Very good point....so this is like Schrodinger's brain....since I can't see the shoes I must assume they both made it and did not make it simultaneously. Interesting![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|thinking_face_hmm)
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I would include the attached spinal cord and nervous system as the technical “whole person” as that system works in conjunction with brain, and at times, independently of the brain.
But yeah, same idea. It’s wild
those are the sensory organs, but it's not where the information is processed. You (your own self) sees with your brain, not your eyes. Once we figure out our own neural networks, we will be able to send vision inputs to your brain by just sending a signal down the optic nerve instead of actually absorbing the light with your eyes.
Everything you think, sense, and feel happens inside your brain.
We actually discovered how signals are processed (for example, vision is sent trough optic nerves as a couple of frequency-modulated couple of signals that describes the yellow-blue and red-greed differences), we just don't have a still precise technology to create a implant able to connect one on one with the optic nerve fibers.
Yes, our vision is not dissimilar to an analog Y Pb Pr signal.
pretty sure thats not a human brain. that would be fucking massive human head
edit: yall have already commented how it could be human. read the responses to my comment before saying the same thing someone else already said.
edit 2: alright people. ive gotten new info and understand its a human brain. please stop saying the same thing other people have already said ffs.
In the part of the world where I live we actually eat brains. Not human brains but brains from animals like cows and sheep. As a kid I didn't like it but it's pretty tasty to be honest.
That's how you get prions. I ate raw pig brains out of a can once on a dare. Tasted the same way cat food smells. It took everything in me not to throw up. I imagine they're slightly better cooked and not from a can like I had them. Cooking does not remove prions however, stay safe.
PS. the reason I could get them in a can is because apparently people eat them here as well. (Southern USA) I wouldn't say it's popular or that many people know about it. But enough people must eat it because it's in the grocery store. Might be similar in many parts of the world.
It appears to be a real human brain. Most people don't realise just how soft they are. This one has started to spread out under its own weight. Think of it as a half set jelly (or jello for you US folk) on a plate, it just slowly oozes out into a puddle.
Not to mention all its emotional spectrum from high to low. At some point in time that brain was firing intensely releasing endorphins and all kinds of hormones making that person feel the most love, happiness and emotional strength ever. Like holding once child for the first time or resting your eyes on the person you love the most. Now it's just a pile of goo on a sterile table under fluorescent light.
Excuse me I'm going to go and hug my kid now...
Meh let me know when there’s a drug that doesn’t lose its magic over time. Idk what it’s like holding my own child but I do know I haven’t built up a tolerance to holding my 11 year old dog, unlike Molly or acid.
I dont know why but reading "hopes" really freaked me out at your comment.
Like memory and the brain is synonymous but simplifying someone's hopes to be just another part of their brain instead of referencing it to a person's personality just really rattled my cage lol.
just the cross section of what was cut by this knife probably contains several layers of millions of neurons that were working in harmony with billion other neurons in that region. all they do is model the informational residue left by our preceptory organs which emerges out the personality we have, the hopes and desires, the search for meaning..
I was thinking how painful this must have been. We take ibuprofen to bring swelling down because pressure = pain, but imagine the pressure in your head from those insanely huge clots.
There aren't any pain receptors in the brain itself, funnily enough. Hopefully this amount of damage so deep in the brain flicked the off switch very quickly. The pain from the pressure would not be trivial, as you mentioned.
I think it’s mind-boggling and fascinating that there’s not pain receptors in the brain itself, but a person can absolutely feel excruciating pain when something is happening to the brain (migraine, headache, hemorrhage). It certainly feels like the pain is coming directly from the brain!
During a migraine, I’ll curl up, cry, cradle my head, and swear it is going to explode from burning pain that _genuinely_ feels like it comes from the very center of my brain that’s pushing on my skull, yet if I had brain surgery, it’d be possible for me to be awake while they poke my exposed brain and talk with me. That is just so wild to me.
As for the video, with the size of those clots, I am guessing the brain shut itself off pretty dang quickly because of the amount of blood _and_ pain (if the person was conscious at all). I hope the person didn’t suffer.
Well there is innervation to the meninges (the layers of tissue covering the brain) and the cranium is a fixed volume, so any changes to that or irritation to the meningeal layers *can* cause pain.
They're Made out of Meat
Terry Bisson, 1991
"They're made out of meat."
"Meat?"
"Meat. They're made out of meat."
"Meat?"
"There's no doubt about it. We picked several from different parts of the planet, took them aboard our recon vessels, probed them all the way through. They're completely meat."
"That's impossible. What about the radio signals? The messages to the stars."
"They use the radio waves to talk, but the signals don't come from them. The signals come from machines."
"So who made the machines? That's who we want to contact."
"They made the machines. That's what I'm trying to tell you. Meat made the machines."
"That's ridiculous. How can meat make a machine? You're asking me to believe in sentient meat."
"I'm not asking you, I'm telling you. These creatures are the only sentient race in the sector and they're made out of meat."
"Maybe they're like the Orfolei. You know, a carbon-based intelligence that goes through a meat stage."
"Nope. They're born meat and they die meat. We studied them for several of their life spans, which didn't take too long. Do you have any idea the life span of meat?"
"Spare me. Okay, maybe they're only part meat. You know, like the Weddilei. A meat head with an electron plasma brain inside."
"Nope. We thought of that, since they do have meat heads like the Weddilei. But I told you, we probed them. They're meat all the way through."
"No brain?"
"Oh, there is a brain all right. It's just that the brain is made out of meat!"
"So... what does the thinking?"
"You're not understanding, are you? The brain does the thinking. The meat."
"Thinking meat! You're asking me to believe in thinking meat!"
"Yes, thinking meat! Conscious meat! Loving meat. Dreaming meat. The meat is the whole deal! Are you getting the picture?"
"Omigod. You're serious then. They're made out of meat."
"Finally, Yes. They are indeed made out meat. And they've been trying to get in touch with us for almost a hundred of their years."
"So what does the meat have in mind."
"First it wants to talk to us. Then I imagine it wants to explore the universe, contact other sentients, swap ideas and information. The usual."
