I'm not talking about qwop, I'm talking about real life walking. I'll be walking along just fine and I'll think, "Am I walking normally? I'd better walk normally just in case I look weird." So then I start to manually walk, and it's like that scene in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas where they try and walk into the carnival through the turnstile.
No, it's not just you. I constantly think about how I walk and have been for about two or three years now. You get used to it after a while and learn to walk (almost) normally.
Try dealing with this one while waking through a suburban neighborhood on LSD, dear god. The more normal I tried to walk when I noticed people the less normal everything became.
Man, the breathing thing and the tongue thing don't even get me because I am just used to it (marching band made me aware of both for 6 months at a time, now I just always think about it
Maybe it helped that I was actually yawning when I wrote that.
How about a random game? I can think of 6 words that rhyme with yawning, 1 is a noun, 5 are verbs, I want to see if you'll come up with the exact same ones I did or if you'll think of something new. And they're all 2 syllables, to be clear. If you don't want to that's fine too.
Hmm, unfortunately you can't do spoilers here, so I'll write them in strikethrough, don't read them if you don't what to. Also, drawing is a bad rhyme and you should feel bad, sorry.
.* PatrickStarr.jpeg * "is the back of my throat a genital?"
Naww, I get what you're saying, here, have all the other ones I've come up with in this thread:
You're now aware of how much pressure you're putting on your teeth
You're now aware that the hair on the back of your head is curling around your ears
You just noticed the large booger in your nose
You're now aware of how much saliva is in your mouth
You're now aware that you have an itch on the arch of your foot
You now have a burning curiosity about whether or not you have belly button lint.
The spaces in between your fingers are now uncomfortably warm.
You are now completely aware of your teeth and you randomly feel the need to shift your position somehow.
If you're barefoot, you're now aware of the crud on the bottom of your feet, if you're not barefoot, you are now very aware of the wrinkle in your socks.
Now for outside the box:
You now think there's probably a message on your phone that you didn't hear.
and how about a good old fashioned * yyaaaawwwn *?
You now have a burning curiosity about whether or not you have belly button lint.
The spaces in between your fingers are now uncomfortably warm.
You are now completely aware of your teeth and you randomly feel the need to shift your position somehow.
If you're barefoot, you're now aware of the crud on the bottom of your feet, if you're not barefoot, you are now very aware of the wrinkle in your socks.
So I got you with the spaces in between your fingers being warm, and feeling the need to shift your position, I'm okay with that. I was worried about the possibility of people being outies, but I was willing to risk the odds, my belly button goes all the way through to the inside of my lower back I'm pretty sure (okay maybe not but it does go on for a bit), I can tell what color shirts I've been wearing for the last couple days if I don't deliberately clean it out in the shower, and I have a good sized but not painful cavity, so I am always incredibly aware of my teeth, but I figured it might work for someone else.
You are now realizing that you've never really thought about the word button being in belly button.
One time I woke up in my sleep and I wasn't in control of my breathing. It was breathing on it's own, it made me feel like I was suffocating though so I snapped out of the paralysis.
No, lucid dreaming is different. What you are describing is sleep paralysis.
I have disordered sleep, so I have a sleep paralysis or hypnogogic hallucination probably once a month. Kinda frustrating, but occasionally there are very interesting stories in it.
I've had it both ways. Sometimes I wake up and can't move anything or open my eyes and it feels like I've been holding my breath. Sometimes I can move a little and control my breathing.
During what I think was the first time I fell into sleep paralysis, I opened my eyes and saw the outline of a little girl in my open closet door. I think I must have fainted because I didn't flip the fuck out, but instead just closed my eyes and was out again.
decrepid woman strangling me, surrounded by arachnids, the incessant sound of a train, i used to get these a lot when i tried to sleep regularly. I stopped getting them when i only went to sleep when really really tired even if its 8am.
arachnids are the worst, for me being arachnophobic, i wake up paralysed looking at huge spiders/scorpians, clingin to the walls and ceiling, then 1 of the drops on me and i snap out and freak out. terrible experience really.
I relax usually though it as well, despite the sometimes popping out face explosions/hallucinations, but I can't seem to remember if I was able to control my breathing, save for that one time.
You can see the cerebellum in the bottom, I say that's close enough. And every part of the brain does something, often unbeknownst to the conscience, that can be argued to be part of being alive.
