#here have an unsolicited psychology infodump

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omfg GUYS

you know how in MoM, Sinister Strange talks about the feeling of falling and waking up right before you hit the ground when you sleep is him going and killing off other Strange varients??

well one of the brain's silly little tricks it likes to play on it's owner is hypnagogic hallucinations. hypnagogic hallucinations are vivid, dream-like hallucinations that occur as you're falling asleep. They're usually harmless, effect around 80% of people, and the most common one is visual -- like seeing shapes and colors, almost like a kaleidoscope, or feeling like something is in the room with you, hearing music or voices, etc. Harmless, but occasionally terrifying.

Now another common hallucination, one that I get the most often when I'm really stressed about something, is the feeling of falling. Like dropping or plummeting, even though I'm not moving, and sometimes I will get really dizzy, like I'm spinning rapidly. These specific hallucinations are accompanied by what's called a hypnic jerk -- sudden contractions of all or most of the muscles in your body. These contractions, however, only usually happen during stage 1 and 2 of sleep, or when you're transitioning from wakefulness to sleep.

And while a majority of people do dream about falling occasionally, the hypnagogic hallucination of falling is usually more common.

so when Sinister Strange talks about variants falling, is he referring to the hallucinations before fully falling asleep? And if that's true, then what other hallucinations that we thing are normal are really caused by multiversal varients?

Is there a counterpart of someone staring up at the stars or is there another you being pushed off of a cliff?

And in that universe, we've established that dreams are gateways to other, alternative universes. In our world, we still don't have a reason for why dreams occur, or why hypnagogic hallucinations occur, and various other psychological phenomenoms.

So in Stephen Strange's world, what psychological things are explained by multiversal counterparts? And is there a need for psychologists if everything is explained so easily or are there different fields of psychology from our own dedicated to figure out what's real and what's not, or what's caused by you and what's caused by someone else who shares your face?

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Unsolicited Lore Dump

Tagged by the amazing @nyx-knox - thank u i love u💕

Do you make your bed? EH once in a while i will flip back the 2 covers i use to sleep and i call it a day

Favorite number? 24, my birthdayyy

What's your job? im a Lead QA! i have a lil team of 8 nerds QAs that I help guide throughout the day and i love them so very much <3

If you could go back to school would you? oh YEAH theres so much stuff that im interested in, i think i would go back especially for languages or continue psychology

Can you parallel park? i dont wanna brag buttttttttttttt yes, and i learned solely based on a gif i saw pass around here YEARS ago before i even learned how to drive and got it on first try. my teacher was impressed uwu

Do you think aliens are real? THEY HAVE TO, the universe is so big, it would be dumb to think that were truly alone

Can you drive a manual car? god no i had an anxiety attack last time i tried. nono, i drive an electric car, i dont stress about no manual car

What's your guilty pleasure? ohhhhhhhhhhh good question. its gonna sound very general but treating myself to anything i want regardless of the repercussions it has on my wallet.

Tattoos? so many , if i listed them, they would take the entire post, (im basically covered in tattoos) but i can say that :

right arm has a "cute/beauty that can kill" theme

left arm is personal meaning/matching tattoos

right leg is gaming

left leg is witchy vibes

+ a flower in my ear and bongo cat under my tiddy

Favorite color? PORPOL. im in my lilac/lavender phase

Favorite types of music? I'm the kind of person to listen to a lot of genres, but soundtracks really hit the spot for me. I get carried on so easily by a good soundtrack, but otherwise i enjoy a good indie pop

Do you like puzzles? OH YEAH especially escape rooms, i had a phase last year and did like 10 of those. ngl i wanna go again, i miss those

Any phobias? spiders, i wanna like them but i cant i just cant

Favorite childhood sport? Soccer and artistic swimming, i was part of two sports clubs before moving out

Do you talk to yourself? Constantly

What movies do you adore? Emperor's new grove, in french canadian version specifically. comfort movie of all time

Coffee or tea? Coffee!! Bean juice makes me sleepy in big quantities but i find it so comforting, specially a caramel latte

First thing you wanted to be growing up? A singer safkhbsaglhabs;kfg

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