Tuesday, April 26, 2005
STORY #3:
This is a serious of things that i found interesting and shocking from my neighbor engineer who's an EMT...
1. he answered a call one night. it was this man who was driving a honda civic. he was driving at a very high speed. he drove into a tree. he drove at such a high speed that when he crashed broadside into a tree the civic sheered in half. not in a crinkled mess or metal twisted about the cut ends. no, the tree cut the civic like it was a clever, a clean cut, in half. the man died.
2. when a person is deeply affected by an event, traumatised even, the brain can only digest the event into short term memory. this is located in the center of the brian. to help a person who is suffering from post traumatic stress disorder, who can not process the event into long term memery, the patient is asked to watch a moving object that is moving from side to side. they are asked to do this because it helps the brain use both sides. this allows the brain to move information from short term to long term memory, helping the patient to "get over" the event.
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