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Assume that you get free health care, because of a high quality doctor in medicine is very interested in studying it. He will also pick up on other issues, if any, and treat them properly.

Some of these are probably associated with early death.

Sleep-Related Eating Disorder (SRED): People rise during sleep and eat, sometimes bizarre or even inedible things (raw meat, buttered cigarettes, cleaning products), with no memory the next day. Linked to other parasomnias and sometimes triggered by sedative-hypnotics like zolpidem (Ambien).

Auriculotemporal syndrome (Frey's syndrome): Sweating and flushing on one side of the face triggered by eating, caused by misrouted nerve regeneration after parotid gland surgery or injury (parasympathetic fibers that used to control salivation get rewired to sweat glands).

Gustatory rhinitis / gustatory flushing: Very runny nose or facial flushing specifically triggered by eating, from trigeminal nerve stimulation rather than allergy.

Sleep paralysis: Waking (or falling asleep) with full body atonia intact but consciousness returning, often with vivid, frightening hallucinations. This is REM's muscle-paralysis mechanism (normally there to stop you acting out dreams) persisting into wakefulness.

Kleine-Levin Syndrome ("Sleeping Beauty syndrome"): Episodic hypersomnia where people sleep 16–20 hours a day for days to weeks, with altered behavior, cognitive fog, and sometimes hyperphagia (excess eating) or hypersexuality during episodes, then return to complete normal functioning between episodes. Cause is still unclear.

Exploding into REM without atonia: REM Sleep Behavior Disorder (RBD) — the opposite of sleep paralysis: the atonia fails, so people physically act out dreams, sometimes violently.

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'Neighbours' (1952) - Academy Award-winning Short Film by Norman McLaren

In this story* reasons cause intention and an intention causes bodily movements but nobody - that is no person - does anything. Psychological and physiological events take place inside a person, but the person serves merely as the arena for those events: he take no active part. - Velleman.

If a person deliberately smashes your window because they wanted to hurt you, what should you do? (You should do morally right, not wrong.)

For 24 hours you are able to shapeshift, but under the bizarre condition that you swim nude in a fountain in NYC. What would you do?

No way it's true?

Throwback to when German police stuck in mud rudely declines the wizards business card.

You were out and about in the Bolivian jungles when you saw a guy find gold worth a billion dollars. When he's gone, you get the tools and do the work to take the gold. But you spot him near your vehicle and he says that he will destroy your car* unless you return his gold!

I dont think he likes the car

[Request] Estimate how many acrobats are needed to replicate the acrobat shark from head to tail?

I actually did it! I wrote my first error free code today!

You got cursed for 365 days. There will be no running water in any faucet or anything you want to/will use. So even when you ask others to use the faucet/thing for you. You're also fatally allergic to eggs and bee stings. How well would you do?

What rare condition WYR have, "Sleeping beauty syndrome", or Frey's syndrome?

No thank you

You get offered a hefty sum to be in front of the camera of a news program to talk about a topic of interest. You get the make-up and get dressed up properly. On live TV you note they gave you make-up so you looked like a clown! What would you rather do, keep going or walk away?

You get offered a hefty sum to be in front of the camera of a news program to talk about a topic of interest. You get the make-up and get dressed up properly. On live TV you note they gave you make-up so you looked like a clown! What would you do?

You will do the same things every nite until the day you die, just as you did four hours before you went to bed the last time. To what extent are you fucked?

ELI5: What is the Ackerman method?

Giant squid eggs look like something out of a Sci-Fi movie

Turning your head lamp on at night in the wilderness

Your boss with his wife came over for a dinner to your house, it's an implicit check if you're stable enough for a promotion. Your kid shows his kid the worlds most poisonous arrow dart frog through the terrarium. Then you spot the frog on the curtain right behind your boss! What would you do?