# What is happening to this woman in this video? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 26, 2010, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-happening-to-this-woman-in-this-video/537412 "2010-04-26T16:30:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-happening-to-this-woman-in-this-video/537412/41 "2010-04-29T07:23:07Z")
> [@olivesmarch4th](#): > > I used to be a Pentecostal in my early teens, and this is really just typical of the charismatic crowd from my experience. Charismatics are particularly interested Biblically in the day of Pentecost in which God sent his Holy Spirit down to fill the people and they began to speak in other tongues. > > I’m pretty sure she was whispering in tongues there. From the charismatic point of view, she was filled with the Holy Spirit and so overwhelmed by the power of God that she started shaking all over the place and probably lost consciousness. > > This has happened to me. It was a regular occurrence at the church I attended. Once you let the Holy Spirit in, you pretty much lose control of your body. The most memorable time I started shaking so hard that I fell and hit my head on the kitchen table. Thanks a lot, Jesus! > > I really don’t have an explanation. I’m not a believer in the supernatural anymore. All I can say is that it’s a part of the culture, and looking back on it I still am completely baffled by the intensity of the experience. I can say with 100% certainty, that shit is weird. It’s probably a similar phenomenon to hypnotism. You let the rational part of your brain go and just let yourself go as wacky as you feel you’re supposed to – either because a hypnotist told you to, or because you know what the routine is already. Also related is [Koro](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koro_(medicine)), where people convince themselves that their penis is missing. Ultimately, your senses are just the interpretations of the world by your brain. If you convince your brain to lie to yourself, you’ll see what isn’t there. [http://www.somer.co.il/articles/2006CultureBoundDissoc.PCNA.pdf](http://www.somer.co.il/articles/2006CultureBoundDissoc.PCNA.pdf) [http://www.harpers.org/archive/2008/06/0082063](http://www.harpers.org/archive/2008/06/0082063) > **[Speaking in tongues](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossolalia)** > > Speaking in tongues, also known as glossolalia, is a phenomenon or practice in which people utter words or speech-like sounds, often thought by believers to be languages unknown to the speaker. One definition used by linguists is the fluid vocalizing of speech-like syllables that lack any readily comprehensible meaning. In some cases, as part of religious practice, some believe it to be a divine language unknown to the speaker. Glossolalia is practiced in Pentecostal and charismatic Christiani... > **[Culture-bound syndrome](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture-bound_syndrome)** > > In medicine and medical anthropology, a culture-bound syndrome, culture-specific syndrome, or folk illness is a combination of psychiatric and somatic symptoms that are considered to be a recognizable disease only within a specific society or culture. There are no known objective biochemical or structural alterations of body organs or functions, and the disease is not recognized in other cultures. The term culture-bound syndrome was included in the fourth version of the Diagnostic and Statistic... ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-happening-to-this-woman-in-this-video/537412/42 "2010-04-29T12:53:16Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > And you’ll be able to be sure it really is God that time? How? That is a promise of God, that He will reveal these things to you. The process is we get the Holy Spirit, which is the same spirit that Jesus has, the same spirit that the Father has (this is why God is one). A person recognizes the spirit of their Creator. It is something our soul embraces. In this world we search for things to satisfy the longing of our soul, the only thing that can fill it is God’s spirit. On a similar note I was watching a friend’s in a very noisy place (many children), all of a sudden she (the child) turned to me and told me that her mother was calling her. This place was so noisy that any such calling would be drowned out, but the child heard her mother’s call somehow. I’ve seen other examples of this, particularly between mother and child, a bond that is beyond what we can see. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-happening-to-this-woman-in-this-video/537412/43 "2010-04-29T13:32:05Z")
> [@kanicbird](#): > > On a similar note I was watching a friend’s in a very noisy place (many children), all of a sudden she (the child) turned to me and told me that her mother was calling her. This place was so noisy that any such calling would be drowned out, but the child heard her mother’s call somehow. I’ve seen other examples of this, particularly between mother and child, a bond that is beyond what we can see. OMG!! A similar thing happened with me and my son (shared custody). It turned out he had his cell phone set on vibrate, so mystery solved! ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-happening-to-this-woman-in-this-video/537412/44 "2010-04-29T14:00:19Z")
Combination of low blood sugar and adrenaline rush. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-happening-to-this-woman-in-this-video/537412/45 "2010-04-29T14:26:16Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Incubus? WTF!? That’s crazy talk. Anyone with half a brain could see that it was a succubus. > [@Manduck](#): > > or an autobus! > [@Autolycus](#): > > Or an autolycus! Me gustibus. You gustibus. We missed the bus. They missed the bus. When’s the next bus? Summa cum laude. Magna cum laude. The radio’s too laude. Adeste fidelis. Centra fidelis. High fidelis… ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-happening-to-this-woman-in-this-video/537412/46 "2010-04-29T14:30:41Z")
> [@Reply](#): > > How interesting. What happens if someone gives one unannounced? It depends on the circumstances. If school officials knew that it was likely to happen or arranged circumstances so that it was likely to happen, then it may still be considered government sponsorship of religion. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-happening-to-this-woman-in-this-video/537412.md?page=2)