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  • Why can't you remember the face of someone you're attracted to...?

    For Example: If you spend [even upwards to] 6 hours with another of the opposite sex that you had just met [or otherwise], how can you not remember their face?

    What Psychologically happens when you're attracted to someone that causes you to forget their appearance?

    1 AnswerSingles & Dating8 years ago
  • How can you sense someone's body [that you're attracted to]?

    How can you sense the approach of, or the presence of, a person of the opposite sex that you are attracted to? (Without a visual or auditory cue)

    Such as, being able to pick them out of a crowd without seeing or hearing them, and knowing their approach (even of 30 feet or more) and reacting to it... Or feeling their presence as if it were directly next to you, when they're really somewhat distant -- and you have no knowledge that they're there...

    Would it be pheromones?

    Is there another reason why this could happen?

    Pheromones aren't yet understood, but there may already be an understood reason why this would happen...

    1 AnswerPsychology8 years ago
  • Positive Effects of Pornography?!?

    I've seen a lot of things that show negativity towards pornographic material...

    I've also seen a bunch of BS studies that have no factual evidence whatsoever and are used as propaganda against porn...

    Now, given MY situation upon this, being my age, I would be believe that this would have different effects... Although, they still seem to be concerned with Porn and Teenagers...

    Next, on to MY viewpoint...

    Now, to conclude myself with the following information, being from Porn -> Absent:

    Love -> Hate

    Marriage -> Single

    Friendship -> Murder

    Happiness -> Depression

    Sleepiness -> Insomnia

    Passionate Sex [Procreate] -> Raw Sex

    Connectivity -> Loneliness

    Focused -> Sporadic

    Continuation -> Suicide

    ^[Hope] -> ^[No Hope]

    ^[Love] -> ^[No Love]

    ^[Happiness] -> ^[No Happiness]

    Based on the given information, how could I possibly conclude that a Pornographic Film is detrimental to my health?

    Please -- by all means! Give a reason! [Not about dependency!!!]

    :/

    3 AnswersPsychology8 years ago
  • Seeing/hearing things before they happen...?

    I'm not talking about visions and premonitions (but I also get those, with 100% accuracy)...

    I literally mean I SEE things before they happen. This is only sometimes, and I cannot enter a mental state to induce myself to see them...

    What I mean by this is; I'll see an object or a person move 3-10 seconds before they do something...

    For example, out of my eye I'll see someone picking up/replacing/knocking over an object... Then about 3-10 seconds later I'll see them do it FOR real... I've noticed that these things I see ALSO have perfect accuracy... I don't have a very good way of explaining, but "reality" stays the same; it's almost like I just see ghosts or mirrors of a future event...

    Sometimes the objects even appear fake... As in I'll see a "creature", and when I look at it, it'll fall over or something and make real sounds. These sounds can be heard by others. (I've been diagnosed to not have mental illness; nobody can find anything wrong with my physically or metally... Despite my efforts to persuade them)

    These can be day to day objects, such as someone dropping a pan or some fake alien nearly knocking my table over (still don't know how that happened; nobody can explain it...)

    I've checked it with orhers and from my memory; and my auditory and visual sensors aren't desynced... (As I said, nothing in reality or the "flow of time" changes, it's just the objects I see; mirroring the future... Is my mind working in a different way - I think very mathematically/scientifically)

    I will also experience the same situation visa versa... Where I'll hear things before I see them; and sometimes others have noticed that... I seem to know these thing before they happen; so it doesn't seem like time really changes at all... Does my mind access the "space and time" plane differently?

    I was wondering if there was some explanation to this or some mental case to look into...

    Help would be appreciated; it's very difficult to find someone else that has experienced what I described and not "premonitions" or "visions"...

    Note: Sometimes when I see these objects they seem "hazy" or far away... Distant...

    The same thing goes for hearing: sometimes the things I hear seem "fed" to me, or hazy/distant... Far away - just out of my reach...

    1 AnswerMental Health8 years ago
  • Feeling dead... Negative Effects of Love...?

    I feel like I'm dead...

    I don't actually feel like I'm ALIVE...

    When I experience love from another person, whether it be hugging or just words...

