Speaking in tongues..?

[chayton]

This is weird, I was looking for the name of the global reporter who screwed up the Osama/Obama thing and I found these:







I was reading the same thing happened to Judge Judy not long ago. The first reporter had some kind of seizure, I saw an interview with her about it, so maybe that's what happened to the others too.

I find it interesting how the brain works - I occasionally have seizures and most of the time I get letters and numbers mixed up, especially if I'm writing. Sometimes the names of things get messed up, like I'll think of a basketball and the word basketball but the image I see in my head is of a mailbox. So if someone asked me to hand them the basketball I'd be looking for a mailbox because I don't recognize the basketball as a basketball anymore. If that makes sense.

But anyhow...now I see what it's like to see it happen to someone else and it's kinda scary. And bizarre.

 

[jod5413]

Don't be scared, Chayton! No one exists that hasn't occasionally done stuttering, mangling words, getting flustered, and losing their train of thought.

I guess that is why they say the human race is not "perfect".

So, quit worrying and just brush that stuff away when it happens. 99% of the time it is NOT caused by a stroke. Sometimes prescription drugs can cause similar symptoms to strokes and language shortcomings as a side effect.

 

[chayton]

When I was going to graphic design school I had to take a couple months off for personal reasons and then went back to finish the last class which included setting up my portfolio and doing mock interviews. The night before the interviews I was kinda nervous because since I had taken time off, I'd be in the class with a bunch of strangers instead of the people I'd been in the rest of my classes with.

So I'm nervous and can't really sleep, I got up and had a few drinks, then my roommate came home and we had a couple more drinks and played crib til like 5 am, by that time I was getting tired but it was too late to go to sleep so I just stayed up - went to my class and was half drunk, half hungover and really really tired. Then it's my turn to do the mock interview, I have about 15 total strangers looking at my portfolio and asking me questions about every piece and my brain feels like the worm in the bottom of a tequila bottle and I can't string a sentence together and I'm stumbling and stammering and saying "uh..." a lot and basically sounding like a moron.

Then this one guy asks, "So why did you decide to make this piece in Photoshop rather than in another program?"

I stood up straight, looked him right in the eye, opened my mouth - and said "Oral."

It was the weirdest thing, I have no idea why I said it or what I actually meant to say. Everyone just froze and stared at me. And then the worst part, I got the giggles - it just got worse and worse and I started laughing...I mean rip roaring tears squirting out your eyes can't stand up and feel like you're gonna pee your pants and can't catch your breath laughing. And I couldn't stop! And nobody else was laughing, they were just staring at me and I was just howling and trying to apologize and every time I thought of it I just burst out laughing again. The only extra thing that would have completed the episode is if I had actually peed my pants.

They finally moved on to someone else and let me redo my interview the next day. I was totally embarassed , but I passed. The people in my class probably thought I was insane.

I still get the giggles whenever I think about it, it was so bizarre.

 

[Brooklyn]

Yeah my daughter has Absent Seizures and sometimes she talks through them and stutters and mangles words, so I know it's possible.

On a funny note, I have been known to say some craztastic things in the past for no good reason. For example, I was sitting up after a nights sleep in bed..I looked at my bf at the time and said " I am not a fking racoon." I seriously don't know why I would say such a thing, and he still makes fun of me to this day. Oh and there was this one time I told him for my kids birthday I wanted to order "Presidential Cakes" whatever that means.

The brain has a mind of its own...lol

 

[Emmeline]

Wow an entire class without a sense of humour I found that funny can see it wasn't all that fun for you at the time.
Thankfully I only have seizures when I'm about to fall asleep you know in that semi-conscious state, but then pretty much anything can come out of my mouth, have no control whatsoever.
It started some weeks after I tried a prescription drug some years ago, I'm off it now so either it altered my brain or there's some other explanation.
Anyway, suddenly I found myself sitting up straight in bed shouting gandi and kongo every night, the doc looked at me funny but sent me to have a EEG done and it was perfectly normal. Since then no more kongo but a lot of other strange things come out of my mouth that I can't control, can hear myself speaking, laughing, howling or whatever. Some five second episodes each and every night and that's all. So I'm normal 23 hrs 55 minutes a day, the remaining 5 mins I'm not sure about

 

[Adversary]

Thank you for sharing these videos. I'm cracking up here in the office and I promptly circulated your thread

 

[chayton]

I like when people accidentally transpose the first letters of words, sometimes they come up with something pretty funny. A friend of mine said "barbage gag" like 20 years ago and we still laugh about it. Ray was talking about someone's house he went to, he said, "...they have all this stuff like birdhouses, gnomes....and those spinning things....you know, girlywigs..."

 

[FreeDomme]

Want to know who I think is hot? Jack Human who plays Wolverine. Or is it Hugh Jackman? Anyway, handsome devil!

