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Pineal Weirdness
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Because the human pineal gland is buried deep in the fleshy bits of the brain and was the last part of the endocrine system to be understood, it's picked up a bunch of mystical baggage. It's often associated with telepathy and/or enlightenment; sometimes it's referred to as a "Third Eye". To be fair, The Other Wiki does say that in nonmammal vertebrates the pineal gland has cells similar to those in the retina. In some reptiles, fish, and amphibians, it even connects to an external opening and has light-sensing properties (which serve to regulate physiological day/night cycles rather than to perceive). The pituitary gland can also be used in a similar way, possibly because writers don't know the difference. Another option is the adrenal gland, especially as Urban Legends claim that the psychoactive compound adrenochrome can be obtained only via adrenal glands extracted from a living victim (a myth that seems to have originated in Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas). Even cerebrospinal fluid is sometimes treated as a liquid equivalent, thanks to the vampiric implications and the chance to have victims of CSF-theft actually survive their loss. Often this runs in tandem with 90% of Your Brain. The Trope Maker is none other than Rene Descartes, who believed that the pineal gland was the "seat of the soul", and the connection point between mind and body. He wasn't the only one, as both scientists and occultists were quite enthusiastic about the idea for a while. Today, scientists like Rick Strassman theorize that the dimethyltryptamine naturally present in the human body may originate from the pineal gland and could be responsible for dreaming. The human pineal gland's accepted function, by the way, is to produce melatonin, a hormone that helps to regulate sleeping patterns, plus a tiny amount of antioxidant. Mess with the thing, and the most you'll get as a result is insomnia, not ESP. |
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Future Times Three treats the matter slightly more realistically than most examples. In the far future, a subspecies of humanity that specializes in improved eyesight has three eyes on stalks. One of them is the pineal gland, which has (re)gained full functionality as a visual organ. | |
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In Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the protagonists convince a police officer that there's a plot to kill suburbanites for their pineal glands. This later turns out to be true (sort of). The story also originated related myths about the adrenal gland, namely that the purported hallucinogen adrenochrome can only be found in adrenal glands extracted from living victims. In Real Life, adrenochrome's supposed psychoactive properties are wildly exaggerated, and it can be easily obtained or synthesized without any murder necessary. | |
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In the Team Fortress 2 comic "Old Wounds", Medic injects a whale's pineal gland into Sniper's brain stem, and dismisses Sniper's vision of going to Heaven and meeting his adoptive parents again as a mere hallucination. | |
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In Earth 2, the changes to Uly's system after his Terrian healing were suspected to have started in his pineal gland. Julia, his doctor, lied about it to protect him and the matter was quietly dropped. | |
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In the Fringe episode "The Same Old Story", a serial killer is killing women and stealing their pituitary glands. Walter Bishop deduces that it's related to a project he worked on for the government involving hyper-aging test-tube soldiers. The killer is one of the hyper-aging test subjects, and he's using the pituitary glands to maintain his age. Otherwise, he'd grow old and die really fast. | |
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Early fan theories posited that the pineal gland was the source of superpowers in Heroes, and to be what Sylar takes in order to absorb powers. Both of these are shown to be false in later seasons; powers are controlled by the adrenal glands, not the pineal. We also see the part of the brain Sylar interacts with, and it's nowhere near the pineal. | |
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From Beyond: The mad scientist stimulates his pineal gland, allowing him to see into other dimensions. Freshly put to use, it grows to the extent that it pops out of his head on a stalk. To the further amusement of anyone familiar with brain anatomy, as the stalk extends in front, yet the pineal gland is near the back of the human brain. | |
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Resident Evil: Gun Survivor shows how Tyrants are made — their key ingredient is a hormone secreted in the pineal gland of adolescent boys feeling extreme terror or stress. Umbrella's answer for harvesting such: remove the gland without anesthetic. Needless to say, it works. | |
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In Aberrant, Novas draw their power from the Node, a part of their brain that grows in size when their power is awakened and grows further as they become more powerful. While no mention of it being the pineal gland has been made, it is implied to follow this rationale. | |
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Supergirl's Greatest Challenge has Supergirl visiting the future in response to a call for help from the Legion of Super-Heroes. To get her up to date on the pending crisis, they use a future-tech device to download the info into her "'Third Eye' pineal gland". | |
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Averted in Ever17 when there's a brief discussion of the pineal gland and how it relates to the third eye, but it's dismissed as nonsense. They even mention Descartes' theories about it and the evolutionary history of it as a light-sensitive organ. | |
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In the Vorkosigan Saga novel Ethan of Athos, the Cetagandan Empire figures out how to bioengineer telepathy; their starting point is a homeless woman with a mutated pineal gland. | |
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In The X-Files, the Black Cancer (or Oil), an alien life-form capable of taking control of its host, nests around the pineal body. It's mentioned briefly in "Terma" but never elaborated upon. Interestingly, the most prominent place the Oil is shown to reside is in the eyes. Cue Wild Mass Guessing. | |
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In Firestarter, one of these glands is a seat to Charlie McGee's power. | |
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In The Girl from Tomorrow, the pituitary gland has a telepathic function in humans. | |
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Vampire: The Masquerade: In Clanbook: Malkavian, there are a few references made to the pineal gland. | |
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Stargate SG-1 flirts with this trope in "Morpheus", in which the danger-of-the-week is a parasite that puts people to sleep and then eventually kills them by causing aneurysms near their pineal gland. They eventually figure out that the parasite is feeding on melatonin — which is what the pineal gland actually produces — so in the end it's more an example of Pineal Normality. | |
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In Promethean: The Created, the pineal gland is the source of the ectoplasmic humor that sustains the Ulgans. The pineal gland isn't actually special in humans, though — in humans, the humors are metaphorical, not literal, and there's no such thing as an ectoplasmic humor, because the theory of humors was about physical and mental traits, not spiritual. | |
