Laser Shooting Eye Injury While Sleeping -1/28/04

Don't you realize that you are a test subject?

A small number of people have been carefully chosen to evaluate their tolerance to this type of interference with their lives. This data is being gathered by a scouting force of extraterestrials to determine how best to subjugate the human population when the main force arrives.

Hang in there, you could be the saviour of the entire human race.

Dave

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Hey, welcome back! Where ya been?

Oh, you can't post images to s.e.d.; actually, nobody can.

Get some Maxidex, opthalmic steroid; it's great for eye irritations.

John

Not through Supernews. They filter all binaries from non binariy newsgroups, like they are supposed to.

Actually, it is not a laser per se, it is a Hoechst Life Sciences GMBH NanoTech Programming Unit designed to upload the correct software to the swarm of nanomachines slowly attaching themselves to the dendrites inside your brain, gradually replacing all sensory inputs with a programme-directed reality.

It needs to be powerful to activate the molecular sensory clusters on the nanomachines - and it is not a production unit yet, so there may be some side effects. With the passage of time the unpleasant sensations will go away.....

I read in sci.electronics.design that Frithiof Andreas Jensen wrote (in ) about 'Laser Shooting Eye Injury While Sleeping -

With the passage of time, all sensations will go away.

If his assailants were as wicked as he claims, they would terminate him in his own ohm and move on. Clearly, what is happening is that an advanced curative therapy is being applied by a clandestine philanthropic organization, probably International Rescue.

Hmmm... initials are IR -- where have I seen those initials before...?

Those damned utility-fog nanomotes are harder to get out of the kitchen than fruit flies.

John

DO NOT LOOK DIRECTLY INTO LASER WITH REMAINING GOOD EYE

Tim.

I CANT BELIEVE IT!! The same thing happened to me! I wasn't sure what was happening at first.. But when I saw the light right through my eyelids while I was sleeping I was sure something was amiss! It is so good to know that I was not imagining this>

I am now going to continue my development of a reflective set of sleeping masks to finally get a good night sleep

I have a close friend who has been experiencing a protracted hypo-manic/manic episode since about November which includes some behavior that seems fairly sensible, until you find out the motivation:

He has apparently been hired by some clandestine government agency to write a book (which he WANTS to do anyway - it's actually pretty good so far - funny as hell). The interesting part about it is that I'm fairly certain that this particular "delusion" is not a symptom of the manic episode, but is a romantic notion that this guy has ALL THE TIME, but generally doesn't talk about as much as he has been lately - that his father was doing some sort of intelligence work during the year that he lived in Russia a few years ago.

Since his father is a journalist of some caliber, I tend to consider that not very far off the mark, functionally speaking, though it seems pretty unlikely, and sort of pointless to speculate on, in any case.

I am almost positive that this friend of mine (we'll call him Paul) had a fairly major series of hallucinations about two weeks ago, and developed several relatively minor delusions to lend some sense of reality to what he had experienced.

The delusions are fairly benign. For instance, he believes that he can play the piano beautifully, suddenly, and with no training or anything. He also sees Ford F-10's all over the place, and firmly believes that the people inside are watching HIM, and are armed, but are working for the same "agency," so it just makes him nervous and overly self-conscious, and extremely hard to understand in a conversation until the model that he holds has been properly explained.

He does not believe that this agency is exactly malicious in its intent toward him, but that it could be dangerous in some situations, and he is not at all sure which situations might cause it to turn on him. Naturally that makes him more than a little tense.

The difficult part of the whole episode, is that Paul is having an amazingly hard time getting any sleep at all, and is almost totally incapable of sitting still for very long, so he's pretty much impossible to continually keep tabs on, and is, of course, driving his fiance (who, ironically, had just started working on her psychology PhD in November) up the freakin' wall.

I'm building him a fairly simple RF meter so he can be sure there aren't any bugs in his apartment. He's convinced that there are. I'm not, but I'd generally like to have a foundation to at least one side of the argument. Better yet if both sides have even the tiniest toehold on the ledge that is sanity and reality, eh?

Anyway, I have this kinda silly thing that I keep saying to everyone about this kind of thing:

"Keep left foot firmly and flat on ground. With right foot, kick moon. Be careful not to lose your shoe."

I think that sums up my opinion on the matter quite nicely, and it makes the people who need most to laugh about it giggle a bit besides.

My favorite response to this fellow is the one that recommends a nice anti-inflammatory for the person's eyes. It's humorous in the context, but is actually pretty useful advice.

Funny, but useful - good - at least, in MY book it is. DJ Responses should be addressed to snipped-for-privacy@.spameGeniusLabs.com (all instances of .spam should be removed before sending)

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I read in sci.electronics.design that DJ Bartlett wrote (in ) about 'Laser Shooting Eye Injury While Sleeping -1/28/04', on Fri, 30 Jan 2004:

Now, I am not a shrink, but those hallucinations and the inability to sleep suggest to me something much more serious than hypomania. Is he under properly-qualified treatment?

