July 20, 2025 • 12 mins
Crystal is back at ground zero and also samples the best naps in Napa Valley. She has a new half-baked theory of Morgellons as Brain Research Experiment.
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(00:03):
Live from Ground 0, San Francisco, birthplace of the
Morgalons mutagen. It's crystal clear and you're
listening to more Morgalons. This is Morgalon's Watch West,
and I'm reporting live from the Ritz Carlton, San Francisco, CA,
the Golden Gate Gullet, the citywhere tech Bros pretend to be
philosopher kings and Patagonia vest while nano fibers dance in
(00:23):
the fog like haunted spaghetti. Where my forearm muscles are in
rapid atrophy from so many doorman opening doors for me.
Local Morgameta readings have spiked after several Mission
District residents reported sentient lint balls forming a
startup. Meanwhile, Hot Zone Sightings
Chinatown, several rogue dumplings tested positive for
(00:44):
fiber optic awareness, and KovidTenderloin, a pigeon with a tiny
QR code tattoo under its wing, was caught mumbling.
You don't see the threads yet. And of course Fisherman's Wharf
tourists report a swarm of photonic micro worm spelling out
drink more Irish coffee. We're unsure if this is a
threat, a drinking contest, or an AI powered SIOP.
(01:07):
San Francisco's Board of Supervisors recently passed a
new ordinance mandating bio spectral consent forms for
hugging, citing rising cases of affection induced morgue bloom.
Yes, Governor Hair Gel issued a formal apology after the city's
5G accidentally beamed quantum SIOP memes into local school
lunch menus. In unrelated news, Crystal Clear
(01:29):
was spotted observing the refreshing lack of human feces
on the sidewalk. There was plenty of street art,
however, which I enjoyed. One woman released a flock of
ceremonial crows trained to scream.
Do your own research. In conclusion, San Francisco
remains both beacon and battleground.
The birth place of the morgues is alive with whispers, glitter
(01:51):
and neuroplastic confusion. Stay tuned for updates from
Oakland, where a rogue underground film collective is
screening parasite documentariesin infrared.
And no one leaves the same. Over and out from the fog, the
thread emerges. Hey, you guys.
Yeah, I just got back from vacation.
I also went to Napa Valley, known for its great naps.
(02:14):
It's Grapes Valley girls, and they have rows of vines on
yards. They're called vineyards.
Now you've learned something. I kind of want to go down a
rabbit hole today. I hope you're down with that.
It's about the P300 response. I've ever heard of it.
While you're about to, stay tuned.
(02:53):
Let's start with a shocker you don't see with your eyes.
Nope, your eyes are just wet, squishy Gopros jammed into your
face. They grab raw light, but seeing?
That's your brains jam, and halfthe time it's making stuff up so
fast it doesn't even wait for the data.
Each eye is basically a biological camera, except
(03:14):
whoever designed it put the filmin backwards so light hits the
photoreceptors last. That's right, all the wiring and
cells come first, then the part that actually notices the
photons. And apparently efficiency is
overrated and you have a literalblind spot where your optic
nerve bails out of your eyeball.No photoreceptors, nothing.
Just a doughnut hole in your vision.
(03:35):
But you ever see a hole? Of course not.
Your brains Photoshop auto fillsit in with reasonable guesses
like a toddler using Ms. paint. All that raw chaotic light data.
It doesn't get a VIP pass. It's compressed, zipped and shot
down the optic nerve. A process secure ascending your
nudes via dial up and your brainisn't getting a high res live
stream. It's more like we've got a
(03:57):
probable edge, a splash of blue,and maybe a predator and
quadrant too. Good luck.
Here's the twist, your brain isn't just slurping up light,
it's predicting what it expects to see, then double checking
when the info arrives. Was I right?
Did I just see a duck or was that a surveillance drone with a
novelty hat? If the guess is wrong, your
brain has a tiny existential crisis called a prediction
(04:19):
error. It does a neural double take re
renders reality and tries again.This happens millions of times a
day. You're not seeing reality in
real time, you're seeing your brain's best guess on a laggy
connection, like watching life via satellite with bonus
buffering. When reality disagrees, you get
a blip. A neural?
