Me and My Shadow.
Ever feel that you are being followed, that someone is ’shadowing’ every move you make?
Well, instead of being a real person, it could, believe it or not, be your ’shadow person’, the result of unusual activity in a specific region of your brain known as the left temporoparietal junction.
According to a study, published in Nature in 2006 (a British science journal), ‘…stimulation of a site on the brain’s left hemisphere prompts the creepy feeling that somebody is close by.’
Focusing on the case of a 22 year old woman with no psychiatric history who was being evaluated for epilepsy treatment, the study revealed that whenever the left temporoparietal junction region of her brain was electrically stimulated, the woman would describe feeling a ’shadow person’ who micmicked her bodily movements.
It was a feeling she described as ‘unpleasant’ and ‘extremely real’.
Just sounds plain weird to me…
Read more of the case study here.
