I was originally thinking more along the lines of the first theory - that this is something he DID to himself - completely forgetting until a commenter pointed it out that that's basically a big old HGttG reference. D: So I'm not sure if that's the route I want to go, buuuut it was my original intent.
I imagine Dan would probably look up the split-brain thing first, since they talked about it by name, and when that isn't quite right, probably start looking into dissociative disorders because from his brief exposure, it could look like that to him. Not sure which way I'm gonna go for the reality, though.
You're definitely making sense. I've got enough intro psych to keep up, just not enough to form the theories to begin with. XD
I'm wondering about the idea of a mental 'firewall' that he might have been able to lock into place at some point - I think in the GN, it mentioned that he'd studied a lot of mental and meditation techniques that might come into play with that. Just thoughts shootin out there. The trouble with this stuff is that I always know what I want to have happen thematically, but then I end up having to back-justify and hope I haven't boxed myself in. XD
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Date: 2009-07-01 04:11 am (UTC)I imagine Dan would probably look up the split-brain thing first, since they talked about it by name, and when that isn't quite right, probably start looking into dissociative disorders because from his brief exposure, it could look like that to him. Not sure which way I'm gonna go for the reality, though.
You're definitely making sense. I've got enough intro psych to keep up, just not enough to form the theories to begin with. XD
I'm wondering about the idea of a mental 'firewall' that he might have been able to lock into place at some point - I think in the GN, it mentioned that he'd studied a lot of mental and meditation techniques that might come into play with that. Just thoughts shootin out there. The trouble with this stuff is that I always know what I want to have happen thematically, but then I end up having to back-justify and hope I haven't boxed myself in. XD