#nerves

[nemfrog]

The nervous system. Man, woman, know thyself! 1908.

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[revretch]

I had a nightmare that some people were rewiring the nerves of someone's body. Not like surgery--they had the person lying facedown on some kind of bed or gurney, and the people had torn the nervous system out of the body completely and propped it up on and suspended it from racks they placed over the body, so they could get the nerves back into the shapes they were supposed to be, out in the open where they could see them. It was like the damage was so complete they had to put the nerves back into shape like an artistic model, like they really were just splicing and bending a wire frame.

They weren't doctors, though. The second guy didn't even know what he was doing at all! They were each working on a different piece, and he was in charge of the mouth. He knew he wouldn't be able to do it right, though, and that this person would never be able to feel, even move their mouth again. So instead, he was determined that that one pose the mouth was going to be permanently fixed in would be the most beautiful smile he could create. He was sweating, working tensely, chanting to himself "You can't go wrong with a picture-perfect smile! You can't go wrong with a picture-perfect smile!! You can't go wrong with a picture-perfect smile!!!"

I was jolted awake when I thought I felt someone moving the nerves on the backs of my knees

[acecase0]

The most unrealistic part about humans in space is that the average human knows why their body reacts the way it does.

Dont get me wrong, i love how they explain things that shock an alien, but most humans, atleast americans, do not know what happens to make their foot fall asleep.

They know that if you keep it in one place too long it will, but not that if you sit on it too long the nerves get compressed and cuts off from your brain for a couple minutes.

Of course if you went through a program that required you to know things about humans that could be potentially dangerous to other life forms then you may know things, but after a couple years or so when there isn’t a requirement to do that because of trade with other species, i like to think that something like this happens.

Human: *sitting in a chair with one leg over the other, listening to their xorgog friend talk*

Xorgog: -and so I never got to eat my special tsu’le cake. Oh look at the time, I better head to my pod.

Human: Oh dang, lemme walk you out then bud! *goes to stand up only to fall back in the chair* Agh! Dammit!

Xorgog: *worried* What! What happened?

Human: *waving him off* it’s fine, my foot just fell asleep. Just give me a second and i can get up.

Xorgog: *confused af* what do you mean ‘fell asleep’? I thought you were one organism, not multiple?

Human: Oh, well when humans have their limbs in one place too long, when you go to move it gets numb.

Xorgog: *horrified* How?!

Human: *shrugs as he shakes his leg* I dunno man! It’s fine though, i just gotta shake it to wake up and it’ll have a tingly feeling, which hurts like a bitch, then it’ll be back to normal. No biggie.

Xorgog: ….humans are weirdly terrifying.

Human: *shrug* whatever you say man.

[fhtagn-and-tentacles]

DALIGMATA

by John Patrick Gañas

[zegalba]

The nerves connected to the human jaw

[b3ani-art]

Heart Lungs Liver Nerves

Heart Lungs Liver Nerves

Heart Lungs Liver Nerves

heart lungs liver nerves

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[voidcore-trauma]

words by Royla Asghar @poems-of-madness