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Conjoined twins Tatiana and Krista can hear each other’s thoughts and
see through each other’s eyes
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|u/rushfolk - 1 month
|
|There is a documentary. Tatiana can apparently see out of both of
|Krista's eyes, and Krista can see out of one of Tatiana's eyes. https:/
|/web.archive.org/web/20200303205006/https://www.cbc.ca/cbcdocspov/episod
|es/inseparable
|u/green_dragon527 - 1 month
|
|Interesting, at all times or does she have any kind of control over
|that?
|u/GR7ME - 1 month
|
|And I wonder if … using her eyes prevents her from seeing at that
|moment
|u/verticalfuzz - 1 month
|
|"Unable to establish a connection. Please make sure the com port
|is available and try again"
|u/zerocztery - 1 month
|
|404 Eyes not found
|u/tesfabpel - 1 month
|
|I'm trying to imagine how they see things with 3 / 4 eyes in their
|minds... We place the data we see from the two eyes side-by-side.
|What about them?
|u/anon123_anon - 1 month
|
|Same here! Are they "separate panels" of sight? Is it a coherent
|panoramic view? If one shifts their eyes suddenly, does the other
|see straight while the edge blurs away? This is so wild and pretty
|much impossible to comprehend.
|u/Nattekat - 1 month
|
|A lot of the world you see isn't the result of your eyes doing
|stuff, it's your brain making sense of it. There's a pretty large
|blind spot that many can't even find even if they tried to give an
|example of this process. If you go blind, you won't see black,
|instead there's just nothing. Can you even imagine that? This
|could work in two ways: either it's added to the peripheral vision
|if the brain can make some sense of things, or it's merged
|together in a strange form of diplopia.
|u/bhonbeg - 1 month
|
|Nothing?
|u/Nattekat - 1 month
|
|Yes, even black requires functional eyes. It's like looking
|through the back of your head. We see nothing that way. 
|u/quantasplay - 1 month
|
|Cover your eye with your palm. Now answer what you see with
|your closed eye, looking straight ahead with your open eye 👀
|u/bethebumblebee - 1 month
|
|Without turning around, what do you see behind your head right
|now?
|u/bhonbeg - 1 month
|
|Yeah it's a mind fuck tbh
|u/Separate_Cranberry33 - 1 month
|
|I’d assume that if they are both looking at the same thing they’d
|have wild depth perception and when looking at different things it
|would be as if they were one person crossing their eyes. Since
|they grew up with the ability I’d guess they can filter out the
|other twin’s vision.
|u/Capable_Tumbleweed34 - 1 month
|
|One of the favorite dream i've ever had, was having 360° vision. It
|was not janky or distorted, just purely natural 360° view that felt
|as normal as breathing air, i became aware of the dreaming halfway
|through and was actually surprised by how clear everything looked
|and how well it performed. Hard to describe, but it convinced me
|that we already have the software for that, we just lack the
|hardware. So my guess would be that they simply have a wider field
|of view, as the brain will simply interpret the data it's fed and
|put a coherent image together.
|u/btribble - 1 month
|
|The left side of both of your eyes goes to the right hemisphere of
|your brain and the right side of both of your eyes goes to the left
|hemisphere. A single eye vs two eyes really makes little difference
|except for depth perception and total field of view. However, what
|they're each "seeing" has already been processed somewhat in the
|other twin's visual cortex, so they're not receiving images so much
|as recieving already processed information: "There is a cat here".
|u/spidelope - 1 month
|
|We don’t use 100% of our senses all of the time. Senses like smell
|and touch we tune in and out of. An extra stream of vision could
|just be another non-primary sense you ignore until you need it, or
|something brings it to your attention.
|u/rushfolk - 1 month
|
|https://youtu.be/VGslJPaxbD8?si=AWZnbLxaCHJ6yE8j you can watch the
|documentary here!! it's very great.
|u/MichiganInTexas - 1 month
|
|Very interesting documentary. Thank you for sharing it.
|u/EscapedFromArea51 - 1 month
|
|That fact is actually much more interesting than them being able to
|see out of each others’ eyes, which is already really interesting by
|itself. I’ll need to read any research they may have done on their
|brain to see if they learned something new about how our brains
|process vision!
|u/Justthetip1996 - 1 month
|
|No lie, I think I would have a crazy headache all the time
|u/WangusRex - 1 month
|
|So wild to think about what their perspective of "self" must be like? I
|think we all kind of having duality of thought sometimes but if they
|individually have that and then also their shared thoughts...and then
|being able to literally see from each others perspective... hard to
|imagine. EDIT: “have duality of thought” typo
|u/-PM_ME_UR_SECRETS- - 1 month
|
|Right? People saying they would never be alone, I wonder if their
|‘self’ includes both ‘selves’. Like they’re both two separate people
|but also the same individual? So they would be alone, but together?
|What happens when they meditate? Or if they were to take shrooms or
|something? It’s hard to wrap my head around it all.
|u/vonPetrozk - 1 month
|
|Can it happen that one of them gets asleep while the other one is
|awake? Would it be the alone time that most of us know? Would they
|see each others dreams or would that be ablack out?
|u/child_interrupted - 1 month
|
|And on the very dark side of possibilities, can one experience
|brain death but the other survive? Death of a close sibling can
|already be crushing. That sounds like true horror to even think
|about...
|u/memescryptor - 1 month
|
|Damn that's such a good question, so curious to know
|u/ablackcloudupahead - 1 month
|
|Our "selves" are basically just a bunch of individual organisms
|working in concert anyways
|u/cutelyaware - 1 month
|
|And here we are, a bunch of individual organisms working together.
|The pattern is not a coincidence.
|u/Dragnskull - 1 month
|
|Sure, but those usually merge together into a single
|consciousness. In this case there's two with shared access.
|Extremely different.
|u/LionaltheGreat - 1 month
|
|Is it two? I’m not so sure. There are two physical bodies, and
|two conjoined brains, but what is the dividing line between
|them? They may perceive themselves as “two”, but that does not
|make it so. People with multiple personality disorder also
|perceive themselves as individuals, even though they all live in
|the same brain. To take this thought experiment further, the
|two lobes of your brain often operate independently, with some
|coordination in between. Is this not a similar situation? Who
|knows, but fun to think about
|u/Dragnskull - 1 month
|
|Pretty sure they each have a separate hemisphere for
|themselves and then the one conjoining them ... Maybe there's
|3 "people" in there...
|u/-PM_ME_UR_SECRETS- - 1 month
|
|The dividing line gets super blurry considering they can
|literally see out of each others eyes and have some form of
|understanding each other’s thoughts. I need to watch the
|documentary I guess.
|u/YandereYunoGasai - 1 month
|
|Reminds me of that one boxing fight in cyberpunk 2077
|u/Call_Me_Pete - 1 month
|
|We’re NOT TWINS! It’s JUST ME! The girlfriend discussion was the
|real knockout of that mission
|u/YandereYunoGasai - 1 month
|
|for real xD
|u/SensitiveObject2 - 1 month
|
|Fascinating. Do they each see themselves as one half of the whole
|self or are they so intertwined that such a distinction is difficult
|to make.
|u/Proof_Ad2876 - 1 month
|
|They probably can’t wrap their head around it either
|u/Digi-i - 1 month
|
|We are Borg
|u/Nick_Newk - 1 month
|
|Would they talk to each other in private??? Or just communicate
|telepathically?
|u/Dalisca - 1 month
|
|I imagine it's like the Borg collective but a party of two.
|u/NorthNorthAmerican - 1 month
|
|Again, my perception of the world has changed. Thank you.
|u/MediocrityEnjoyer - 1 month
|
|I mean, do they have separate egos and share their subconscious, Do
|they dream in co-op mode?
|u/pycior - 1 month
|
|Each half of your brain is already a separate being - try the rabbit
|hole of "split-brain" syndrome. I can imagine that they do form a meta
|concious with extra minds than usual.
|u/King_Ulkilulki - 1 month
|
|Dude you gave me the biggest mindfuck in years probably oof I will
|investigate that really hard. The video posted below by
|dead_pixel_design is good, any other recommendations?
|u/dead_pixel_design - 1 month
|
|Great video by CGP Grey about experiences of some people studied who
|have had their Corpus Callosum severed:
|https://youtu.be/wfYbgdo8e-8?si=rIyfStWZGwkvk48g
|u/MinuetInUrsaMajor - 1 month
|
|Being able to see from someone else’s perspective is easy. Just look
|through a toy periscope with one eye, while leaving the other eye
|bare. You’ll adjust quicker than you’d imagine if you keep it this
|way.
|u/corruptedsyntax - 1 month
|
|The ethical implications are pretty fascinating here as well.
|Obviously we have concluded these are two distinct persons. I would
|guess that we have concluded they each legally own one of the two
|conjoined bodies based on who can control what, but that becomes so
|much murkier if one or both can control either. Not to mention the
|grim reality that one of the two bodies is likely to perish before the
|other at some point. When that happens they might undergo radical
|surgery to save one of the two bodies. Will the corresponding
|consciousness be the sole consciousness or will they have a copilot?
|u/Temporary-Option-679 - 1 month
|
|That's a fascinating thought experiment! It really is hard to imagine
|how that level of shared consciousness would affect one's sense of
|self. If you're interested in exploring these ideas further, check
|out the [Nexus Trilogy by Ramez
|Naam](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nexus_Trilogy). It's science
|fiction set forty years in the future where people can take a drug
|that lets them share thoughts, meditate together, and experience a
|'hive mind'. The books delve into how this technology impacts
|individual identity and society as a whole.
|u/BlackBartRidesAgain - 1 month
|
|Shout out to their barber. Genius haircut.
|u/Theseus666 - 1 month
|
|Did they pay for one or two?
|u/Benzol1987 - 1 month
|
|Yesn't
|u/giants4210 - 1 month
|
|Aladeen
|u/Ruin-Independent - 1 month
|
|Best reference Ive ever seen
|u/jaesharp - 1 month
|
|Aladeen.
|u/NabroleanBronaparte - 1 month
|
|Underrated reference
|u/sharktank - 1 month
|
|its an aladeen reference
|u/slaberwoki - 1 month
|
|You are H.I.V. Aladeen
|u/giants4210 - 1 month
|
|:) :( :)
|u/Acidroots - 1 month
|
|Hey, I think you accidentally conjoined your statement there
|u/westedmontonballs - 1 month
|
|Yope
|u/elephant_cobbler - 1 month
|
|Yo
|u/THE-BS - 1 month
|
|It doesn't matter, they have a joint bank account
|u/MennisRodman - 1 month
|
|So they split it right down the middle?
|u/brown2420 - 1 month
|
|Lol! I don't know why, but this really cracked me up 😄
|u/BalhaMilan - 1 month
|
|twone
|u/perseidot - 1 month
|
|Seriously. They’re both very pretty girls, too. My first thought was
|“it would be so trippy to hear someone else’s thoughts.” But then I
|remembered they’ve never known anything else; this is normal for them.