What the fuck moment. It's called AP 300 spike.
(04:41):
Huh. OK, the P300 is a micro jolt of
electricity in your brain arriving about 300 milliseconds
after something unexpected happens.
All right, Got that? Like if you had those little
stickers on your head and somebody was performing an EEG
and you saw something that surprised you, 300 milliseconds
(05:02):
later, you would get a blip on the EEG.
OK, it's your cortex's way of saying, wait, what?
Yeah, faster than conscious thought Lab version.
They make you listen to the samebeep, beep, beep until you want
to die, then suddenly boop a different sound.
Your brain's error detection goes nuts, even if you don't
consciously react. That's the P300 caught in the
(05:24):
act on an EEG. So what it actually means?
The P300 is your brain's internal Slack notification.
Urgent perceptual incongruity detected.
Please update reality model and panic slightly.
It means your brain is running error detection software 24/7,
updating your inner model of theworld even when you're zoning
out driving a car. Cool.
(05:44):
So why is it so? Why is the P300 thing cool?
And I think it's cool and it's also a little creepy.
It's because it proves your brain isn't passively observing
reality. It's always guessing, always
surprised, always pretending to have it all together.
Real world example. OK, someone says your name in a
crowd, P300. You open your bag.
Phone's missing P300. Check engine light blinks on and
(06:08):
off P300 researchers and let's face it, Spooks love it.
P300 is nonverbal proof. You notice something.
If they flash you a photo and your brain spikes, they know
you've seen it, even if you lie later.
It's used in lie detection, cognitive workload studies,
Bcis, meaning brain, computer interfaces, and probably secret
government projects involving aliens, God, and your Netflix
(06:30):
history. So even though seeing is
something between a guest and a hallucination, you trust it
because most doors open, most faces are familiar, and most
tigers are still on Tinder profiles.
But seeing isn't a window, it's high stakes improv at 60 frames
per second. Your brain is winging it to keep
(06:51):
you alive. All right, So what the hell does
this have to do with Morgolons? So you think you can hallucinate
A Beginner's Guide to WeaponizedReality?
Hear me out. You guys enter the anomaly.
Suddenly your skin starts growing stuff it absolutely
shouldn't. Fibers, glitter, feathers,
blacks, bags. Basically your body is throwing
a craft store clearance event just out of the fucking blue one
(07:14):
day. Prediction error party.
Your brain, which has spent years smugly learning that skin
equals no weird stuff poking out, gets its mind blown.
This is the P300A brain waves that screams Wait, what?
Every time something unexpected happens with Morgans, your brain
is firing these P3 hundreds all day, every day, like a toddler
(07:36):
mashing the elevator buttons. Then you've got institutional
gas lighting. You go to a doctor.
The doctor says it's all in yourhead.
Now your brain not only has to deal with the weird shit on your
skin, but also that the one person paid to care just called
you a conspiracy theorist. P300 spikes again.
(07:56):
Self esteem drops like crypto. And then there's the social
exile mini game. Your friends stop texting back
because you said quantum nano dust at brunch.
Now you're isolated. Guess what?
Social rejection is a predictionerror for humans too.
So full on model collapse. With reality, authority, and
social life in ruins, your brain's internal narrator just
(08:19):
rage quits. You're stuck in a loop.
Anomaly, error, denial, anxiety,repeat.
Meanwhile, somewhere in a bunker, a guy with a clipboard
is marking subject 42. Still not bald.
Add more fibers. But wait, why would anyone do
this? Because it's the perfect weapon.
It doesn't kill you, it just makes you question every sense,
(08:43):
every authority, every friend. There's no obvious enemy, no
battlefield, no flag to burn just to slowly fracturing
reality. Best of all, the victim looks
crazy, which means society does all the cleanup for free.
Bonus points if you start comparing notes online that can
be dismissed as Internet psychosis if you organize, cult
(09:05):
if you laugh about it. Coping mechanism.
