Poll: Where are you from?

[Thunderwave]

Thanks Bib!  Interesting stuff!

[lycium]

woooo~ go new zealand 

i think garth thornton (xenodream) is here in wellington too

[MarkJayBee]

Interesting stats bib - I hail from North Ayrshire, in jolly old Scotland 

[hobold]

But really I live mostly in my mind.

Shouldn't we, like, constantly be running into all kinds of people up there? 

[Thunderwave]

But really I live mostly in my mind.

Shouldn't we, like, constantly be running into all kinds of people up there? 

You see them too... 

[David Makin]

But really I live mostly in my mind.

Shouldn't we, like, constantly be running into all kinds of people up there? 

You see them too... 

I used to hear them mumbling, but then I was prescribed some tablets and they went away....now I've stopped taking the tablets and they haven't come back (yet)

[Tglad]

According to the poll I'm from the Other continent. Logging in from Brisbane. 

[Thunderwave]

But really I live mostly in my mind.

Shouldn't we, like, constantly be running into all kinds of people up there? 

You see them too... 

I used to hear them mumbling, but then I was prescribed some tablets and they went away....now I've stopped taking the tablets and they haven't come back (yet)

I'm sorry to hear that.  If only the tablet could take away they negative ones and leave the positive ones.

[David Makin]

But really I live mostly in my mind.

Shouldn't we, like, constantly be running into all kinds of people up there? 

You see them too... 

I used to hear them mumbling, but then I was prescribed some tablets and they went away....now I've stopped taking the tablets and they haven't come back (yet)

I'm sorry to hear that.  If only the tablet could take away they negative ones and leave the positive ones.

That would have been brilliant had it been possible, especially if I could have worked out definitively if it was just a mental defect or some form of paranormal communication
The problem was actually the fact that it was "mumbling" - exactly like hearing a TV or radio from too far away to tell what was being said - so I had no way of telling whether the voice/s were negative or positive or some of each.
My unfortunate habit of analysing and rethinking everything from first principles made this a bad situation for me especially as it was usually worst when trying to sleep.
I basically went through 1. Is there actually a TV or radio on somewhere ? answer NO. 2. Am I just going insane ? 3. Is it telepathy ? 4. Is it Aliens ? 5. Is it ghosts ? 6. Is any option 3 to 5 good ? 7. Is any option 3 to 5 bad ? 8. Is there any way to prove or rule out options 3 to 5 ? 9. Go back to 1.

The only remaining really odd "symptom" is an occaissional "tickle" in my left ear, this used to happen before I started the tablets and came back when I stopped taking them. Otherwise I just seem to be slightly more emotional than when I was taking the tablets.

[bib]

According to the poll I'm from the Other continent. Logging in from Brisbane. 

Sorry. Should we say Asia/Pacific. To my knowledge, the 5 officiel continents do not include Australia.

[Thunderwave]

According to the poll I'm from the Other continent. Logging in from Brisbane. 

Sorry. Should we say Asia/Pacific. To my knowledge, the 5 officiel continents do not include Australia.

http://geography.about.com/od/learnabouttheearth/qt/qzcontinents.htm

But really I live mostly in my mind.

Shouldn't we, like, constantly be running into all kinds of people up there? 

You see them too... 

I used to hear them mumbling, but then I was prescribed some tablets and they went away....now I've stopped taking the tablets and they haven't come back (yet)

I'm sorry to hear that.  If only the tablet could take away they negative ones and leave the positive ones.

That would have been brilliant had it been possible, especially if I could have worked out definitively if it was just a mental defect or some form of paranormal communication
The problem was actually the fact that it was "mumbling" - exactly like hearing a TV or radio from too far away to tell what was being said - so I had no way of telling whether the voice/s were negative or positive or some of each.
My unfortunate habit of analysing and rethinking everything from first principles made this a bad situation for me especially as it was usually worst when trying to sleep.
I basically went through 1. Is there actually a TV or radio on somewhere ? answer NO. 2. Am I just going insane ? 3. Is it telepathy ? 4. Is it Aliens ? 5. Is it ghosts ? 6. Is any option 3 to 5 good ? 7. Is any option 3 to 5 bad ? 8. Is there any way to prove or rule out options 3 to 5 ? 9. Go back to 1.

The only remaining really odd "symptom" is an occaissional "tickle" in my left ear, this used to happen before I started the tablets and came back when I stopped taking them. Otherwise I just seem to be slightly more emotional than when I was taking the tablets.

Down the rabbit hole we go.

[Tglad]

@Bib- Who knows every book seems to have different names and numbers of continents.

David, I'm not a doctor but if you look online you may be surprised at the number of people with similar symptoms, so I'm sure its not 1 to 5. For a period I used to get this weird really loud BANG in my head just before going to sleep, then I stumbled upon this chat group where hundreds had reported in describing exactly the same symptoms and how they thought they must be going insane, its actually called 'exploding head syndrome'!!  It went away after a while... I think perhaps I had been working too hard and not giving myself a break.

[visual.bermarte]

Piacenza (Italy).

[kram1032]

someone ought to produce some fractal image based on this dataset
Yay for #18

[David Makin]

Don't worry about it, I know it's a relatively common condition - specifically it's pschyzophrenia and in my case was brought on by too much weed combined with overwork and did reach the acute stage where I was "on another planet", clinically psychotic and suffering depression and paranoia too. When treated initially with chlorpromazine I asked the doctor was I on a high dose as it was making me very sleepy and lethargic - he said that I was on enough to put an elephant to sleep.
Fortunately my prescription was changed to risperidone and reduced to just 1mg a day, that worked far batter than the chlorpromazine and as I said I'm now even off the risperidone.
Because of my experiences I no longer believe that marijuana/cannabis should be classed as a safe drug, though I do still believe it's properties need investigating further to produce beneficial drugs (in particular for relief of acute/chronic pain).