|I was 5 before I had any idea my audio-visual synesthesia was unusual.
|I just assumed everyone else heard colors and patterns, and got
|annoyed if they didn’t know what I was talking about.
|u/scorpyo72 - 1 month
|
|Like trying to explain a migraine to someone. I didn't really
|understand they were commonplace till I was in my teens.
|u/ilski - 1 month
|
|For me its ringing in my ears. I thought sound of quiet was
|basically ringing. well turns out its not.
|u/fuqdisshite - 1 month
|
|a lot of deaf patients that have their hearing restored ask why
|the Sun doesn't make more noise...
|u/fuqdisshite - 1 month
|
|not really u/jack_the_cunt the Sun, if we had atmosphere,
|like the Earth, all the way to the Sun, it would be like a
|jet engine for everyone in sunlight at all times. pretty
|easy to map.
|u/BeMyPenPalPlease - 1 month
|
|Tinnitus gang assemble!
|u/Zito6694 - 1 month
|
|EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
|u/Menarra - 1 month
|
|As I read this in a quiet bathroom: "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"
|u/judasmachine - 1 month
|
|The song of my people
|u/Lurker-398576-239 - 1 month
|
|If i focus hard i can tone it down or up for a second or
|two so its EeeeEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeEeEeEEEEEEEEeee :(
|Meditation was never fun...
|u/JellyGuliano - 1 month
|
|I‘ve got two different tinnitus, one left, one right.
|The one left is very high pitched, the other one has the
|same relaxing frequency than my Barthroom fan.
|u/ItchyJam - 1 month
|
|Right ear is so low it's only audible when I'm trying
|to get to sleep, and sounds like someone is running
|their car outside nearby. Left is the attention
|seeking 24/7 screamer.
|u/Vince1820 - 1 month
|
|What?
|u/BeMyPenPalPlease - 1 month
|
|TINNITUS GANG ASSEMBLE!!
|u/bigpancakeguy - 1 month
|
|*EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE*
|u/Pornstar_Jesus_ - 1 month
|
|*Turns loud fan back on*
|u/CaddyAT5 - 1 month
|
|r/tinnitus we’re assembled here
|u/BeMyPenPalPlease - 1 month
|
|Ooo of course there is a tinnitus subreddit. Joined!
|u/Mikash33 - 1 month
|
|MAWP
|u/BizzyM - 1 month
|
|Mwap, mwap
|u/Tre_Fo_Eye_Sore - 1 month
|
|It’s been so long since I didn’t have tinnitus that it has
|become my normal. Before I spent a few years as a Tomcat
|maintainer and worked around jets on a flight deck/flightline.
|I just got used to having to have the tv or a fan on while I
|sleep or else the EEEEEEEEEEEEEE is deafening when it is
|completely quiet. Cest La Vie!
|u/realityinflux - 1 month
|
|Thank you. Now I can hear the ringing in my ear.
|u/DMala - 1 month
|
|Same here. The good part of it is you’re acclimated to it. I
|don’t even notice unless I’m concentrating on it (like right
|now, thanks). People who develop it as adults really suffer
|with it.
|u/bmaurene - 1 month
|
|I hope very much that Krista and Tatiana don’t have migraines!
|u/scorpyo72 - 1 month
|
|Can you imagine sharing a migraine? How awful..
|u/bmaurene - 1 month
|
|Multi++++ congrats to their family and pediatricians + all
|specialists who have cared for them from birth to have raised
|such healthy gorgeous girls. Really, all of you including K &
|T deserve gold medals!! I remember seeing K & T’s birth
|notice and have followed progress over the years and feel
|enormously awed and pleased for all of you.
|u/OneFootTitan - 1 month
|
|I only found out that weird pattern that sometimes hits my vision
|was a migraine aura late in my 30s, when I saw a meme with it.
|Previously I had tried describing it to my doctor but very poorly.
|Didn’t know you could get migraines with just the aura and without
|the headache
|u/scorpyo72 - 1 month
|
|Mine were like two or more people were fighting in my head and
|wouldn't shut up. If I buried my head and blocked my eyes from
|receiving light, it seemed to quiet down. I haven't experienced
|it much as an adult, but it happened regularly in my teens.
|u/Drakaryscannon - 1 month
|
|My migraines would put me in such physical pain I would want
|to vomit after vomiting I’d take a shower and go to bed.
|Thankfully they are very rare in adult hood cuz that’s not a
|fun “remedy”
|u/Druuseph - 1 month
|
|I experienced my first one a year or so ago and struggled for a
|while to articulate what it was I was experiencing. Same thing
|as well, no pain at all so 'migraine' was never even a thought
|in my head until I stumbled on someone else talking about it by
|coincidence.
|u/iheartdinosaurs_rawr - 1 month
|
| I got my first migraine aura (no headache) in the middle of a
|college class. I legitimately thought I was going blind - it was
|terrifying! Ran back to my dorm and panic called my mom then my
|doctor....only for them to not be concerned about it (oh, not
|unusual side effect from BCP...??) and tell me to just let them
|know if it started happening more frequently. 17 years (and many
|a migraine and aura) later I'm just annoyed I have had to learn
|about migraine/aura primarily on my own and it took way longer
|than it should have for me to finally understand...
|u/angiehawkeye - 1 month
|
|That happened to me a couple times in my first pregnancy and has
|happened again a couple times in my current one. Really weird.
|u/Kytyn - 1 month
|
|“Zigzag pulse-y colorful glowy thing that’s slightly curved that
|starts small then gets bigger and bigger til it’s no longer in
|my field of vision” I also had no idea what it was. My ocular
|migraines happened right around menopause and now seem to have
|stopped since I’ve been on HRT. 🤷🏻‍♀️
|u/tetrark - 1 month
|
|I have the same problem explaining Misophonia to people. The idea
|that certain sounds, no matter how loud or quiet they are, can
|cause physical pain to other parts of the body is difficult for
|most people to understand. It took my wife a long time to
|comprehend that I was in actual pain and not just annoyed by
|specific sounds.
|u/josiahpapaya - 1 month
|
|In my restaurant I have to walk away when a particular chef is
|cutting up steak because his knife always grazes the fork and
|it’s like having my hair pulled
|u/dabbydabdabdabdab - 1 month
|
|OMFG hearing metal scratch metal like that makes my teeth
|nerves zing
|u/Branwyn- - 1 month
|
|My husband didn’t really empathize with my migraines until I drew
|an aura for him. Seeing it as I see it stunned him and now he
|takes more care when I have them.
|u/cfiggis - 1 month
|
|> until I drew an aura for him What do you mean by this? How
|does drawing an aura help him understand?
|u/Branwyn- - 1 month
|
|Drawing what I am experiencing was a different way to
|communicate what I see and feel. It makes it more real. The
|auras I get are like silvery jagged rainbow halos that grow
|until they fill my sight. Putting that onto paper gave him a
|visual of a concept he couldn’t imagine himself.
|u/gopherphart - 1 month
|
|I get those but without any pain. They are very weird.
|u/Alasse_ - 1 month
|
|So do I! The first two times that I got those auras, I did
|get a massive headache afterwards (not sure if it was a
|proper migraine, or just a banging headache), but every
|single time after that has been totally pain-free,
|somehow. Very weird.
|u/noneedtoprogram - 1 month
|
|As a teenager I had a few migraines, which were all
|preceded by the visual aura, then one day I got the aura
|and was grimly anticipating the migraine but it never
|came. Since then I've thankfully not had another.
|u/the_tchotchke - 1 month
|
|They’re called ocular migraines! I had one last year and
|rushed to the doctor. Thought I was having a seizure.
|u/Dreaded1 - 1 month
|
|[Scintillating Scotoma](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scinti
|llating_scotoma)
|u/perseidot - 1 month
|
|I’m glad you were able to make him understand better. Migraines
|aren’t “a bad headache.” They can be a whole different reality.
|u/eagleskullla - 1 month
|
|Auras are sometimes visual like this, but apparently sensitivity
|to light in general is considered an aura. I get stomach
|migraines with aura, which is characterized by lots of burping
|and intense nausea (sometimes to the point of vomiting) that is
|made worse by light exposure and is sometimes accompanied by
|headaches. ((Not a super relevant comment; putting it here just
|because it took me so long to get a diagnosis and treatment
|because it was not intuitive to me that my symptoms could be
|migraines. I thought aura meant *seeing things* and migraines
|meant head pain.))
|u/Friendlystranger247 - 1 month
|
|I described my migraines as “after being stabbed multiple time in
|the brain with a screwdriver, someone tickles my optical nerve
|with the tip of a knife blade!” Oh boy can’t wait for the next
|one!
|u/Hamchalupasupreme - 1 month
|
|I always thought people who complained about migraines were being
|dramatic and I couldn’t understand why they didn’t just take advil
|and go about their day. I honestly thought it was another word for
|a normal headache. Until I got my first migraine.
|u/conradr10 - 1 month
|
|Just tell them imagine if it felt like there was a knife in your
|head level pain and every sound and light source make it feel like
|your heart is pounding on the inside of your eyeballs… oh and it
|can last from 10 hour to 20 days
|u/the_idea_pig - 1 month
|
|I didn't take migraines seriously until I got one for the first
|time. Always thought, "just take some ibuprofen, it's a headache."
|Then I had one and was lying in bed for nine hours. Light and
|sound were unbearable. It was debilitating.
|u/ConeyDog - 1 month
|
|Wait, what? You can hear colors? Please explain.
|u/Nerdler1 - 1 month
|
|It's a condition where areas of the brain have more connections
|between the senses. Some people can taste something and get a
|colour visual, or hear something and see colours associated to it.
|u/perseidot - 1 month
|
|Great explanation. This is basically it. The cells that do my
|auditory processing are also triggering my visual cortex, in a
|consistent way. Maybe neurons cross wired during development;
|maybe some neurons aren’t completely insulated by glial cells,
|and the electric impulses communicate to nearby neurons. There
|are lots of different forms of synesthesia out there. Other
|people experience linkage between numbers/colors, smells/shapes,
|letters/colors, etc. I also have to turn off music to really
|focus on a distinct smell. That one even strikes me as bizarre.
|u/Nerdler1 - 1 month
|
|Fascinating. Our brains are amazing. Does it ever become
|overwhelming? What senses of yours seem "linked"?
|u/perseidot - 1 month
|
|Yeah, sometimes it does. Lol! One of the hardest things I
|ever did to myself was to try to write a paper about audio-
|visual synesthesia, including my own experience with it, for
|a class on neural coding. A neighbor was playing music
|loudly. Ear plugs didn’t quite block it out. I couldn’t
|“tune it out” because it was the subject I was focusing on.