Patients in denial. Now let's talk to Fuzz.
You want a cure? It's not a green, it's a
cognitive vaccine. Name it, ritualize it.
Start an artifact of the week contest.
Give your weirdest fiber a name.Try Randall.
Firewall your brain, allow for multiple explanations.
And maybe it's nanotech. Maybe it's my shampoo.
(09:27):
Maybe it's an alien internship program. 3 Laughter as Lysol.
If you can turn it into a meme, it loses power.
Fiber Fridays. Share a selfie with your
weirdest lesion and a cocktail umbrella for peer validation,
not guru worship. Yeah, this is a critical one,
guys. Build small, build small.
Support groups. Well, I don't know if y'all are
(09:48):
doing that, but I am. Would you like to join?
Send me an e-mail. We're morganlines@gmail.com.
And also rotate who gets to be high priest or priestess of
glitter each week. I don't want to be it every time
y'all. Also five anti gas lighting
tactics. Document everything but treat
your notes like UFO sightings. Unexplained but not unspeakable.
(10:10):
6 Train for weirdness tolerance,meditate, watch David Lynch
films, try to fold a fitted sheet without losing your mind.
Listen, Morgans isn't just a skin thing, it's a reality
thing. The P300 is your brain's little
what the fuck siren? The real experiment is how much
reality violation can you take before you snap, go silent or
(10:31):
build a support group. Defense isn't in a pill bottle
or a tube of cream, is in radical uncertainty, tactical
humor, and never letting the narrative close.
So in summary, if you're feelingcrazy, odds are you're just
running a software version aheadof everyone else.
If anyone asks, tell them you'renot delusional, you're beta
testing consensus reality. Now go forth and organize your
(10:54):
local Fiber Friday. Trust yourself, laugh at the
anomaly, and and never ever let the clipboard guy win.
(11:23):
No. Can I download my soul?
Can I say, oh, we're going to? Stop me.
(11:44):
Well, I should die die in the year 2055.
Can I make it on my own? I got the money.
Can you download the song and make a old copy?
(12:13):
Can I download my song? Can I say after I leave?
Live from Ground 0, San Francisco, birthplace of the
Morgalons mutagen. It's crystal clear and you're
listening to more Morgalons. This is Morgalon's Watch West,
and I'm reporting live from the Ritz Carlton, San Francisco, CA,
the Golden Gate Gullet, the citywhere tech Bros pretend to be
philosopher kings and Patagonia vest while nano fibers dance in
(00:23):
the fog like haunted spaghetti. Where my forearm muscles are in
rapid atrophy from so many doorman opening doors for me.
Local Morgameta readings have spiked after several Mission
District residents reported sentient lint balls forming a
startup. Meanwhile, Hot Zone Sightings
Chinatown, several rogue dumplings tested positive for
(00:44):
fiber optic awareness, and KovidTenderloin, a pigeon with a tiny
QR code tattoo under its wing, was caught mumbling.
You don't see the threads yet. And of course Fisherman's Wharf
tourists report a swarm of photonic micro worm spelling out
drink more Irish coffee. We're unsure if this is a
threat, a drinking contest, or an AI powered SIOP.
(01:07):
San Francisco's Board of Supervisors recently passed a
new ordinance mandating bio spectral consent forms for
hugging, citing rising cases of affection induced morgue bloom.
Yes, Governor Hair Gel issued a formal apology after the city's
5G accidentally beamed quantum SIOP memes into local school
lunch menus. In unrelated news, Crystal Clear
(01:29):
was spotted observing the refreshing lack of human feces
on the sidewalk. There was plenty of street art,
however, which I enjoyed. One woman released a flock of
ceremonial crows trained to scream.
Do your own research. In conclusion, San Francisco
remains both beacon and battleground.
The birth place of the morgues is alive with whispers, glitter
(01:51):
and neuroplastic confusion. Stay tuned for updates from
Oakland, where a rogue underground film collective is
screening parasite documentariesin infrared.
