Examples of apparent contagion

[Ingmar]

The broad topic of apparent transmission keeps coming up. I’m sure we’ve all observed situations from time to time where it really looks as though one person has been infected by another. Have you encountered situations like that where you were ultimately able to identify a clear alternative cause for 5BN, and where your findings could help others in their analyses?

[Ingmar]

On the topic of nausea/vomiting:
Over the years, we’ve seen this happen a few times: after one family member vomited, one or two others also experienced nausea or even vomiting.
We were unable to identify a single underlying cause, but:

My observation and hypothesis is that the mere disgust one feels while cleaning, observing, airing out a room, etc., can trigger the same SBS (and one feels the need to get rid of this disgusting thing one is dealing with = nausea/vomiting).

Or that it happens on a purely instinctual level: the subconscious senses that another pack member is about to vomit. Archaically speaking, this is always due to the fact that a harmful morsel has been ingested. Since we are part of the same pack, there is naturally a risk that I, too, have eaten the same thing and now have a harmful morsel inside me—so for this reason, the same SBS is triggered as a precautionary measure.

=> So in the past, I always reacted to this by feeling nauseous. The last two times, I didn’t, because I
a) immediately open the window and dispose of the vomit as quickly as possible (to counter the disgust)
b) I actively remind myself that the vomiting isn’t caused by toxic food, but has an emotional cause, because an SBS was triggered by something I experienced. And that there is absolutely no danger to me regarding what I ate.

The issue of diarrhea can have a similar mechanism.

[Ingmar]

Topic: Infection (“Flu,” “COVID-19,” etc.):

The “fear of infection” can actually trigger a weather conflict in oneself if one has been too close to someone with flu symptoms or similar. This is because there is an “invisible danger” that one tries to sense in order to avoid it.

For the past 15 years, I’ve been trying to catch illnesses from sick people (sleeping in the same bed when one of my kids is sick, hugging sick people, etc.), but it’s never worked—though I’m also convinced that it doesn’t work this way, so I don’t trigger SBS.

Has anyone noticed that they used to “catch” this all the time—before learning about 5BN—and that it suddenly stopped once they became convinced of 5BN?

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