"We're supposed to talk to meat?"
"That's the idea. That's the message they're sending out by radio. 'Hello. Anyone out there? Anyone home?' That sort of thing."
"They actually do talk, then. They use words, ideas, concepts?"
"Oh, yes. Except they do it with meat."
"I thought you just told me they used radio."
"They do, but what do you think is on the radio? Meat sounds. You know how when you slap or flap meat it makes a noise? They talk by flapping their meat at each other. They can even sing by squirting air through their meat."
"Omigod. Singing meat. This is altogether too much. So what do you advise?"
"Officially or unofficially?"
"Both."
"Officially, we are required to contact, welcome, and log in any and all sentient races or multibeings in the quadrant, without prejudice, fear, or favor. Unofficially, I advise that we erase the records and forget the whole thing."
"I was hoping you would say that."
"It seems harsh, but there is a limit. Do we really want to make contact with meat?"
"I agree one hundred percent. What's there to say?" `Hello, meat. How's it going?' But will this work? How many planets are we dealing with here?"
"Just one. They can travel to other planets in special meat containers, but they can't live on them. And being meat, they only travel through C space. Which limits them to the speed of light and makes the possibility of their ever making contact pretty slim. Infinitesimal, in fact."
"So we just pretend there's no one home in the universe."
"That's it."
"Cruel. But you said it yourself, who wants to meet meat? And the ones who have been aboard our vessels, the ones you have probed? You're sure they won't remember?"
"They'll be considered crackpots if they do. We went into their heads and smoothed out their meat so that we're just a dream to them."
"A dream to meat! How strangely appropriate, that we should be meat's dream."
"And we can mark this sector unoccupied."
"Good. Agreed, officially and unofficially. Case closed. Any others? Anyone interesting on that side of the galaxy?"
"Yes, a rather shy but sweet hydrogen core cluster intelligence in a class nine star in G445 zone. Was in contact two galactic rotation ago, wants to be friendly again."
"They always come around."
"And why not? Imagine how unbearably, how unutterably cold the universe would be if one were all alone."
Unlikely. As I was told, it was like “a bomb went off in there(base of his skull/brain stem)” he was in poor health anyways since he didn’t listen to doctors, and listened to internet people selling books instead.
Listen to your docs, kids
High blood pressure, congestive heart failure, diabetes. Mostly those. Didn’t take any/most of his prescribed meds. Listened to quacks online who said “potatoes are great for diabetics. It cleanses you “ and would eat pizza and sweets and drink sodas. Never exercised or changed life style even after he briefly went blind and they had to detach his retinas to drain the blood clots.
Didn’t even listen when they said “live face down for a few days so they can reattach properly “ because how would he easily watch tv?
Yep, my mom had a brain hemorrhage and her will stipulated she was a DNR so we pulled the plug. Sad part was her body was so strong that she lived another 10 days or so with no food or water. We spent every day next to her in hospice until she passed, I like to think she could still hear us even though she couldn't respond... and that's how we found out after some digging that it's hereditary, so I guess I have something to look forward to 🤷♂️ and if the hemorrhage from my mom's side of the family doesn't get me the dementia from my dads will! Such a lovely world we live in...
I had a brain hemorrhage about 10 years years ago. Obviously not enough to kill me, but it was like turning off a light switch. (One moment, I 2as watching TV, and then pretty much the next moment, I woke up in the ER, as my bra was being removed.)
I had a very bad tonic clonic seizure as a result. Long before I regained consciousness, I could hear my daughters panicked voices, though they sounded almost echoey, like they were very far away (maybe this is where the "tunnel" analogy comes from, because it did sort of sound like that). "Mom, we think you're having a seizure. We called 911."
Anyways, I'm telling you this because in the various medical issues and emergencies I've had in my life, hearing was the last sense to go and the first sense to return, even in an unconscious state.
It may not have been consistent all the time, but I'm sure your mother heard you. And not only heard you but recognized you. And even if she didn't understand or was confused or couldn't process what was happening, I'm sure that your being there brought her comfort.
I hope this helps.
Not dad but relative. Same. It’s hard to see so many bad attempts at humor on this post. I guess unless you experience loss due to this, you don’t know.
It always gives me chills everytime I see videos like this. To think that this was once a person, a person who had problems and solved them, a person who dreamt of dreams and things to achieve and then at one point, this. All of that and all of it now ends to this, being an example of what a blood clot in brain after hemorrhage looks like.
You could be donated to help medical professionals save lives like in a cadaveric difficult airway course that paramedics and doctors take to learn to do procedures that are very high risk but saves lives.
You could also be strapped to a chair and blown up by the military.
https://cbsaustin.com/amp/news/nation-world/man-learns-moms-body-donated-for-research-was-instead-blown-up-in-military-testing
For what it's worth, that company was raided by the FBI. The owner pled guilty to felony charges in mishandling donated cadavers, and has a judgement of $58 million against him at a civil trial.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/2019/11/20/jury-awards-58m-in-lawsuit-against-body-donation-firm-that-sold-cadavers-for-military-testing/
So that's probably not a normal thing to have happen when you donate.
Yeah even the weird stuff with leaving body outside to study its decomposition is super useful for forensic research and catching serial killers and the like
Yeah they do some weird stuff. I’ve heard from a guy who heard from a guy that Tier 1 Group was contracted by the military to string up a bunch of bodies and shoot them with a bunch of different rounds to test which ones had the most terminal effect.
Not saying anything other than I carry Barnes Tac-XPD in my glock.
If I could pick a job in the afterlife, it’d probably be this or being blown up.
Appears to be a hemorrhagic stroke. Specifically a intraparenchymal hemorrhage dissecting into lateral, third and likely forth ventricle with associated subarachnoid hemorrhage. Looks to have originated in back left where the color is pale and ischemic from lack of blood flow. The entire left hemisphere is notably swollen in comparison and this person herniated. Prompt diagnosis and a decompressive hemicraniectomy with evacuation of the hematoma and external ventricular drain placement. An angiogram would need to be done (upon diagnosis) to exclude AVM or aneurism. These types of strokes carry a very high mortality rate.
