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When furniture suddenly shrinks and grows

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Step right up for a terrifying, unrequested funhouse mirror experience. This wild neurological glitch scrambles the visual processing centers, causing perfectly normal furniture and household pets to dynamically shrink and violently expand right before the patient's eyes.

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