Robert Fludd - Early 17th Century

Willem Claesz. Heda 1632, detail

Hermaphroditisches Sonn- und Monds-Kind, das ist des Sohns deren Philosophen natürlich-übernatürliche Gebährung, c. 1752

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Bloodborne and Brain Structure

So I just ran into the concept of “amygdala hijack” in an article about anxiety, and my brain instantly went “BLOODBORNE”, and it was not wrong. Then I dug further, and all sorts of brain parts map onto elements in Bloodborne, it’s definitely not an accident!

Amygdala hijack is when your brain starts generating overly nightmarish scenarios in response to a situation. And that’s what happens in Bloodborne! The Amygdala snatches you and puts you into deeper levels of the nightmare.

But that’s not all. It got me curious what other brain parts map onto creatures/characters, and here we go, some obvious candidates:

Rom looks like the occipital lobe, which is “the visual processing center of the mammalian brain” - she gained eyes, right!

The ascended hunter slug, is a good candidate for the hippocampus: “It has a major role in learning and memory. It is a plastic and vulnerable structure that gets damaged by a variety of stimuli.” 

Thalamus is among other things responsible for “the regulation of consciousness, sleep, and alertness.” Not sure what to map it on directly, but seems relevant.

There is probably more, but I am in no place or shape to dwell further. This makes me wonder how much of Bloodborne is actually all in the Hunter’s head. Or someone’s head at any rate.

In conclusion, Rom ascended to be part of the brain, the Hunter ascended to be another part of the brain. Maybe with enough people ascending they can have at least one functioning brain between them LOL.

Circa mid-1500’s