Armacalic said: Wait, wasn't pouring cold water over a burned area a bad thing?
Nope. It is the basic first aid treatment for first and second degree burn. What you must NOT do is to apply anything oil based: lard, mayonnaise, butter (do it if you want to hear your victim screams though).
Aloe vera or anti-biotic ointment is the next treatment. I hear minty tooth paste is also another home treatment for first degree burn but yet to be confirmed.
I listened to the song as I translated the commentary, and you actually can hear a voice in the background saying something (darned if I can tell what) about the 2:57 mark. It only last about 2-3 seconds, but it's there. Sounds to me like someone else in the studio was just speaking up, but I guess some people at the time thought it was a spirit or something.
The tea was self-service here. My defeat stemmed from being lazy and putting the tray on top of a magazine. It was even hotter than when I splashed boiling water on my hand at the hotel.
And my apologies for a punch line that only occult fans will get. (^^;)
I exaggerated a bit in the art; rest assured that I didn't actually cause this much of an uproar.
Reader-added tags include "Self-service, no; fan service, yes", "The youkai who was loved by gag material", and "Kogasa-san, authority on drowning".
Mr.Obake said: I hear minty tooth paste is also another home treatment for first degree burn but yet to be confirmed.
Often hear about toothpaste too, but it's not recommended. The first aid for burns is to take away the heat, usually with flowing water (but don't use very cold water/ice). Thick stuffs like oil or paste will trap the heat rather than cool down the tissues.
I'd throw my vote to poltergeists, since they could actually do some harm - a visit from Kogasa would be welcome.
As for sleep paralysis, I think it's a case of YMMV; The one time I had it I had some auditory hallucination and such, but it must have been the best sleep ever because I woke up feeling great.
Physic photography? Hey I have photos. And this is crazy, but here is photoshop, so make a fake haunting photograph maybe?
Ghostly rapping phenomena? The scary part isn't the ghost, but my imaginations of the unseen. Which is frightening until you get used to it. Just don't break anything valuable, please!
Sleep paralysis? Never had one fortunately. Pass.
Poltergeists? Some ghost are scary, some ghost are friendly, some ghost are pretty, some ghost are nerdy, and some ghost are just standing there at night observing you. Well, it depends!
Not long ago an entry in this series had KogasAuthor scalding his hand under hot water. I posted this:
"This is why I don't drink coffee besides that I hate the way it tastes. I don't like hot food/drinks and as a child I had a cup of just brewed coffee spilled in my lap. I had large painful welts on a large portion of my legs. They hurt for hours, hurt to move for days, and left permanent scarring. Thank God I'm a man since pants hide them."
I can't believe I have to use it again. I'm literally feeling his pain. It hurts terribly bad.
Huh, Kogasa-san managed to burn herself with boiling water twice on this trip. Poor Kogasa-san! Well, at least after this she'll know to be really careful around boiling water, or maybe she'll ask Sanae-san to handle boiling water from now on.
For the poll, ghostly rapping phenomena get to me more than the others. I get really jumpy when I'm alone, and sudden noises scare me when I can't quickly find a source.
Be careful next time, Kogasa-author! Cold Water (gradually built up from lukewarm water) and then Aloe-Vera finally some family curing agent is my regimine for burns. Word of advice, always take an extra level of caution more than you think necissary when working with an Acetylene Torch. <- My Experience
For the Poll. ... ...None of the Above, actually. Hard to believe, but I'm actually decended from a line of exorcists (religious), so I've seen a lot of weird things. Is it any wonder that my father stuck his hand in the air (joined the military) asap? And of course they decide to send him to Asia so he could be haunted by those 'spirits'. In truth most psychic phenomena are caused by emotional magnetics (emited by messed up people, most of them note) that cling to objects or environments, then sensitive humans pick up on those wavelengths and 'go nuts' for a moment. It can be fixed by introducing a strong counter-magnetic force to the area. Been there done that. Possession on the other hand is the scary thing, removing that magnetic wave improperly could kill the host.
Mostly because I love the horrifically over-the-top Kogasa doujin that translation was featured in, and because of how humorously silly the translation itself is.
