on 10/12/2007, -10/+5Specifically, I'd be havin' sex.
- themastersb, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2....maybe you'd be in the Twilight Zone
- chris9902, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2Butters: "The Simpsons did it already".
- op12, on 10/12/2007, -10/+4Did the title and description remind anyone else of HARDAC from Batman?
- audiowizard, on 10/12/2007, -7/+0I find it hard to believe that these people are otherwise normal. lol
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+0Jesus Christ.
So that's what that is.
I thought everyone thought this from time to time. -
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