Did You Fear About This One?

You know the joke about Jesus rising as a zombie on Easter? Are you familiar with the similarities between Catholicism and Voodoo? Dawna talks about these topics and more on this belated Easter episode of Did You Fear About This One?Underpants Gnomes credit: https://southpark.fandom.com/wiki/Underpants_GnomesFollow Did You Fear About This One? on social media to stay updated:BlueSky: ⁠⁠@didyoufearabout https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:x64e3o7gmdj4tfwtkftsxtst⁠⁠Instagram: ⁠⁠@didyoufearaboutthisone⁠⁠ https://www.instagram.com/didyoufearaboutthisoneYouTube: ⁠⁠@didyoufearaboutthisone⁠⁠ https://www.youtube.com/@didyoufearaboutthisoneEmail: ⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠Music by: ⁠⁠Soundbay on Pixabay⁠⁠. https://pixabay.com/music/scary-childrens-tunes-mad-witches-sabbat-cinematic-creepy-halloween-trailer-254030/Grimmy logo art by: ⁠⁠Terrified State https://bsky.app/profile/terrifiedstate.bsky.social

On episode five of Did You Fear About This One?

Ami walks us through the science behind mental visualization, going over the differences between hyperphantasia and aphantasia. She also touches on synesthesia, number forms, and sleep paralysis.

Note: our mics only recorded half of the audio for the episode, so we had to rely on the phone microphone for sound here. Also, this was recorded at the end of a workday and after talking for two hours straight our brains began to turn off before our mouths did.

Corrections!

Shakespeare didn’t write Emma, it was Jane Austen

10 Things I Hate About You wasn’t based on Othello, it was based on The Taming of the Shrew

Save The Cat! Was written by Blake Snyder, not Zack Snyder

Take the Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire we discussed in the episode then leave your results and thoughts in the comments below:

https://aphantasia.com/study/vviq/

Cool places we mentioned:

— @ whitewomencomedy on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/whitewomencomedy/

— The Crest Theater in Sacramento, California: https://crestsacramento.com/

— Terror Trader in Chandler, AZ: https://terrortrader.com/

— Changing Hands Bookstore in Phoenix, AZ: https://www.changinghands.com/

— We Bleed Ink tattoo studio in New Orleans, LA (in the Garden District). We worked with the artist Vega: https://www.webleedink.com/

— Juan’s Flying Burrito in New Orleans, LA (in the Garden District): https://juansflyingburrito.com/

— Feng Cha Boba Milk Tea in New Orleans, LA (in the Garden District): https://www.fengchausa.com/order

— Boutique du Vampyre’s Apothecary in New Orleans, LA (in the French Quarter): https://vampireapothecary.com/

Research credits:

— What is Aphantasia? https://aphantasia.com/what-is-aphantasia/

— Aphantasia and Hyperphantasia: What We Know After a Decade of Research https://aphantasia.com/article/science/aphantasia-and-hyperphantasia/

— History of Fantasia https://aphantasia.com/article/science/history-of-aphantasia/

— Hyperphantasia https://aphantasia.com/topic/hyperphantasia/

— Lives without imagery - Congenital aphantasia https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0010945215001781

— Is It Real or Imagined? How Your Brain Tells the Difference https://www.quantamagazine.org/is-it-real-or-imagined-how-your-brain-tells-the-difference-20230524/

— A Systematic Review of Aphantasia: Concept, Measurement, Neural Basis, and Theory Development https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11437436/

— The Visions of Sane Persons by Sir Francis Galton 1881 https://galton.org/essays/1880-1889/galton-1881-fort-rev-visions-sane-persons.pdf

— Subjective signal strength distinguishes reality from imagination https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-37322-1

— Mapping the path from smell to perception https://www.cshl.edu/mapping-the-path-from-smell-to-perception/

— Space perception https://www.britannica.com/science/space-perception/Visual-factors-in-space-perception

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As a belated St Patrick's Day episode, Dawna tells us about Dracula's Irish roots and Scottish inspiration.

Mentioned:

Proper Scoundrels by Allie Therin

Bram Stoker's estate

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On episode three of Did You Fear About This One?

Ami runs through a collection of holidays, births, historic events, release date anniversaries, and more that happened in March over the years. We run the gamut between science, technology, movies, authors, plays, books, tv shows, and even a haunting.

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On episode two of Did You Fear About This One?

Dawna explains the history of medicinal cannibalism practices throughout the world.

Leave your answers to the questions in the comments below!

Research credits and mentions:

- Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires by Richard Sugg

- Meat pie recipe via Temecula Blogs https://temeculablogs.com/hand-meat-pies/

- We took the Creole Death and Mourning tour put on by Hermann-Grima + Gallier Historic Houses in New Orleans in October 2023. Highly recommended! https://hgghh.org/exhibitions

- Ami mentioned Rebmasel's coverage on her podcast Rebuttal in episodes "Is Eating People Wrong?" Parts 1 and 2

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2ktl2En0D3qcql8itVzKbv?si=d69f3a6cd9244cae

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5nDG55vNs88rEicmI73o1g?si=90a09d116790488c

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Ami and Dawna discuss their spooky kid childhoods, unusual encounters, and the weirdest jobs they've had on this pilot Q&A style episode of Did You Fear About This One?

Leave your answers to the questions in the comments below!

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