Mirror

I was searching Google, looking for a decent picture of a chameleon looking at a mirror. None at all surprisingly. I had better chance of finding this =P

Madonna still having it at 50+

But I found this...

This is rather a cool pic. Very aboriginal like. Don't mind having this on my wall.

Since I was on a roll using Google, I decided to google 'Wesley Gibson'. Nothing like what was shown in the movie came up. No surprises there. Pardon the pun ;) In fact over 3,000,000 results came up! So I wiki-ed him and the actor himself, James McAvoy. And OMG! A revolution!





Holly @#*! Both of them are supposed to be the same??! Not bad range for an actor like him.
Wesley Gibson is a ruthless killer, a member of the Fraternity! And Mr Tumnus the nice goat-man!

Anywho...I digress...

Mystic - ability to mimic anyone

The reason for this long winded post was actually to discuss about the latest 'House' episode I watched. The patient was suffering from this Giovannini's 'mirror' syndrome. It sounded so fabricated, yet so believable! So, I decided to do some research about it. And wadaya know...it does exist! Cool... Well, in the episode, the patient would mirror the behaviour of whoever he was with, including House, Cuddy or some of the other new interns. For example, when he was in the surgery room, he would think he was a surgeon. Not only did he start talking like one, he also grabbed a surgical blade; only to be stopped by House. Apparently, he would only mirror the behavior of people he thought was the dominant figure. (It was always House)

It's quite a peculiar syndrome. Can't be cured. In that episode, this syndrome isn't the life threatening disease he was suffering. There was something else. House also did manipulate him, the poor patient, to feed his ego that he was always the most dominant figure around. He also used him to find out more about everyone else since the patient can cleverly 'read' the others so well. (Not that House was so bad at it.) At the same time, the interns who spent time with the patient managed to learn a little more about themselves. So anyway, Giovannini's is the result of brain damage; more specifically at the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain.

It's quite cool once you think about it. Kinda freaky but cool. Freaky because he knows so much about you, cool because he understands you. Haha!

To find out more about this syndrome, please reading this article from the British Psychological Society or this article on InformaWorld.