As for the others, I've never really believed in occult stuff, and I'm not too scared of the dark - I'm more scared of muggers when walking outside late at night than any sort of ghost, and I'm actually comfortable enough in the dark at home that I don't even bother turning the lights on, and navigate in the dark by memory. I don't even know what ghost rapping phenomenon is. Sleep paralysis, meanwhile, is just what your body does to keep you from hurting yourself sleepwalking - what's scary about that?
NWSiaCB said: [...]Sleep paralysis, meanwhile, is just what your body does to keep you from hurting yourself sleepwalking - what's scary about that?
Try waking up from a nightmare once, to find that you're unable to move. Not a very pleasant experience, especially if you're a vivid dreamer. My dreams are practically indistinguishable from waking life (those few times I have them), so when I woke up from a nightmare into paralysis, I was understandably freaked. Luckily, I could muster the strength to completely end the dream in a few seconds.
Usually, it's scary because the just-awakened mind jumps to a conclusion of being bound, which puts you at the mercy of a potentially hostile other person, and this triggers the flight-or-fight response. Basically, you're scared because you fear for your life.
ThunderBird said: Try waking up from a nightmare once, to find that you're unable to move. Not a very pleasant experience, especially if you're a vivid dreamer. My dreams are practically indistinguishable from waking life (those few times I have them), so when I woke up from a nightmare into paralysis, I was understandably freaked. Luckily, I could muster the strength to completely end the dream in a few seconds.
Usually, it's scary because the just-awakened mind jumps to a conclusion of being bound, which puts you at the mercy of a potentially hostile other person, and this triggers the flight-or-fight response. Basically, you're scared because you fear for your life.
I've woken up from a nightmare suddenly enough to experience it, however, the way it is presented, this asking about if you are afraid of it when it isn't happening. It's only odd for a moment before you get control of your arms and legs back, and then your mind is awake enough to know what it is, and that it's nothing to be afraid of.
Why would I think of it as some sort of occult happening or fear it happening when I'm fully awake and knowing it's harmless?
Many Precious Stones actually emit magnetic waves like the earth itself, so if there is the appropriate amount of interference then there should be no problem. Take Quartz for instance, the vibrations we use to tell time are a side effect of the magnetic frequency emitted by the stone. Basically, generally speaking, someone who wears the appropriate jewelry wouldn’t be affected by most psychic phenomena as long as the magnetics of the phenomena doesn’t overpower that of the jewel. These are the most common sources of that counter-magnetic force. That being said, there are really powerful phenomena that can and will overpower even the best anti-psychic phenomena jewelry (generally, they’re just called Exorcist Gems, but that makes little practical sense when trying to explain them), leaving the person to defend themselves with their own ‘aura’ (their own personal emission of Magnetic Waves, also known as Spiritual Pressure in certain crowds if you catch my drift). Again, that being said, all people have one of these ‘auras’. These Auras tell most everything about a person, from their state of health to whether or not they are lying at the moment. Just so you know, the common person can see these auras, they just need a Magnetic Camera (magnetic aura healing is a method of naturopathic medicine). Anyway, certain frequencies of aura draw certain auras to them and push the opposing element of auras away (people hang around like people in most circumstances while shunning others on the opposite end of the spectrum). This also applies when factoring living aura to psychic phenomena, meaning that some people attract certain phenomena so every psychic event that of that type is bound to happen to them, while others naturally push them away meaning that their mere presence could purify an area. This is likely the least common type of counter-magnetic force, but it warrants mentioning for the attraction/repulsion issue (most people are somewhere in the middle). The last type of counter magnetic force worth mentioning is the Exorcists themselves. Exorcism is primarily the art of manipulating various magnetic energies in the area (be it nature as in Shintoism, one’s own life-energy/spirit-energy as in [popular] Buddhism, or directly from the divine as in Christianity [measured by faith]), as such their arts teach how to deal with such phenomena (usually by metaphorically destroying the source). Naturally, my ancestors used this method (religious exorcism). ... ...Of course, there is another way that is a little more logical (but not as practical, imho, as it's very costly) for those science-y types that is usually employed by scientific Psychic Research centers (those that use thermal imaging devices, high speed cameras, computer simulations, and the such). Simply introduce a strong electrical current into the area. No joke, build a Tesla coil (don’t kill anyone) and the area will be phenomena free within a week. Likewise, easiest way to cure possession: use a defibrillator on the host. Obviously not for the medical uses, but merely to introduce a strong electrical stream to the host body ‘confusing’ their aura for a moment. This (of course) is not recommended as doing so willy-nilly can and will kill them, so… the easy way is most often not the right way to do something.
