When You're Visited By A Copy of Yourself, Stay Calm
Borderline Biennale 2011 - L'Histoire de l'Oeil, François Moncarey & Kevin Ramseier acting performance DDC_8657 by Abode of Chaos
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You know Carl Linnaeus, right? The excellent Swedish naturalist who classified plants and pets in the 1750s? He was a singular figure in botany. However when he got a headache, he stopped being particular. He increased, from one Carl to two. Linnaeus struggled with migraine attacks, and according to neurologist Macdonald Critchley, when his headaches came on, he 'd hallucinate. A second, phantom Carl Linnaeus would typically appear-- seen just by the first-- and would float about, doing whatever Real Carl was doing. So Linnaeus would be in his garden, checking out a plant or plucking a flower, and he could possibly see, at a respectful distance, the Other Carl stooping and plucking the exact same way at the exact same time. Linnaeus didn't fear his phantom; in fact he got utilized to it. 'Oh My God! I'm There Already'.
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Carl Linnaeus
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Dr. Oliver Sacks
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| 0.0897721 | Dr. Oliver Sacks, in his new book on hallucinations, calls these episodes "autoscopic doubles," ... |
| 0.168653 | "The autoscopic double is literally a mirror image of oneself, with right transposed to left and vice versa, mirroring one's positions and actions," says Dr. Sacks. |
| -0.0617239 | Dr. Sacks, "at the start of a subarachnoid hemorrhage, saw an autoscopic 'double' for four days": |
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Macdonald Critchley
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| 0.0567102 | Critchley says, he got to his office, "He opened the door rapidly, intending to enter, but pulled up at once saying, 'Oh! I'm there already.' " |
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| -0.0886678 | August Strindberg, the Swedish playwright (is there something about Swedes that invites multiplication?) wrote an autobiographical novel where he, too, is followed by an "unknown man" ... |
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You're born, live and die with one body. One is all you get. But some people, says neurologist Oliver Sacks, occasionally get another one; it's an illusion, a hallucination, but it follows you around, copying everything you do. It looks like it's keeping you company. But it's not.
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