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A rare disorder makes people see monsters
A mysterious neurological condition makes faces look grotesque—and sheds new light on the inner workings of the brain.
“She could perceive and recognise actual faces, but after several minutes they turned black, grew long, pointy ears and a protruding snout, and displayed a reptiloid skin,” they wrote. Blom suggested that PMO could fall under the umbrella of Alice in Wonderland syndrome, a collection of neurological symptoms that can be provoked by migraines, epilepsy, viral infections, or tumors, and which distort a person’s perception of their own body and the world around them. In his most recent job, he worked in a restaurant kitchen, cooking comfort food like fried catfish and meatloaf; he told me that he liked being away from the customers, where he didn’t have to see facial distortions.
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