 

[jetset]

One of the best I've heard is "too mucking futch".

 

[secret2]

Thanks!

..phew, I am not the only one

I mean it!

I have had an old iron irish horse -cart wheel drop on my head, I have fallen ,back of head first, I have had a life of alcohol addiction from trauma (looong story, and yes maybe an 'excuse' to those that don't agree)..

Sooo YEAH, I get my words out a little stuttered and backwards and a VERY blank, lost for -words feeling.

I KNOW what I want to say, I KNOW how I feel, but I just can't convey my feelings due to the 'black-hole'..if ya know what I mean, sometimes. My thoughts can get fuzzy and mixed.

Writing, is very cathartic. It is encouraged to those that have had a stroke or other probs... but talking, sometimes it is a horrible feeling , as 'we' live around other people that just don't maybe understand and judge 'us'.

 

[Adversary]

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[felicie]

I like when people accidentally transpose the first letters of words, sometimes they come up with something pretty funny. A friend of mine said "barbage gag" like 20 years ago and we still laugh about it. Ray was talking about someone's house he went to, he said, "...they have all this stuff like birdhouses, gnomes....and those spinning things....you know, girlywigs..."

We use to call that a Freudian Slip I think it was. My dad use to say the lips were moving faster than the brain. Funny funny man. I'll tell you what bugs me is I'll be sitting there watching a game show and suddenly blurt out the answer. The right answer and then think to myself who said that? I didn't know the answer. I think my brain's filing system has a short maybe. The info is there - I just can't pull the file!

As some of you know, my mother has Dementia and Monday it could be only gobbledy-goop I hear from her. Tuesday she might tell me a long story and put the word 'banana' in every sentence and then Wednesday my sister shows up and she says, hi Deb, how are the kids?

 

[jetset]

Something a German associate of mine said years ago regarding aging and one's ability to recall information has always stuck with me.

He likened the brain to a computer and raised the proposition that as one grew older and did more one's hard drive (brain) stored an increasing amount of information. That took longer to retrieve , especially on infrequently used issues.

"Don't worry if the data doesn't immediately come to you," he would say, tapping his head. "Your computer is searching for it subconsciously and it will pop up when it has retrieved it."

We've probably all experienced this...an answer will suddenly appear after we've strained to recall something...usually that happens when we have cleared our minds.

Unfortunately it can sometimes take too long. I know I have experienced occasions where an answer has popped up hours later, or even after a night's rest

 

[felicie]

The answer is just too late sometimes since the world we live in moves so darn fast. Do you ever wonder why we have such an amazing brain when it seems we use so little of it? Maybe more of us should donate them to science. lol

 

[Adversary]

I think science would take 2 steps back if they got a hold of my brain

 

[Gremmyboy]

@Jetset

What is your avatar picture of? have been trying to figure it out! lol


Cheers
Gremmy

 

[chayton]

@Gremmy - It looks like Alfred Hitchcock's profile.

 

[chayton]

As some of you know, my mother has Dementia and Monday it could be only gobbledy-goop I hear from her. Tuesday she might tell me a long story and put the word 'banana' in every sentence and then Wednesday my sister shows up and she says, hi Deb, how are the kids?

My grandma was like that, she was 94 when she passed away and she spent the last 25 years of her life either being sharp as a tack or forgetting where her head was. I was living in the states and when I moved back to Canada I went to visit - I was a little nervous because the last time I saw her, she had no idea who I was. So now it's 15 years later and I'm expecting the worst. But I walk in and say, "Hi Grandma" and she looks up at me, then looks me up and down and says, "Hi Cindy! You've put on weight." I laughed my ass off.

I miss her, she was kooky.

 

[chayton]

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Thanks, I knew there was a name for those. Hope in my soul - heh.

 

[jetset]

@Gremmy - It looks like Alfred Hitchcock's profile.

Correct!

 

[felicie]

I think science would take 2 steps back if they got a hold of my brain

Oh I don't know Adversary have you found a way to beat the dealer?

 

[felicie]

@Jetset

What is your avatar picture of? have been trying to figure it out! lol


Cheers
Gremmy

Yes Gremmy there was life before Gizmo

 

[felicie]

My grandma was like that, she was 94 when she passed away and she spent the last 25 years of her life either being sharp as a tack or forgetting where her head was. I was living in the states and when I moved back to Canada I went to visit - I was a little nervous because the last time I saw her, she had no idea who I was. So now it's 15 years later and I'm expecting the worst. But I walk in and say, "Hi Grandma" and she looks up at me, then looks me up and down and says, "Hi Cindy! You've put on weight." I laughed my ass off.

I miss her, she was kooky.

94! Well isn't that an interesting thought; maybe mom and I can be resthome roomates.