..um..(just read this), our brains work with electrochemical signals, and when we thinkwe don't feel 'shocks', so I'd say no; overloading causes seizeres etc. Of course, if you yank out the upper half of a brain you generally would case..oh, what's the word...DEATH? :D
lol yea Tin Man kinda defies normal logic most of the time sometimes. i know that normal thoughts don't shock us, but when there's a 'clog' or sometime to block the signal... when it finally gets through it gives off a 'snap'. i don't know that it would be the same with Glitch (since nothing in the O.Z. seems to work the same way), but the situations seemed similar and i wanted to know what other people thought.
The snap that is like being taserred is a bit confusing. From what I understood of synapses there is one end that receives/catches signals, the signal travels through the synapse to the other end, which releases. These signals basically "jump" across a small gap to another synapse's receiving. This is what is called firing, as in " Synapses firing."
Its been a year or two since my last psych class, but if I am remembering correctly, dreams are merely synapses firing at random in a sort of....house cleaning gesture.
You seem to have a better understanding than I do; you've explained it better here. I'm sorry if I seemed confusing, but I'm only stumbling through myself.
I guess if random firing is 'house-cleaning', then gunk buildup is blocking the signals... and when when the synapse finally connects through the gunk (which begins to clean it off), it 'snaps' together, shocking the person. Aaand I don't know if I made anything clearer. Sorry, I'm not good at following my thoughts! ^^;
That brings up another question, though. If Glitch's synapses don't fire normally, does it change the way he dreams?
oooh that would be really interesting if they shown how he dreamed. how do you suppose they'd be like though? makes me wonder though usually dreams are based on thoughts we have in the back of our minds I think. so when he dreams does he dream Ambrosey thoughts, or Glitch thoughts.
...Hm. I think he'd dream Ambrosey things. If his dreams are as different as his thought patterns, maybe he dreams in memory. Random triggering of scents, tastes, sounds, feelings - as opposed to normal dreams, which tend to manifest as metaphors of our current worries and such, pumped with emotion and drained of senses. But maybe since normally our synapses do not fire randomly when we're awake, as Glitch's tend to, his will fire normally when he sleeps?
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Eletric shocks are plausible, though.
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Its been a year or two since my last psych class, but if I am remembering correctly, dreams are merely synapses firing at random in a sort of....house cleaning gesture.
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I guess if random firing is 'house-cleaning', then gunk buildup is blocking the signals... and when when the synapse finally connects through the gunk (which begins to clean it off), it 'snaps' together, shocking the person. Aaand I don't know if I made anything clearer. Sorry, I'm not good at following my thoughts! ^^;
That brings up another question, though. If Glitch's synapses don't fire normally, does it change the way he dreams?
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how do you suppose they'd be like though?
makes me wonder though usually dreams are based on thoughts we have in the back of our minds I think.
so when he dreams does he dream Ambrosey thoughts, or Glitch thoughts.
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