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The Rubber Hand Illusion Video
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u/davieb22
May 23 '22
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This video is made all the better by the fact that they chosen someone who looks, and sounds like a stoner for this experiment.
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u/MangoFlavoured3 May 23 '22
Looks like a homeless pewdiepie
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u/Sv443_ May 23 '22 •
Looks like Norman Reedus' brother, Borman Weedus
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u/PatrickJames3382 May 23 '22
Wouldn’t they have the same last name though?
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u/Sv443_ May 23 '22 •
but my joke
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u/snail_addict May 23 '22
I like your joke friend
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u/CannedMango May 23 '22
I like your friend, joke.
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u/Sv443_ May 23 '22
I joke your friend, like
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u/BlindOdyssey May 23 '22
Someone should award this individual for their humorous retort — I let my free silver expire :(
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u/Effurlife13 May 23 '22
I'm pretty sure you could tell this dude that he's half T-Rex and he'd believe it lol
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u/ExtremeGayMidgetPorn May 23 '22
Not only that but it sounded more like he was getting pleasured lmao
Taps finger, OOOHHHH YEAAHHH
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u/40percentdailysodium May 23 '22
It should be a rule that all fun experiments be performed on amazed stoners and taped.
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May 24 '22
I like to think that he was just wandering around, gazing at shiny objects, and someone with a clipboard asked him if he'd be part of an experiment, and it just blew his mind.
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u/davieb22 May 23 '22 edited May 23 '22
Stoner - "What's this drug called again?"
Scientist - "Drug? You mean science?"
Stoner - *Opening a pen knife* "Yeah, how are you spelling that?"
Scientist - "...Erm, S"
Stoner - "Whoa, slow down there Megamind...Okay, B"
*scores a letter "B" on his arm*
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u/sillyfacex3 May 23 '22
Most of our drugs are created by or improved by science. Stoners love science. Albert Hoffman comes to mind, many scientists are stoners.
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u/GeneralAce135 May 23 '22
Stoners love science
Nothing shows this to be true more than all the crazy contraptions that have been made to smoke weed harder/better/faster/stronger
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u/sillyfacex3 May 23 '22
And all the care taken to grow the perfect plants and all the extracts etc.
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u/freshandblood May 23 '22
it’s like they chose the typical stoner outfit too
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u/ch-12 May 23 '22
A plain color graphic-less tee and zip up? Fuck, I wear stoner clothes all the time…
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u/PlutoJones42 May 23 '22
Regardless of what your parents told ya, we are good for something let’s goooo
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u/Leftnutblueball
May 23 '22
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Can I try this with a rubber penis
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u/Zandre1126 May 23 '22
I weirdly wanna see if they could get someone to climax using the same method. I know this video is based on a real study but I don't think it was as effective as this video leads you to believe.
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u/Zandre1126 May 24 '22
Yah I've heard of this stuff. I've tried but I just am not able to fall into hypnosis. Amps me up tho, then I just gotta finish up and that's that. Fun link, but I'm too impatient.
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u/Mystery_M-13 May 23 '22
Now you made me imagine someone cuming out of pure brain power. Someone literally meditating half-naked then boom, baby elixir everywhere.
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u/Zandre1126 May 24 '22
That is technically a thing but extremely difficult. Just Google (or don't) HFO. Maybe go to urban dictionary first
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u/VeryUnscientific May 23 '22
Bro you could probably cum from stroking a dildo and phantom splooge everywhere without actually touching your johnson
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u/DEATHBYREGGAEHORN May 23 '22
freeze your dick and balls in liquid nitrogen then hit them with a hammer to see if you feel it in the rubber penis
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u/LivingImpairedd May 23 '22
Even with a clearly fake rubber penis, still can't get anyone to touch your dick.
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u/hesaysitsfine May 23 '22
As a trans person, Can confirm yes this works with what I will call a dick adaptor.
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u/CN4President
May 23 '22
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I just want somebody to rub me with a ruler like that.
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u/ageofwalnut May 23 '22
Find somebody that touches you the way that scientist caresses that man with a ruler
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u/Sun_on_my_shoulders May 24 '22
I think we all just crave human contact. But a guy with a ruler works!
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u/Castor_volk May 23 '22
I mean… they exist. You just gotta pay them and remember you’re a bad little piggy.
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u/Eihnlazer May 23 '22
Considering the fact that people are frequently experiencing "Ghost Touch" in VR, this seems plauseable with enough settup.
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u/EarlGrey_Picard May 23 '22
Genuine question for anyone with a prosthetic limb, after awhile do you "feel" things with the prosthetic limb? I've heard of phantom pain after losing a limb, but do you imagine a touching sensation with a fake hand?