|I literally couldn’t hear myself think! It was so
|frustrating and ridiculous at the same time. But yes, in
|general, if I’m tired, stressed, or just really need to
|concentrate, I can’t have music playing. That was dangerous
|at least once when something I saw “coming at me” wasn’t
|actually something I saw, but something I heard. I was
|driving late at night and could have gone off the road. In
|normal situations, I can keep that straight without effort.
|u/Nerdler1 - 1 month
|
|Oof, so the visuals can be so strong than you think it's
|actually there? That must be terrifying sometimes
|u/perseidot - 1 month
|
|It doesn’t happen very often, thankfully. I did
|something similar to myself last week when I hung some
|bags of spices from the inside of a cupboard door. I
|KNEW they were there - but that didn’t stop me from
|flinching every single time I opened the cupboard. I
|reacted as though something was falling out on me, until
|I finally moved the danged things. When I get really
|tired, I can KNOW where the burst of yellow came from,
|but my body is still going to react as though it’s from
|oncoming headlights.
|u/ObeseBumblebee - 1 month
|
|Does the visuals you get actually come from the source
|of the sound? Like if there is some music playing off
|to your side do you see the color in your peripheral
|vision? Also does the visual effect happen with your
|eyes closed? Are you like, super good at marco polo?
|u/NotSureNotRobot - 1 month
|
|I’ve always thought numbers had shapes that “fit” together.
|Like 7 cradles the 3 to make ten which is a rectangle. I’m
|terrible at advanced math though. I’ve never had synesthesia
|but when I listen to music it has textures and the flow of the
|music has a shape, but it’s not like I can hear a song and say
|it’s green or blue.
|u/fuqdisshite - 1 month
|
|i will argue that: we are just now understanding how 'Grey
|Matter' processes data and that Grey Matter is a conduit for
|other processes AND a spot to store short term (somethings)
|for future use. we have a long way to go and that is proven
|by the idea that there is no human capable machine available
|to test on yet. brains are an unsolved puzzle.
|u/techieqube - 1 month
|
|Yeah I see colors when I hear instruments...I literally have
|to turn down the music when I'm parking at night so I can see
|better.
|u/lblack_dogl - 1 month
|
|For me, the sequence 7+6 is a moped but the answer 13 is curly
|yellow hair. These images pop in my head when I think of these
|concepts. No idea why.
|u/tyrannosaurusjes - 1 month
|
|Same as how I strongly feel that 5, 6 and 9 are a lovely cool
|ocean blue.
|u/perseidot - 1 month
|
|I think this may be a lot more common than most people
|realize. A lot of us have these little neural quirks. They
|don’t hurt us in any way, they’re just a little odd.
|u/atlanticisms - 1 month
|
|Words have textures and/or "tastes" to me. I wish I had the
|kind of synesthesia that made me see colors instead
|u/Nerdler1 - 1 month
|
|So you get an item associated to numbers? What's 7 and what's
|6?
|u/lblack_dogl - 1 month
|
|That's the thing. Not every number has its own item. And
|it's not really an item. It's like... concepts that pop in
|my head. The curly hair one in particular, it's not curly
|hair on a head, it's just a plane of curly hair, it's
|disgusting really.
|u/Nerdler1 - 1 month
|
| huh. Very interesting. Wonder how many connections you
|have
|u/lblack_dogl - 1 month
|
|It's stronger when trying to memorize things for me.
|These ideas came from memorizing times tables and minute
|math sheets in second grade. When I try to memorize a
|long sequence of guitar notes for a song, I find myself
|doing the same thing as an adult. It seems natural at
|first, I'm writing a story that connects this thing to
|that thing, but then I analyze the story and realize
|it's utter nonsense. Spitballing an example here, I'll
|play chords in order and I'll be saying to myself in my
|head: mailbox to the green apple, man is angry, blah
|blah blah. I literally sit up after playing for a bit
|and think to myself, what the fuck is happening in my
|head. It's bizarre.
|u/ConeyDog - 1 month
|
|What do you mean? Like the hue in their vision changes based off
|different foods they eat? Bad example: blueberries might change
|their vision to a more blue hue?
|u/Nerdler1 - 1 month
|
|So I saw a discovery channel show talking about it. And some
|people would say when they hear something, the would see a
|colour emitting from the item producing the sound. Kinda like
|a smoke rising from the strings. I don't experience it so it's
|hard for me to say.
|u/perseidot - 1 month
|
|That’s not the type of synesthesia I have, so I can’t answer
|for sure. From what others have said, it’s more like there’s a
|fixed association between the taste of things and a color. For
|instance, if you asked them to describe the flavor of
|blueberries, they might say that blueberries are sweet and
|pink. Similarly flavors might be different shades of pink, but
|still fall into the same classification. For me, audio-
|visual synesthesia apparently changes how I experience music.
|Music has color and pattern the same way it has pitch, tone,
|and rhythm. You don’t usually think about those things when
|you’re listening to it, you just experience them. I don’t
|really understand *not* hearing those things.
|u/SSGASSHAT - 1 month
|
|I do that, but usually I have to be drunk or high to do so 
|u/AnonymousCruelty - 1 month
|
|I already hear two voices. I think one is mine.
|u/chicken-nanban - 1 month
|
|I still catch myself being confused about how my husband can “see”
|pictures, like full on movies, when he’s reading something. I can
|only “see” very small photograph like images when I’m reading, and I
|have to try very hard to focus in and give that “image” any details.
|And it’s ephemeral - a minor distraction and poof, it’s gone and I
|have to start over. I more “feel” stories as I read them, but my
|husband says he sees them like a movie just playing. Which one of us
|is strange, I’ll never know, but it’s funny the things you take for
|granted because that’s just how we’ve always been and can’t
|conceptualize things being any other way! It’s like I’ve always
|wondered if we all see colors the same way. I know we all see the
|same wave length and assign a color to it, but it is still being
|perceived and processed in the brain, so does your “blue” really
|match mine? I wonder if these girls could answer this, or if it’s
|the same thing, they’ve always seen things through their own and
|each other’s eyes that that’s just normal and they’ve adapted to it…
|u/perseidot - 1 month
|
|I’ve always wondered that about colors, too! One of my friends
|has no “mental vision” at all. Doesn’t see pictures when she
|reads, remember what colors things are, doesn’t “see” things in
|her memory, or in her dreams. Yet she’s a superb photographer, and
|does all her own editing. She also creates colorful art in other
|media. Meanwhile, I’m over here processing my whole life in
|images.
|u/Lucavii - 1 month
|
|Hearing someone else's thoughts is trippy enough, but I'm trying to
|wrap my head around how you see through someone else's eyes.
|Like...?
|u/belovetoday - 1 month
|
|I'm still trying to figure out how they know whose thought is whose.
|So are they two distinct voices? And audio/visual synesthesia is
|so rad. Have a friend with it, who sees the colors in words when she
|reads. And describes the colors as their "feelings" /tone when they
|were writing. Must be a colorful world!
|u/perseidot - 1 month
|
|Your friend’s way of seeing the world sounds really cool! I
|wonder if it’s anything like remembering someone else speaking…
|the “voice” is in your mind, but you still know it’s “other” and
|not you. But for them it’s happening in real time. Idk, though.
|That’s really just a guess. It’s such an interesting concept.
|u/lackofabettername123 - 1 month
|
|Excuse my ignorance, you hear colors and patterns?
|u/perseidot - 1 month
|
|Yep I have audio-visual synesthesia. There are lots of other
|types of synesthesia out there. I’ve answered several other
|questions here, if you want more details.
|u/greiton - 1 month
|
|my friend was in high school before he realized had some yellow-blue
|colorblindness. I was with him when we figured it out. we were
|programming an electric paintball marker and the led flashed just
|the right tone of yellow and light blue that he was like "no, those
|are the same color." everything in grade school had been for
|detecting red-green color blindness, not the other types.
|u/Grrerrb - 1 month
|
|Mine has been color blindness. People sure want me to prove I can’t
|tell some object is some color.
|u/killerduck49 - 1 month
|
|Yea i learned i have adhd 6 months ago and 1 month after starting on
|the meds i found out that silence is real like i could for the first
|time in my 20 years of life hear the wind in the grass and nature
|without anny noise
|u/lostpanduh - 1 month
|
|Scariest sentence I've read in a while, "can hear each other's
|thoughts." That means at some point they had to come to the
|conclusion that's the other persons thoughts and not imaginary.
|Also imagine actually being truly empathic and feeling others
|feelings in real time even though it's not from your side.
|u/itsmaxx - 1 month
|
|Dunno if this is insensitive or not but it from the definition I
|read it seems kinda cool if its not overwhelming. Seems almost like
|a superpower.
|u/dingo_khan - 1 month
|
|I can always feel all my clothing all the time. I was like 22 before
|I found out this was not the case for everyone. A girlfriend said
|something that brought it up and she stared at me like "no sweetie,
|that is not normal." having talked to a lot of people since then, I
|guess not. The idea of it not being the case is so weird to me but I
|guess it is normal.
|u/perseidot - 1 month
|
|Oh, that’s interesting! Does it drive you nuts? Most people
|adjust to constant, non-painful stimuli and tune it out. Are
|there other things you can’t tune out?
|u/dingo_khan - 1 month
|
|Nah. It does make me a bit specific about fabrics. Nothing
|exotic needed but I avoid things that feel distracting (like
|corduroy pants or wool sweaters). The only thing I can think
|of: I have trouble filtering out conversations. Like I can pay
|attention to you talking to me in a room full of people but I
|can't not also listen in. I have to make sure not to seem rude
|by having cross conversations or channel surfing conversations
|at parties. People who know me are not offended because they
|know I am listening. People who don't are sometimes
|understandably frustrated.
|u/Ilien - 1 month
|
|I know that is always the case (in Portuguese we have a saying that
|goes something like "peppers in the ass of other people is
|refreshing" lol) and it will probably both a blessing and a curse,
|but being able to hear colours and patterns sounds rad. Was
|unfamiliar with the term, thanks for sharing!
|u/perseidot - 1 month
|
|I love idioms and random sayings in other languages (knowing that
|English has some very strange sayings itself!) What does it mean
|when you say that peppers in the ass of someone else is
|refreshing?
|u/Ilien - 1 month
|
|Pepper in the ass create a very burning sensation apparently.
|It's basically a way of saying that other people problems are a
|breeze to us, because we're not involved and don't have to deal
|with it. I mentioned it here because I am unable to relate and
|see how your audio-visual synesthesia can be a negative and can
|only imagine the good side of it (it sounds fun!)
|u/FairlyGoodGuy - 1 month
|
|> I was 5 before I had any idea my audio-visual synesthesia was
|unusual. I was in my late-30s when I discovered that aphantasia is
|a thing. Learning that the whole "mind's eye" concept is literal for
|most people was astonishing. It's funny how far we can go in life
|believing that our own perception of the world is the same as
|everyone else's.
