Originally the title of a
book, Rust Cycle Tetralogy is a condition in which you feel as if you are being wiped from history
piece by
piece, slowly over the course of an extended period of
time, until you are completely gone. Your friends will forget hanging out with you.
Work you've done at your
job will simply disappear. That lunch you made earlier and ate? It's back on the kitchen counter, untouched. "I think I'
m beginning to disappear".
This condition was first recorded by Bernard
Muse, a botanist who set out with the intent of recording and researching the rust cycle in wheat plants on a secluded farm in Utah. Over the course of the winter while trying to study and transcribe the wheat degradation cycle, he would start experiencing the symptoms listed above, and writing them down in his
book "The Rust Cycle Tetralogy", which the condition is now named after. His
book was found with other personal items when he failed to return
home after the allocated
time for his stay on the farm finished. Bernard was unfortunately never found.
While the condition does have some similarities to Dementia or other mental degradation diseases, it differs in the fact that other people seem to forget about things you said or did, instead of you yourself forgetting. This condition is speculated to cause a myriad of psychiatric damage to ones self, as you continue to second guess everything you think.
"Hey
Bill! remember us going the Yankees game last Tuesday night? it was so
crazy that they managed to comeback and win like that at the end!"
"What do you mean? After
work I watched The Office for the whole evening."
"I think I'm suffering from a case of Rust Cycle Tetralogy"
