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[Darklord]

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/health/8278919/uk-mother-wakes-up-as-15-year-old-self

A 34-year-old English mother woke up convinced she was her 15-year-old self after suffering from stress-induced amnesia.

Naomi Jacobs went to bed one night in 2008 worried about her homeopathy business, psychology exams and her recent break-up with the father of her 11-year-old son Leo, the Daily Mail reported.

When she woke up she thought it was still 1992, with her most recent memory being that of a schoolboy she had a crush on.

"I looked in the mirror and had the fright of my life when I saw a woman with wrinkles staring back at me," she said.

"Then this little boy appeared and started calling me mum — that's when I started to scream."

Friends had to talk her through the last 19 years, including historical events, technology and her own life.

Using her old diaries and the help of others she has now managed to piece most of her life back together, and has written a novel about her ordeal.

There is no known cure for ‘transient global amnesia’, which affects five in 100,000 people

Imagine waking up thinking you're 15 and realize you have a kid, a husband, a job and you're almost 35! Does that mean she'd have the hots for 15 year old boys then? Enjoy teen movies and partying? How could you mature properly? That would be so weird.

 

[Count Dookkake]

Silent drape runners!

 

[Takao]

"You mean this isn't a movie already?!"

 

[Cereal KiIIer]

worried about her homeopathy business


I would have too.

 

[AlteredBeast]

Next up, soundproof drape-runners!

 

[strafer]

I think there is a movie about this.

 

[AceBandage]

I could warn myself about 9/11!

 

[Busty]

Let me guess. She had just been on a first class flight to Australia?

 

[SpacLock]

I'd look down and say "whoa, my penis grew 12 inches over night." Because I have a huge penis.

 

[spiderman123]

Wow. When movies b/c real life .....sort of.

 

[ryutaro's mama]

United States of Tara?

 

[Byakuya769]

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/health/8278919/uk-mother-wakes-up-as-15-year-old-self



Imagine waking up thinking you're 15 and realize you have a kid, a husband, a job and you're almost 35! Does that mean she'd have the hots for 15 year old boys then? Enjoy teen movies and partying? How could you mature properly? That would be so weird.

Interesting read. Though I thought the thread was going to be about moms dressing like 15 year old girls.

 

[Xyrmellon]

I call bullshit. Way to escape you day-to-day problems lady.

 

[HiroProtagonist]

has written a novel about her ordeal.

Uh-huh.

 

[snacknuts]

Someone needs to learn how to reduce fractions.

 

[davidnic]

I feel so sorry for this woman almost restarting her life each day.

 

[Devolution]

I think there is a movie about this.

 

[InaudibleWhispa]

 

[daw840]

I'd look down and say "whoa, my penis grew 12 inches over night." Because I have a huge penis.

God I wish we could still easily avatar quote....

 

[Operations]

Isn´t amnesia about the incapacity of establishing new memories? This sounds like something else.

 

[Kjellson]

Silent drape runners!

Lmao, I was thinking the exact same thing.

 

[Boney]

I call bullshit. Way to escape you day-to-day problems lady.

are you being serious?

 

[Dai101]

 

[Zenith]

Naomi Jacobs went to bed one night in 2008 worried about her homeopathy business, psychology exams and her recent break-up with the father of her 11-year-old son Leo, the Daily Mail reported.

Happened 3 years ago? The Daily Mail does frequently take urban legends/internet fiction and report them as fact to fill space.

 

[Barberetti]

Naomi Jacobs went to bed one night in 2008 worried about her homeopathy business

Yeah that was all I needed to read. I think I read about this online in one of the UK rags a couple of days ago.

 

[spiderman123]

I'd look down and say "whoa, my penis grew 12 inches over night." Because I have a huge penis.

Question, why 12 inches?! You got no penis or do you suffer from micro penis?!

 

[ajf009]

Naomi Jacobs went to bed one night in 2008 worried about her homeopathy business, psychology exams and her recent break-up with the father of her 11-year-old son Leo, the Daily Mail reported.

has written a novel about her ordeal.

Rigghhhttt, how conveniently inconvenient



or is that... inconveniently convenient... ?

 

[Sho_Nuff82]

Friends had to talk her through the last 19 years, including historical events, technology and her own life.

What the fuck is the internet?

 

[Furret]

I call bullshit. Way to escape you day-to-day problems lady.

Are you a doctor?

 

[StuBurns]

Why would you say 'five in 100,000' instead of 'one in 20,000'? I'm not sure I believe that stat either, 20k isn't a lot. I could have easily met that many people in my life so far.

 

[WyndhamPrice]

Oh god if I woke up as my 15 year old self that would be terrible, I've tried so hard to get away from the state I was in back then.

 

[Pandaman]

Uh-huh.

must have paid attention in her grade 8 english class.

 

[CornBurrito]

Ah a homeopathy business... I don't feel sorry for this scam artist at all.

 

[The Technomancer]

Sorry but I really want to call bullshit on this one.

 

[X-Frame]

So the brain does remember everything huh? If 20 year old memories could easily be as powerful as any others.

 

[Sho_Nuff82]

Are you a doctor?

This Harvard doctor suggests that post-traumatic memory loss is largely a "folklore".

 

[Pagusas]

jesus christ i can think of nothing worse then being stuck in my teenage mindset again. That was a nightmareish time that needs to stay dead.

 

[Ivan A Nguyen]

Transient global amnesia is the same thing from Momento. I call shenanigans and as per the rules of shenanigans, they now owe me a coke.

 

[Stinkles]

Ah a homeopathy business... I don't feel sorry for this scam artist at all.

Why should we believe anything this snake oil saleswoman says? Seriously.

 

[SpacLock]

Question, why 12 inches?! You got no penis or do you suffer from micro penis?!

It was actually inverted 11 inches before. Like a super deep belly button.

 

[Randolph Freelander]

31 year old woke up as her 15 year old self, who found she woke up as her 31 year old self, who woke up as her 15 year old self, who woke up oh no I've gone crosseyed.

 

[Dresden]

Bullshit.

 

[CornBurrito]

Why should we believe anything this snake oil saleswoman says? Seriously.

I'm skeptical as to whether or not her story is true.

However, if it is true I won't shed a tear over someone that runs a business dedicated to scamming desperate sick people out of money.

 

[Mihael Mello Keehl]

reminds me of 50 first dates

 

[Forever]

For people calling fake, this is a real thing.

I remember reading about a guy who stumbled into a hospital with absolutely no recollection of who he was.

Then again this woman is a homeopathy saleswoman so whatever.

 

[Mikeside]

There is no known cure for ‘transient global amnesia’, which affects five in 100,000 people

Why say 5 in 100,000, not 1 in 20,000?

 

[Furret]

This Harvard doctor suggests that post-traumatic memory loss is largely a "folklore".

Now try reading the article you've just linked to, and then explaining what it has to do with the story in the OP.

 

[BlueTsunami]

Hahahaha, yessssss

 

[Count Dookkake]

Hahahaha, beaten

fixed

 

[magicstop]

Silent drape runners!

First post takes it...

Stuff like this is kind of hard to buy.