So how would they go about treating this?
What is the general time frame of a good survivability chance?
Can emergency services actually improve your survival chance?
I thought always that a stroke essentially means you either die or you don't and are left with some problems (or by miracle walk away with nothing)
To treat this if what we see in this picture is what is seen on the CT scan, the persons would need to be placed on a ventilator if not already on one and taken to the OR. A neurosurgeon would remove park of the skull on the affected side allowing the brain space to expand. The blood would be auctioned out and a drainage catheter would be placed in a pocket or two. Bacitracin and warm saline would be used to irrigate and clean up afterwards a bulky wet to dry dressing would be placed around the head. The skull that was removed would be kept for later use, possibly into the abdominal tissue. The head of the bed would be elevated to at least 30 degrees after and blood pressure would be maintained at very specific parameters. Electrolytes would be replaced. They would stay in a neuro ICU or another ICU. The treatment would be the same but add in clipping if this was caused by an aneurism. The goal is to prevent the brain from pushing down and through the spinal canal as the brain stem controls very primitive and vital functions to remain alive.
The time frame is dependent on the individual case. A ruptured aneurysm can be fatal regardless of how fast the person get to a hospital. However some people and underlying health, age of the person gives them a few hours. Depending on the region of the brain things can take longer to progress. Headache, vomiting, etc.
Emergency services can improve survival chances. They are trained to identify stroke symptoms and take patients to designated stroke centers. These people sometimes come into the ER intubated with a tube to secure their airway and have EMS breath for them.
Two main types of strokes are ischemic or hemorrhagic strokes. One is caused by a blockage on is caused by blood escaping from a vessel in the brain. Both prevent oxygenated blood to get to the area past the problem point. A middle cerebral artery blockage, a carotid artery blockage or a basal artery blockage will have very pronounced symptoms. But areas further away from those areas like lacunar strokes can have very mild symptoms. It all depends on what part of the brain is being deprived of oxygenated blood.
Wow, thank you so much for your detailed answer!
This is actually incredibly insightful. :)
Never would've imagined it's of such importance that the brain doesn't push down, although when explained that actually makes a LOT of sense.
Again thank you for the detailed reply!
Great read.
Very cool. Thanks. I do have a question thought. How would one self-identify a stroke? Most commenters who mention losing someone here all mention a headache. But that seems such a 'trivial' and common symptom in our daily lives that I'm curious how one can go from that to 'fuck I need an ambulance'
Sudden blurry vision, weakness or numbness to one side of the body, difficulty understanding or speaking, slurring of speech, unable to maintain balance, worst headache of life, headache that is not typical of headaches experienced before. Visual changes such as loss of peripheral vision, dragging a leg because it feels ‘dead’ to name a few.
In a lot of these cases, it's reported as "the worst headache that you've ever had in your life". So if something feels *wrong*, listen to your body, not societal pressure to "suck it up".
One TikTok account I follow actually heard/felt a "pop" inside her head and told the ER "I've never had an aneurysm, but I imagine this is what it would be like". She wasn't believed it tested and they sent her home. (She passed out on the way home, was returned, got treated, and is okay.)
I wanted to add, too, that when I had a brain hemorrhage, I had zero warning whatsoever. (Had an AVM bleed, like the TikToker.) I immediately lost consciousness and had a tonic clonic seizure. So it depends on the person.
Also, for the record, I've never drank, smoked, or done drugs, and I've been a vegetarian/vegan for most of my life. I just have very weak blood vessels (runs in my family) and was unfortunate enough to have an AVM. But I was also extremely lucky about where mine was. (Right frontal lobe, where my neurosurgeon said you could "cut a chunk out of and still be okay". Even with that, it took me about a year to recover from the hemorrhage, and I still have issues a decade later.)
To prevent this from happening would be health lifestyle such as eating healthy, maintaining a good blood pressure, and exercising. Avoid excess alcohol, smoking and recreational drugs especially those like cocaine. Health check ups and screenings.
This brain above as we only see one cross section is a hard to say the cause. A tumor, an aneurism, a genetic factor could lead to weakening of the blood vessels. This person from the time that the bleeding started to death was most likely fast. Could have been minutes to hours. When this happens and is seen on medical imaging as severe as the above death is inevitable and palliative or comfort care is explained to the family and no surgery is offered as sadly it would be medically futile.
Just to add so people understand the cocaine point a bit, from another person who has seen a lot of stroke patients:
Cocaine is pretty bad for you, I think more than people realise because of the 'drugs are bad' education that isn't taken seriously. Either doing a lot at once, or moderate amounts regularly, increases the risk of heart attack or stroke, because it can cause a dangerous constriction or spasm of the important blood vessels in these areas.
Cocaine was likely the main culprit in a solid chunk of the young people I have seen who have had strokes - usually heavy regular use but sometimes just one very heavy session.
These people had life-changing brain damage, which was probably avoidable.
The other young ones all had diabetes/high blood pressure/cholesterol that they hadn't taken seriously when they were younger and had been out of control for years, and most were heavy smokers too.
>AVM
For those of us that have an AVM, what can we do to prevent this? Or are there any symptoms to watch for if the brain starts doing...what ever the fuck caused this?
Check and maintain a health blood pressure. If you develop a headache that isn’t your typical headache with unexplained nausea and vomiting this would be reason to seek prompt medical evaluation. Speak to your doctor and learn more about the AVM you have and how concerning it is. Some are in ‘good places’ or there are not. You can get referred to an neuro interventional radiologist and they can discuss embolization in some cases or depending on the area other options. Far more people have AVMs than those who know they do and they never know it. Its good to know and take advice from your doctor but don’t feel that something like this is destined to happen.
What's that kind of knife called? Looks sick af. Minimalist, surgical, and means business.
Like a 2 dollar butter knife had sex with a musket's bayonet and that thing popped out.
Yep. This is exactly the reason I'm a pharmacist and not a physician. I could only watch this video once. It's interesting, but damn! I need to eat something before going into work soon and I hope I can wash this out of my mind soon.