And no one leaves the same. Over and out from the fog, the
thread emerges. Hey, you guys.
Yeah, I just got back from vacation.
I also went to Napa Valley, known for its great naps.
(02:14):
It's Grapes Valley girls, and they have rows of vines on
yards. They're called vineyards.
Now you've learned something. I kind of want to go down a
rabbit hole today. I hope you're down with that.
It's about the P300 response. I've ever heard of it.
While you're about to, stay tuned.
(02:53):
Let's start with a shocker you don't see with your eyes.
Nope, your eyes are just wet, squishy Gopros jammed into your
face. They grab raw light, but seeing?
That's your brains jam, and halfthe time it's making stuff up so
fast it doesn't even wait for the data.
Each eye is basically a biological camera, except
(03:14):
whoever designed it put the filmin backwards so light hits the
photoreceptors last. That's right, all the wiring and
cells come first, then the part that actually notices the
photons. And apparently efficiency is
overrated and you have a literalblind spot where your optic
nerve bails out of your eyeball.No photoreceptors, nothing.
Just a doughnut hole in your vision.
(03:35):
But you ever see a hole? Of course not.
Your brains Photoshop auto fillsit in with reasonable guesses
like a toddler using Ms. paint. All that raw chaotic light data.
It doesn't get a VIP pass. It's compressed, zipped and shot
down the optic nerve. A process secure ascending your
nudes via dial up and your brainisn't getting a high res live
stream. It's more like we've got a
(03:57):
probable edge, a splash of blue,and maybe a predator and
quadrant too. Good luck.
Here's the twist, your brain isn't just slurping up light,
it's predicting what it expects to see, then double checking
when the info arrives. Was I right?
Did I just see a duck or was that a surveillance drone with a
novelty hat? If the guess is wrong, your
brain has a tiny existential crisis called a prediction
(04:19):
error. It does a neural double take re
renders reality and tries again.This happens millions of times a
day. You're not seeing reality in
real time, you're seeing your brain's best guess on a laggy
connection, like watching life via satellite with bonus
buffering. When reality disagrees, you get
a blip. A neural?
What the fuck moment. It's called AP 300 spike.
(04:41):
Huh. OK, the P300 is a micro jolt of
electricity in your brain arriving about 300 milliseconds
after something unexpected happens.
All right, Got that? Like if you had those little
stickers on your head and somebody was performing an EEG
and you saw something that surprised you, 300 milliseconds
(05:02):
later, you would get a blip on the EEG.
OK, it's your cortex's way of saying, wait, what?
Yeah, faster than conscious thought Lab version.
They make you listen to the samebeep, beep, beep until you want
to die, then suddenly boop a different sound.
Your brain's error detection goes nuts, even if you don't
consciously react. That's the P300 caught in the
(05:24):
act on an EEG. So what it actually means?
The P300 is your brain's internal Slack notification.
Urgent perceptual incongruity detected.
Please update reality model and panic slightly.
It means your brain is running error detection software 24/7,
updating your inner model of theworld even when you're zoning
out driving a car. Cool.
(05:44):
So why is it so? Why is the P300 thing cool?
And I think it's cool and it's also a little creepy.
It's because it proves your brain isn't passively observing
reality. It's always guessing, always
surprised, always pretending to have it all together.
Real world example. OK, someone says your name in a
crowd, P300. You open your bag.
Phone's missing P300. Check engine light blinks on and
(06:08):
off P300 researchers and let's face it, Spooks love it.
P300 is nonverbal proof. You notice something.
If they flash you a photo and your brain spikes, they know
you've seen it, even if you lie later.
It's used in lie detection, cognitive workload studies,
Bcis, meaning brain, computer interfaces, and probably secret
government projects involving aliens, God, and your Netflix
(06:30):
history. So even though seeing is
something between a guest and a hallucination, you trust it
because most doors open, most faces are familiar, and most
tigers are still on Tinder profiles.
But seeing isn't a window, it's high stakes improv at 60 frames
per second. Your brain is winging it to keep
(06:51):
you alive. All right, So what the hell does
this have to do with Morgolons? So you think you can hallucinate
A Beginner's Guide to WeaponizedReality?