- Seen it. Not that impressed. - Heard it. Actually more common than I thought. - Had it. Enough times to know how to get out of one. - Went through them now and then. Not as much now. - ...Well, that's something new. I'd probably freak out. (Ha.)
There are a few flaws in these arguments, mind you...
No minerals emit magnetic waves on their own, you always need some sort of stimulation for that. Quartz, for example, is piezoelectric, so you need mechanical loading to generate electrical charges, which then need to be coupled across the two poles to create a circuit and generate some very very weak radio waves.
Auras can be said to exist, after a fashion, made up of the electric emissions of the central nervous system. These emissions are exceedingly weak, though, which is why they must be run through an expensive high-gain/low-noise amplifier for observation of electrocardiograms and electroencephalograms. Also, they are fundamentally chaotic, so apart from ECGs, not many conclusions can be drawn from them.
ThunderBird said: There are a few flaws in these arguments, mind you...
Well, that's to be a given, my specialty remains on guns, ammo, and martial arts. I'm a half-Asian military brat after all (well, I was when my father was in way back), shame I don't meet physical requirements or I'd join myself (Freestyle MA does have its drawbacks...).
I already knew that about the quartz, and I didn’t say how these gems emit the waves either (not really too certain on that one, honestly). But I’ll go ahead admit that I can't really explain the magnetics of the Exorcist Gems, all I can say for certain is that they work... but that they're too Catholic for me (I’m a Protestant Christian, the most common Exorcist Gems are Rosaries and the Buddhist equivalent [beads, actually]). My information is based on what my Grandfather (a Minister who’d preformed several Exorcisms) and old Minister friend of mine (obviously another Minister who’d done the same) told me before my Grandfather died several years ago, so it is a little hazy for me. However, I do seem to recall however that they actually can detect (rather large) diamonds via magnetic waves, so… Keep in mind diamonds large enough to be detectable are so rare they think there are only 4 or 5 of them in the entire world. They tested the theory though using the… what is it called? ‘The star of something or another?’ ...Whatever, they used one of the Queen of England’s gems... and it showed up on their device. Apparently the stimulation required to generate this energy comes from the earth itself. Gravity being an electrical current in and of itself, and the atmosphere above us also provides some electronic stimulation (via Cosmic Energy [Solar, etc], for one) as well as reflecting what the earth generates, thus the cycle resonates within the gem, thus default stimulation, just too little for most machines to detect... At least, that’s what I’m figuring. You should know, I’m using Tesla’s theory here (including his theories on Gravity [he had several] and the Magnetism of Electricity), as I tend to disagree with Einstein somewhat. This was one of the principles for his Ion Cannon (or Charged-Particle Cannon, or Directed Energy Device, whichever way you want to look at it since reports are so varied), the energy system he had devised was to draw power off of the magnetic field of the earth itself, and apparently it worked (cue mysterious ‘death’). This something I’ve been trying to figure out myself (the generator, not the cannon, the world has enough death in it already [although the cannon is relatively easy compared to the generator...]), it hasn’t been working too well. As you can guess, Information of this type isn’t plentiful and budget is way too tight. ...Honestly, I don’t really know, as I said it’s been quite a while. That and I tend to lean closer to Psychic Researcher (technology) anyway whenever I actually do an [non-religious] exorcism, which was only 4 times (I used an apparatus designed to discharge a AA battery into the air, it was that simple... not that all cases are that easy though), all successful (and for free, the nut-jobs were going to pay thousands to hire some lame ghostbuster knockoffs... I should have just taken their money and ripped them off if they were that stupid...) I do know that in olden days they had magnets/lode-stones arranged in very certain manners in their Exorcist Gems (referring to the entire piece of Jewelry), so it’s possible that this made a difference. As I said, I wouldn’t know as it’s a Catholic art. Protestant Exorcists were actually more in the vein of Vampire Hunters, wearing a long duster-like coat and large brimmed hat (usually leather, both for rain prevention), carrying a bible and a wooden cross necklace... and yes, at times wooden stakes were used too, but they were well aware that who they were killing were humans and they weren’t above carrying guns either. Do know that they didn’t start showing up until the late 1700s, so all of this was available, just weird.