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In Bubblegum Crisis 2040, Dr. Stingray's Boomer technology is ultimately based on a reproduction of his wife's pineal gland implanted into his daughter Sylia's brain to grow into the first Boomer cores. The Knight Sabers' hardsuits are derived from the same basic technology, which greatly restricts who can use them successfully. In addition, the implant resonates with prototype unit Galatea to give all three Knight Sabers visions of Sylia's past. | |
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The Flash (2014): Powers caused by the Central City Mass Super-Empowering Event are a result of dark matter in the pituitary gland. A cure is developed which neutralizes this dark matter and can nullify the powers. | |
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Superman: One Silver Age comic has Superman exposed to radiation that causes his pineal gland to develop into a literal third eye, which allows him to defeat the villain. Supergirl's Greatest Challenge has Supergirl visiting the future in response to a call for help from the Legion of Super-Heroes. To get her up to date on the pending crisis, they use a future-tech device to download the info into her "'Third Eye' pineal gland". |
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The Alligator People: Secretions from alligator pituitary glands cause rapid regeneration that repairs injured humans' wounds, only to cause them to sprout scales within a year of treatment. | |
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In Plan 9 from Outer Space, stimulating the pineal and pituitary glands of corpses turns them into zombies. | |
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In The Leech Woman, the juice from the pineal gland combined with a certain type of pollen forms an effective (but temporary) Fountain of Youth. | |
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Top 10: One alien's diet is based on the chemicals secreted by the pineal gland, requiring a round of brain eating once a year. Police initially think it's just a calendar-themed serial killer. This assumption is helped by the fact all the past victims are prostitutes. | |
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In the Futurama episode "The Tip of the Zoidberg", Dr. Zoidburg cures the Professor's "yetism" by transferring the pineal gland of a yeti into him, the explanation being that it produces a counter-toxin to the one in the yeti's claws. | |
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In Spinnerette, all Super-Empowering Cherenkov-Kirby reactors are made from the pineal gland of Doctor Zhang, a.k.a. Ultra, the first superhero. | |
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The Venture Bros.: In "Eeny Meeny Miney Magic", Dr. Venture's Lotus-Eater Machine "The Joy Can" operates by creating a direct link to the subject's pineal gland. | |
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In the Postal 2 Expansion Pack Apocalypse Weekend, when you go to the insane asylum, you find scrawlings within that detail plans to eat the inmates' pineal glands with a fork. These show up in several areas, so it's not quite clear whether the inmates, the staff, or both were planning on harvesting the inmates. | |
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In "From Beyond", a Mad Scientist creates a machine which stimulates the pineal gland, allowing humans to see really clearly. Apparently, "fresh air" and "blue sky" are made out of amoeba-like monstrosities, and some unspeakable, unseen things stalk other lifeforms, and consume them into nothingness in seconds. This is the main risk for humans who open their eyes into this true reality, because what's actually going on is that they're seeing into normally invisible dimensions that intersect with ours. The danger is that people who gain the ability to see into those dimensions also become visible to the things that live there. | |
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Team Fortress 2: In the Fancy vs. Nasty update, the Fists of Steel description says: | |
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Cosmic Disclosure: The Secret Space Program shocks employees to activate their pineal glands. For Corey, it was intended to increase his intuition powers. Even the whistleblowers don't really know what the pineal gland is for, but it's associated with astral projection and the light body. | |
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In American Gothic (1995), Lucas mentions the supposed importance of the pineal gland/third eye. Yancy then stabs him in the area in an attempt to kill him. | |
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In Principia Discordia (and thus also in Illuminatus!), the pineal gland is the organ that allows communication with Eris. | |
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In GURPS: Thaumatology, one of the ways to draw on the hermetic decan of Alleborith, associated with "pure" magic, is to use a pineal gland. | |
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In one of the Lensman books, an alien doctor is able to make the (human) hero regenerate by stimulating his pineal gland. | |
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Elfen Lied: The Diclonii start their lives as humans with a huge pineal gland. If their psychic "Vector" arms come in contact with a normal human's pineal gland, that human will only create Diclonii when they reproduce. | |
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Mage: The Awakening has a legacy in which on the first attainment the pineal gland fully develops into a black eye that pops out of the back of the Mage's skull. It enables them to have 360° vision, see the past and prophecy the future. | |
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An alien version occurs in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Repentance", in which an alien psychopath was born with a detached equivalent of the pineal gland, leaving him prone to violent behavior. This changes when the Doctor treats him for head injuries sustained in a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown and accidentally reattaches the gland in question, triggering an immediate Heel–Face Turn. | |
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In Kingdom of Loathing, there used to be a quest where you had to collect the pineal glands of zombies to make a vaccine. Zombie Pineal Glands still have a purpose: they're a small but essential component of a literal Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot. The event ended a long time ago, and for a good while, pineal glands were extremely expensive in the Mall. Eventually, the Item of the Month known as "the Deck of Every Card" gave players a way to fight zombies from the event, giving a new way for pineal glands to enter the Kingdom. | |
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In Artemis Fowl and The Opal DeceptionOpal Koboi has a human pituitary gland grafted to her brain, not for any supernatural purpose, but so that the growth hormone it produces will cause her to gradually grow larger, in order to pass off as a human (at the time of the story, she is pretending to be a child). It also has the unintentional side effect of draining her magic for some reason, though she is unaware of it until she finally runs out at the worst possible time. | |
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In The Company Novels, the artificial hormone that makes cyborgs The Ageless is called "Pineal Tribrantine 3". | |
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