|u/Kdejemujjet - 1 month
|
|That's so cool! All I get is randomly generated images of places or
|things I have never seen in my life. They are so vivid and feel like
|memories for second and then they're completely gone. Once it wasn't
|image it was sound. Loudest thing I ever heard I really thought we
|are under bombing attack and the sound is siren warning.
|u/integerdivision - 1 month
|
|I was *25* before I realized I was a grapheme-color synaesthete.
|u/Mr_McFeelie - 1 month
|
|Makes you wonder how they even differentiate between themselves and
|their sister if the brains are connected like this… must be quite
|strange
|u/SSGASSHAT - 1 month
|
|What the hell is audio-visual synthesia?  Wait, nevermind, I read
|the answers below. Neat shit, sounds like a really mild but constant
|acid trip, which I would enjoy personally. 
|u/gemini1568 - 1 month
|
|They remind me of Ginnifer Goodwin.
|u/1-22-333-4444 - 1 month
|
|> I just assumed everyone else heard colors and patterns Does the
|color 'white' have a sound? And does the color 'black' have a sound?
|Is there any way to describe the sounds (e.g., a buzzing sound, a
|humming sound)? I'm so curious how colors and patterns can be
|"heard".
|u/rand0fand0 - 1 month
|
|If you’re not too tired of repeating yourself. Do the colors or
|shapes come from the location of the sound? Can you see where a
|sound is coming from? Also on these colors or shapes impede your
|vision for physical objects?
|u/perseidot - 1 month
|
|You asked so nicely! 1. No, pretty much centered in my visual
|field, whether my eyes are open or closed. 2. I can hear where a
|sound is coming from, usually, like I think most people do. 3.
|Very occasionally, when I’m overtired or very stressed, I can’t
|keep my sensory impressions organized. I was using music to keep
|myself awake during a long drive at night, and started to swerve
|to avoid the “oncoming headlights” I’d just heard. I knew it was a
|sound, but my body started to get out of the way. It was very
|similar to something I did to myself a couple of weeks ago. I hung
|bags of spices from hooks inside a cupboard door - and then
|flinched back, startled, every time I opened the door. I knew they
|were there, but my eyes saw something coming at me and I couldn’t
|stop my reaction. I took them down, because it was clear I wasn’t
|going to stop reacting. I also have to turn off music to focus
|on locating a smell - like smoke, or something else that might be
|dangerous. Which makes a certain weird sense, as I also close my
|eyes to scent things better. Hope that answered what you wanted
|to know!
|u/rand0fand0 - 1 month
|
|So interesting. thanks for taking the time
|u/OutrageousRelief3405 - 1 month
|
|They look like Katie Holmes
|u/HellyOHaint - 1 month
|
|Yeah it genuinely looks good and so do they
|u/Aydiomio - 1 month
|
|Their bangs look super nice!
|u/thx1138- - 1 month
|
|I just want to know how they got their shirts on?
|u/ravenous_cadaver - 1 month
|
|Bloody hell... Hearing my own thoughts is bad enough half the time.
|u/souse03 - 1 month
|
|It probably gets really awkward when the intrusive thoughts hit. They
|have definitely thought about hurting the other one at some point.
|u/phalewail - 1 month
|
|>There's a knife on the countertop. Grab it before she does.
|u/user_tab_indexes - 1 month
|
|Before even getting to that point though, they'd already see and
|understand where the other is coming from. Could conflict really
|arise between "them"/her?
|u/literallylateral - 1 month
|
|I would think so. People can still piss you off even if you
|fully understand where they’re coming from, and they’ve
|presumably been dealing with this since before they developed
|any social skills or capacity for empathy.
|u/AvinPagara - 1 month
|
|the documentary says they do fight and their fights get "very
|violent"
|u/tema3210 - 1 month
|
|Maaan
|u/concequence - 1 month
|
|Would they though, they couldn't hide anything. So if they are upset
|they have to work it out and can understand each others reasoning.
|Decision making is much quicker and they become attuned to each
|others planning, and thought process, their goals, their desires.
|They'd be more apt to finish each others sentences.
|u/Inquisivert - 1 month
|
|It depends on what their sense of "self" is. They may be so
|intrinsically linked that their entire sense of self involves both
|of them, even if they're capable of having different thoughts. They
|know nothing else, so why would they necessarily want to hurt, or
|even be annoyed by, the other? It's all so fucking fascinating and
|borderline incomprehensible.
|u/Taradal - 1 month
|
|Actually this amazes me. It means that we could actually be able to
|decode thoughts and maybe even infuse them into our brain. Like a
|phone call without speaking
|u/ravenous_cadaver - 1 month
|
|One of my first thoughts was the complex works of fiction they could
|potentially imagine together... Like writing characters and dialogue
|can be tricky etc... that kinda thing, just the potential for
|creative synergy could be huge. Also if anyone was gna develop
|genuine ESP or telekinesis, surely it would be the two girls sharing
|the Uber brain lol.
|u/BrandfordAndSon - 1 month
|
|Imagine one is suicidal and the other loves life. Not for long they
|wouldn’t.
|u/literallylateral - 1 month
|
|I was actually wondering about mental illness. I have ADHD and a
|neurotypical person hearing my thoughts all day would fuuuuucking
|haaaaate it. Obviously I hope this doesn’t happen but it would be
|morbidly fascinating to find out what would happen if only one of
|them were to develop depression or have a psychotic break.
|u/A57RUM - 1 month
|
|The neck pain must be from another world.
|u/J_0_E_L - 1 month
|
|Also walking around (If they don't use a wheelchair?) and moving in
|general must be super annoying with their bodies at that angle due to
|the head connection.
|u/vanilleq - 1 month
|
|Exact same thought
|u/quietmyman - 1 month
|
|Like the twins, am I right?
|u/zerbey - 1 month
|
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krista\_and\_Tatiana\_Hogan](https://en.w
|ikipedia.org/wiki/Krista_and_Tatiana_Hogan)
|u/OG_Felwinter - 1 month
|
|In the opening paragraph there, it says they share a brain, but later
|on it talks about their brains plurally. Does anyone know which part
|is correct? Is it just that they share certain parts of their brains?
|u/tgjer - 1 month
|
|They're connected at the thalamus, which among other things relays
|motor and sensory signals to the cerebral cortex.
|u/Coreshine - 1 month
|
|I know some of these words
|u/Scipio33 - 1 month
|
|"Hmmm thalamus, good! Or bad. I'm not sure."
|u/SkellyboneZ - 1 month
|
|All you need to know is that the Thalamus are some ass hole
|elves who claim sole responsibility for closing the Oblivion
|Gates in the Dominion.
|u/KaseTheAce - 1 month
|
|Lol. "Thalmor" for anyone wondering.
|u/NewNameAgainUhg - 1 month
|
|At least it should be easier for them to move if they share motor
|signals
|u/Deep90 - 1 month
|
|I bet it does. Pretty sure I saw a clip where one of the girls
|could tell whenever the other was being touched on the knee or
|elbow for example.
|u/DefiantFrankCostanza - 1 month
|
|Thalamus does a fuck ton more than that
|u/tiredtanzon - 1 month
|
|It says in the wiki article that they share one half of the brain
|and each have half a brain. So effectively they have 1.5 brains.
|u/zerbey - 1 month
|
|I'm not a medical expert, but it sounds like the latter to me.
|u/TealCatto - 1 month
|
|Another comment said they share the center half, and the outer
|halves are individual.
|u/SoccerGamerGuy7 - 1 month
|
|Part of their brain. They have two individual brains; but their
|brains are connected in certain parts. I watched a documentary some
|time ago when they were younger. It was fascinating as one girl
|would cover her eyes and see what object their mother was holding
|through her sister's eyes. Similar with touch; one girl still
|blindfolded would feel where someone touched her sister; "her knee!,
|her elbow!" There also was a few small spats about food. As one
|girl loved ketchup and the other didnt. But she claimed she could
|taste the ketchup her sister was eating. Interestingly they appear
|to also share thoughts. Both of them would sit quietly; and both
|together without words would go and get up to mischief with the same
|goal in mind. (or minds) They really are among some of the most
|fascinating people on Earth.
|u/Ecstatic_Lab9010 - 1 month
|
|The prefrontal cortex, looks like.
|u/SlinkyBiscuit - 1 month
|
|https://youtu.be/HVrSLHugwtg?si=59CPlmR5HWOoOURR Actually research
|seems to indicate that there are separate consciousness in each
|hemisphere of any individual's brain that communicate and
|collaborate via the corpus collosum. Their experience may not be as
|foreign to us all as it seems
|u/bangbangracer - 1 month
|
|The brains are separate, but they are conjoined around the thalamus
|and sensory areas. It's kind of hard to explain. They have their
|own mind and brain, but there are also connected by a few key
|systems. Oddly enough they can't actually see through the other's
|eyes, but they can \*see\* through each others eyes if that makes
|sense.
|u/MrMESSl - 1 month
|
|Incredibly interesting.
|u/Moosplauze - 1 month
|
|Agreed, although I would loved to get even more information than the
|wikipedia article offers. Unsure if the information is just not
|available because of the mentioned exclusive contracts or because
|they protect their privacy well (which is perfectly fine) or if the
|article is just not up to date.
|u/Lushkush69 - 1 month
|
|There's a few documentaries about them just google their names and
|documentary.
|u/Meiico - 1 month
|
|"They are joined at the head and share a skull and a **brain**."
|Genuinely curious. How does this being two individual people? Does the
|brain split into two personalities, or is it one personality with two
|bodies like someone with extra limbs they can control? It's so cool yet
|so strange!
|u/DiscoBanane - 1 month
|
|They share half a brain but have another half each.
|u/Meiico - 1 month
|
|That makes more sense. Thank you!
|u/Firm-Telephone2570 - 1 month
|
|You can also actually live with just one half of your brain
|u/atthem77 - 1 month
|
|Insert political joke here
|u/Its0nlyRocketScience - 1 month
|
|"Some people don't need either half, they can usually be found
|in congress"
|u/redditsellout-420 - 1 month
|
|One who has the most ever, the most ever people.
|u/FlyingEagle57 - 1 month
|
|Can confirm. My hometown had a little kid during mt school years
|who had HORRIBLE chronic seizures, and they did an experimental
|procedure where they removed the right half of his brain (cannot
|remember if they took it all out or just a part) and he's now a
|fully functional and healthy adult EDIT: I can confirm, they
|took out the whole right hemisphere of his brain, at least
|that's what the posts his mother make allude to. Doesn't seem my
|business to pry open an over ten year old memory.
|u/SuperHazem - 1 month
|
|They only remove a few problematic nerve pathways. Removing a
|full brain half would make you 50% paralyzed and very
|cognitively impaired
|u/rorudaisu - 1 month
|
|https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/procedures/17092-hemis
|pherectomy > A hemispherectomy is a rare surgery that
|either **removes** or disconnects half of the brain from the
|other half.