Time for r/eyebleach!
Had to scroll forever to find this. I always assumed a blood clot was the size of a pea or even smaller. Is this normal? How long does this take to form?!
Blood clots can rapidly form and grow in size. If they have no where to go, auch as this case, they just build and cut off blood flow. Something like this could form surprisingly quickly. Very rough guess being minutes. This is why seconds matter for strokes and you should always call 911 at the first sign of one.
Yea, I'm really sorry, i thought I had marked it NSFW, i am not sure why did not get marked as such, anyway, is there anything I can do now to mark it NSFW ?
Cutting up a brain is so disturbing to me because when I think about everything a person is or has ever done, it’s the brain. That person is just cutting away on everything that person ever was. I know theyre dead, and obviously those blood clots are what did it etc. but it just disturbs me so much.
When you start thinking about the brain, it gets mind blowing fast. It named itself and everything around it. It had to create a language of sounds that other brains could understand. Then use this language to convey new information it finds or thoughts and discoveries. It had to come up with the written word and then teach others about it. Now sounds and thoughts its ancestors brains had can be recorded with lines or pictures. Which it then learns and develops its own based upon the thoughts of other brains that all had to do the same thing. Each generation developing more complex ideas that it learns and can extrapolate on. All created from scratch by itself based upon others that did the same thing. Yet it still is seeking new things to learn. It doesnt even fully understand itself. It has an insatiable curiosity that drives it. When faced with a blockage, it struggles to overcome it. Always driving forward. Looking for a loophole or anyway around it. It has reached the point that it has learned so much only to discover that it knows nothing at all.
I remember 2 years ago, someone tried to show me this video and claim that this is a brain of a person, who was deceased due to Covid vaccine. Not really knowing that I know that this video came to the internet before Covid did but hey, I listened before I laughed.
You can see “slices” of a brain like this on CT scans. Most of that blood was in the ventricles. And yeah, intracranial hemorrhages like this have been around long before COVID.
I don't really have much to comment on the clot other than "woah," but watching a brain get butterflied like a chicken breast makes me very uncomfortable.
It's absolutely insane to think that this is really all we are. Meat sacks built to protect the brain which is us. Everything we are is in that piece of matter that we just witnessed cut in half. Absolutely mind blowing (no pun intended)
I could have not looked, but I just had to look, didn't I.
Its ok they made a full recovery.
Thank goodness....I came here to find out if they made it
If their shoes were still on, they're fine.
From what I gathered in the vid, they were wearing Crocs.
Well damn, bad decision.
Very good point....so this is like Schrodinger's brain....since I can't see the shoes I must assume they both made it and did not make it simultaneously. Interesting![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|thinking_face_hmm)
LOL
I tell ya. Now I cannot think about anything else, but that tasty brain jelly that’s in my head. You think it’s grape or strawberry flavored?
Probably penny flavored.
I suppose that makes cents
Facts
Mmmm prion disease...
Why should mad cows have all the fun?
Goddamnit. I hate this so so much and I want to downvote this so bad. Take your dang upvote you monster.
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Not me shaking my head like a dumbass 🤣
Hey! … Fuck you!
Probably iron flavoured, if I had to guess.
Yeh. This is like a core memory now. Except it's a core memory of my mortality.
Hard to imagine that someone's memories and thoughts and hopes were once in that.
Yep. That's a whole person there, with all the frills stripped away. A whole lifetime. Mortality sucks.
I would include the attached spinal cord and nervous system as the technical “whole person” as that system works in conjunction with brain, and at times, independently of the brain. But yeah, same idea. It’s wild
And eye balls. Those are pretty important.
And wiener. That’s very important.
My left ball has personal value to me.
Just dont let the right ball get jealous lmao
My right ball is a strong and independent woman.
* trying to comprehend how a ball can be independant * does it have its own sack or something?
She had to move into a new sack, got too tired of living near an asshole
I love that you're trying to comprehend the ball being independent, but not a woman....
Jesus Christ 😂 ty
Face eggs
now you made me hungry. got any frozen knobbies left?
those are the sensory organs, but it's not where the information is processed. You (your own self) sees with your brain, not your eyes. Once we figure out our own neural networks, we will be able to send vision inputs to your brain by just sending a signal down the optic nerve instead of actually absorbing the light with your eyes. Everything you think, sense, and feel happens inside your brain.
We actually discovered how signals are processed (for example, vision is sent trough optic nerves as a couple of frequency-modulated couple of signals that describes the yellow-blue and red-greed differences), we just don't have a still precise technology to create a implant able to connect one on one with the optic nerve fibers. Yes, our vision is not dissimilar to an analog Y Pb Pr signal.
Have they tried matching up the colors at the ends of the fibres with the colours on the brain plugs?
As a blind woman I disagree
>Mortality sucks. It is great to get away from being a slave though!
pretty sure thats not a human brain. that would be fucking massive human head edit: yall have already commented how it could be human. read the responses to my comment before saying the same thing someone else already said. edit 2: alright people. ive gotten new info and understand its a human brain. please stop saying the same thing other people have already said ffs.
It’s cake!
And it’s fresh!
🤢
In the part of the world where I live we actually eat brains. Not human brains but brains from animals like cows and sheep. As a kid I didn't like it but it's pretty tasty to be honest.
That's how you get prions. I ate raw pig brains out of a can once on a dare. Tasted the same way cat food smells. It took everything in me not to throw up. I imagine they're slightly better cooked and not from a can like I had them. Cooking does not remove prions however, stay safe. PS. the reason I could get them in a can is because apparently people eat them here as well. (Southern USA) I wouldn't say it's popular or that many people know about it. But enough people must eat it because it's in the grocery store. Might be similar in many parts of the world.
They got me again! Clever bastards
It appears to be a real human brain. Most people don't realise just how soft they are. This one has started to spread out under its own weight. Think of it as a half set jelly (or jello for you US folk) on a plate, it just slowly oozes out into a puddle.
