[newman]

Sounds more dangerous than going to school.

Depends. You can get lead poisoning of the 9mm variety in some schools these days
Anyway sticking a penny under your tongue was apparently a method of faking illness - getting a temperature so you don't have to go to school. Whether or not it actually works I couldn't say - but since money isn't exactly clean and there could be all sorts of bacteria on the thing, I'd say it's possible to get genuinely ill from the practice. Wouldn't try it.

[S-99]

If I had a 3rd arm I'd want it right around my navel.

so you could pick belly button fluff at ease?

No doubt to impress some girl with how he magically unzips his fly without his two main hands.

[Nuke]

* Nuke contemplates merging this thread wityh hlp threatdown

[Kosh]

Sounds more dangerous than going to school.

Depends. You can get lead poisoning of the 9mm variety in some schools these days
Anyway sticking a penny under your tongue was apparently a method of faking illness - getting a temperature so you don't have to go to school. Whether or not it actually works I couldn't say - but since money isn't exactly clean and there could be all sorts of bacteria on the thing, I'd say it's possible to get genuinely ill from the practice. Wouldn't try it.

Your mouth isn't exactly a clean place either, in fact it's one of the, if not the dirtiest part of your whole body.

[newman]

That still doesn't make putting filthy germ and/or bacteria infested objects in your mouth a good idea
(And yes, I know how this sounds)

[Grizzly]

A lot of those symptoms sound like they could be caused by something along the lines of Anxiety.  

Yeah, they just sound like the classic symptoms of too much stress.

That they only appeared after WiFi is either
1) Just a coincidence.
2) They were always there, and nobody bothered to report them or notice them untill now.
3) Students use the WiFi connection on school for other things then just doeing their homework, adding stress because homework has to be finished eventually (Because they now can play browser games instead of doeing their homework, they do, giving themselves less time to actually finish their homework, adding stress).

[Locutus of Borg]

My router once chopped my arm off

[SpardaSon21]

Wi-Fi Illness needs to be in the "Threat Down" listing.

[S-99]

Got to get those kids hooked on licking 9 volt batteries.

[Nuke]

my tongue is the ultimate voltmeter, i can taste the voltage!

[qazwsx]

When I don't know if an audio cable is working, I turn up the volume and lick the jack.

[S-99]

Your mouth isn't exactly a clean place either, in fact it's one of the, if not the dirtiest part of your whole body.

Depends on how dirty is dirty. The mouth is a pretty well self contained environment, and it does best when you keep up with it. The dirtiest part of the body is your hands.

[Researcher]

It's back........ The same phenomenon that caused the Everquest addiction furor of 2002 is back. Now general ignorance is blaming WiFi.
 
Pictures and video of computer use situations in those schools reveal the problem is Subliminal Distraction exposure. Visit the EMR and Everquest Connection pages at VisionAndPsychosis.Net

Students are shown crowded together using their laptops while sitting in each other's peripheral vision without Cubicle Level Protection.

The entire cubicle would not be necessary but there should be a peripheral vision blocking shield on both sides of any student using a computer in a busy location with detectable movement in peripheral vision.

The problem happens when your brain repeatedly attempts but fails to subliminally trigger the vision startle reflex.

Subliminal Distraction, a normal feature in our physiology of sight, was discovered to be a problem when it caused mental breaks for knowledge workers using the first prototypes of modern close-spaced workstations. The cubicle was designed to deal with the vision startle reflex to stop the problem there by 1968.

These students don't have enough exposure to have the full mental break but if one of them created the same situation and exposure at home where they played video games for instance, they might have it.

This mental event usually would happen to one person in an incorrectly designed office. An outbreak like this one in Ontario schools is very rare.

Most that have this mental event recover quickly with no treatment once exposure is discovered and stopped. But a risk is that someone will act out the delusions of the temporary episode causing harm to themselves or others.

Certainly confused wandering in a Canadian winter would allow hypothermia before anyone realized the student was missing.

[NGTM-1R]

At best, I think you need to explain that in a more coherent fashion before we take you seriously.

[S-99]

Make a movie

[Researcher]

Coherent explanation?

That's why the site exists. It is not possible to condense a seven year psychology project to a posting window on a forum site. VisionAndPsychosis.Net Start with the links at the top of the home page.

This phenomenon is so bizarre that no one believes it the first time they hear it.

If you have a specific question after reading the site I can answer it for you but there is no way to change the story of how the problem was discovered to make it easier to understand.

Video game players spend long hours at their computers engaging deep mental investment to play the game. Those are the elements that would allow this problem if they pick a place for the computer so that there is detectable movement in peripheral vision.

On the Redlake shooting and Everquest Connection pages there are pictures of computer workstations that are so situated. 

The problem is believed to cause only a harmless temporary episode of confusion by designers aware of it. But the problem lies in what someone might do while having the confused episode.

Since this situation in Ontario there has been a disappearance of a Cadet from Virginia Tech. He vanished during the middle of the night and was found walking on a road two miles away seven hours later. They haven't said much but the wording of the replies from the Corps of Cadets and police suggest he was in an altered mental state.

Schools cite privacy concerns when one of these disappearances or suicides happen. Without police power to investigate it is just a matter of finding enough news stories to piece together what happened.

Virginia Tech has previous problems with Subliminal Distraction and has replied to two letters promising to investigate.

An old case is on the Joe Morse page. He vanished from Georgia Tech the last day of school in 2003. Persistence by the Tech police four years later found he had committed suicide the day after he vanished. He had flown to Miami Florida, broke into a construction site, climbed a crane, and jumped.

Subliminal Distraction can have a variety of outcomes.

[BloodEagle]

College students are in perfect health and don't take mood/mind altering drugs?  It's all caused by vidjagames and Internetzes?

That just, wow man, that just blows my mind.

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Also:

No names are currently on the site. This prevents an adversarial party locating the site before final publication.

I'm not going to take anything seriously (see: read it) unless it establishes a modicum of evidence, and an author.  Even then, I'm not going to consider it as having validity without a well written (not necessarily reasoned) argument.

Until you have those, I'm going to assume that you're wearing a tin-foil hat.

[Researcher]

Something tells me you did not take basic psychology in college. That's where Subliminal Distraction is explained under the physiology of sight and hearing.

Did you bother to perform my psychology demonstration of subliminal sight and habituation in peripheral vision?

You will witness something disappear while you observe it in peripheral vision.

Difficult to believe but stationary objects in that area of your vision are invisible.

[The E]

Researcher, I am very sorry, but that page you linked? It's complete crap. Lots of unfounded, unsourced, uncredited text does not a factual argument make.

Please, if you wish to be taken seriously, cite the damn studies. Provide some links to them. Do not expect us to take what you (at least, I assume it's you) wrote there seriously without some corroborating evidence.

[newman]

More importantly, why is your post count 0?