During a trip to a Las Vegas casino, Ms Overhill's mind "went somewhere else" and was stunned to find the $25 she had arrived with had turned into $2,500.
One night, she awoke to find a knife under her pillow with no recollection over how the instrument had got there.
One night, she awoke to find a knife under her pillow with no recollection over how the instrument had got there.
"When I came back to myself I'd be exhausted. I never knew where I'd been or what I'd done, so I would have to look for clues, like a bag in the car or leftovers from a restaurant."
Using hypnosis, Dr Baer, a psychologist, found the woman had not one- not two but seventeen alter-egos. Her other personalities were male and female, black and white, and different ages. Some were left-handed, others right-handed, and they even walked differently.
Baer explained: "Dissociating (separating from one's reality in the present) is a defense mechanism. It's one of many we have psychologically to cope with stress. It's an extreme method.
The picture below is the picture that alter ego #16 drew of all of them.
4 comments:
That's...Odd.
That actually sounds like a story arc from the book Earthquake Weather by Tim Powers, although it also involved ghosts, sacred king-killing, wine, voodoo, the Winchester Mansion, Dionysus, Archimedes Mavronos, and the Fisher King.
Yes, it's one of the best novels ever.
It sounds awesome... Do you own it?
Naturally.
So who's the baby's daddy?...10, 14, or 16?
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