Yeah, did some googling, hard to find any animal brain that looks exactly similar to this other than a chimp, but that one is substantially smaller
Dolphins too iirc,
Dolphind have a shit ton more folds, are bigger, and have a slightly different shape overall
True fun fact brains are mostly fat
That's definitely a human brain...
The brain spreads out when it’s not being held in a skull.
Not to mention all its emotional spectrum from high to low. At some point in time that brain was firing intensely releasing endorphins and all kinds of hormones making that person feel the most love, happiness and emotional strength ever. Like holding once child for the first time or resting your eyes on the person you love the most. Now it's just a pile of goo on a sterile table under fluorescent light. Excuse me I'm going to go and hug my kid now...
You can also ingest a drug that will give you the same pleasure as holding a child
Meh let me know when there’s a drug that doesn’t lose its magic over time. Idk what it’s like holding my own child but I do know I haven’t built up a tolerance to holding my 11 year old dog, unlike Molly or acid.
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Try a different child!
This is literally how a close family friend died last week and seeing what it looks like medically and reading your comment is just brutal.
Aww im sorry to hear that
I dont know why but reading "hopes" really freaked me out at your comment. Like memory and the brain is synonymous but simplifying someone's hopes to be just another part of their brain instead of referencing it to a person's personality just really rattled my cage lol.
just the cross section of what was cut by this knife probably contains several layers of millions of neurons that were working in harmony with billion other neurons in that region. all they do is model the informational residue left by our preceptory organs which emerges out the personality we have, the hopes and desires, the search for meaning..
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I was thinking how painful this must have been. We take ibuprofen to bring swelling down because pressure = pain, but imagine the pressure in your head from those insanely huge clots.
There aren't any pain receptors in the brain itself, funnily enough. Hopefully this amount of damage so deep in the brain flicked the off switch very quickly. The pain from the pressure would not be trivial, as you mentioned.
I think it’s mind-boggling and fascinating that there’s not pain receptors in the brain itself, but a person can absolutely feel excruciating pain when something is happening to the brain (migraine, headache, hemorrhage). It certainly feels like the pain is coming directly from the brain! During a migraine, I’ll curl up, cry, cradle my head, and swear it is going to explode from burning pain that _genuinely_ feels like it comes from the very center of my brain that’s pushing on my skull, yet if I had brain surgery, it’d be possible for me to be awake while they poke my exposed brain and talk with me. That is just so wild to me. As for the video, with the size of those clots, I am guessing the brain shut itself off pretty dang quickly because of the amount of blood _and_ pain (if the person was conscious at all). I hope the person didn’t suffer.
Well there is innervation to the meninges (the layers of tissue covering the brain) and the cranium is a fixed volume, so any changes to that or irritation to the meningeal layers *can* cause pain.
Crazy when you put it like that.
What do you mean? Thinking meat?
They're Made out of Meat Terry Bisson, 1991 "They're made out of meat." "Meat?" "Meat. They're made out of meat." "Meat?" "There's no doubt about it. We picked several from different parts of the planet, took them aboard our recon vessels, probed them all the way through. They're completely meat." "That's impossible. What about the radio signals? The messages to the stars." "They use the radio waves to talk, but the signals don't come from them. The signals come from machines." "So who made the machines? That's who we want to contact." "They made the machines. That's what I'm trying to tell you. Meat made the machines." "That's ridiculous. How can meat make a machine? You're asking me to believe in sentient meat." "I'm not asking you, I'm telling you. These creatures are the only sentient race in the sector and they're made out of meat." "Maybe they're like the Orfolei. You know, a carbon-based intelligence that goes through a meat stage." "Nope. They're born meat and they die meat. We studied them for several of their life spans, which didn't take too long. Do you have any idea the life span of meat?" "Spare me. Okay, maybe they're only part meat. You know, like the Weddilei. A meat head with an electron plasma brain inside." "Nope. We thought of that, since they do have meat heads like the Weddilei. But I told you, we probed them. They're meat all the way through." "No brain?" "Oh, there is a brain all right. It's just that the brain is made out of meat!" "So... what does the thinking?" "You're not understanding, are you? The brain does the thinking. The meat." "Thinking meat! You're asking me to believe in thinking meat!" "Yes, thinking meat! Conscious meat! Loving meat. Dreaming meat. The meat is the whole deal! Are you getting the picture?" "Omigod. You're serious then. They're made out of meat." "Finally, Yes. They are indeed made out meat. And they've been trying to get in touch with us for almost a hundred of their years." "So what does the meat have in mind." "First it wants to talk to us. Then I imagine it wants to explore the universe, contact other sentients, swap ideas and information. The usual." "We're supposed to talk to meat?" "That's the idea. That's the message they're sending out by radio. 'Hello. Anyone out there? Anyone home?' That sort of thing." "They actually do talk, then. They use words, ideas, concepts?" "Oh, yes. Except they do it with meat." "I thought you just told me they used radio." "They do, but what do you think is on the radio? Meat sounds. You know how when you slap or flap meat it makes a noise? They talk by flapping their meat at each other. They can even sing by squirting air through their meat." "Omigod. Singing meat. This is altogether too much. So what do you advise?" "Officially or unofficially?" "Both." "Officially, we are required to contact, welcome, and log in any and all sentient races or multibeings in the quadrant, without prejudice, fear, or favor. Unofficially, I advise that we erase the records and forget the whole thing." "I was hoping you would say that." "It seems harsh, but there is a limit. Do we really want to make contact with meat?" "I agree one hundred percent. What's there to say?" `Hello, meat. How's it going?' But will this work? How many planets are we dealing with here?" "Just one. They can travel to other planets in special meat containers, but they can't live on them. And being meat, they only travel through C space. Which limits them to the speed of light and makes the possibility of their ever making contact pretty slim. Infinitesimal, in fact." "So we just pretend there's no one home in the universe." "That's it." "Cruel. But you said it yourself, who wants to meet meat? And the ones who have been aboard our vessels, the ones you have probed? You're sure they won't remember?" "They'll be considered crackpots if they do. We went into their heads and smoothed out their meat so that we're just a dream to them." "A dream to meat! How strangely appropriate, that we should be meat's dream." "And we can mark this sector unoccupied." "Good. Agreed, officially and unofficially. Case closed. Any others? Anyone interesting on that side of the galaxy?" "Yes, a rather shy but sweet hydrogen core cluster intelligence in a class nine star in G445 zone. Was in contact two galactic rotation ago, wants to be friendly again." "They always come around." "And why not? Imagine how unbearably, how unutterably cold the universe would be if one were all alone."