|u/SuperHazem - 1 month
|
|Let’s be clear, in most cases what they’re doing is
|disconnecting the hemispheres by surgically removing the
|corpus collosum. Even a hemispherectomy, which will almost
|never be done, involves removing problematic lobes rather
|than the full hemisphere.
|u/mutantbabysnort - 1 month
|
|I remember seeing a news report about the same procedure, only
|it was for a little girl. It cured her, if I recall correctly.
|u/Thneed1 - 1 month
|
|There are cases where doctors have separated the two halves of
|the brain within an individual. These people tend to sort of
|become two different people.
|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-brain
|u/markovianprocess - 1 month
|
|This is outrageously fascinating from a neuroscience perspective.
|u/TellYouEverything - 1 month
|
|For real, I can’t believe that it’s even possible. Lends more
|credence to the idea that as we start to biohack our bodies with
|technology and gene editing, the brain will continue to find ways
|to keep up with new demands.  I really wonder what the peak
|possibilities of human consciousness could be.
|u/fecal_position - 1 month
|
|I would love to see a fMRI of them independently solving
|problems or meditating.
|u/Lyraxiana - 1 month
|
|Especially the part where they can see through each other's eyes!
|u/markovianprocess - 1 month
|
|Yeah, I haven't looked into the sharing senses and thoughts
|claim, but it's wild. I would have expected this kind of unusual
|human morphology to create neurological disorder rather than
|unique abilities - it's amazing how flexible the human brain is.
|u/Blazefresh - 1 month
|
|Totally, like do they have two consciousnesses or one?  And if
|it’s two, where does each one reside? 
|u/wggn - 1 month
|
|Separate consciousnesses but some shared memory fragments, from
|what i can find in google.
|u/Laymanao - 1 month
|
|Sadly, their mortality is also conjoined.
|u/ApizzaApizza - 1 month
|
|That’s much better than their mortality not being conjoined.
|Imagine watching half of your body die and having to live on. It’d
|fuck you up immensely.
|u/meganwiddy - 1 month
|
|Nightmare fuel, thanks!
|u/CTeam19 - 1 month
|
|[Here is one example of deer having the issue some times when
|they lock
|antlers](https://www.reddit.com/r/natureismetal/s/36GPq5jNdL)
|granted they weren't connected brain or body wise but it is
|still interestingly related to the concept.
|u/Sutaru - 1 month
|
|This is part of the plot for the most recent expansion for
|>!Final Fantasy XIV!<
|u/PolyDipsoManiac - 1 month
|
|>[Early in the morning of January 17, one of Eng’s sons checked on
|the sleeping twins. “Uncle Chang is dead,” the boy reportedly said
|to Eng, who responded, “Then I am
|going!”](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang_and_Eng_Bunker)
|u/cutestslothevr - 1 month
|
|The sad part is, with modern medicine Chang and Eng would have
|have been easy to separate.
|u/PolyDipsoManiac - 1 month
|
|Oh yeah, medicine was still pretty primitive. Shit, it still
|is.
|u/cutestslothevr - 1 month
|
|The biggest issue at the time was they had no way to know
|what was in the band that connected them and no good way to
|deal with cutting major vessels. We'd just figured out
|doctors should wash hands. We still have a huge way to go
|though.
|u/Moosplauze - 1 month
|
|Should rather focus on the life.
|u/edgun8819 - 1 month
|
|Holy shit. I wonder what that is like.
|u/ConeyDog - 1 month
|
|That would be 1.5 brains.
|u/arebee20 - 1 month
|
|Interesting that one of them would have a separate left half of
|their brain and the other a separate right half. I wonder if one of
|them excels at “left brain” activities and the other “Right brain”
|activities. I also wonder if they’ve developed finer control over
|their mind than other people out of necessity. Like if one wanted to
|hide a thought from the other could they somehow force the brain
|waves to go through a part of their brain that is in their own half?
|Surely not but I wonder.
|u/Delirious5 - 1 month
|
|Brain function can move lobes. I have a niece who got Rasmussen
|Syndrome and had to have surgery to detach the right side of her
|brain. She lost some vision and fine motor control on her left
|side, but otherwise she lives a fairly normal life. She's super
|creative and loves writing, and she ran cross country in high
|school.
|u/PolyDipsoManiac - 1 month
|
|Are you saying she had split-brain surgery (severing of the
|corpus callosum) or a hemispherectomy? If you do it to a young
|enough child they develop normally, it’s usually done for
|extreme cases of epilepsy with a focal point in one hemisphere
|only. Split brain surgery is fascinating, specialized testing
|has determined that both sides can learn distinct things, and
|occasionally the patients will find that, for example, one hand
|attempts to undress them as they try to pull on their pants with
|the other.
|u/Delirious5 - 1 month
|
|She had a hemi.
|u/PiagetsPosse - 1 month
|
|the right brain / left brain differentiation is pretty much a
|farce. Except for few specific situations (eg, language residing
|primarily on the left in most people), the lobes are mostly
|duplicates. It’s one of those myths like “you only use 10% of your
|brain” that somehow got picked up by pop culture and won’t go
|away.
|u/perseidot - 1 month
|
|Optical processing occurs in both lobes, but each lobe
|specifically processes the input from one eye.
|u/Coconut_island - 1 month
|
|That's not correct, each lobe processes half (left half vs
|right half) of what you see but considers both eyes. If you
|didn't split it this way, you wouldn't be able make use of
|stereo vision for depth perception.
|u/mealzer - 1 month
|
|No, stereos are for sound silly
|u/chicken-nanban - 1 month
|
|If you’re ever in for a very interesting wikipedia rabbit
|hole, look at how our optical nerves develop and twist - the
|data coming in from our left eye is flipped upside down and
|rotated and is processed on the right side, and vice versa.
|There’s also really neat animations that help to understand
|the prevailing theory on why and how it happens. Makes me wish
|I was smarter to have studied things like this, but glad I
|live in a time when I can learn something randomly cool with a
|calculator at my fingertips.
|u/siliconsardine - 1 month
|
|If I remember correctly from my cognitive science minor, it’s
|not that each lobe processes 1 eye, but rather that each lobe
|processes input from one side of the field of vision
|u/haha_squirrel - 1 month
|
|The whole left brain/ right brain thing was mostly made up. It’s
|not real science lol
|u/IVIisery - 1 month
|
|So a third?
|u/perilousrob - 1 month
|
|it's really interesting. their 'thalamic bridge' seems to let them
|share each others thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations.
|perhaps technological pseudo-telepathy will be possible at some point
|after all? I'm know this is the optimist in me speaking but i have
|real hope that if something like that does come, it'll help people
|understand each other in ways that help reduce hatred and fear of the
|other. fingers crossed anyway ;)
|u/Mimikyutwo - 1 month
|
|I’ve actually had this conversation with my wife recently.
|Telepathy (and to a lesser extent telekinesis) are probably possible
|as soon as we figure out a reliable way to translate electrical
|signals in the brain into JSON payloads. I want to watch
|Mythbusters? I simply think about it and then a man-machine-
|interface simply sends an API request to my tv and boom,
|Mythbusters. I want to tell my wife I’m going to be late to
|dinner? I think about sending that message and that same mmi sends a
|message to my wife’s phone (or other device external to her own mmi
|because I doubt it’s a good idea to have a device connected to your
|brain to receive data).
|u/WhimsicalWyvern - 1 month
|
|I mean, it's already a thing. It's just not very practical yet,
|and only really worth implementing for quadriplegics or those with
|Locked In Syndrome.
|u/nikiyaki - 1 month
|
|Yeah considering it requires *brain surgery* I can't imagine
|people getting it for non-critical reasons
|u/WhimsicalWyvern - 1 month
|
|What? You're telling me you don't want to undergo brain
|surgery so you can use your phone hands free?
|u/14domino - 1 month
|
|The brain should definitely use a typed protocol like Protobuf.
|u/bundlebundle - 1 month
|
|I agree, except JSON probably isn't a good choice for what would
|likely be encoded signals.
|u/Notamansplainer - 1 month
|
|Two words for you: Thought Police.
|u/Grothorious - 1 month
|
|If you're fascinated by this idea, you should check out a tv series
|called Sense8
|u/perilousrob - 1 month
|
|I loved Sense8 ;)
|u/DespairTraveler - 1 month
|
|| physical sensations I know its kind of insensitive, but
|interesting if they decide trying to have sex simultaneous in the
|future.
|u/esoteric_enigma - 1 month
|
|I want to know how intelligent they are. My mind just can't fathom 2
|people having as many complex thoughts as I have all the time while
|hearing each other's thoughts.
|u/zakatov - 1 month
|
|I’m sure they’re going to be very intelligent if they just put their
|minds together.
|u/yogurtshwartz - 1 month
|
|OUT!
|u/throwaway_eclipse1 - 1 month
|
|Wouldn't they be more intelligent? There's more stimulus for the
|neurons.
|u/Visible_Extension891 - 1 month
|
|Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
|u/fiddlenutz - 1 month
|
|I think so Brain, but where are we going to find a moose and a block
|of cheese this time of night.
|u/DownvoteEvangelist - 1 month
|
|I think so Brain, but we are already naked.
|u/Captain_Quinn - 1 month
|
|I think so Brain, but how’s your head supposed to fit inside a
|condom?
|u/SmellOfParanoia - 1 month
|
|Yes! Pinky and the Brain, brain, brain!
|u/apageofthedarkhold - 1 month
|
|...a duck and some lederhosen at this time of night?
|u/RetroJake - 1 month
|
|![gif](giphy|v6pq4tpc17rwJ5YtJu|downsized)
|u/bikesboozeandbacon - 1 month
|
|It says “this content is not available” for me :(
|u/dck42069dck - 1 month
|
|![gif](giphy|4oLa6g7JBY1H2)
|u/TechnicolorViper - 1 month
|
|More importantly, where are we going to find pencils that taste like
|bacon?
|u/slamdanceswithwolves - 1 month
|
|We should put our heads together.
|u/Sil369 - 1 month
|
|Two heads are better than one.
|u/slamdanceswithwolves - 1 month
|
|I bet her sister is always on her mind.
|u/CalmAspectEast - 1 month
|
|Try to see it through their eyes.
|u/RashRenegade - 1 month
|
|"What does that have to do with anything?" "Nothing. I've been
|wanting to say it all day, I got sick of waiting for an
|opportunity!"
|u/why_not_fandy - 1 month
|
|Are you pondering what I’m pondering?
|u/HueyLueyDewey - 1 month
|
|I think so Brain, but me and Pippy Longstocking? I mean, what would
|the children look like?
