We don't have to tell you how amazing your brain is. Even if you're the dumbest guy on the block, your mind is spectacular. But there's a dark side to this complicated organ of brilliance, because when it goes wrong, things get weird . Here are five more ways your brain can suddenly turn the world into a bizarre carnival of the absurd.

5 Attack of the Jibber Jabbers

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Remember that scene in Bruce Almighty when Jim Carrey uses his God powers to turn Steve Carell's newscast into a nonsensical disaster?



You know the one.

Well, what's hilarious in a movie is incredibly creepy in real life, where it's called receptive aphasia. These patients (usually people recovering from a stroke) speak with the same syntax, inflections and grammar they've always used, but the words coming out of their mouth holes are strings of incoherent gibberish. Also, both spoken and written language is gibberish to them. They'll look you right in the eye and give you one sentence that's normal, but the next will be nonsense. The results are really, really weird:

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In that video, a woman with the condition attempts to answer some simple questions and perform a few tasks. She alternates between being able to answer with ease and sounding like a breakdown in an old school hip-hop album.

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Again, if you didn't know English or turned off the sound, you'd think the lady was speaking normally. Everything about her body language, inflections and facial expressions indicate that she's perfectly comfortably engaged in conversation with her granddaughter about the good ol' days. She's not confused or frustrated or stumbling over words. It's not until you turn up the volume and hear the almost Tourette's-like sounds coming out of her mouth that you realize anything is wrong. People who've recovered from it say it was like their mouths just took off on their own -- they didn't know what they were about to say or understand what they were saying once it started.