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Call for field investigation

I am searching for a contact in Nicaragua with the ability to interview and investigate victims of Grisi Siknis.

The symptoms recorded in articles matches a problem known in business offices for forty years.

What do the effected group of people, girls, do during times when family groups are confined in too-small single-room living quarters. A contact in Honduras mentioned that there was an outbreak after hurricane Fredric.

So few people are aware of Subliminal Distraction that there has been no investigation to establish that victims might have behaviors allowing exposure and cause the mental break from this problem.

L K Tucker 69.1.46.205 (talk) 01:45, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What would happen if this reached somewhere like New York or London?

Maybe zombies ARE real after all....--99.52.197.62 (talk) 22:04, 30 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It does reach New York and London!!

The outcomes of this episode are culture specific. Some victims have panic attacks. Others have a fugue episode and wander away for days or weeks. But the details of the self perceived experience must be constructed from the victim's knowledge base. The large number of victims are college students. That's because although Subliminal Distraction is explained in first semester college psychology under the physiology of sight no school provides Cubicle Level Protection where it would be needed nor do they warn students.

An outbreak of Grisi Siknis after hurricane Fredrick shows that it happens when family groups are confined in too-small single-room living quarters for extended times.

I am still seeking someone local to the problem to interview victims and confirm the cause for publication. VisionAndPsychosis.Net contact Researcher.

The Virginia Tech, Redlake Tribal school, Jokela Finland school shooters and the Atlanta Day Trader killer had created exposure for this episode. They all reacted by getting even with people they hallucinated had harmed them then committed suicide. That seems a different outcome from Grisi Siknis but the episode has such outcomes in different cultures.

The episode can be mild and short or it can be serious resulting in a suicide. There are two such outbreaks ongoing now. One is in China and another in France.

L K Tucker 108.206.18.197 (talk) 02:32, 25 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It does not come from a Miskito word

The article says that "grisi siknis" means "jungle madness" in English. That's not true. The term actually is a mispronunciation of the English term "crazy sickness." Hearing no debate, I'll make a change in a few days. Mvblair (talk) 22:43, 13 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Environmental Factors?

I'm struggling to understand the lack of focus in this article.

So we have a bunch of unrelated cultures where the craziness happens. It may be useful to identify similar syndromes that do not result in violent behavior, e.g. kundalini awakening. Perhaps violence is a culturally-determined outcome.

Students, victims of natural disasters and Mah Jongg tournaments seem totally different, but there is a common factor, *overcrowding*. Could urban violence be the same problem?

I'm not clear whether this relates to lack of privacy, but there was something in the IEEE's Technology and Society magazine about building privacy features into public spaces. I don't recall any mention of shoppers running amok with machetes. Dreadfullyboring (talk) 19:58, 6 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]