ThoLa, How about OND, "Optics Neurosis Disorder"? The symptoms I get are Hitchockian/Daliesque nightmares involving being pursued by large melting binoculars, itchy finger on the trigger of my credit card, and constantly mumbling to myself "What IS Pincushioning?".
Hey, Paul, don´t take it personally, no offence intended, we were really just having a joke at our own expense here. Happy Birding.
Good morning, Doctor Sancho!
As regards OND (aka Insanitas binocularis ridiculosa) an old tribesman in the really very rural parts of Papua-Neuguinea once suggested a cure that you might try:
I was told that strolling deep into a suffienctly large forest in the dead of the night, then burying the credit card 4 feet deep under a beech tree at least 200 years old in the vicinity of poisonous mushrooms will provide relief.
Medically this is known als "cold withdrawal".
It was said, though, it will only work if carried out during the two nights immediately preceding full moon.
Reports that biting off a hen's head while filling up the hole again increases the effectiveness of the treatment are unconfirmed.
As regards nightmares I can only remember one:
I was standing a bank of a raging river, pointing my brandnew, ultra-expensive Hypervid E/F-L at the sky, looking out with shivering fingers for those infamous colour fringes. Stumbling backwards, pale in the face and hyperventilating I was dropping my jaw on my chest and the binos into the river, because I had discovered the most monstrous chromatic abberation of truly psychedelic proportions. My knees went limp and I took to the ground, my hands clasping the wet muddy sand of the river bank. With my mouth full of grass I have bitten off in a tormentous reflex I roll over on my back ..... to discover through the blurred vision of my watery, tear-filled eyes I had just been looking at .......... a rainbow.
Do you think I ought to spend my money on a trip to Vienna to find out what Dr. Freund would make out of this?
Or would purchasing a Zeiss Conquest have some value as a kind of alternative therapy?
Oh, Dr. Sancho, can you help?
I have to run now to find some cortison, I feel that bino-rush coming on again.
Tom