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A Moving Optical Illusion || A Moving Optical Illusion

ericb — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:39:37 -0800

Improv Everywhere’s latest “mission”: Human Mirror [video]. They filled a New York subway car with 16 sets of identical twins and recorded the reactions of riders who eventually realized they were looking at an MTA carriage full of real-life “mirror images.” “‘We would get on the 6 train at the start of the line at Brooklyn Bridge and the twins would sit on either side of the car, directly across from their sibling,’ writes organizer Charlie Todd on the Improv Everywhere blog. ‘Once in place, their job would be to mirror each other as closely as possible. If one scratches his head, so should the other. If anyone asked them what was going on, they should claim not to notice anything unusual and not to even be able to see their sibling.’”^* Improv Everywhere previously on MeFi.

You look familiar.

granted — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 23:20:27 -0800

Two Spanish women meet in their late twenties and realize that they're identical twins. The hospital had accidentally swapped one with another random newborn, and each family had unknowingly taken home the wrong baby. Now all three women - the two actual twins, and the one fake twin - are suing the hospital, who seriously did not have their act together. But there are all sorts of ways this could happen. For example...

One could be adopted from Mexico by an American family, while the birth mother runs off with the other. (Adrianna Scott and Tamara Rabi)
One might be secretly stolen by the doctors who delivered her, their mother not even knowing she was pregnant with twins. (Andrea Freire and Marielisa Romo)
Their mom might get two boys back from foster care, and wrongly assume that both are her twins instead of just one. (George Cain and Brent Tremblay, the latter not to be confused with the hockey player who is apparently going to Heaven.)
Or they might be secretly separated by researchers studying identical twins raised apart. (Paula Bernstein and Elyse Schein) (By the way, "Of the 13 children involved in the study, three sets of twins and one set of triplets have discovered one another. One or two sets of twins may still not know they have an identical twin.")

Others: Tom Patterson and Steve Tazumi Jim Lewis and Jim Springer, the "Jim Twins" Daphne Goodship and Barbara Herbert, the "Giggle Twins" Debbie Mehlman and Sharon Poset Roger Brooks and Tony Milasi Sharon McKendrick and Susan Evers And: 1997 Psychology Today article The Minnesota Center for Twin & Family Research

"This sister of mine, a dark shadow robbing me of sunlight, is my one and only torment."

goodnewsfortheinsane — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 14:40:02 -0800

The strange story of June and Jennifer Gibbons.

Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep

Jikido — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 08:11:36 -0800

Locked in a Timeless Embrace: A third possibility. First documented gay couple (manicurists to the King) or just a case of conjoined twins? Same-sex closeness in historical Egypt.