|u/1911mark - 1 month
|
|Hopefully like you
|u/the_motherflippin - 1 month
|
|No, cos you're thinking I'm thinking what you're thinking
|u/zombiejim - 1 month
|
|This is exactly the comment I'd expect from the Hiphopopotamus
|u/OakleysnTie - 1 month
|
|My rhymes are bottomless…
|u/7LeagueBoots - 1 month
|
|Poppin’ offa the top of my esophagus like phosphorus
|u/the_motherflippin - 1 month
|
|♥️ conchords
|u/molder5 - 1 month
|
|Or maybe a rhymenosaurus
|u/Darthpratt - 1 month
|
|I think so Brain, but do they make lederhosen in our size?
|u/Crater_Animator - 1 month
|
|How do they get their shirts on?
|u/Raoul_Duke9 - 1 month
|
|Specially made or button ups I would imagine
|u/MycommentsRpointless - 1 month
|
|Looks like elastic collars in the photo so I'm guessing it stretches
|enough to put it on feet first. Or they could also use button-ups as
|the other commenter said.
|u/JodieFostersFist - 1 month
|
|Ancient psychic tandem war elephant?
|u/Wumaduce - 1 month
|
|They're Pinky and the Brains
|u/MingusVonHavamalt - 1 month
|
|I think so, but this time YOU wear the tutu.
|u/Aegillade - 1 month
|
|Yes, but I don't think we see eye to eye on it
|u/sixft7in - 1 month
|
|I think so Brain, but where we gonna find rubber pants at this time of
|night?
|u/Semi-Disposable - 1 month
|
|I think so Brain, but burlap chafes me so!
|u/TheDarkestKorner - 1 month
|
|They have each other’s back
|u/1911mark - 1 month
|
|IDK WHAT are you thinking
|u/oroborus85 - 1 month
|
|You give me a headache
|u/isitasexyfox - 1 month
|
|I think I am, B2!
|u/Worldly_Ad_6483 - 1 month
|
|I’m thinking these two are a real life X Men character(s)
|u/Bigdickhector69 - 1 month
|
|First thought
|u/Gryyx - 1 month
|
|Well, you know it
|u/All1012 - 1 month
|
|That they look like Suri cruise, ya.
|u/Preesi - 1 month
|
|They look like Suri Cruise
|u/Baroquebridges - 1 month
|
|That was my first thought!
|u/chrismunk - 1 month
|
|I thought the left looked like Suri and right more like Katie Holmes!
|u/visque - 1 month
|
|Have they tested showing 1 twin a picture then asking the other what was
|shown to prove they share vision or experiences?
|u/I_Be_Dog - 1 month
|
|I didn't see any word about them seeing through each other's eyes but
|they mention how they can create their own experience of a moment, but
|since they store in the same place. They can seemingly, "remember" the
|other's memory.
|u/jmurphy42 - 1 month
|
|The Wikipedia article did say that they’ve been proven to see
|through each other’s eyes. Unfortunately it didn’t say how that was
|tested.
|u/anally_ExpressUrself - 1 month
|
|If you already established that you share memory, I'm not sure how
|you would distinguish between seeing through the others eyes and
|remembering what they just saw?
|u/WatermelonWarlock - 1 month
|
|Showing Girl A an image and asking what's in it might be either
|memory or sight, but I imagine if you did some kind of reaction-
|based test like having Girl A play a video game that Girl B is
|the only one watching that might be more conclusive.
|u/anally_ExpressUrself - 1 month
|
|How do you establish the minimum time it takes to form a
|memory, though? I was thinking you'd need to do something
|like ask the eye owner to concentrate on the peripheral vision
|on the right, and the other to concentrate on the peripheral
|vision on the left, and demonstrate they can notice something
|that the other didn't see.
|u/WatermelonWarlock - 1 month
|
|Well idk about you, but regardless of how fast I memorize
|something, it would be very difficult to engage in something
|cognitively complex and rapid based on memory alone.
|u/TheOtterSpotter - 1 month
|
|At that point it is just semantics. If you can process the
|information in real time that certainly counts as seeing.
|u/Czyzx - 1 month
|
|If it was memory then both girls would be able to “see” out of
|both eyes, but they can’t. Krista girl can only see out of one
|of Tatiana’s eye.  https://web.archive.org/web/20200303205006/
|https://www.cbc.ca/cbcdocspov/episodes/inseparable
|u/chain83 - 1 month
|
|Response time
|u/BeautifulTypos - 1 month
|
|I mean, even if we change the language to being able to perceive
|through her sister's eyes, functionally what really is the
|difference? Even if she doesn't have direct access to her eyes,
|the photons that are sensed by the eyes needs to be thoroughly
|processed by the brain. When you are looking at something, you
|are literally picturing the interpretation in your head. If the
|twin has access to the portion of the brain that can process
|that information, then she can essentially see.
|u/I_Be_Dog - 1 month
|
|Throw a jab and see if the other flinches. I'm just kidding, of
|course. Lame that they would perform a study on such a rare
|occurance and publish the results without the methodology.
|u/jmurphy42 - 1 month
|
|I mean, it’s the Wikipedia article that didn’t describe the
|methodology, I bet it’s included in one of the cited sources.
|Yeah, the article also mentioned that when they were infants if
|one of them was tickled the other would laugh, and if you put a
|pacifier in one of their mouths the other would stop crying.
|u/TheyCallMeMrMaybe - 1 month
|
|I mean that's easy. Have subject 1 close their eyes, show subject
|2 a picture, and have subject 1 say what's being shown.
|u/jmurphy42 - 1 month
|
|I agree that it’s an easy experiment to design, he just asked me
|for the details and I let him know they weren’t in the article.
|u/zakatov - 1 month
|
|And how would you prove that subject 2 is accessing the visual
|cortex of subject 1 vs subject 2 accessing short-term memory of
|subject 1 vs some other shared neural pathway? Brains aren’t
|easy.
|u/Emperor_wipe - 1 month
|
|That’s the all or nothing test I’m sure it’s more complicated
|than that
|u/PangolinLow6657 - 1 month
|
|The point raised in this thread is that with your given method,
|it's hard to determine whether it's the eyesight that's being
|shared, or a stored memory. How long does the brain take to
|store its short-term memories?
|u/lilfoxtato - 1 month
|
|If you put a curtain between the two and asked "how many fingers
|am I holding up?".
|u/Deep90 - 1 month
|
|[Here is the
|video](https://youtu.be/N1Mac4FeKXg?si=qIF7NZNQ3vZycy7U&t=406)
|u/Sikkenogetmoeg - 1 month
|
|Here is The source referenced, an old [New York
|Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/magazine/could-
|conjoined-twins-share-a-mind.html) piece: “As fantastic as it
|sounds, there is little doubt in Cochrane’s mind that the girls
|share some sensory impressions. When they were 2 years old, he
|performed a study in which Krista’s eyes were covered and
|electrodes were glued to her scalp. While a strobe light flashed
|in Tatiana’s eyes, Krista was emitting a strong electric response
|from the occipital lobe, which is where images are assembled. The
|test also worked when the girls switched roles. The results were
|not published, and some neuroscientists believe that this kind of
|test, which measures changes in brain activity beneath the skull,
|is imprecise in determining what region of the brain is at play;
|but most would agree that any response in the other twin’s brain
|suggests, at a minimum, connectivity.“
|u/DeltaCoder - 1 month
|
|A ship A cup A speeder
|u/I_Be_Dog - 1 month
|
|You lost me...omg
|u/DeltaCoder - 1 month
|
|[https://youtu.be/kptVj6ptdCQ?t=27](https://youtu.be/kptVj6ptdCQ
|?t=27) Sorry, just a big nerd
|u/iamintheforest - 1 month
|
|That's beyond comprehension for me. I can understand the words just
|fine, and everytime I try to play it out in my head it's just like
|"nope...that's still just me". I know a memory is mine
|exclusively because I have it. What it would mean to have someone
|else's memory and know it was theirs is just BOOOOOOOM.
|u/dirtycimments - 1 month
|
|Jesus Christ what a mindfuck!
|u/MikeTheNight94 - 1 month
|
|I wanna know if they share dreams. We know nothing compared to this
|u/itsalongwalkhome - 1 month
|
|There's video of them doing exactly that as kids
|u/bobbywright86 - 1 month
|
|Link?
|u/Kemakill - 1 month
|
|https://youtu.be/N1Mac4FeKXg?t=405
|u/spartan1204 - 1 month
|
|Awesome
|u/-Neverender- - 1 month
|
|They knew very early on about the brain sharing functions. It took
|nothing more than a crying twin that stopped crying when a pacifier
|was placed in the other twin's mouth.
|u/mortalcoil1 - 1 month
|
|I was about to ask if their was any skull between their brains and just
|decided to look it up myself. I was not disappointed in my findings.
|Here is the x-ray. https://x.com/boeslab/status/1553866860315172866
|but here is the truly fascinating thing. "this is an amazing story –
|Krista and Tatiana Hogan are conjoined twin sisters with distinct
|personalities and *mostly* **separate brains that are linked by a
|‘thalamic bridge.’ They can use it as a portal to access the other’s
|sensations and feelings."**
|u/ZeusHamm3r - 1 month
|
|That is just wonderfully wild to think about. Imagine being able to
|close your eyes and just see, hear, taste, touch, think whatever
|someone else is. I wonder how open they are to studies being done on
|them. Edit: grammar
|u/Aggravating_Ad_7132 - 1 month
|
|Woah, taste such an interesting one for some reason. Imagine one
|twin eating a certain food while the other is blindfolded, and the
|blindfolded guessing the food. But… they could actually taste it.
|Wild
|u/ps2k - 1 month
|
|I wonder how often they are thinking, "Dang, my neck hurts too".
|u/pungen - 1 month
|
|That was my first thought looking at this photo, ouch
|u/AnAncientMonk - 1 month
|
|i feel like at some point. it just stops hurting permenantly.
|u/Wheels9690 - 1 month
|
|This seems like a true living hell.. EDIT: Ima roll back a little bit
|here after reading some comments and such. From MY point of view, this
|looks like a living hell, but its all they know and they are apparently
|happy girls so to them, it may not be the living hell myself, and others
|may imagine. I do not think they "should not be allowed to live" While
|their medical circumstances are ...difficult to say the least, they are
|already here and very much do deserve to be treated like human beings.
|u/Objective-Outcome811 - 1 month
|
|You'd truly be amazed at what the human mind can persevere through and
|make normal
|u/ConfederacyOfDunces_ - 1 month
|
|They view the world very differently (literally). It really is
|amazing what the human body can do and how our minds can adapt to
|almost any situation over time. It’s absolutely wild.
|u/lite_hjelpsom - 1 month
|
|Absolutely, but the longing we all feel to be our own authentic
|person doesn't end when you're conjoined. You aren't guaranteed a
|friendship with the person you're conjoined with, you aren't
|guaranteed mental health, you are not guaranteed anything extra from
|what you share with a non-conjoined twin. We only hear the neat
|stories, and we only tell them as neat stories. Adaption is a
|strategy, not a comfort. Always excusing things with "oh human
|adaptation is soooo amazing" is pretty dangerous because it allows
|us to discredit people's emotions and plights. Humans can adapt to
|living under extreme conditions, but that doesn't mean it's good.
