sarah22
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excellent post.
Perception is reality
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sarah22
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i saw someone explain in a documentary once that there is no such thing as pain...just intense physical sensation. and sometimes i feel that it can make sense. that the feeling is just so overwhelming to our senses, that our brain just automatically labels it as painful..because it cant process all the sensations happening any other way...
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hempcurescancer
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damn sarah....i've never thought of it like that before, kind of like if you burn yourself, its an overwhelming feeling because the temp is so high, our brain could just label it as pain because we cant yet fathom the sensation..
doc111
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Pain is necessary since it prevents you from keeping your hand on a hot stove. It's a necessary survival mechanism. There are people who don't feel pain at all and they have to be really careful because it's really hard for them to tell if they've been injured. Here is a little article I found about this condition:
Congenital insensitivity to pain (CIPA), also known as congenital analgia is a very rare condition and the few people who have this condition cannot feel any sort of pain. Sounds
good, right? Wrong. What many people don't realize is that this can be extremely dangerous.
This disorder is caused when a the nerves that sense pain does not connect with the part of the brain the recognizes pain. The reasons why this happens or what causes this to happen are unknown. Other sensory areas of people with CIPA are completely normal. As mentioned before, this is disease is incredibly rare and only 35 United States citizens have CIPA. Unfortunately, many people with CIPA don't live to see the age of 25. The rarity of this disease and the very low survival rate of it makes it difficult to study.
Not being able to feel pain is incredibly dangerous, especially for children. You need pain to tell you what you should and shouldn't do. You need pain to tell you when to move away from something because it is causing you harm. Most people try to avoid causing pain to themselves, but it is because they have felt pain that they are able to avoid those things that initially caused the pain.
A condition that is found in people with CIPA is Anhidrosis, which is the inability to sweat. This is also not a good thing. People with CIPA and Anhidrosis are unable to feel extreme temperature, this and not being able to sweat means that their body cannot regulate its temperature.
Children born with this need to be watched even more than normal children. They have to be taken to the doctor to make sure that they are okay and not suffering from anything that they are unaware of. They constantly have to be inspected to make sure that nothing is bleeding or otherwise wrong.
According to Pravda.com, a little girl suffering from CIPA put her hand on a hot oven and burnt her skin when she was three years old. She did not realize that anything was wrong and when her parents found her smiling with blood all over the kitchen, they were shocked. This poor girl also shredded her own lips when she began teething.
swishatwista
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"Life is what you make it", light weight and eligant, straight forest gump, but reading from the back of the book. PUSH IT
swishatwista
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O exactly man, the brain sees pain as a flash or red flag, but the underlining fact and/or transition is key to grips on reality. And to the one ^, exactly your nerves are extremely key in perception, but its that conception that changes perception. I'm sure ppl around here are familar with the Allegory of The Cave.