    I feel rotten and evil and disgusted... Still "happy" I suppose, but it makes me feel dead...

    Anybody know why this happens?...

    4 AnswersPsychology8 years ago
  • Drinking water causes mucus?

    I've been thirsty so I've been drinking water.

    Recently, every time I drink water I get a bunch of mucus stuck in my throat and I keep trying to cough it up. It doesn't really help much.

    Does anybody know what can cause this? Buildup of mucus after drinking? (Spitting helps a bit)

    I ONLY GET THIS WHEN DRINKING WATER.

    2 AnswersOther - Diseases8 years ago
  • Piracy with a Twist - Legality?

    I know Pirating is illegal.

    But I've purchased a bunch of games before but all my disks for them are gone now, and my program files got wiped.

    Does anybody know if it's classified in law as illegal if I pirate a game that I had once owned rights to?

    It would make sense that if I had once paid for in full and purchased game under legal rights, and owned entitlement to usage of said game, that I should be entitled to using my product.

    Although, I no longer have valid insurance or physical proof of purchase, rendering previous entitlements moot.

    So I suppose it would be then? Could I actually uphold this claim?

    4 AnswersLaw & Ethics8 years ago
  • Small Skin Spots, Rash - Blood or something else?

    I've been experiencing some really bizarre problems recently...

    Heart pain, chest pain, trouble breathing, choking on air, becoming lightheaded, numbness in arms and legs, seizures, head pressure... (I'm actually going to get checked for a brain tumor, but I would have had one for 8 months)

    But this skin problem is actually worrying me MOST of all. They're very small and red (about the size of a push pin tip), the size of what LOOKS like skin cells that you can see, those little squares.

    I've found just started to find them around my body, but almost all of them are on my arms. If I scratch one of them it'll start burning and itching and I'll get a rash there. These specific little red marks look almost like mini moles.

    Also, recently, I fell asleep with my hands on my chest and when I woke up there were giant, burning/stinging/itching silhouettes of where I laid my lands. So if my skin touches itself for a while, I get a rash. And I've gotten a couple random rashes on my legs accompanied with those "red bumps" that are common to get. I've NEVER experienced rashes before in my life and I've NEVER seen tiny rash moles or red rash spots. I've ALSO never had a rash associated with one of those "red bumps" you get either.

    Could there seriously be something wrong with my BLOOD? And that's causing lung and chest problems? Or could this all be a cause of something in my head? I went to the Clinic and I got recommended to a neurologist and a Respitory Appointment... I never got my blood checked, the doctor never sought after anything of the sort; I figured they knew something.

    Could this be something else? The rash is what's getting me: Infections? Do I have an immune deficiency syndrome?

    Anybody know about this?

    2 AnswersSkin Conditions8 years ago
  • Phantom of the Opera - All I ask of you - Without Singing?

    Audio to the Phantom of the Opera - All I Ask of You - Andrew Loyd Weber - With no Singing.

    As far as I've seen, it doesn't even exist.

    Everytime it's preformed in an orchestra they have singers.

    Does this in fact ONLY exist with Voice included and CANNOT be found? I haven't seen it. If anyone knows, please tell me.

    3 AnswersClassical8 years ago
  • Human Contact or Proximity - Physical and Mental Side Effects - How to Live With it?

    When I'm around a human, regardless if I have a physical attachment to them, I become physically ill.

    I enter a state of depression and aggression and utterly LOATHE any human I make contact with.

    I can barely lay around my own home with my father without going insane. It makes me feel so awful I can't talk to anyone or associate myself with any other human. If somebody has any insight on to dealing with severe personality disorders [Citation Schizoid Personality Disorder] would be appreciated.

    Realistically, I'm not excepting anyone to have a thought to my question and expect either: 1- Hate Comments, or 2 - No Comments at all.

    On the off chance there IS any insightful human left alive to see this, any direction to any USEFUL information on the internet would be helpful.

    2 AnswersPsychology8 years ago
  • Bug Bite and Rash...?

    I haven't gone outside (too hot) in a while, and I sleep on an AIR MATTRESS, yet today I look, and I have a bite and a rash below my left thigh. Does anybody know what this could be from? It just looks like an ordinary lump and rash (like a mosquito). Anything inside my house that could do that?

