Ketika Otak Memutuskan Lengan Sendiri Bukan Milik Kita: Misteri Somatoparafrenia

Added: 2026-05-16

[00:00:00]Get ready to get goosebumps from the first second. There is a strange nervous disorder when a person insists that the paralyzed arm on his side belongs to someone else, even accusing the nurse or relative of cheating on the arm, scolding it and wanting to get rid of it.

[00:00:17]Even though it was his own arm. The phenomenon of somatoparaphrenia usually appears after subtle damage in the right hemisphere of the parietal insula thalamus tissue. so that the sense of bodily ownership is lost and often coexists with denial of paralysis. And even more bizarrely, the sense of ownership can be temporarily restored simply by vestibular tricks such as cold water irrigation of the ears or mirror therapy that tricks the senses into the illusion of movement.

[00:00:48]It's as if the me versus not me switch in the human brain can be turned off and then back on in an instant.