Chapter 59 Article fifty-fifth Gale

Me: "What's the wind like?" He: "It's a very strong wind, the kind that can blow people away, and everything in the house is flying around, and many of them are blown out of the window." Me: "You mean, the wind blows in from the direction of the door, or from other windows?" He: "No, it just blows in from the window, and then blows out the things that swept the house." Me: "Is there such a wind?" He looked at me seriously: "Are you from the north?" The patient claimed that there was often a strong wind blowing into the room he was in, a very strong wind.The doors and windows were blown open, and the debris in the room was basically blown out, and if the patient didn't hold on to the bed or even the window sill, he would be swept away by the strong wind.I watched a few videos. When it happened, there was no wind, and the doors and windows were not opened, but the patient was alone in the room, huddled in the corner, with his hands and feet spread out and tightly supporting the wall, as if he was resisting the strong wind.It looks weird, but the patient's expression is very realistic, and the oppressive feeling of his breathing on the screen looks like he is really in a strong wind.

Me: "I grew up in the north." He: "Have you ever experienced a typhoon?" Me: "No, even on business trips to the south, I deliberately avoided bad weather." He: "Do you know what it looks like when a typhoon blows in a coastal city in the south?" Me: "Well...isn't it like on TV?" He shook his head: "It's not a TV picture, it's something I felt at home. If you haven't experienced it yourself, you won't understand it." Me: "Probably, can you tell me?" He thought for a while: "I have experienced strong winds in winter in the north, but it is different from typhoons. It comes in bursts. And typhoons are continuous. Even if you close the windows, you can feel the extremely violent wind. Constantly hitting the window, if you open the window at that time, the wind is like a living creature, rushing in, and then rushing out, very big. The things in the room are often swept out, I It’s that kind of wind.”

Me: "Rush in and roll out... so it's like this... did you have a psychological shadow of the typhoon when you were young?" He: "I was born in a coastal city in the south, and I've been used to it for a long time. But the strong wind I'm talking about is bigger than that." Me: "Well, I showed you the video just now, and you admitted that nothing seemed to be happening at the time, but you believed that there was a strong wind. Can you have a reasonable explanation?" He frowned: "I can't explain this clearly. I know you all think I'm mentally ill, but even if I share a room with someone else, this kind of thing still happens. The wind is so strong that it can even wake me up .”

Me: "Well, I also read this part, and the other patients slept soundly... Then when did the first gale start?" He: "Four months, it should be. I can't remember the exact date, but it's definitely at night." Me: "Is it that strong wind at first?" He: "Yes, at first I woke up in the middle of the night and heard the sound of wind outside the window. I wondered why there was no bad weather in the forecast, and it wasn't in the south. Then the doors and windows were blown open. I grabbed the bed instinctively, and I saw many things in the room, including the quilt, blown out! The wind was so strong that I couldn’t do anything except grab the edge of the bed desperately, and the sound of shouting quickly disappeared. drowned in the wind."

Me: "Wait a minute, let me interrupt. During your hospital observation period, when the wind blows, what did you see other people look like?" He: "The other beds are empty." Me: "Scratched away?" He: "I don't know. When I looked at it, it was empty. Maybe there was no one at all or it was blown away." Me: "Is that so... Are you afraid when the wind is strong?" He: "It's not just fear, it's panic, that kind of strong wind..." To be honest, I have never experienced that kind of extreme climate, so I don't feel very much about that description, but looking at his expression, it is indeed awe and fear of a certain natural climate.Maybe people who have really experienced it will understand?

Me: "One more thing: does it happen regularly?" Him: "There are no rules." Me: "Are there any signs?" He thought about it carefully: "No." Me: "Do you mind if I ask a little more?" Him: "What do you want to ask?" Me: "Are you religious or does someone in your family have certain religious beliefs?" He: "No, my parents and relatives are all honest people, so worshiping ancestors doesn't count?" Me: "Oh, okay, continue with what you just said. You said that the voice of shouting in the strong wind will soon disappear. But in the video, you don't have any expression of shouting."

He also looked at me in confusion: "I understand everything you said, and I know it all. But... Let me tell you this. Every time after the strong wind passes, I somehow find that there is nothing special or everything is normal in the house. I would also be confused for a while. If this kind of thing didn’t happen frequently, I would even suspect that I was dreaming. Although you showed me the video, although I didn’t understand it afterwards, the scene at that time was extremely real. Join me and don’t go Hold on to something and I'm bound to be blown away by the wind. Because that's how it was."

Me: "Okay, let's go here first this time, I want to learn more about the natural climate. Can we meet again then?" Him: "No problem." A few days later, I went to my friend who was doing psychological research, and after listening to the recording, I asked him what was going on.The answer was clear: I don't know.I asked why? Friend: "It was very common to be in awe of nature, at least in primitive society. However, due to the development of science and technology in modern society, people are not so in awe of natural phenomena. Unless they have experienced it personally, they will not have the kind of awe that they usually have. Attitude. This patient probably formed a shocking memory in his brain after experiencing a typhoon when he was a child, and now he doesn’t know what caused it, so he will be like this. As for the symptoms at the time of the onset—shortness of breath, those are psychological to himself Hint. If you want me to give an explanation, that's all I can tell you at the moment. But actually, I really don't know. If I can only give you a judgment based on this recording, then psychology doesn't count There is no need to study it anymore. It is precisely because the causes of psychology are very complicated that it is a subject.”

I nodded. Friend: "The patient didn't see a psychiatrist before? Or the hospital didn't arrange it?" Me: "Yes, I heard that the psychiatrist was on maternity leave, and the patient went home after the observation, and no psychiatrist was arranged." He: "I have time next week, can I meet this patient together?" Me: "I'll ask back, he probably won't refuse." But when I contacted the patient a few days later, I was told that the patient had passed away, and the time of death was in the middle of the night.Everything was normal at the scene, and there were no strange signs, except for the patient himself: the family members saw the patient's body lying on the bed in the morning, with both hands tightly clutching the sides of the bed, and muscles bulging.The final cause of death was identified as a sudden cardiac convulsion, the cause of which was unknown.No one knows exactly what happened to the patient.

I told my friend the news, and he had the same reaction as I did at first: silence for a long time. About a month later, we had a meal and talked about it. Friend: "Should I say something irresponsible about that matter? It's very idealistic." Me: "What?" My friend looked at me seriously for a while: "If it is a strong wind that only the soul can feel, then what should we do?" I froze there and didn't speak for a long time.