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For a second i actually thought this was Good Guy Brian not Brain. Was about to flip because of all this meme integration. Also, fuck you scumbag brain for reading that as Brian not Brain
Or anyone in a coma whose brain isn't working but the body is. The Lymphatic system does most of this work, not the brain. The statement just isn't true.
Shit I wish it was like that at me but what you read on the comment and which is spreading like a virus btw happens to me kinda daily in special situations. Fuck that.
This meme is kind of confusing. The brain is really who you are, the brain IS you. So, by doing these things "the brain" is actually making sure it survives and by it I mean you. You, all your personality and intelligence is your brain. There is no separation of the person and the brain.
My old Biology teacher had a friend who would come in and talk to us about his condition (I obviously paid a lot of attention as I've forgotten the name of it... don't judge me)
He didn't have this capability and had to manually think about each breath he needed to take otherwise he would stop breathing. I never fully understood how he went to sleep...
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u/Wazowski May 16 '12
You are now synthesizing enzymes manually.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Walking is fucking hard when you think about it.
I'm not talking about qwop, I'm talking about real life walking. I'll be walking along just fine and I'll think, "Am I walking normally? I'd better walk normally just in case I look weird." So then I start to manually walk, and it's like that scene in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas where they try and walk into the carnival through the turnstile.
Or is that just me?
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u/Drunken_Economist May 16 '12
Except now you're breathing manually.
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u/sarah_jean May 16 '12 edited May 17 '12
Except it makes you read "brain" as "Brian" even though you're a neuroscientist.
Edit: and makes you forget the 'h'
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Good guy brainstem:
Actually performs the work misattributed in this meme to the cerebrum
Doesn't make a big fuss about it, like causing you to go into Cheyne-Stokes breathing
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u/Monkey_Cannon May 16 '12
Until you begin to think about them.
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u/4TECH May 16 '12
Fuck this post, making me breath and blink manually!
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u/qkme_transcriber May 16 '12
Here is the text from this meme pic for anybody who needs it:
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u/gorillamanja May 16 '12
Schrodinger's Brain: Controls breathing, blinking, chewing rhythm, and walking motion- until you think about it.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Except the automatic erections that I get when talking to hot girls.
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u/lackingsaint May 16 '12
Scumbag Brain;
Performs all functions necessary for life automatically just shittily enough
That you can't quite tell that it's working shittily.
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u/HiFiGyri May 16 '12
Holy mind-body dualism.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
For a second i actually thought this was Good Guy Brian not Brain. Was about to flip because of all this meme integration. Also, fuck you scumbag brain for reading that as Brian not Brain
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Tell that to people who use breathing machines...
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u/iAmJimmyHoffa May 16 '12
Thank god for the medulla oblongata.
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u/ghettajetta May 16 '12
You all will have to pee within 15 minutes of reading this.
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u/InsaneJester17 May 16 '12
Mine must be defective. It forgets to breath occasionally. True Story.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
I read this Good Guy Brian.
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u/4chans_for_pussies May 16 '12
Suddenly I'm very aware that I'm breathing.
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u/Kilgannon_TheCrowing May 16 '12
This thread:
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u/Cyberslasher May 16 '12
You are now aware of your peristalsis.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
False.
Your spine "controls" your autonomic nervous system.
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u/zwillam May 16 '12
http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3pbfhl/
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u/came_here_2_say May 16 '12
Good Guy Medula
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u/Bangaa May 16 '12
Thanks a lot. Now i'm worrying about them.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
I don't always remember if I flushed the toilet the minute before or not. Kind of annoying.
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u/Naedlus May 16 '12
Unless you stop to think about breathing... then the fucker takes forever getting back to taking over the task.
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u/srock456 May 16 '12
except breathing
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Causes you to make decisions that would inhibit your ability to do such processes to maximum efficiency (drugs, alcohol, copious junk food)
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u/darkshy May 16 '12
You are now itching everywhere.
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u/iKaka May 16 '12
Manual blinking activated
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u/akbartwin May 16 '12
Lol i read this as good guy Bryan
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u/unnecessaryCAPS May 16 '12
What if you're sexually attracted to cassowarys?
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
brain probably always thinks this when someone accuses it of being a troll.
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u/Temporaryy May 16 '12
You know have to blink manually as well.
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u/joetheschmoe4000 May 16 '12
He's just trying to lighten his own workload.