Hear me out. You guys enter the anomaly.
Suddenly your skin starts growing stuff it absolutely
shouldn't. Fibers, glitter, feathers,
blacks, bags. Basically your body is throwing
a craft store clearance event just out of the fucking blue one
(07:14):
day. Prediction error party.
Your brain, which has spent years smugly learning that skin
equals no weird stuff poking out, gets its mind blown.
This is the P300A brain waves that screams Wait, what?
Every time something unexpected happens with Morgans, your brain
is firing these P3 hundreds all day, every day, like a toddler
(07:36):
mashing the elevator buttons. Then you've got institutional
gas lighting. You go to a doctor.
The doctor says it's all in yourhead.
Now your brain not only has to deal with the weird shit on your
skin, but also that the one person paid to care just called
you a conspiracy theorist. P300 spikes again.
(07:56):
Self esteem drops like crypto. And then there's the social
exile mini game. Your friends stop texting back
because you said quantum nano dust at brunch.
Now you're isolated. Guess what?
Social rejection is a predictionerror for humans too.
So full on model collapse. With reality, authority, and
social life in ruins, your brain's internal narrator just
(08:19):
rage quits. You're stuck in a loop.
Anomaly, error, denial, anxiety,repeat.
Meanwhile, somewhere in a bunker, a guy with a clipboard
is marking subject 42. Still not bald.
Add more fibers. But wait, why would anyone do
this? Because it's the perfect weapon.
It doesn't kill you, it just makes you question every sense,
(08:43):
every authority, every friend. There's no obvious enemy, no
battlefield, no flag to burn just to slowly fracturing
reality. Best of all, the victim looks
crazy, which means society does all the cleanup for free.
Bonus points if you start comparing notes online that can
be dismissed as Internet psychosis if you organize, cult
(09:05):
if you laugh about it. Coping mechanism.
Patients in denial. Now let's talk to Fuzz.
You want a cure? It's not a green, it's a
cognitive vaccine. Name it, ritualize it.
Start an artifact of the week contest.
Give your weirdest fiber a name.Try Randall.
Firewall your brain, allow for multiple explanations.
And maybe it's nanotech. Maybe it's my shampoo.
(09:27):
Maybe it's an alien internship program. 3 Laughter as Lysol.
If you can turn it into a meme, it loses power.
Fiber Fridays. Share a selfie with your
weirdest lesion and a cocktail umbrella for peer validation,
not guru worship. Yeah, this is a critical one,
guys. Build small, build small.
Support groups. Well, I don't know if y'all are
(09:48):
doing that, but I am. Would you like to join?
Send me an e-mail. We're morganlines@gmail.com.
And also rotate who gets to be high priest or priestess of
glitter each week. I don't want to be it every time
y'all. Also five anti gas lighting
tactics. Document everything but treat
your notes like UFO sightings. Unexplained but not unspeakable.
(10:10):
6 Train for weirdness tolerance,meditate, watch David Lynch
films, try to fold a fitted sheet without losing your mind.
Listen, Morgans isn't just a skin thing, it's a reality
thing. The P300 is your brain's little
what the fuck siren? The real experiment is how much
reality violation can you take before you snap, go silent or
(10:31):
build a support group. Defense isn't in a pill bottle
or a tube of cream, is in radical uncertainty, tactical
humor, and never letting the narrative close.
So in summary, if you're feelingcrazy, odds are you're just
running a software version aheadof everyone else.
If anyone asks, tell them you'renot delusional, you're beta
testing consensus reality. Now go forth and organize your
(10:54):
local Fiber Friday. Trust yourself, laugh at the
anomaly, and and never ever let the clipboard guy win.
(11:23):
No. Can I download my soul?
Can I say, oh, we're going to? Stop me.
(11:44):
Well, I should die die in the year 2055.
Can I make it on my own? I got the money.
Can you download the song and make a old copy?
(12:13):
Can I download my song? Can I say after I leave?
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