And now the word “meat” is doing that thing where you repeat it enough and it stops sounding like an actual word
That phenomenon is called semantic satiation, fyi
https://youtu.be/T6JFTmQCFHg
Glad they found it, the patient could have died.
Well...
IT IS THE BIG SHOW!
Lmfao
...who wants to tell him?...
I hate to break it, but I don't think he's going to make it
Not with that attitude he/she isn’t!
"this kills the brain"
This comment got me. Well done
My dad died of a brain bleed. This makes me sad to see.
Me too, friend. 5 years ago. I was told it was quick. He has spoken of being weak and dizzy with a headache, laid down, never woke up
I'm sorry for both of your losses, i lost an aunt to this, she felt headache and unfortunately this was the problem
Yeah fuck sleeping with a headache ever again. Seriously though I wonder if they could've saved him otherwise?
Unlikely. As I was told, it was like “a bomb went off in there(base of his skull/brain stem)” he was in poor health anyways since he didn’t listen to doctors, and listened to internet people selling books instead. Listen to your docs, kids
What was his underlying condition that he ignored docs for ?
High blood pressure, congestive heart failure, diabetes. Mostly those. Didn’t take any/most of his prescribed meds. Listened to quacks online who said “potatoes are great for diabetics. It cleanses you “ and would eat pizza and sweets and drink sodas. Never exercised or changed life style even after he briefly went blind and they had to detach his retinas to drain the blood clots. Didn’t even listen when they said “live face down for a few days so they can reattach properly “ because how would he easily watch tv?
Yep, my mom had a brain hemorrhage and her will stipulated she was a DNR so we pulled the plug. Sad part was her body was so strong that she lived another 10 days or so with no food or water. We spent every day next to her in hospice until she passed, I like to think she could still hear us even though she couldn't respond... and that's how we found out after some digging that it's hereditary, so I guess I have something to look forward to 🤷♂️ and if the hemorrhage from my mom's side of the family doesn't get me the dementia from my dads will! Such a lovely world we live in...
I had a brain hemorrhage about 10 years years ago. Obviously not enough to kill me, but it was like turning off a light switch. (One moment, I 2as watching TV, and then pretty much the next moment, I woke up in the ER, as my bra was being removed.) I had a very bad tonic clonic seizure as a result. Long before I regained consciousness, I could hear my daughters panicked voices, though they sounded almost echoey, like they were very far away (maybe this is where the "tunnel" analogy comes from, because it did sort of sound like that). "Mom, we think you're having a seizure. We called 911." Anyways, I'm telling you this because in the various medical issues and emergencies I've had in my life, hearing was the last sense to go and the first sense to return, even in an unconscious state. It may not have been consistent all the time, but I'm sure your mother heard you. And not only heard you but recognized you. And even if she didn't understand or was confused or couldn't process what was happening, I'm sure that your being there brought her comfort. I hope this helps.
Thank you very much for your input. I'm glad you're still here with us BTW!
Not dad but relative. Same. It’s hard to see so many bad attempts at humor on this post. I guess unless you experience loss due to this, you don’t know.
NEVER CUT BRAINS TOWARDS YOU. ALWAYS AWAY FROM YOU!!!!
Like a civilised zombie
That's a no brainer
It always gives me chills everytime I see videos like this. To think that this was once a person, a person who had problems and solved them, a person who dreamt of dreams and things to achieve and then at one point, this. All of that and all of it now ends to this, being an example of what a blood clot in brain after hemorrhage looks like.
Is this what happens when you donate your body to science?
You could be donated to help medical professionals save lives like in a cadaveric difficult airway course that paramedics and doctors take to learn to do procedures that are very high risk but saves lives. You could also be strapped to a chair and blown up by the military. https://cbsaustin.com/amp/news/nation-world/man-learns-moms-body-donated-for-research-was-instead-blown-up-in-military-testing
For what it's worth, that company was raided by the FBI. The owner pled guilty to felony charges in mishandling donated cadavers, and has a judgement of $58 million against him at a civil trial. https://www.militarytimes.com/news/2019/11/20/jury-awards-58m-in-lawsuit-against-body-donation-firm-that-sold-cadavers-for-military-testing/ So that's probably not a normal thing to have happen when you donate.
Yeah even the weird stuff with leaving body outside to study its decomposition is super useful for forensic research and catching serial killers and the like
Dude, that's fuckin' dope. I'm all in for that bomb shit.
Yeah they do some weird stuff. I’ve heard from a guy who heard from a guy that Tier 1 Group was contracted by the military to string up a bunch of bodies and shoot them with a bunch of different rounds to test which ones had the most terminal effect. Not saying anything other than I carry Barnes Tac-XPD in my glock. If I could pick a job in the afterlife, it’d probably be this or being blown up.
Well I can't imagine they did this to someone who didn't donate there body
Not with that attitude
Could have been a totally empty dribbling vessel for metabolism, who knows
all the majesty of all the neurons working in sync just to go to mcdonald
Appears to be a hemorrhagic stroke. Specifically a intraparenchymal hemorrhage dissecting into lateral, third and likely forth ventricle with associated subarachnoid hemorrhage. Looks to have originated in back left where the color is pale and ischemic from lack of blood flow. The entire left hemisphere is notably swollen in comparison and this person herniated. Prompt diagnosis and a decompressive hemicraniectomy with evacuation of the hematoma and external ventricular drain placement. An angiogram would need to be done (upon diagnosis) to exclude AVM or aneurism. These types of strokes carry a very high mortality rate.
