“It has my desires and hope
To be free I don’t have any hope!
It take over my body and soul!
It really is a scary mind control!”
This individual gets up and with a single focus does one thing and when that thing is not there, goes into hibernation mode!
He or she does not have any brain or feelings and always has a constant stare! If you come in his or her way then he or she will snap or bite you!
Now it may sound like a poor bloke with a constant job but it is not!
read on!
The very first mention of this creature who has no brain and is actually dead was in Haitian folklore where they used to be called Zonbi!
Yes! The famous Zombie!
In fact the first use of this word was in 1819 which represents an undead person who was created through the reanimation of a corpse, usually through magic or witchcraft. These individuals were often depicted as automatons without speech!
But the movie which started the whole zombie apocalypse or popularity was a movie which actually had no mention of the word zombie!
It was a limited budget shot movie which finally earned more than 250 times its investment and is one of the most popular movie of this genre!
The movie has many copies now but the original is called the Night of the Living Dead!
We have of course seen Zombies in movies and Tv series and the basic concept is clear. The whole notion is fiction for now but you do have a whole range of animals who actually have been brain deprived and started doing automatic work. Many are actually controlled by another entity and end up harming themselves. That is the worst part!
A human zombie is actually a threat to other humans but a animal zombie simply has a miserable life or more accurately death!
The Cordyceps fungus is known to infect insects and change their behavior before their eventual death. You can see an insect infected by this fungus behaving very oddly and going to the top of the tree where it never goes! Then in a final act of apparent suicide would bite deep into the tree and stay there frozen and of course dead. After some time you can see the fungus slowly emerging from its head and then spores are formed and the whole process is repeated! Now that is complete destruction.
Another parasite called the Hairworm makes the insects dive into the water to their deaths! When the hairworm reaches maturity, it induces the host to enter water (including ponds and rivers), where the hairworm breeds, thus completing its life cycle!
If you thought that praying mantis especially the male have a tough life then this is even more tragic! Apparently the mantids infected by a hairworm were attracted by horizontally polarized light compared to uninfected individuals and these entered the deep pool that strongly reflected horizontal light showing a strong possibility that hairworms induce by manipulating the host’s perception of horizontally polarized light! It is like the airplane has got a false perception of the land and it dives! So all the hairworm has to do is to alter the depth perception of the poor insect and it will dive! That is brain wash or mind control in actual sense!
In the novel Dopamine detox also the pattern of modern day individual is like a zombie who simply stares at the screen and taps it at regular intervals! This automatic reaction is more dangerous since the satiety is not reached and unlike a true zombie there is no actual hibernation period! Of course till your spouse, father or Mother (in that order!) scream at you and try to free you from the mind control! Talking about mother make me think about the amazing song MAA by birthday celebrity Prasoon Joshi!
Now stop being a zombie and sleep like a human!
Shubh ratri!
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