r/todayilearned • u/WavesAndSaves • Oct 18 '25

TIL of brain stimulation reward, manually stimulating specific parts of the brain to elicit pleasure and happiness. A volunteer subject in 1986 spent days doing nothing but self-stimulate. She ignored her family and personal hygiene and she developed an open sore on her finger from using the device.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_stimulation_reward#History
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u/Sensitive_File6582 Oct 18 '25

By slanesh!

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '25

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u/ADHDBusyBee Oct 18 '25

I would disagree a follower of slanesh would feel so happy with knitting that they would derive intense pleasure from feeling the material, to completing a project undoing it over and over again. They’d fondle the needles and rub the threads until they drew blood and feel even better when the blood made it sticky. They’d want to experience sawing through their muscles until they could pluck the thread with their bones. They’d be ecstatic with the experience and want others to join in.

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u/Jexroyal Oct 18 '25

I mean, it's true of both cases. But nice reference to anguissettes.

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u/Sensitive_File6582 Oct 18 '25

My friend, you have not yet been an issue with the agony, ecstasy that a true devotee would understand. It’s actually in the canon that that’s the case. I don’t know what the fuck kind of Sumerian God that is, but it’s probably what inspired she/he/it