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Patient is driving in an unfamiliar area, looking for a specific address. Without conscious thought, their hand reaches for the volume knob and turns the radio down. Or off completely. The volume had no effect on visibility. The patient knows this. The radio has been off for four minutes. Patient is now, somehow, seeing house numbers more clearly. Has turned the radio back up after parking, as if the lowering were a temporary ritual.
Chronic. Triggered by tight parking, heavy rain, and unfamiliar addresses.
None. Cognitive load is, apparently, routed through the ears.
Patients with Chronic Volume-Vision Correlation Disorder typically present with some or all of the following:
Chronic Volume-Vision Correlation Disorder was added to the Institute catalog in response to a pattern our clinicians kept seeing. The pattern did not have a real name. This is the real name now. Everything about this entry is made up, except the behavior.
The Institute has assigned this condition the Latin binomial Visio per silentium phantomica — fictional nomenclature for a non-fictional pattern.
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