As for the Auras, Aura does in its simplest form mean ‘emitted energy’ after all. And I did say that the concept is used in Naturopathic Medicine (commonly disagreed with by the scientific theory, but somehow it apparently still works)... Anyway, it’s mainly the important systems that reflect in the aura (that the modern system can read). These Magnetic cameras are ridiculously costly as well, somewhere near $25,000 for a single professional grade one (and it’s not the best one either), plus they always have thermal interference and a great deal of static so you have to have a (strong) computer (and respective program, which is harder to obtain) to filter it out (which also helps with amplification, because, as you said, the aura is hard to weak to detect much on it’s own using common equipment)… it actually is a very high-tech process when you’re using a competent system. I heard the ‘good stuff’ is still being tested at Mayo Clinic here in the US (as it has been for the last 20 years...), so it’ll still be (quite) a few years before it’s accepted into mainstream medicine... if ever. As it has been said, ‘there is always Order in Chaos; there is always information to be gleaned from any situation.’ Again, this is merely one branch of scientific thinking (merely logic), and apparently the good folk at Mayo agree. What I read was that they had found that the seemingly sporadic electrical emissions actually followed a set routine based on certain parameters. The catch was that there were so many parameters that changed so rapidly that it all seemed entirely random… so it was all a bit like organized chaos, or a code with an infinite number of variables. But they say that any code can be cracked, and if they could crack it they’d be able to tell basically every single little thing that was wrong with the human body (thus another use for the computer, sorting through the millions of possible results)... an admirable dream, but do recall that these are the same guys attempting to net down medical nanotechnology as tiny little workers to repair everything in the body that decays and achieve virtual immortality, so you’ve really got to take everything they say with a sharp dose of ‘and how does this work again?’ But apparently they’ve got a bit of a hold on this concept ‘cause they used it on an uncle of mine to find out what was wrong with him. Apparently he was being used as a guinea pig. I’d wager a guess that a true ‘psychic’ (merely a gifted otherwise normal person) that could see these auras wouldn’t have most of these problems reading an aura. I’ll also go ahead and point out that the ‘aura’ of the psychic phenomena is also incredibly weak, otherwise, how on earth could (some of) the problem(s) be solved by the radiation generated by a single AA Battery discharging in the air (a ridiculously little amount)? The thing is, a human’s ‘aura’ is so weak and sporadic that just the slightest interference can throw it all off (or, alternatively, fix it), which has an effect of the person themselves... thus psychic phenomena in the first place. By the by, you can use a homemade Directed EMP device to achieve the same effect in Humans, as it does distort their ‘aura’, although accidentally killing them is so much easier that way so I don’t recommend it to anyone who’s reading this (aside, considering how hard it is to do actual EMP damage to humans with a home made device, ho much harder would it be to trip the other effect?).
Freya211 said: I would actually be tempted to read this small essay of stuffs if it were a bit more reader friendly lol. Alas it is not... XD
Sorry 'bout that, I'm not a very good orator...
The Youkai Who Was Loved by ◯◯I'd sure like some tea.I'll pour some for everyone!ChrlrlrlFlunkSplakasshChsssGyaaagh!ShudderWay back when, this voice saying, "Hot! It's hot!" in the song "Path in the Hardy Orange Field" caused a big stir...It's hooooot!!Beep
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It's hoooot!Ran-san, call up Eirin-san!!She's badly delirious!That was me...Hoooot!Wha—!? Kogasa!?