Comments on: alien limb syndrome

By: calan

calan — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 02:54:29 +0000

thanks for the haikus and comments everyone.

have fun in PA Amanda

By: Amanda

Amanda — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 02:03:05 +0000

Happy new year to
all. Tidings of gingerbread
cookies and milk YAY.

I’m out of town probably moving to pennsylvania dunno yet will know in a week or so have a great week and lots of fun this new year.

By: matthew

matthew — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 19:03:08 +0000

Hehe, i have had those moments in bed when i wake up and my arm feels completely alien to me. I always try to touch it before the blood comes back and freak myself out. One time my aunt somehow cut the circulation in both arms and then freaked out so bad when she woke up she jumped out of bed and the arms flung around both sides of her body and smacked her in the head. It takes talent to deck yourself when half asleep

Great info there on those truly scary syndromes. Its pretty intense when you have to cut your own leg off to feel whole again. Very bizarre.

Hope you had a wonderful Christmas.

Movement without thought.
A cause to fear it’s actions?
The many strange looks?

A fear more profound.
Jealousy that it seems to
have more fun than me.

By: Seraphine

Seraphine — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:11:58 +0000

food for thought: i have
some laughter in my bowels
that nobody wants

By: Seraphine

Seraphine — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:10:05 +0000

have you ever looked in the mirror and said,
this can’t be me? it’s eerie having an
almost-stranger look back. mimicing you.
i’ve kicked myself a few times, not literally.
my limbs don’t always do what i want.
how others react to you is often truer
than what you see in the mirror.

By: Matthias

Matthias — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 01:00:44 +0000

I caught him at last
And now I finally know
Superfly’s a dick

It’s kind of like when you fall asleep on your arm and then wake up and there’s this totally dead thing lying on your face. Then you have this really awkward moment where you think (no matter how irrationally) that there has been permanent damage and the limb will not return to dexterity. Then, there are the three minutes in which you are semi-frantically trying to reawaken the limb. The pain is almost welcome. That’s what I think of when I think of Alien Limb Syndrome. You only recognise the limb as yours when you see it. Touching it is like touching a stranger. Wwweeeiiirrrddd…

Fun comic dear.

By: Andrew (PerhapsToast)

Andrew (PerhapsToast) — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 23:26:05 +0000

I think I have “alien brain” syndrome. Sometimes my brain goes on about things without seemingly any control from me.

By: GL

GL — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 14:31:31 +0000

beware idle hands
quietly plotting your doom
while you lay sleeping

By: Tara

Tara — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 04:46:23 +0000

Merry Hanawazamas! I’m staying up till midnight to open pressies!!

By: Icarus Ghost

Icarus Ghost — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:53:25 +0000

This explains why a certain appendage sometimes seems to have a mind of its own!