The fake hand trick! During the illusion, a participant’s hand is hidden, and a rubber hand positioned so that it appears as her own. He knows that it’s fake — but when both hands are stroked at the same time the rubber hand literally feels like it belongs to him.
Consciously he knows it’s not true, but that doesn’t matter. Threaten the fake hand, and people under the illusion’s spell respond as if their own hands were threatened.Scientists have now shown that the hidden hand’s temperature drops during the illusion: its effects aren’t simply mental, but physical as well, and could even hint at as-yet-unknown processes of disease. (Source & Source)
Scary amounts of rain in Oman. A cyclone more powerful has deluged this major city with nearly three years worth of rainfall in a single day, leaving 11 people dead. (Source)
“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life…You give them a piece of you. They didn’t ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn’t your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like ‘maybe we should be just friends’ turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It’s a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.”
Tansforming into animagi the first few times is not as easy as the books make it seem. Jamie gets impatient waiting for Remi to return from her prefect duties, deciding to try and change into Prongs… things get a little stuck.
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