Walk-ins

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If I remember there are other names for it but yes I think its where they think there loved one has been replaced. It must be so horrible to have that happen. The mind is such a wonderful and strange place but sometimes very frighting

Our minds are amazing. When we think about all the input it has to deal with on so many levels, with so many variables, it is a true miracle what it does. 

I have Cone-rod dystrophy which has gotten a little worse with age.

It is interesting in that I have trouble identifying things when they have been replaced from their normal position, or things that I have not seen before, and it is in an unlikely location.

For instance, if someone comes along and replaces a vase of flowers that have been sitting on the mantle for a time, with something else, like a book, when I first see it, I will not be able to tell you what it is. I can tell you it is something different and that it is not the vase, but my mind has to run through a thousand possibilities of stored data to come up with its closest match.

It is the weirdest feeling. You know that it is something familiar, but not known, at the moment. It is not a pleasant feeling by a long shot, and you have to trust your brain that it got it right. It almost always does. It is just a regular reminder just how much we depend on the autonomous functions of our brains.

As for waking up to a foreign world or what seems to be a replaced loved one, I agree that would have to be traumatic. I have had my Mandela moments. They are unnerving enough.

That must be so weird, I dont think I could handle that. Im a very high % face blind so over the long years I have learnt to read body language very very well, some times too well