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THEY LIVE! Real “Medical Condition” Where People See Demons and Reptilians
Doctors call it Prosopometamorphopsia, a “condition” in which victims see some human faces as distorted, while others see dragons, reptilians and demonic-like creatures. In case you think this is a bad joke that never made it to April Fools Day, think again. According to some leading medical researchers, Prosopometamorphopsia (let’s just call it PPTP, shall we) is a real neurological disorder that causes people to believe they are looking straight into the face of evil.
Take the woman who’s case was described in Discover Magazine by a team of researchers. “ In July, 2011, a 52-year-old woman presented to our psychiatric outpatient clinic with a life-long history of seeing people’s faces change into dragon-like faces and hallucinating similar faces many times a day.”
So what does a dragon look like? According to the patient, when someone turns into one, their faces become “black, they grow long, pointy ears and a protruding snout, and display reptiloid skin and huge eyes in bright yellow, green, blue, or red.”
For this poor soul, the “hallucinations” did not stop there. She would also often see reptilians/dragons materialize out of walls, electrical sockets, or the computer screen, and at night she saw many dragon-like faces in the dark.
What do experts say causes this strange phenomenon? The researchers in this case are not sure, since brain scans revealed no obvious cause. According to them, “Neurological examination, blood tests, and electroencephalogram (EEG) were normal, and MRI brain showed only a few white-matter abnormalities.”
While plausible reasons for the condition remain a mystery, at least this time, the case seems to have had a happy ending. The woman was placed on Rivastigmine, an anti-dementia medication, that has greatly diminished her visions. Though not eradicating the symptoms of PPTP completely, the treatment has improved her ability to hold down on a job and made social interaction possible.
How much is actually known about the disorder? Being so rare, not much. While some online articles and research point to certain PPTP victims having had a history of epilepsy or strokes, others indicate the victims had no known conditions that could have led to the strange visions.
And so . . . could there be another cause? What if some of these cases are not caused by neurological or psychological problems? If the glow from a light bulb can appear like magic to the Great Unwashed of the Dark Ages, why can’t the presence of the supernatural―right here, right now―appear to have its basis in science, waiting to be revealed once we’ve all had time to ‘evolve’ as a species?
Working on this article took me back several years to when my husband, and my boyfriend at the time, told me about something that happened a couple years before. Thinking about it compelled me to tell his story in the following video. Let me know what you think and be sure to watch till the end since there is an odd twist to the whole thing.
