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Originally Posted by clint
No need for a stroke here:
I've had that experience hundreds of times waking up with a numb arm or hand...
(after falling asleep in a weird position, and cutting off the blood stream for a while)
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There is a difference between the two situations.
You find an arm in your bed, you follow it to your shoulder, you say "Phew! It's
my arm."
The patients I'm talking about observe an arm dangling from their shoulder which they
know is
not their arm; it has ceased to be part of their body image. This has a hifalutin' medical name:
hemiasomatognosia, "not knowing half of the body", or just
asomatognosia "not knowing the body".
Grant Hutchison