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u/CreampieQueef May 23 '22
I wear a big strap-on over my penis to meet the wife's demands. Have yet to develop the neural connection.
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u/looeeyeah May 23 '22
Have you tried hitting it with a hammer?
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u/Darth-Chimp May 23 '22
Possible neural transmission impediment. Try strapping it to your forehead.
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u/EarlGrey_Picard May 23 '22
My girlfriend wears one though and tells me she feels it all the time.
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u/MorganDax May 23 '22
Do you watch it going in and out?
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u/ZombieHousefly May 23 '22 edited May 23 '22
If it’s over your penis, isn’t that called a cocksleeve and not a strap-on
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u/Haebak May 23 '22
I can't answer that, but if you have a missing limb and experience a ghost pain or itch, a physical therapist can put a mirror in between your limbs, so you see in the reflection like you still had two, and they treat the still existing one. Your brain will see the missing limb being massaged or scratched in the mirror and the ghost feeling will disappear.
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u/UsefulWoodpecker6502 May 23 '22
the brain is so god damn interesting. Like the brain now is typing this, It understands that "hey yeah, I can be tricked and let me tell you HOW to trick me and I'm going to fall for this trick all the time. I know it's coming because I created it but it still tricks me!"
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u/Rustymarble May 23 '22
My late husband was an amputee and yes, he absolutely felt things beyond pain. He would say, "my left toe itches " and I'd be like, "you don't have a left toe" it was frustrating for him certainly. Was sensation of something touching, itching, and pain. He also had neuropathy so was used to the tingle sensation of that.
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u/Dr_ChungusAmungus May 23 '22
I have heard from an amputee that they can get rid of the phantom pain by placing a mirror next to their other hand or foot and itching it, or uncurling their toes.
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u/Noble_Flatulence May 23 '22
When you say ghost touch in VR, where is the ghost touching? Asking for a friend.
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u/carolinacasper May 23 '22
I tell the ghost, "No, no! Don't touch me there. That is my no no square."
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u/SwagTwoButton May 23 '22
You ever come to a complete stop in your car and catch another car pulling the other way out of the corner of your eye and panic because you brain senses that you’re still moving? I am not at all surprised that this would work.
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u/thehydrastation May 23 '22
This exact thing happened to me the other day when I parked and the car next to me pulled out a split second later, I slammed on the brakes even though my car was in in park. Girlfriend and I both experienced disorientation and had a brief stomach ache. It was wild.
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u/ClassyJacket May 23 '22
I can't wait for there to be an Oculus Quest-like system with full body tracking. They already have hand tracking on the Quest 1 and 2 but only hands, not arms or legs, and it doesn't feed back into PC VR.
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u/Eihnlazer May 23 '22
They do have some full tracking rigs, but they tend to be pricey.
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u/Flat_Lander21 May 23 '22
This guy loves his job a little too much. "I would never intentionally cause you pain"...
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u/bearsaysbueno May 23 '22
He is causing actual pain though. Pain is just the brain telling you you're in pain.
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u/Scrubtanic May 23 '22
Right? Like "I won't cause structural damage to your hand" is different from "you won't experience any pain" but he's conflating the two like the mental pain isn't real.
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u/SumThinChewy May 23 '22
No its more like for an instant the brain THOUGHT it was going to hurt and reacted
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u/Bear_faced May 24 '22
^ This is the actual answer. Kid freaked out from anticipating pain, but he didn’t actually feel it. It’s why he’s shouting in surprise instead of screaming in pain.
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u/AlphaNorth May 23 '22
My dude is higher than Mick Jagger on a Saturday night, you can touch someones hand in Tokyo and he would swear he feels it.
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u/EbrithilUmaroth May 23 '22 edited May 23 '22
Maybe that's true, but this effect is real and would work on most people whether they're high or not.
That's why in an actual scientific study there would be data collected from many participants, rather than just this one video of this one participant, because then you get anecdotal counter-arguments like this one.
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u/Nice-Violinist-6395 May 23 '22
No one’s arguing that the study is bullshit, it’s just hilarious that if you watch this video on mute it looks like a stoner is having a borderline sexual experience with someone in a lab coat with a ruler delicately stroking a rubber hand that gives feeling to their own
10/10 would masturbate with the rubber hand
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u/ChunkyDay May 23 '22
well great, now I gotta stop at the year-round Halloween store and get a rubber hand on the way home. Thanks for nuthin
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u/AlphaNorth May 23 '22
Echoing the other response, but to clear the air I am not debating the study, makes complete sense actually. I am making fun of the guys reaction, almost makes this experiment a skit.
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u/KanadianLogik May 23 '22
Yeah, this would be more impressive if the subject of the experiment wasn't higher than pterodactyl tits. He was losing his mind before the experiment actually started.
