You’re riding your bike down the road when all of a sudden you hit a rock and fly off your bike onto the ground. You feel an aching pain then everything goes black.

Explanation: Reduplicative Paramnesia can be caused by trauma to the head such as car accidents, or in this case, a bike accident. In other cases, it can be caused by strokes.

You wake up after what seems to be days later in the hospital. You look up and see tons of doctors looking down at you. You can hear them saying things like, “right frontal”, “temporal lobe”, and “memory dysfunctions.”

Explanation: Often times the cause of reduplicative paramnesia is the damaging of the frontal or temporal lobe of the brain.

The doctors sit you up and call out your name. You stare, then finally ask, “Where am I?”

They say, “you fell and hit your head hard.”

Explanation: Patients with reduplicative paramnesia become confused and can't think completely straight when first being diagnosed.

You feel a sharp pain in your forehead. Like a headache but much worse. Your confused so you call for the doctor.

Explanation: Reduplicative paramnesia can cause pain for patients mostly when it is first triggered.

You say, “doctor, I need to go to my room.”

He replies, “you are in your room.”

You say, “I want to go to my room. My room with the hospital bed with the clean white sheets. And my room with the window on the right hand wall when facing the bed. My room with the orange cup of water on the bedside table.

Explanation: It is most common for people with reduplicative paranesia to duplicate their house or the hospital they're in. The room that is duplicated is often an exact copy.

“You just described the room you’re in right now.” He said.

“No I’m not,” you reply now getting angry that he doesn’t believe you.

Explanation: People with reduplicative paramnesia often experience troubles when they are accused of lying and/or hallucinating. This can cause the patient to become angry or even more confused.

You then say, “There are the same doctors, same beds, but this is not my room; I need to leave this room to find my clothes and belongings”

Explanation: The room that has been duplicated by a person with reduplicative paramnesia can appear to have all the same aspects, just in a different area.