Due to a very hungry, or .....?
By hsofyan
@hsofyan (3446)
Jakarta, Indonesia
August 3, 2012 9:02am CST
Graduated from high school, I worked as a surveyor in the Borneo jungle. The three of us in a team. We lost in the woods for 4 nights. We slept and ate potluck. One night, I saw my friend's ears, and imagine the food is delicious. Until I realized then, that I should not think about it.
In your opinion, what is happening to me?
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13 responses
@fashionfever (2200)
• Indonesia
4 Aug 12
Hahahaha... it is a funny story, could it be happened because you ate a type of mushroom and gave you hallucination that your friend's ears was a delicious meal? I heard we need to be carefull when we eat unknown mushroom because some might has toxic and dangerous for our body.
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@fashionfever (2200)
• Indonesia
4 Aug 12
hehehe yes there is a type of mushroom that looks alike ear called cloud ear mushroom(jamur kuping), maybe you were so tired and sleepy and you thought your friend's ears was this mushroom.
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@indahfth (11161)
• Indonesia
3 Aug 12
Although you are hungry, I am sure you will not be a cannibal. And I am glad you realize, if the ears of your friends, not food. Jungle, there is much you can eat. There are many plants, fruits, or animals that are edible. I became curious. What you eat during the lost? Do you eat leaves, fruit, or you hunt animals?
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@Fulltank (2882)
• Philippines
4 Aug 12
Sometimes, unconsciously our mind plays a trick on us without even knowing it.I think its one thing our mind do when in a desperate situation like the one you encountered. It may be a defensive mechanism of your mind to think something else rather than thinking about the problem at hand. I don't think that you are starving because you have eaten something.
@paulli3 (312)
• China
4 Aug 12
it is normal on that situation. you are too hungry and you have a strong lust to eat something so you saw your friend's ears as some delicious food, many people will do this in that situation, but the experience that you worked as a surveyor is so cool!!
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@caopaopao (12395)
• China
4 Aug 12
I believe it's because you are hungry. When people want to have a picnic, they believe it will be sunny tomorrow. When you are very very hungry , you see something, then you may think that it is a kind of food. And you consider your friend's ears as a kind of delicious meat. i think it's natural.
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@velentina (891)
• Mauritius
4 Aug 12
If you think like that this means nothing but if you really ate your friend's ears then you will be a canibal. You are hungry but you have other options to look for food. There are many trees and surely different kind of fruits which you can eat. Don't ever think of eating human flesh. What if your friends thought the same thing as you??
@Suggar (3606)
• Bulgaria
3 Aug 12
I think it was because of your hunger and probably a weak hope that you will find the right way or someone will find you while you have been lost.
I can't survive being hungry even for few days. I am willing to eat only bread slices and colored salt over them, just to keep myself away of hunger. They say some people feel effected by hunger because their blood sugar goes down. I don't know if the same happens to me, but all the time when I miss a day without food, I feel terrible headache. I can keep myself away of being hungry with drinking coffee, but at one moment it's not enough anymore and I have to eat something.
@bhabycatch013 (9150)
• Philippines
3 Aug 12
hi hsofyan,
Even I am hungry I will not think that maybe a grass can be a food to me but someone's ear I don't think so
Just imagine what if you got carried away and out of nowhere you bite your friend's ear
happy mylotting
@squallming (1775)
• Malaysia
15 Mar 13
It must have been scary for you guys to lost in the woods for 4 nights. The worse thing is that the lack of water and food. It is no wonder that you found your friend's ears so tempting and almost eat it. I think you were just starving. It's normal that people being very hungry would have such hallucinations about food. Nothing wrong with it. But next time better be careful in the woods.
@roshigo58 (4859)
• Pune, India
16 Mar 13
Hi,
It is unbelievable. I become restless when there is a fast for one day. You ahve nofood to eat for 4 days. It reminds me the program on discovery channel 'I shouldn't be alive'. In this program people lost their ways due to air crash, falling from mountains etc. They have to struggle for the survival for many days. they have to face many difficulties. Because of hunger your mind is not stable so you have done such things.
@francis920176 (84)
• Philippines
3 Aug 12
animal instinct? i do not know but i am glad you have overcome it. considering those obstacles you been through, maybe its normal to experience that kind of attitude but again we should not. at least you have experienced it and the best thing to do next time is to be prepared for every possibilities.
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