Fractured Reality: Distortions of Perception pt. 1
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Every team, every topic, everywhere. This is Believe.
Welcome to another episode of Fringe Beyond Limits.
You sounded extra raspy there, Mr. Frink.
I did?
Welcome.
Welcome. Welcome to the Thunderdome.
Welcome to the jungle. I wasn't paying attention to that because I made sure I had my mute off this time.
Okay, that's good.
Bravo.
Yes, very nice. Very, very nice.
And I'm ready to eat my chips again.
Okay. Yeah. Yeah.
So I don't make munchy noises on the mic.
Go ahead. Go ahead. The listeners will love that. Yeah.
Their crew ranch, by the way, if anyone was wondering.
Yeah. No, they're not.
I can smell it all the way down here. Well, I know one person that probably would wonder.
Who's that?
Wilson.
Wilson.
He likes his food.
Hey, can I meet Wilson sometime?
Yes, you can.
Really?
I don't know if Wilson wants to be you, but yes, you can.
That was my next question. Does Wilson want to meet me?
Every once in a while, I'll say something. He goes, I don't know if I'm ready for that. I'm like, you're going to meet him.
You're forced. What does he think I'm going to do?
I don't know.
I'm not like a psychopath. I'm not going to like... Depends how much I drink. But you are a hugger. I am a hugger. That is true. Wilson, I am a hugger.
But Wilson also has some dark humor like you do, but he's more quiet where you're more verbal.
So I need to bring him out of his shell.
So it'd be definitely an interesting conversation between you two.
I can't. Wilson, come on. Drinks. You, me, and a couple stools. No? No.
Sure.
He doesn't really drink, but sure.
Listen, him and I are going to have a man... It could be a mocktail.
I would say his drink of choice is Coke. All right.
Well, him and I are going to have a man-panion date.
You heard that right, folks? Wilson, you got that?
You're going to be my man-panion for the evening.
That sounds terrible. I know, it does. It sounds so terrible.
It does. But, you know, I'm a terrible human being, so...
You're not selling it for Wilson.
I didn't think I was to start off with. I mean, from episode one till now, I don't think I've sold anything to Wilson.
But yet he still listens to it.
Hey, you know what? God bless.
He's one of our actual loyal people here.
I thank you for your loyalty, Wilson. Yeah.
It's so funny. So like we tend to always like record a bunch of episodes sometimes and then play them. I don't remember what order they're in. So I randomly go to get a text from him commenting on an episode. I'm like, what's wrong? Is he talking about?
Yeah.
What are you doing? What's going on?
He's like, and he tells me what it is. I'm like, oh, yeah, I forgot about that one.
Yeah, you know, it's so weird because, like, I'll talk about the podcast to everybody. And if I ever get asked, well, what topics have you covered? I'm like, I have no idea. I got to go to Apple and go through our catalog. I'm like, oh, we did this one. We did that. I'm like, I don't remember.
I do the same thing. I get on my Spotify. I'm like, here are the different ones.
Yeah, I don't remember anything.
Let me refer to my annals.
Yeah, right. I believe you mispronounced anals. So, all right. Well, I hope you guys are doing great. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
All right. Good. Good. All right. So, yeah, let's just jump right into our tonight's story. So the mind is supposed to be the one place where reality feels anchored. A steady inner voice assuring us that we are here, that the people around us are who they seem to be, and that our bodies belong to us. Yet scattered throughout psychiatry are rare conditions that shatter those assumptions so completely that they make ordinary life feel uncanny, dreamlike, or even horrifying. In the following episode, we'll step into some of these strange mental worlds, places where a person can believe they are dead, see familiar faces twisted into grotesque masks, feel their body turning into an animal, or become convinced that their own limbs don't belong to them at all.
These are not stories from folklore or horror fiction, but documented clinical realities that reveal just how fragile our sense of self in reality truly is.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–15:29
2
What rare perception disorders introduce the episode and why do they matter?
15:29–21:29
3
What is Cotard’s Syndrome and how can the brain 'believe' it’s dead?
21:29–56:17
4
What is prosopometamorphopsia and how does it distort recognition of faces?
56:17–1:20:23
Speakers
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