This question will scare the living h**l out of you?

Question

watch this vid about mind controling parasites

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgAEeisfHW8&feature=user

and this leads to a question can other similar parasites control us subtly influencing our behaviors in ways we dont notice?

Answer 1

You must be a wuss! Didn't scare me at all!

Answer 2

come on!!!! its just bugs!!!!!

Answer 3

Think about the size and complexity of an ants brain compared to a humans.

An ant runs mainly on innate behaviour, so it would take only one "trigger" to trigger an action or even a complex sequence of actions.

Humans rely mainly on learned behaviour, it would be much harder to make a human do something.

Answer 4

Actually, this is quite real, and other parasites can indeed have a pronounced impact on the behavior of mammals, including mice and men.  There's one that specifically attacks the mouse brain, causing it to lack fear when a cat is present, so that it quickly becomes cat-food, the parasite thereby being ingested by the cat, which then comes out in the f***s, which other mice trample over and pick up the same parasite, thus completing the parasite life-cycle.  There is still another that's borne by cats (not exactly the same) that has been shown to have an impact on humans that have picked it up, subtly altering the mood and behavior of humans.  Let's see if I can find links on those two.  It's unfortunately not as rare as one would hope to believe.

Answer 5

Stay away from snail slime and i think you'll be fine,

But seriously, i think this would only work in ants or any bugs. a mammals brain is way to complicated to fully control by a parasite.