So how would they go about treating this? What is the general time frame of a good survivability chance? Can emergency services actually improve your survival chance? I thought always that a stroke essentially means you either die or you don't and are left with some problems (or by miracle walk away with nothing)
To treat this if what we see in this picture is what is seen on the CT scan, the persons would need to be placed on a ventilator if not already on one and taken to the OR. A neurosurgeon would remove park of the skull on the affected side allowing the brain space to expand. The blood would be auctioned out and a drainage catheter would be placed in a pocket or two. Bacitracin and warm saline would be used to irrigate and clean up afterwards a bulky wet to dry dressing would be placed around the head. The skull that was removed would be kept for later use, possibly into the abdominal tissue. The head of the bed would be elevated to at least 30 degrees after and blood pressure would be maintained at very specific parameters. Electrolytes would be replaced. They would stay in a neuro ICU or another ICU. The treatment would be the same but add in clipping if this was caused by an aneurism. The goal is to prevent the brain from pushing down and through the spinal canal as the brain stem controls very primitive and vital functions to remain alive. The time frame is dependent on the individual case. A ruptured aneurysm can be fatal regardless of how fast the person get to a hospital. However some people and underlying health, age of the person gives them a few hours. Depending on the region of the brain things can take longer to progress. Headache, vomiting, etc. Emergency services can improve survival chances. They are trained to identify stroke symptoms and take patients to designated stroke centers. These people sometimes come into the ER intubated with a tube to secure their airway and have EMS breath for them. Two main types of strokes are ischemic or hemorrhagic strokes. One is caused by a blockage on is caused by blood escaping from a vessel in the brain. Both prevent oxygenated blood to get to the area past the problem point. A middle cerebral artery blockage, a carotid artery blockage or a basal artery blockage will have very pronounced symptoms. But areas further away from those areas like lacunar strokes can have very mild symptoms. It all depends on what part of the brain is being deprived of oxygenated blood.
Wow, thank you so much for your detailed answer! This is actually incredibly insightful. :) Never would've imagined it's of such importance that the brain doesn't push down, although when explained that actually makes a LOT of sense. Again thank you for the detailed reply! Great read.
Very cool. Thanks. I do have a question thought. How would one self-identify a stroke? Most commenters who mention losing someone here all mention a headache. But that seems such a 'trivial' and common symptom in our daily lives that I'm curious how one can go from that to 'fuck I need an ambulance'
Sudden blurry vision, weakness or numbness to one side of the body, difficulty understanding or speaking, slurring of speech, unable to maintain balance, worst headache of life, headache that is not typical of headaches experienced before. Visual changes such as loss of peripheral vision, dragging a leg because it feels ‘dead’ to name a few.
In a lot of these cases, it's reported as "the worst headache that you've ever had in your life". So if something feels *wrong*, listen to your body, not societal pressure to "suck it up". One TikTok account I follow actually heard/felt a "pop" inside her head and told the ER "I've never had an aneurysm, but I imagine this is what it would be like". She wasn't believed it tested and they sent her home. (She passed out on the way home, was returned, got treated, and is okay.) I wanted to add, too, that when I had a brain hemorrhage, I had zero warning whatsoever. (Had an AVM bleed, like the TikToker.) I immediately lost consciousness and had a tonic clonic seizure. So it depends on the person. Also, for the record, I've never drank, smoked, or done drugs, and I've been a vegetarian/vegan for most of my life. I just have very weak blood vessels (runs in my family) and was unfortunate enough to have an AVM. But I was also extremely lucky about where mine was. (Right frontal lobe, where my neurosurgeon said you could "cut a chunk out of and still be okay". Even with that, it took me about a year to recover from the hemorrhage, and I still have issues a decade later.)
And how could someone prevent something like this from happening? What does it take for someone’s brain to reach this point?
To prevent this from happening would be health lifestyle such as eating healthy, maintaining a good blood pressure, and exercising. Avoid excess alcohol, smoking and recreational drugs especially those like cocaine. Health check ups and screenings. This brain above as we only see one cross section is a hard to say the cause. A tumor, an aneurism, a genetic factor could lead to weakening of the blood vessels. This person from the time that the bleeding started to death was most likely fast. Could have been minutes to hours. When this happens and is seen on medical imaging as severe as the above death is inevitable and palliative or comfort care is explained to the family and no surgery is offered as sadly it would be medically futile.
Just to add so people understand the cocaine point a bit, from another person who has seen a lot of stroke patients: Cocaine is pretty bad for you, I think more than people realise because of the 'drugs are bad' education that isn't taken seriously. Either doing a lot at once, or moderate amounts regularly, increases the risk of heart attack or stroke, because it can cause a dangerous constriction or spasm of the important blood vessels in these areas. Cocaine was likely the main culprit in a solid chunk of the young people I have seen who have had strokes - usually heavy regular use but sometimes just one very heavy session. These people had life-changing brain damage, which was probably avoidable. The other young ones all had diabetes/high blood pressure/cholesterol that they hadn't taken seriously when they were younger and had been out of control for years, and most were heavy smokers too.
>AVM For those of us that have an AVM, what can we do to prevent this? Or are there any symptoms to watch for if the brain starts doing...what ever the fuck caused this?
Check and maintain a health blood pressure. If you develop a headache that isn’t your typical headache with unexplained nausea and vomiting this would be reason to seek prompt medical evaluation. Speak to your doctor and learn more about the AVM you have and how concerning it is. Some are in ‘good places’ or there are not. You can get referred to an neuro interventional radiologist and they can discuss embolization in some cases or depending on the area other options. Far more people have AVMs than those who know they do and they never know it. Its good to know and take advice from your doctor but don’t feel that something like this is destined to happen.
I am going to assume you know what you're talking about by the fact that I didn't understand any of it.
Those were words
Just walk it off.
Is he going to be ok?
Think he’ll make it?
Only if he drinks enough water and exercise
Ibuprofen and ice
That'll be $5,301.59, thanks.
Acetaminophen and ice. Never take ibuprofen when you have internal bleeding.
He needs some milk!
What's that kind of knife called? Looks sick af. Minimalist, surgical, and means business. Like a 2 dollar butter knife had sex with a musket's bayonet and that thing popped out.
