http://mindhacks.com/2009/08/03/seized-by-voodoo-spirits/ Neuroscience and psychology tricks to find out what's going on inside your brain. Fri, 25 May 2012 22:09:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://mindhacks.com/2009/08/03/seized-by-voodoo-spirits/#comment-5440 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:43:26 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/08/03/seized-by-voodoo-spirits/#comment-5440 Raul, your friend’s alternate personality sounds too developed to be due to epilepsy alone. There is an increased risk for schizophrenia among epilepsy patients so that may be what’s going on there. Either way she seems like an interesting person.
I’ve wondered lately if the christian phenomenon of “speaking in tongues” has anything to due with some kind of induced partial seizure. I wouldn’t be surprised.

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2009/08/03/seized-by-voodoo-spirits/#comment-5439 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:56:51 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/08/03/seized-by-voodoo-spirits/#comment-5439 I have a friend with epilepsy, and she occasionally switches personalities. She appears as a 10-year-old girl who claims she is a “being of light,” sent by God. As you mention, being a Westerner, it is considered a religious being. Some friends take her advice without question, and give her information I would never share. The odd thing is that she uses (and misuses) the personal infomration she gets to cause conflict between people. I had always blamed it on her neurological condition, but people just brush me off saying I am skeptical and not spiritual enough.

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