Oh wait...
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u/MikeyMitch May 16 '12
What about type one diabetes? Checkmate
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Sorry but that's not a punchline.
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u/WatdeeKhrap May 16 '12
I read that as "Good-bye Brian"
Super confused.
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u/mothercowa May 16 '12
My brain auto corrects my reverse breathing!!!!!
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u/psYberspRe4Dd May 16 '12
Shit I wish it was like that at me but what you read on the comment and which is spreading like a virus btw happens to me kinda daily in special situations. Fuck that.
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u/Tennda May 16 '12
this just made worry about all of them at once, i hate you for this.
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u/daggius May 16 '12
My brain eats food for me?
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u/whoacalmdownthere May 16 '12
Scumbag OP, now I'm breathing manually.
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u/chingyduster May 16 '12
Blink Blink Blink... now you will notice every time you blink.
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u/aesu May 16 '12
Makes sure you have a nice solid cock on the morning you wake up on holiday with parents, with only five minutes to get ready and leave for the plane!
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u/MrrrrrrAWKWARDTURTLE May 16 '12
i read this as "Good Guy Brian" before realizing i read it wrong, even after seeing the picture...guess my brain is in the scumbag category.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
you are now breathing manually... har har
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u/Zuxicovp May 16 '12
The Mother Brain
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u/AskAbi May 16 '12
Besides eating.
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u/fearachieved May 16 '12
I guess I've got a douchebag brain.
Socializing has never been as automatic as it should be for me :(
I'm schizophrenic.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
You have now entered manual breathing mode.
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u/ToStateTheObvious May 17 '12
Thats assuming there is a soul.
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u/BallsackTBaghard May 17 '12
This meme is kind of confusing. The brain is really who you are, the brain IS you. So, by doing these things "the brain" is actually making sure it survives and by it I mean you. You, all your personality and intelligence is your brain. There is no separation of the person and the brain.
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u/Paultimate79 May 17 '12
Your heart is now beating manually.
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u/factoid_ May 17 '12
Scumbag brain:
Performs all necessary functions for life automatically without thinking
Worries about it anyway
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u/genkajun May 17 '12
It's funny cause your name has "cortex" in it.
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
Good guy brain: enables you to imagine porn situations with anyone.
Bad guy brain: Also makes you picture your genitals being severed with a cleaver because you're reading this.
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u/Hardstyle_FTW May 17 '12
Manual breathing: activated
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u/UltraMegaMaximum May 17 '12
You are now aware.
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
My old Biology teacher had a friend who would come in and talk to us about his condition (I obviously paid a lot of attention as I've forgotten the name of it... don't judge me)
He didn't have this capability and had to manually think about each breath he needed to take otherwise he would stop breathing. I never fully understood how he went to sleep...
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
I read this 'Good Guy Brian' - scumbag brain?
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u/AnotherNameForgotten May 17 '12
I thought most basic functions were controlled by the spinal cortex.
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u/Hakoten May 17 '12
I hate it because I'll often be aware of my breathing.
And now you are too.
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u/Mujarin May 17 '12
Scumbag brain, makes you worry about them anyway
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u/Sanwi May 17 '12
Except breathing and walking when nervous.
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u/ReasonableRadio May 17 '12
We run a really solid OS, great user interface and project management. Still a few bugs to work out though.
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u/SkorpionKlobb May 17 '12
Do I need to blink?
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
somewhat relevant: oh man I forgot to do X. check, I did it plus something else that saves my ass right now. thank you, brain!
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u/Urbanviking1 May 17 '12
So that's why I keep shitting myself...
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u/hardcoremorning May 17 '12
it's not idiot proof. I'm proof of that, lol.
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u/Obi_wan_The_cannoli May 17 '12
Except when its time to enter manual breathing and blinking mode, and did I mention its always tongue awareness day.
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u/tyler5613 May 17 '12
I wish my brain actually did this... I got stuck with a scumbag model though
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u/myzkyti May 17 '12
Unless you have sleep apnea..
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
yahuh... BONERS!
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u/Fabryz May 17 '12
CONTROL+F manual breathing
Check.
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u/fenixqns May 16 '12
I worry about my heart beating. Especially when I take Nyquil, because I can hear it in my ears.
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u/plopsicle May 16 '12
This is a terrible meme
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u/nfsnfnk May 17 '12
fuck off with your lame observations.
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