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can you explain this more? I am interested in what you mean and how the state of this belief feels...
"No way" might be overstating my past self. (Or maybe I'm misremembering my past self.)
I think it just seems like a really silly thing to do, like trying to heal a would by sewing it together. Like I can kind of see why someone might, in a cargo-culty way, think these things might help, but surely they're just going to make the problem worse?
Clearly this is not a very reliable instinct, on my part.
Assuming you mean "heal a wound", sewing a wound together is a rather common treatment for wounds.
Yes, I was poking fun at myself.
(I discovered that when reading Order of the Phoenix. "It sounds as though you've been trying to sew your skin back together, but even you, Arthur, wouldn't be that stupid." Wait, that actually is what stiches are?)
Oops, sorry about missing what should have been obvious!
I am still confused; maybe can you describe the mechanism by which it would cause the "not helpful" things to happen?
Suppose someone said: "my clothes are cold and wet, so I'm dipping them in warm water so they dry faster". I think I'd have a similar reaction to that. Like sure, warm water evaporates faster, but... really? You think that's going to help?
(If that turns out to work, I will be very annoyed.)
I'm not sure I had any explicit mechanisms in mind. These were gut reactions. But I can try to elaborate on the reactions.
With dizziness: you've spun to get dizzy and now you're spinning more and that's obviously just going to get you more dizzy.
With stitches: the problem is a hole in your skin and you're trying to fix it by adding more holes and running some thread through them? Thread does not belong inside your body!