|That this is normal to them doesn't make it good. They are human
|beingd slike every other human being, and they get to feel a
|plethora of emotions, and they get to be fucking upset about having
|to be conjoined twins (something ALL conjoined twins feel, often).
|These women are heavily fetishised as inspiration-porn, as seen in
|this thread. Sometimes that's the only way for people in these
|situations to make money for survival, to just sell that image.
|Sometimes it hinders them in feeling their real feelings because
|they always have to be so damned inspirational for non-disabled
|people. The best anyone can do for any disabled people is to make
|sure they can participate in society on the same level as everyone
|else, and then treat them like everyone else while they do that.
|u/morbihann - 1 month
|
|Only if you werent born into it. For them it probably is just the way
|it is and certainly creates quite unique development dynamic.
|u/Own_Instance_357 - 1 month
|
|I was just thinking, what would it be like to never be lonely a
|moment in your life. But then I thought how much it would suck to
|get into an argument and be unable to leave. And how difficult and
|weird it might be in any number of other situations I don't think I
|want to think too hard about. I'm kind of impressed by that other
|set of conjoined twins who share a classroom teaching job.
|u/TrustComprehensive96 - 1 month
|
|Abby and Brittany Hensel? Yeah, they’re really interesting and one
|of them got married a few years ago. I watched their docuseries
|and the specifics of their shared biology and the logistics like
|having to each have their own driving test and license so took it
|twice for each twin was interesting. They also seemed really
|grounded and had a great social system where those around them
|took it in stride and treated them as individuals which is good
|u/SantaCruznonsurfer - 1 month
|
|how did the driving test work? special seat had to be installed
|right?
|u/Future_Crow - 1 month
|
|They share a torso, so no need for a special seat.
|u/Magnaflorius - 1 month
|
|What was interesting about them was that they didn't consciously
|share thoughts but they could type jointly without needing to
|verbally communicate. That ability to understand each other's
|thoughts was there somehow but they couldn't just read them.
|u/b1tchl4s4gn469 - 1 month
|
|I don't think you will have an argument when you can hear the
|other persons thoughts. Better question might be how individual
|they feel or wether they feel more like one entity. Since having
|different aspirations/expectations doesn't really make sense when
|having no option to leave and hearing the other persons thought.
|u/aesthetic_Worm - 1 month
|
|Exactly this.
|u/BBQcupcakes - 1 month
|
|Still hell. Gotta watch people around you do athletics, date with
|relative ease, be entirely independent, not have chronic neck pain,
|and be regarded by others as normal. That's not to say a high
|quality of life isn't possible or likely; I could cite many of the
|same things about deaf and blind people and of course many of them
|get on fine. Laura Gilpin has a short poem that expresses how
|unique circumstances of experience that make you less fit for this
|world can be the same ones that enable a greater perception of
|beauty: >Tomorrow when the farm boys find this >freak of nature,
|they will wrap his body >in newspaper and carry him to the museum. >
|>But tonight he is alive and in the north >field with his mother. It
|is a perfect >summer evening: the moon rising over >the orchard, the
|wind in the grass. And >as he stares into the sky, there are >twice
|as many stars as usual.
|u/fuckoutfits - 1 month
|
|Since, they never had any other kind of experiences, they can't really
|compare it/relate to what people like you and I go through in a day to
|day life. I don't think it would be like hell. I might be wrong in
|my assumption though. I do have a doubt though: if one of them falls
|asleep, can the other person see their respective other's dreams.?
|u/ResoluteClover - 1 month
|
|If it's the only thing you've ever known it's probably not as bad
|(aside from all the limitations of the physical differences from a
|standard body)
|u/angrywords - 1 month
|
|You should look up the conjoined twins Abby and Brittany. They have
|lived a happy life together and are even married.
|u/feetofire - 1 month
|
|To us. To them, we are the ones living a very limited existence tbh.
|u/silentohm - 1 month
|
|They know no other way of existing though so it's just normal to them.
|u/OkArm9295 - 1 month
|
|If people keep pitying and judging them needlessly. As long as we
|treat them with respect and dignity, and that they are physiologically
|not suffering, I feel like they can live a happy life. 
|u/brunch_lust_club - 1 month
|
|Their photo gives me a neck ache.
|u/PanzerSoul - 1 month
|
|Imagine the neck pain
|u/ibuildonions - 1 month
|
|I wonder how that birth went? Edit: nm.
|u/I_Be_Dog - 1 month
|
|C-section? All I saw was 20% survival chances, then I saw this >The
|twins' nervous systems are highly interconnected. Their doctors
|reported that when one of them is tickled, the other jumps, and that
|putting a pacifier in the mouth of one could cause the other to stop
|crying And was blown away.
|u/drrj - 1 month
|
|Wow. Genetic abnormalities can create some truly unique people.
|It’s hard to even fathom what their experiences must be like.
|u/RainbowCrane - 1 month
|
|Conjoined twins aren’t really a genetic abnormality, are they?
|They’re identical twins where the embryo began separating into two
|embryos but stopped partway through. AFAIK doctors don’t know
|exactly what causes that to happen.
|u/Not_a_N_Korean_Spy - 1 month
|
|Did something remind you of this story OP? https://www.reddit.com/r/mi
|ldlyinteresting/comments/1erojc4/two_conjoined_watermelons_i_bought_at_t
|he_farmers/ Sorry.
|u/MrMESSl - 1 month
|
|Lol. busted.
|u/Scarlet-Fire_77 - 1 month
|
|Ngl, I thought of those melons when I saw this post.
|u/MahoganyShip - 1 month
|
|“Mom! Tatiana’s thinking about me!” “Krista! Stop thinking about your
|sister!”
|u/Flesh_Dyed_Pubes - 1 month
|
|Once they get older and their hormones make them start getting fed up
|with each other I imagine that’d be very difficult. You can’t hide your
|anger with the other person.
|u/TSIDAFOE - 1 month
|
|But if you can hear the others thoughts, you understand why they're
|upset at you. You can literally look into their memories and know why
|they feel the way they do. Supposedly as babies, if you gave one a
|pacifier, the other would calm down, so maybe if one is wants the
|other to calm down, they calm down themselves and it just relays over?
|u/Dolmenoeffect - 1 month
|
|They are 17 now.
|u/iliketolivesafely - 1 month
|
|Fascinating case, but there is nothing in the [Wikipedia
|article](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krista_and_Tatiana_Hogan) that
|says they can hear each others thoughts. The closest thing is in this
|[mamamia article](https://www.mamamia.com.au/krista-and-tatiana-hogan/)
|that claims this in the headline but nothing really supports this in the
|text. There is a quote from their mother in that article:“They can sit
|there and not say anything to eachother, and all of a sudden one of them
|will pop up and grab something to eat for the other one. Like, there’s
|no words being spoken between the two of them at all, and they know
|exactly what the other one wants”. This is interesting, but is not the
|same as “hearing each others thoughts”.
|u/1K_Games - 1 month
|
|How does one of them pop up to grab something to eat for the other? I
|ask because you questioned what the OP said. I'm not questioning you,
|but what the mother says, or how she says it is weird.
|u/petak86 - 1 month
|
|>They can sit there and not say anything to eachother, and all of a
|sudden one of them will pop up and grab something to eat for the other
|one. Like, there’s no words being spoken between the two of them at
|all, and they know exactly what the other one wants I've seen that
|happens with normal twins... or even siblings. It comes with spending
|almost all time together.
|u/MiscMel70 - 1 month
|
|Yep. Happens all the time with my 28 yo boy/girl twins. They live
|together right now. Their friends think it’s weird they live
|together, including my daughter’s best friend who is of a boy/girl
|set. To them it’s perfect because they know each other so well
|u/blackdynomitesnewbag - 1 month
|
|Is that really distinct from that though? It may as well be hearing
|each others thoughts. Also, not all people think the same way. Some
|people think without words and just in images. To, "hear one's
|thoughts," is more of a way of expressing that you know what someone
|is thinking.
|u/Fredasa - 1 month
|
|I watched a video about them, quite a while ago. I distinctly
|remember a moment where one of them gets irritated yells at the other
|to stop thinking about such-and-such.
|u/cyberentomology - 1 month
|
|“Hearing” thoughts? That’s wild.
|u/instantsilver - 1 month
|
|They look like Suri Cruise
|u/SeraphOfTheStag - 1 month
|
|The neck pain
|u/fatsopiggy - 1 month
|
|Yeah I don't know how they'd deal with not able to stretch their
|necks.
|u/ThePedMeister - 1 month
|
|"Close your eyes, I'm trying to sleep!"
|u/SapphireSire - 1 month
|
|Do they argue over what to wear?
|u/-old-m8- - 1 month
|
|As long as it’s not a hat I think they’re cool
|u/swishkabobbin - 1 month
|
|Shirts have to come from the bottom thought. Probably wear a lot of
|rompers
|u/senectus - 1 month
|
|I imagine neurologists would find this fascinating
|u/F_Synchro - 1 month
|
|If this is true this means the brains are actually interface-able
|u/Shaved_Wookie - 1 month
|
|This raises some questions about the nature of self... One body, but
|not, One brain, but not, One experience of the world, but not,
|Seemingly two consciousnesses.
|u/MojoDr619 - 1 month
|
|It also implies we should be able to plug into others consciousnesses-
|maybe eventually we will all jack into our favorite youtube
|influencers existence for a bit and hop around
|u/prometheanbane - 1 month
|
|Presumably they think independently. Their experiences are their own
|if one consciousness interprets it. It might then be shared with the
|other, but it's still unique. It's probably more like extremely
|heightened and unconscious communication. Our brains share thoughts
|and experiences too. We're just limited by speech and language. In a
|way, cults have shown that the way we think and feel can belong to
|another.
|u/boddle88 - 1 month
|
|Dual monitor
|u/limevince - 1 month
|
|Hmmm if they only have one brain, is it proper to consider them as two
|separate people who can read each others thoughts; or as one person who
|can speak through two different mouths and sees through two sets of
|eyes...
|u/Main_Course3101 - 1 month
|
|Poor kids, not even the privacy of your own thoughts.
|u/ericbana19 - 1 month
|
|Bless them and the people who are born different from the majority.
|Gives me a reason not to whine about my pathetic life and be grateful
|for what I have.
|u/CanuckInTheMills - 1 month
|
|Seriously though, yes!
|u/the_millenial_falcon - 1 month
|
|Oh wow, I thought these kind of twins never survived.
|u/fryamtheeggguy - 1 month
|
|What a unique way to experience the world.
|u/ItsCowman - 1 month
|
|Sounds like a headache
|u/Beneficial-Estate807 - 1 month
|
|wow i always wondered how they live with all that thought 💭
|u/dapala1 - 1 month
|
|Pretty sure they're used to it.
