Originally published at: If you want to have a nightmare later, watch this video of Ondine the swimming doll | Boing Boing
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Oh, I know that swimming stroke, it’s called the “froggy paddle.”
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Well not a starring role, but here you go:
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Congenital central hypoventilation syndrome (CCHS), also known as “Ondine’s curse,” is a rare neurological disorder characterized by inadequate breathing during sleep and in more severely affected individuals, during waking periods as well. This disorder is associated with a malfunction of the nerves that control involuntary body functions and abnormal development of early embryonic cells that form the spinal cord.
Congenital Central Hypoventilation Syndrome | Johns Hopkins Medicine
This is the only Ondine I know of. I think it may be less horrifying than the one in the article.
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I see what you mean.
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Isn’t Ondine a water nymph from mythology?
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Apparently.
The nymph Ondine was an immortal water spirit who became human after falling in love for a man, marrying him, and having a baby. In one of the versions of the tale, when she caught her husband sleeping with another woman, she cursed him to remain awake in order to control his own breathing .
So, yeah, don’t screw around on a water nymph.
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I see your creepy scene and raise you a creepier scene.
This one freaked me out a bit.
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Holy fudge, that’s a nightmare and a half!
These days, with instant playback, it is difficult to remember how much more creepy things like this used to be. 
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And i raise you sir any silicone baby doll in the water video; example:
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OK, so sometimes when the princess kisses the frog, he is still a frog, and does not become a handsome prince.
Should the princess continue with this unholy union, Ondine may be the resulting progeny.
Ondine, the Swimming Doll. The one toy you don’t give to a child in the hospital… CCHS patient or not.
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So Ondine turned him from an involuntary breather into a voluntary breather like a dolphin.
(It’s no surprise water nymphs are well versed in marine biology.)
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“She floats and swims by using her bizarrely proportioned libs to propel her forward in the water.”
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The limbs don’t really freak me out, it’s the way her head sticks straight up out of her body like a submarine’s periscope.
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I was disturbed but kept watching to see how terrible it was…never again.
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