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The OCD...Last semester in my College Seminar we read about a woman who was physically challenged and it was this extensive boredom that she went through every single day of her life that led her to make patterns in the Yellow Wallpaper in her room. From just plain patterns, soon it led to moving designs. Through these illusions, she even started to notice a woman who was "trapped" in the wallpaper and was looking for a way out. And of course, from one woman it went on to lots of them who were trapped inside looking for their way out. The woman herself then wanted to find out about these women and started feeling like she was trapped inside the wallpaper too. She was found taring the wallpaper trying to find "freedom" from the wallpaper.

 It was neurotic obsession I guess, that led the woman to do what she did. It will certainly be more interesting to find out about the ways that the brain finds patterns in different things.