My theory on biid sufferer who desire paraplegia, blindness, or deafness sits on the idea that the brain doesn't know what to do with the received information. (as briefly, and probably incoherently touched on in my previous/first post)
Again, this will probably be hard to coherently describe. Especially since this is a subject I'm not too familiar on, and my only experience is my sometimes vivid imagination, with sometimes a very over-analytical brain. Which is a combination that can lead to some very strange, and often long ideas.
Since I'm not too familiar with, especially not with first hand experience as I've with my subject of the previous post. This post will probably be comparatively brief.
For those who desire blindness or deafness as the case may be, my theory is
that the brain doesn't know how to comprehend the visual or audio signals received by the eyes or ears as the case may be, as it does in 'normal' people (normal, being those who don't want to be blind, as the case may be).
So what does the brain do with information it doesn't know how to process?
I think the best answer right now to that question, is another question.
What do you do with information that you don't know how to process?
I know, that is a pretty vague question, especially compared to human terms.
So how about we state:
You come into work, and you have a pile of files that need to be sorted and filed in a specific way right now. You have no idea how to sort or file them, each time you leave your desk to figure out what to do with the file, more files a stacked on your desk. So what do you do?
I'm going to leave this question fairly open ended.
So now back to what does the brain do with those 'files.'
I for one can't say for sure, I've no evidence or read anything that gives credence of what i does one way or another.
So, my only theory for now, is that the brain tries to over process it. First, or last, or somewhere in the middle, the brain does process it through the "visual interpreter" or "audio interpreter," which would allow the person to hear or see. However the brain tries to process it other ways, and doesn't just stop there. As to what other ways, I'll leave that up to our imaginations.
The brain spends so much more energy than needs be, that it could potentially over process it into one thoughts, that it become distressing/depressing. To the point that the only relief would be to remove these visual or audio signals.
But why would the brain not know how to process these signal?
Again, I've no solid answers nor does it seem that anyone does.
My best guess would again, be related to the 'brains internal body map', it doesn't include having say eyes, so the brain wouldn't expect to receive any signals from the eyes, and so it didn't include the function to process those signals. But yet it receives those signals, and has to figure out how to process them, essentially sending the brain into overdrive.
I suppose the same could essentially be said for those who desire amputation and paraplegia.
Which leads, to why do those who desire paraplegia desire it?
Again, I guess my theory falls back on the 'brains internal body map.'
But it gets a little more complex. As they don't want their legs amputated, they just want to have their legs essentially be numb, and not responsive to instructions to move.
So, perhaps, the body map, has the map of the legs there, but does not have to map of the nerves of the legs. The rest of the reasoning is somewhat describe above and in the previous post.
I'll end it here by saying, that I am not a professional in any medical field, but I was a professional rescuer in my younger years, but the training mounts to no more than advance CPR techniques. So that doesn't mean much to these subjects. Nor am I professional writer, nor did I get a good grade in school for writing nor grammar, as is probably evident in these posts. But my teachers did tell me to use smaller word and term a lot.
-David
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