DJ, I have to salute you for standing by your friend! Still, be very careful.

For those of us who have lived a significant number of years, many have had at least one friend in this category...I've known three at various phases in my life.

In two of these cases, the result was a close friendship, at least for a time as the following should make clear. Unfortunatly, sometimes a simple delusional state can suddenly and without warning advance to a serious psychosis, which can place you at some level of personal risk or actual physical danger, as once happened to me. Unfortunately, not being a psychiatrist I didn't see it coming until the local police accompanied by the FBI came knocking at my door one evening. The consequence was that my security clearance was temporarily placed on hold until the matter was settled. Evidently in his confusion this friend suddenly "realized" that I was some sort of a foreign agent who was monitoring and spying on him, and dutifully had informed the local FBI office.

It only took a day or two to clear the matter up, but until it was cleared up I was sitting on pins and needles thinking that both my and my family's livelyhood was about to vanish, even if I didn't go to some federal prison!

One of the FBI investigators later suggested to me that in the future I be a little more careful about the "type of people" that I associated with. I took this as good, helpful, and well meaning advice. I also receive a really spirited "Dutch Uncle Talk" from the security manager of my company.

Today, my advice to anyone that comes into casual, social contact with potentially unstable people would be to put as much distance as possible between themselves and the person in question -- and do it immediately.

Harry C.

We have a close friend whose father was a blacklisted-commie Hollywood screenwriter (he did The Dirty Dozen and a bunch of similar stuff) who was kinda nutty to start with. But when he was working on a script, he

I occasionally get iritus, an autoimmune inflammation of the eye, and I can see how it might make a person crabby. The Maxidex stuff knocks it right out.

John

He is (sort of). His fiancé got him to go speak with a psychiatrist that works where she interns, last week, and this fellow prescribed a fairly powerful anti-psychotic as a "sleep aid." The specific name slips my mind at present...

He is much calmer, the last few days, and seems pleased enough with the effects to have asked if he could see the doctor again and possibly renew the prescription, although he is fairly certainly still a little delusional.

He's starting to become a little less outspoken about it, though, which is where I'm pretty sure, the boy-o actually lives normally. He is extraordinarily high functioning in general. Not at all quite a wack-job, though certainly eccentric, and fairly driven.

Then again, that describes me pretty well also.

The people at the crisis care unit (which is where his fiancé interns) seem to agree with the description of hypo-manic with occasional forays into technical mania, and would generally consider him type-one (I think, although I'm not certain right now) bipolar, although he does not actually experience any associated depression.

Everyone pretty much agrees that this is an unusual case, in general. But then "Paul" is kind of an unusual guy. heh. There's definitely a fair amount of interest in how it turns out.

I owe this guy too many favors for that.

I would, however, sacrifice my friendship and certainly a share of safety to help keep him from seriously damaging himself or anyone else while in a state like this. It is not a normal state, but he is undoubtedly still in there, and could definitely use a little assistance from time to time.

I was very seriously considering intentionally getting him riled up to the point of becoming dangerous, just so he could be detained and sedated against his will for a couple of days. Definitely a scary thought, honestly. I highly doubt that he would ever forgive me for a stunt like that.

Frankly, I flat out disagree about your advice for distance. If he ever WERE to become suddenly dangerous, I am one of the few that would be expecting it, and ready to respond, and that could be the difference between some random person's (or "Paul's" for that matter) life or death. I can't, in good conscience wash my hands so easily of a situation like this.

Besides, he is observably less adversarial toward me than practically anyone else around him, and my presence has more than once defused a hotheaded bout of fisticuffs or worse with someone not willing to take random shit from anyone. My friend could definitely NOT de-escalate such situations on his own some days, but he's not quite willing to go through me bodily to escalate either.

FWIW, I am aware of my own personal danger, and wouldn't blame anyone really, if anything unfortunate happened to me. I am making my choices willingly and rationally. I am positive that my presence serves far more effectively to ward such bad luck OFF than to attract it.

It's been 10 years since I had a security clearance to worry about, and I am pretty clear that I WOULD hurt him, if necessary, to keep myself safe, but that is something that I, for one, would strongly prefer NOT to have to do, and it has so far never really been necessary to even consider such a thing.

I stand a MUCH better chance of convincing him to seek some sort of treatmen t, or at least avoid poor choices of behavior, when I stand within earshot of him, and speak as a friend, than from a hiding place behind a table or not in the area at all. Retreating from the situation doesn't really seem too productive, all things considered.

I couldn't imagine just expecting him to sort it out entirely by himself, and there NOT being some sort of unnecessary trouble as a result. He is, after all, not entirely rational, at times.

I do appreciate the sentiment, though. He is capable of fairly destructive behavior, and might not be so far away from violence at any moment, and it is probably wise for me to keep that in mind.

I do. But thanks for your concern.

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