|u/noronto - 1 month
|
|This is how you start an origin story for a comic book.
|u/JadowArcadia - 1 month
|
|This is one of those things that is so conceptually difficult to grasp
|but is absolutely fascinating. What does hearing someone else's thoughts
|feel like? Is it like hearing someone speak? Does it feel like your own
|thoughts or blatantly "other"? Can they essentially have a conversation
|in their combined head the same way we can talk to ourselves in our
|heads to a degree? Same thing with seeing through eachothers eyes. Is
|it like changing cameras where you can see through your own eyes and
|then switch to the other set? Or is it like just having 4 eyes that you
|can see through all at the same time with a massively improved field of
|vision? So many questions
|u/Expert_Drama9374 - 1 month
|
|Suri Cruises twins!
|u/Capable_Wait09 - 1 month
|
|For a second I thought Katie Holmes was leaning against a mirror
|u/kda255 - 1 month
|
|Genuinely amazing, nature if crazy. I wish the best for these girls.
|u/flotusspunkmeyer - 1 month
|
|I wonder what it would be like for just one of them to get stoned. And
|the next day the other sister could and see what that experience is like
|looking through their eyes. Fascinating
|u/Jessievp - 1 month
|
|My parents are deeply religious. Whenever there's a hard conversation
|about life after death (and the ever impending apocalypse) I bring up
|topics like this. How can you explain this phenomenon when God created
|us in his image? Say one of the twins believes in god and the other one
|doesn't, do they get separated in the afterlife? They never seem to come
|up with a good answer...
|u/Bumpahead - 1 month
|
|Am I the only one who thinks they look like Suri Cruise and Katie
|Holmes??
|u/jreigner47 - 1 month
|
|Wow - "each other's thoughts" implies that there's two separate thought
|"entities" within the one brain. Super interesting.
|u/merlinrising - 1 month
|
|The Human brain is crazy
|u/lazy_k - 1 month
|
|What an absolute nightmare.
|u/jagenigma - 1 month
|
|This is an honest to God question, how do they put on shirts that arent
|button downs? 
|u/mybadalternate - 1 month
|
|Carefully.
|u/EbolaPrep - 1 month
|
|Imagine someone else hearing your dirty thoughts and desires….😳
|u/NCHouse - 1 month
|
|That's gotta suck
|u/Wide_Pop_6794 - 1 month
|
|Telepathy is real confirmed?
|u/BYoNexus - 1 month
|
|Sure. You just have to literally merge with someone to speak
|telepathically
|u/TealCatto - 1 month
|
|It's not tele in their case.
|u/ParsleyMostly - 1 month
|
|I wonder if one or both can control the other or at least change the
|other’s mind or thought process. Sounds like they retrieve memories from
|the same place (please forgive my simplistic phrasing and naivety), but
|our emotions and perceptions heavily shade a memory. Of course however
|it works is completely normal to them.
|u/STFUnicorn_ - 1 month
|
|My neck hurts looking at them.
|u/FortunateInsanity - 1 month
|
|I can’t imagine what their life must be like, but their potential
|contribution to behavioral psychology must be unprecedented.
|u/DocTrey - 1 month
|
|Can one sleep and the other be awake?
|u/Additional_Mango_900 - 1 month
|
|If so, does the awake one experience the sleeping one’s dreams?
|u/idigholes - 1 month
|
|That's fascinating
|u/welligermund - 1 month
|
|But can they hide their thoughts from each other?
|u/aprilrose69 - 1 month
|
|they look exactly like suri cruise
|u/urbanforestlife - 1 month
|
|How early on does a person know they’re having conjoined twins during
|pregnancy?
|u/TheWeenieBandit - 1 month
|
|Imagine the gossip. Imagine how much shit they talk in there. The inside
|jokes must go crazy
|u/AbySs_Dante - 1 month
|
|Is it scientifically true?
|u/Nole19 - 1 month
|
|How do they take exams without "cheating"
|u/YouRegard - 1 month
|
|If you are me, who the hell am I?
|u/bluemerant - 1 month
|
|they/them
|u/p14082003 - 1 month
|
|LAN party!
|u/MaintenanceScary6429 - 1 month
|
|Besides everything else,that looks like a horribly uncomfortable angle
|to be connected at.
|u/budadad - 1 month
|
|“Intelligent design”
|u/Jgasparino44 - 1 month
|
|The thought of someone elses skull pulling on my head to move is
|disturbing.
|u/Chang1701 - 1 month
|
|Yeah, but they have never known any different.
|u/zefiax - 1 month
|
|I can't imagine looking at the world through four eyes. Also I wonder
|how hearing the other's thoughts are like. Is it actually like how I
|hear my own thoughts or is it like someone talking, or is it like sudden
|videos playing in your mind?
|u/Mal-De-Terre - 1 month
|
|It's no different than thinking about the leap from one eye to two. If
|you were a one eyed minion, it would be equally unfathomable.
|u/zefiax - 1 month
|
|I am assuming they have a much wider field of view.
|u/PeopleofYouTube - 1 month
|
|Are you seeing what I’m seeing?
|u/TheSadOn3 - 1 month
|
|Prolly big fans of button up shirts
|u/bassslappin - 1 month
|
|Aye. That must hurt the neck 😟
|u/d_ngltron - 1 month
|
|Why do they look like that one camera effect we all tried when we were
|like 9.
|u/Mu69 - 1 month
|
|Wow wtf I wonder what that feels like
|u/RIARANGERFACE - 1 month
|
|u/RepostSleuthBot
|u/Modz_B_Trippin - 1 month
|
|Watch them turn out to be precogs.
|u/PlaguedByUnderwear - 1 month
|
|But can they actually see through the other's eyes or is, say, Tatiana
|just telepathically telling Krista what Tatiana sees?
|u/myst3r10us_str4ng3r - 1 month
|
|I'd like to know more about this. If one gets mad, or sad, how does it
|affect the other? Do they always see through the others' eyes, or is it
|selective? So many questions really.
|u/Scifig23 - 1 month
|
|Embrace Human evolution
|u/digitalgirlie - 1 month
|
|Hear each other's thoughts? That would be the worst kind of hell.
|u/Tough_Topic_1596 - 1 month
|
|So like do they have separate brains? Or do they have like some kind of
|super brain?
|u/aresef - 1 month
|
|They share structure in their brain tissue.
|u/HellyOHaint - 1 month
|
|Well, that makes complete sense as they at least mostly share a brain.
|u/AlbatrossReddit - 1 month
|
|Do they talk to each other to communicate? Or do they communicate
|telepathically
|u/bmaurene - 1 month
|
|Bless them!
|u/JigPuppyRush - 1 month
|
|Darn that must be interesting, de they also feel the others feelings?
|u/ElephantElmer - 1 month
|
|Looks like Katie Holmes
|u/TactlessTortoise - 1 month
|
|Now that I think about it, they kind of support the idea that our minds
|can handle being a part of a hive mind. They're their own person, but
|also criss cross information and sensory input. Two minds, two bodies,
|one sensory bundle.
|u/LordThunderDumper - 1 month
|
|Wow they have a 3 part brain each their own half and then a shared half.
|It's like every sify book where humans plug into machines and can "hear"
|the AI "brain". They are not really 2 individuals, yet are not two
|single individuals either.
|u/Ironbloodedgundam23 - 1 month
|
|Wait they can hear each other thoughts?! That’s incredible!It’s like
|something you would read in a science fiction book but it’s real life.
|u/mycatiscomplicated - 1 month
|
|Wasn’t this posted a few ago with the exact same title?
|u/Dingaling015 - 1 month
|
|This will be the 15,568,254th time we have posted this pic on reddit,
|and we have become exceedingly efficient at it.
|u/FluffyPony34 - 1 month
|
|I believe it.
|u/Spirit50Lake - 1 month
|
|[https://thewalrus.ca/how-conjoined-twins-are-making-scientists-
|question-the-concept-of-self/](https://thewalrus.ca/how-conjoined-twins-
|are-making-scientists-question-the-concept-of-self/)
|u/SanctimoniousStoat - 1 month
|
|Imagine your conjoined twin keeps fantasizing about killing you and you
|hear everything.
|u/macthom - 1 month
|
|are they legally One or Two citizens?
|u/plasticupman - 1 month
|
|I don’t care what anybody says, this is not a way to live your life.
|Nature fucked these two completely.
|u/saruin - 1 month
|
|I can't fathom how to process what you see out of 4 eyes at once (at two
|different things). I guess it's kind of like when you're looking at
|something with both eyes, but through one it's obstructed. I've never
|learned how to "split" eyesight in opposite directions either. I just
|imagine it's somewhat disorienting constantly having to "process" two
|different sceneries constantly.
|u/Peydey - 1 month
|
|What is the anatomy of their brain(s)? I’m curious to the
|shape/structure. Comments discuss them having half a shared brain and
|their own independent halves; however, nobody explains the structure of
|it. It’s not as simple as sticking brain on the side. Our brains have a
|very specific structure.
|u/hydroawesome - 1 month
|
|Seeing through eyes is one thing, I think hearing each other's thoughts
|is even more wild. The idea of hearing thoughts that aren't yours is
|bizarre.
|u/Lost_Dingo_9102 - 1 month
|
|The twins' nervous systems are highly interconnected. Their doctors
|reported that when one of them is tickled, the other jumps, and that
|putting a pacifier in the mouth of one could cause the other to stop
|crying.(when they were still babies obv)
|u/LazerWolfe53 - 1 month
|
|This is essentially proof that a Brain to Machine Interface can work.
|u/Selkea - 1 month
|
|Cursed Rinnegan
|u/bloutchbleue - 1 month
|
|How do they know its not their thought ? How do they dissociate the
|thoughts?
|u/lexxeffect - 1 month
|
|they look like Suri Cruise
|u/Wukkax - 1 month
|
|Have a childhood and everything but I also hope they using them for
|improvements in neuro-science
|u/MaizeEnough8460 - 1 month
|
|I couldn’t share my legos with my siblings growing up, much less a
|brain. Best of luck to them
|u/Main_Jury_6983 - 1 month
|
|Wow. There has been an enormous, un-crossable chasm between every
|human mind in history...except between these two. Literally
|hearing the thoughts of another person...to see through their eyes... A
|one-in-ten-billion human experience.
|u/bej2751 - 1 month
|
|Proof that god doesn’t exist and if he does exist, he’s a sick freak and
|so are the parents. These poor girls.
|u/Nerftuco - 1 month
|
|this is what this sub was meant for, not liberal political bs
|u/MoistPaperNapkin - 1 month
|
|Can they feel each other’s feelings and know what the other person is
|thinking? What about influencing each other’s motives? At that point,
|can they still be treated as two separate entities? This is such an
|interesting situation.
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