    1 AnswerZoology8 years ago
  • How to properly dismiss a human?

    I've been studying humans to see how they interact because I cannot connect to one. I've gotten pretty far in my research and have been experimenting with Aura. I've gotten a lot of progress on communication skills with other humans, but the dismissal process is extremely hazy, as I do not partake in social interaction unless forced to. I'm having trouble hypothesizing an effective way to dismiss a social partner while maximizing relations and keeping a positive boost to the atmosphere. Everything I've tried seems extremely unnatural to me and has made me uneasy.

    Any thoughts as to how I should properly dismiss another human? In a scientific way, if possible, emotions don't help me well enough.

    2 AnswersFriends8 years ago
  • 4 Legged One Segmented Winged Bug?

    Unfortunately cannot upload the picture of the smashed creature, I don't see you can.

    It was a brown penny sized bug. It had four legs long legs, diagonally across a small round one- segmented body. It had two translucent light tannish wings half the length of the leg with large medium brown spots on them.

    My cat found it under a pillow on the floor, and it started walking around like a spider and acting like a scorpion. Angling its wings and legs as if to strike. I could barely see it on my floor, it was lurking around threatening so I crushed it with a rock... I would really like to know what it was, if anyone has any idea about those kind of bugs. I was very descriptive, I gave all the points you could get in a picture, so...

    I live in Northern Minnesota and the bug looks similar to what everyone here calls a 'mosquito catcher'. I looked everywhere for it... But it is nowhere to be found on the Internet.

    It looked like a four legged Harvest Spider (or cellar spider) with wings.

    1 AnswerZoology8 years ago
  • Brain Works Too Well - People Say I'm Too Smart for My Own Good?

    My brain works extremely fast. So fast, that I cannot keep up with it consciously. My brain is logically concluding things and running scenarios and completing strange looking math problems faster than I can think. I've checked all of these things and they prove true... It also happens when I see the future... It sounds weird, but I see things in dreams and during these brain waves during the day that accurately come true. It's happened ever since I was a kid, but those predictions are ones that came true now... I'm not scatter-brained or anything. My brain is working too well... Everybody I talk to says that I'm too smart for my own good and I have to learn how to control these epiphanies... Is this bad...? Is it BAD to be too smart?!?!?! I'm only 14 and I'm having trouble talking to other humans!!! Nobody understands me... Does ANYONE out there know anything about this?... I'm sorry this is poorly structured and sporadic... The grammar's probably terrible... It's late... Nobody will understand any this... Maybe I won't post... I'll just keep telling everyone I'm normal... I guess...

    3 AnswersPsychology8 years ago
  • Why do I feel and felt cold and neglected as a child, yet I was treated with undeniable love and empathy?

    I hate my child hood. Even as a child I hated all people and took their presence as a threat and an impedition. I have this unreal loathing towards my own existence and I don't feel like I should be alive. I even felt this when I was about the age of 2, and I found out recently that I'm classified as a genius. Although, for some strange reason, I feel like I was never loved when I was young; yet my family showed unconditional love for me. I still can't stand people and I seem to have "Schizoid Personality Disorder". Again, I can't get around to discovering strange mental issues I have, because the internet is so "chalked with cake". Does anybody on the 'inter-webs' have any insight unto what is the cause of this hatred towards the idiocy of people and the [I REALLY DON'T WANT TO SOUND LIKE A DICK BUT I HAVE NO OTHER WAY TO EXPLAIN IT] exceptional intelligence I have. I repeat: I have no reason to hate people, I have no reason to be smart, and just simply NO reason to have the personality that I do! Again, HOW on EARTH can somebody develop a mind that wasn't developed from their CHILDHOOD?

    3 AnswersPsychology8 years ago
  • Why does my mind work in third person?

    I usually view myself in third person and don't feel like I'm actually alive. I feel like a robot or a tool; something being controlled by something else somewhere else. I'm also unusually smart and and scientifically deemed "genius". Does being a "genius" have any correlation with "out of body" or "third person" experiences or living.

    1 AnswerPsychology8 years ago