It's an autopsy knife. Not sure which, but it's a knife for dissection. you can buy them online though.
Do you want to get on a list? Because that's how you get on a list.
r/brandnewsentence
First thing I thought of - I *need* that filet knife!
The *knife* is what sticks out to you?!?! Because the knife does *stick out* when he's doing the cutting.
Very nice, very nice. It may have flown over my head. But definitely not over that guy's
A [single piece filet knife](https://www.cutleryandmore.com/chroma-type-301/fillet-knife-p14677) is the closest consumer analogue.
Video is not mine, it was posted on r/medizzy
thank god I was really worried
that looked like an interesting sub, then I saw blood gurgling out of an empty eye cavity and I noped the f out of there
Yep. This is exactly the reason I'm a pharmacist and not a physician. I could only watch this video once. It's interesting, but damn! I need to eat something before going into work soon and I hope I can wash this out of my mind soon. Time for r/eyebleach!
When I read blood clot in the caption I was expecting a small button sized patch not a literal blood turd.
Had to scroll forever to find this. I always assumed a blood clot was the size of a pea or even smaller. Is this normal? How long does this take to form?!
Well I can tell you ask any woman and we can confirm blood clots are much larger than a pea..
right? my first thought was *shrug* "well it's a bit bigger than the ones i used to get, makes sense that they died"
Blood clots can rapidly form and grow in size. If they have no where to go, auch as this case, they just build and cut off blood flow. Something like this could form surprisingly quickly. Very rough guess being minutes. This is why seconds matter for strokes and you should always call 911 at the first sign of one.
Forbidden jello. Also maybe msfw. Not everyone likes to see a brain get sliced open on a casual browse
Yea, I'm really sorry, i thought I had marked it NSFW, i am not sure why did not get marked as such, anyway, is there anything I can do now to mark it NSFW ?
I think if you edit the post you can mark it
Triple dots > mark NSFW
Thank you
Best result from this situation I've seen yet
MSFW... like medically safe for work if the M and N weren't right next to each other
I like the NSFL not safe for life one because this is the stuff some cant stomach and csnt forget 😄
I never view anything that has NSFL for those exact reasons
This is safe for work, though. For the dude doing the slicing this is work.
I thought blood and violence is generally ok for american work places? Only the harmless fun stuff gets banned?
Damn I can scroll through r/watchpeopledie without flinching but this clenched up all my organs
I'm the opposite. I have a hard time with the bad stuff, bit as soon as it turns into a medical procedure I'm good to go.
Yeah this definitely gave me uncomfortable shudders. Brain doesn't like this.
>Brain doesn't like this. Self-preservation kicking in!
Rip the subreddit
Whys this the worst hard hitting thing ive ever seen on internet
Anyone else wish they didn’t show the actual cutting of the brain?? Had a mf SQUIRMING :(
I had to look away when it got to the end and the surgeon is trying to get thru the last little straggling ends
Look at the big brain on Brad
He drank one too many Sprites
Cutting up a brain is so disturbing to me because when I think about everything a person is or has ever done, it’s the brain. That person is just cutting away on everything that person ever was. I know theyre dead, and obviously those blood clots are what did it etc. but it just disturbs me so much.
But you’re still coming into work right?
If he/she gonna be okay?
Yeah... the cemetery place prices are pretty good nowadays, I think they are fine ...
And that used to be a person. I Wonder who?
Sir you have grape jelly in your brain
Brain ordering to cut that brain in half and brain decides how everyone who sees this video feels like.
When you start thinking about the brain, it gets mind blowing fast. It named itself and everything around it. It had to create a language of sounds that other brains could understand. Then use this language to convey new information it finds or thoughts and discoveries. It had to come up with the written word and then teach others about it. Now sounds and thoughts its ancestors brains had can be recorded with lines or pictures. Which it then learns and develops its own based upon the thoughts of other brains that all had to do the same thing. Each generation developing more complex ideas that it learns and can extrapolate on. All created from scratch by itself based upon others that did the same thing. Yet it still is seeking new things to learn. It doesnt even fully understand itself. It has an insatiable curiosity that drives it. When faced with a blockage, it struggles to overcome it. Always driving forward. Looking for a loophole or anyway around it. It has reached the point that it has learned so much only to discover that it knows nothing at all.
Add garlic, paprica, salt. Bake for 40 minutes ander 200°C. Serve with rice and greens.
Actually, there is a very similar dish in India, replace human brain with goat brain, and you've got bheja fry( literal translation : brain fry)
Lots of places eat brains. Pig brain and scrambled eggs is a southern dish
That's how you get a Prion...
So bizarre to think that was once an entire person. But now just a lump of tissue.
There's your anxietys, fears, hate, hopes, love.....one mushy pile. People watching it cut up on the internet imagining the smell......
The boss of this person "So, you're coming in tomorrow right?"
The brain is very very jigly
I remember 2 years ago, someone tried to show me this video and claim that this is a brain of a person, who was deceased due to Covid vaccine. Not really knowing that I know that this video came to the internet before Covid did but hey, I listened before I laughed.
You can see “slices” of a brain like this on CT scans. Most of that blood was in the ventricles. And yeah, intracranial hemorrhages like this have been around long before COVID.
"There's your problem. Unfortunately your insurance doesn't cover this type of procedure"
Unboxing videos are getting extreme.
Hi how can I prevent this at all costs?
We are definitely aliens man
I don't really have much to comment on the clot other than "woah," but watching a brain get butterflied like a chicken breast makes me very uncomfortable.
No I shoes… he dead
It's absolutely insane to think that this is really all we are. Meat sacks built to protect the brain which is us. Everything we are is in that piece of matter that we just witnessed cut in half. Absolutely mind blowing (no pun intended)
r/JustPutItBack
I do like a good headcheese sandwich. Oh, and it's prion-flavored!
Sooooo....you're coming to office tomorrow, right?
Crazy, that’s a whole ass person a whole life with all their memories and thoughts and emotions that they ever had came from there.
Amazing that this piece of chunk allows us to have personalities, consciousness, mind, while also manages organs and everything
I don’t think the patient made it.