If you’ve followed Neatorama for a while, you are familiar with
the Truman Show Delusion.
It’s a mental illness in which a person believes that his whole life is
a reality TV show. I would have expected this delusion to be included
in a Cracked list about mental illnesses that turn your life into a TV
show, but no. These five conditions are even stranger than that. They’re
not all psychological, either -some are neurological, like the
condition that causes you to see subtitles in real life.
It
happened to septuagenarian Dorothy Latham. When she has a conversation,
the words appear as a brightly colored ticker tape in front of
whoever's speaking. It is likely the one and only thing she has in
common with the teen blogger known as Cath. They both have a rare form
of synesthesia, a bizarre condition in which one of your senses becomes
tightly linked to another. Seeing the color blue might make you taste
cheeseburgers, or hearing the music of Nirvana might make you smell teen
spirit (which is mostly old socks and stale semen, for the record).
Read more about this condition and
others that will blow your mind, at Cracked.
If you’ve followed Neatorama for a while, you are familiar with the Truman Show Delusion.
It’s a mental illness in which a person believes that his whole life is
a reality TV show. I would have expected this delusion to be included
in a Cracked list about mental illnesses that turn your life into a TV
show, but no. These five conditions are even stranger than that. They’re
not all psychological, either -some are neurological, like the
condition that causes you to see subtitles in real life.
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