Interestingly there was a man (Can't remember the name ATM) who was going for a swim in Australia. He went through some tall grass and underbrush and felt a small scrape on his leg. His brain decided "it's just a stick" and thought nothing of it.
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He woke up several days later in the hospital in intensive care. What his brain had written off as a stick was actually a bite from a highly venomous snake (possibly brown but I don't remember for sure). His brain hadn't interpreted it as painful or dangerous at all and it had nearly cost him his life.
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A full recovery and a few years later that same man was walking through some underbrush again and a stick scraped his leg. This time it was an actual stick. But his brain immediately told him he was in absolute agony over this.
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Because his brain had learned to associate the sensation of something touching his leg in that scenario with being life-threatening
Point is: snake bites do generally tend to hurt, but not always, and the way our brains interpret pain is really really screwed up and often depends on context
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And yes I know the post is a joke, I just find this interesting so now anyone else curious enough can know about it too
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He woke up several days later in the hospital in intensive care. What his brain had written off as a stick was actually a bite from a highly venomous snake (possibly brown but I don't remember for sure). His brain hadn't interpreted it as painful or dangerous at all and it had nearly cost him his life.
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A full recovery and a few years later that same man was walking through some underbrush again and a stick scraped his leg. This time it was an actual stick. But his brain immediately told him he was in absolute agony over this.
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Because his brain had learned to associate the sensation of something touching his leg in that scenario with being life-threatening
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And yes I know the post is a joke, I just find this interesting so now anyone else curious enough can know about it too