Glass Delusion: Why Some People Think They are Made of Glass...

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[ImpmanPDX]

A good read is Oliver Sacks "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat". I had a bad fever delusion once. I remember bits of just how detached from reality I was and it was pretty unpleasant.

[Im-Not-a-Dog]

Simon, Im glad to hear that your sister took your advice and decided to become a doctor rather than an Animorph.

[gregorymeyer]

I can't help but picture Simon's sister as him with long hair.... Same voice same beard etc. LMAO 😂

[samjensen]

I once experienced something a bit similar to Glass Delusion. I have OCD and severe anxiety, including anxiety about my health. Years ago, I got myself worked up and thought I had an aneurism (swollen blood vessel) in my brain. I saw a doctor, and I'm fine, but at the height of this fear, I believed that if I leaned forward, lowering my head, it would cause more blood to go to brain brain and the aneurism (which it turns out never existed) would burst. So I thought I might die every time I had to bend down to pick something up off the ground or deal with my footwear. So I never thought that I was made of glass, but I did think that a part of me was extra fragile and could easily break, killing me. Fortunately, after being checked by doctors, I was able to move past this irrational fear. My anxiety still spikes at times, and I get myself all worked up about silly things, but I'm pleased to say that recently, I have been doing really well! My anxiety is manageable these days, and my physical health has even improved.

[seans]

I am 1 minute in, so i don't know [yet] if Simon corrects this. But in Unbreakable and the subsequent films, Elijah (Samuel L. Jackson) has osteogenesis imperfecta. It's a real disease (I have it, actually), and it causes your bones to break easily with each type having different symptoms and severity.

[dont-worry-about-it-]

Carbon nanotubes have already been invented!! I took a nanomaterials class a few months ago and it was very interesting! My favorite thing made with carbon nanotubes is carbon nanotube yarn! The CNTs are grown and then twisted and spun into long fibers that have even been used to make small pieces of fabric! Which could then be used to create really cool wearable electronics; one of the research topics I did was about using CNTYs to make conductive fabric and weave in nanoscopic power storage and other small things basically to create clothes that harvest energy from movement and could be used to charge a device or something else!

[naomiliebson]

I have this theory that if a marketing campaign about the 4 humours was created and aimed at new age practitioners it would cone back into fashion

[ssokolow]

As I understand it, you're almost right about the old-timey glass but it was more that they poured it on a flat surface and then cut it into pieces and it was thicker near the middle of the solidified puddle... and you sometimes see windows where they didn't go with the convention of installing the panes thicker edge down.

[Kaori-fwie]

As a teen I used to have a specific nightmare that, after waking from, I'd be convinced my body was made of stone. Thankfully these little "fits" only lasted a few minutes until I was brave enough to touch my skin and prove to myself it wasnt real.

[Digital_Artz]

15:40 - I had no idea that's how we got toilets! LOL- Farming toilets…I love it! 👏 Porcelain Plants & Glass Men - great episode so far! 😂

[stephanieclark]

You can be forgiven thinking it was the King of England Simon, Charles VI was Henry VI of England's grandfather and he too was mentally ill (War of Roses started as essentially the struggle for regency during his mental breakdown). There was definitely some sort of hereditary mental illness in that family, and the fact both Charles VI and Henry VI were made King as children suggests stress induced as well.

[tripolarmdisorder]

The reason that stained glass panels in churches are typically thicker at the bottom, is because the panels are mounted vertically and the thinner end is more fragile.
So the thicker end was made the bottom end.
The idea that the old glass was flowing downward slowly was debunked because clearly the metalwork holding the glass panes together was also thicker on the bottom of the pane and also zero examples of glass panes muffin-topping.

[MushroomMayhem]

Okay that's frickin bizarre, I was just talking about this with my niece today and judging by the time stamp you uploaded it literally as we were having that discussion...

[corey]

It’s like the entire pitch to Simon to do this channel was “we’ll let you interrupt the script as often as you want and you can say anything.” 😂

[TheInternetHelpdeskPlays]

Wow. So, I was playing Crusader Kings 3 a few weeks ago and my monarch was insane and suddenly woke up thinking he was made of glass. I thought it was so stupid it was just mad programming.
I guess I was wrong.😂

[AaronLitz]

Making perfectly flat panes of glass wasn't possible hundreds of years ago using the methods of the time, so there would be thicker sections and thinner sections. After the glass was finished they would cut it up into sections to use, and when installing a section in a window they would naturally put the thicker edges at the bottom. Those really old panes of glass in windows that are thicker at the bottom were like that from the beginning; glass doesn't flow like that.

[DasECuz]

Some guys have all the luck. I was born with glass bones and paper skin. Every morning I break my legs, and every afternoon I break my arms. At night I lay awake in agony until my heart attacks put me to sleep.

[xtieburn]

Yeah old glass wasnt made nearly as flat as it can be today, and it was no doubt natural to install it with the thicker side at the bottom for additional stability, it definitely does not flow on any timescale humans could notice. (We know, because you can see no such effect in some glass that is thousands of years older than the window examples are.)
Glass is solid in any colloquial terms, I believe its more technically amorphous solid structure can settle over extreme lengths of time, and 'flow', but Im not sure how clearly proven that is at room temperatures because to get even a modest change could take billions of years.

[JARivera]

I think that with DTU, ITS, Casual Criminalist and Brain Blaze, we could get #SimonOutOfContext trending with quotes he probably wouldn't want to be remembered for

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1:25 - Mid roll ads
2:40 - Chapter 1 - A glass case of emotion, what it is
6:20 - Chapter 2 - The ruling glass, famous examples
14:45 - Chapter 3 - The shattering truth, why was this happening ?
23:25 - Chapter 4 - Laughing your glass off, the humours
31:30 - Chapter 5 - I like the glass onion as a metaphor, modern cases
36:25 - Chapter 6 - End fragments