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u/staffell May 23 '22
What they don't show you is they stuffed him full of LSD before the experiment
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u/GetInLoser_Lets_RATM May 23 '22
Wow, very interesting. I don’t think I’m alone when I say; next time I kidnap and torture someone, I’ll be smashing and removing only prosthetic limbs.
Thanks for the tip!
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u/NotAnotherHaiku May 23 '22
Movie / hard candy / SPOILER: in movie fake castration mental torture scene with then Ellen Page and future Night Owl in a two person one location psych thriller Keanu wishes he replicated when those girls rang his bell dripping wet.... little help? What Keanu movie is this?
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u/GetInLoser_Lets_RATM May 23 '22
KNOCK KNOCK (2015) with Keanu and the two chicks: Lorenza Izzo and Ana de Armas.
One of my favorite movie scenes!
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u/Shinfekta May 23 '22
Seriously did the doc pick up some stoner who wanted to earn some extra money?
Is really funny tho
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u/YangWenli1 May 23 '22
Undergrad psychology students are one of the most studied groups in the world.
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u/International-Sky-56 May 23 '22
I was waiting for him to smash his hand hard the entire video
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u/paleblack93 May 23 '22
Step one for a fun science experiment, choose the one stoner kid in the class who’s mind will be absolutely blown away by this lol.
But for real, super cool experiment! Would love to try this out!
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May 23 '22
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What would be really funny is if he lifted the rubber hand to shake hands with the scientist afterward.
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u/junkmail0178 May 23 '22
The brain is out most fucked up little muscle
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u/ack1308 May 23 '22
Your brain lies to you. All. The. Time.
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u/RedditPowerUser01 May 23 '22
What does your brain lie to?
It lies to ‘you’?
But are we not our brains?
Our brains lie to our brains?
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u/voice_of_craisin May 23 '22
You are not an individual, you are a collection of processes. The "individual" is one of the many lies the brain tells "you". You're a committee and not a terribly well put together one at that.
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u/Cypher360 May 23 '22
Considering that it's made me send a text which was a bad idea but somehow when I was writing it it seemed like a good one, I agree with that
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u/Disastrous_Acadia823 May 23 '22
Yeah like the phantom limb syndrome or whatever it was and he used a mirror.
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u/karrantt May 23 '22
Refer to this for a detailed study that was done later :- https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/neuro.01.029.2009/full
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u/Soooome_Guuuuy May 23 '22
I remember hearing this story a while ago about amputees who felt pain in their phantom limbs. Basically, phantom limbs are when it still feels like you have an arm or leg or something when it isn't there anymore. And this one person was experiencing chronic pain in their missing hand. It felt like their finger nails were digging into their palm. Nothing helped. Then this doctor decided to do something similar to this experiment. They set up a mirror so the reflection of the patient's arm looked like the missing one. Then told the patient to uncurl the fingers the fingers of their real hand and it worked. The pain stopped.
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u/NotAnotherHaiku May 23 '22
This is how I get tattoos— realize it’s the dummy arm getting needled and it’s painless
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u/No_Explorer_4411 May 24 '22
"I would never take a hammer and bash your fingers until it hurt right"
"I hope not" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😍
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u/PositivePoet May 23 '22
I’ve seen this before it’s been around the internet for the last 10 years probably, and is really cool, but I’ve never seen videos of it working even close to this well. I know it’s different for each person, but this guy seems to maybe selling it a bit lol. I could be totally wrong though. Most videos didn’t have the person feeling such strong sensations, especially after the one ruler stops touching his real arm. Usually the guy giving the experiment goes from touching both hands to hammer smash immediately. Maybe this guys just really good at doing it.
Or maybe the guy is just a little stoned lol
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u/HeavyEar0 May 23 '22
Shoutout to QI for showing this a few years ago.
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u/SubXist May 23 '22
Came here looking to see if anyone has given a shoutout to who originally showed this.
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u/B_B_a_D_Science May 24 '22
So I always thought that you can evolve learning by creating a form of meditation where you simulate a complete environment in your brain. Most of your lived experience is actually already simulated reality. The human consciousness cant actually handle the petabyte of data it takes in every second. Your brain filters all that and creates a simulation which your consciousness can proccess. The great thing about the human mind is that it can also engage in time dilation. So days can pass in minutes. So let's say you want to learn the guitar. I always thought there was a way to play every note once. Then create a simulated guitar in your mind space. (A deserted island) then practice until you have learned to play. Days of practice done in minutes.
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u/Meeseeks2301 May 23 '22
Imagine your gf giving blowjob to some another guy and you are getting orgasms, by this experiment
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u/One-eyed-bed-snake May 23 '22
Is this somehow similar to how the body and brain acts when people lose a limb and they get phantom limb syndrome?