This page is dedicated to the symptoms that go beyond a one liner. This is for those people who have actual stories about how they've watched too much Evangelion. The worst case that has happened to me is I was asked for ID in a store (I was paying with a check) and I showed my NERV ID instead of my drivers licence. I was asked what NERV was and I proceeded to explain how it was a secret organization run by the U.N. but I was spying on it for the government. What can I say...My hair was pulled back, I was wearing a blue shirt and red tie and I hadn't shaved. Anyway here's the other stories...

"I find your site paticuly amusing... I really like the stories you have on real life Eva situations...I can't tell you how many times I have done that thing with the NERV card. Speaking of wich, Ialso have a true story...

About a month ago a local restraunt was honoring our soilders in the war. They had a big sign in the waiting area that read "by showing us your military ID card you will receive a 40% off any meal" the first thing I thought was damn I wish I had one of those. the second thing that popped into my head was 'Hey Iwonder if Icould get away with showing my NERV ID card.... So while in line I whiped it out and held it up to the cashier posing it as a miltary ID (cause it is). Next thing you know I hear the famous line of all non-eva watchers 'What is NERV?' I then explained that it was an organazation of the UN running in co-op with Geherin. It worked and I got 40% for being stupid enough for trying a stunt like this.

Any way that's a true story. Too bad I don't have anything really cool to write about exept for the time I got people at a church mission group to try and sycronize with each other using Twister mats.. wich by the way I got the idea for that after reading your list.

bye bye" --Brent Noll

"I just read your 'You Know if You Have Watched Too Much NGE If...' Page
'...After watching the entire series, go into into a deep depression for a week, and come out of it understanding the plot in evangelion (even the psycobable stuff.)'

That one made my jaw drop because it was so close to what happened to me.
I watched the whole series in about that time, and it DID make me deeply depressed. And that's not just because I was cutting back on the Paxil. I bet I would have been really freaked out if I had seen it back in '99 or 2000. Actually, I felt horrible and I couldn't stop thinking about NGE no matter how hard I tried for several days, and the only relief came when I saw the very end of episode 26 with the alternate reality, and then Shinji cracking out of his isolation. The last part with all the main characters standing around clapping and saying congradulations on what was apparently a small, blue planet, confused me though."--Nicholas Rutland

"So you like weird things happening after you've watched Evangelion huh? One time while on vacation I went out to the beach in my wet suit to do some surfing. While surfing I fell and smacked my head real hard against the board. When the lifeguard pulled me ashore, I was pretty much in a complete daze. I actually tried to push a button on my left wrist to tighten the plug suit, and didn't understand why Unit 01 wasn't around. For about 3-4 hours I completely hated my father, said yes to everything someone asked of me, and kept asking everyone where Rei and Asuka where. I don't remember any of this, but my parents video taped the whole thing to embarrass and humiliate me later. It sucked. But anyway, that's my Evangelion story, and God help me, it be true" ...Umi Ryuzaki

"At Baka-con '99 in Seattle WA our guests included Tiffany Grant (Dub voice Asuka) and Tristan McAvery (Dub Gendo). Dressed as Kaji at the karaoke, I sang 'Fly me to the moon' to Tiffany while having a girl dressed (not undressed) as Rei (blue hair included) spun around at my request. There was watermelon at the guest reception so of course I had to quip 'I grew this myself'. I was a programming staff for the con and at times I felt I should have been in operations just so Kaji could have a staff badge with 'operations' on it for added realism. Later I found girls to flirt with dressed as Misato and Ritsuko. Luckily I wasn't shot."...Ed1077

Cosmo you want true Evangelion addiction stories? Here's one.

For years, (by now, I think, three years in total) I have been developing (and using, of course) a home automation AI. It is an odd system, consisting of an antique Amiga 500 (in case you don't know, it has very convenient speech capabilities and graphics that put the PCs of it's time to great shame) and some special programs, currently running under OS/2 and glued together with REXX scripts. The Amiga is connected to my intranet (I use about five or so computers, so... ^_^) and acts as a front-end to a special program on one of the PCs which informs me of the goings-on inside the server. Now, that front end is something special. An animated face of Rei, who speaks with proper lip-synch and blinks. Amazes the hell out of my guests when they open the door and Rei greets them. The AI is now into it's third generation, hence, Rei-III, it can handle simple conversations and can perform system management tasks upon request. That wouldn't be half as fun as it is unless the system in question wasn't also a FidoNet node. For those who don't know, FidoNet is a special network protocol which forms modem-to-modem networks, quite popular over here in Russia, though originally started in US. Now, I operate a node system and use Rei-III to automate some mail responses and do some automated regular postings. Because of that, she has a registered mail address.

....and on one odd morning she got a love letter to that address. ^_^ Poor twit. I was going to go through with it and get a friend to wear red contact lens and blue wig, but the guy was kicked off the net for spamming. ^_^"

"I was in my math class and we were doing geometry, so naturally, our teacher suggests that we do a bonus assignment. Draw a 3-D shape and count its edges, faces, and verticies. I figured I needed all the bonus marks I could get, so when he mentioned 3-D shape, I think... shape... polyhedron...octahedron... Ramiel...Evangelion! So I go off with my pencil crayons and knowledge of Evangelion and draw Eva units 00 and 02 beating up Ramiel, the geometric angel. I didn't show up for the class the day he was handing our bonus assignments back ('cause I was studying! no really!)and the next day, I found out that he'd shown it to all the classes. Now the Eva-ignorant think I'm crazy (which I am) and the Eva-enlightened think I'm obsessed (which I am). Anywayz, that's my story."

"Okay, here's my weird EVA thing. Its probably not that weird, but its the first time that its ever happened to me. For the last 6 months you have dreamt a continuous story line in which you are a pilot. Lets see... I've been kidnapped by NERV and told bluntly that if I don't pilot I'm never again going to see the light of day. It was a while before my EVA was ready so I just hung around and went to school with the others, they stuck me in the Plug with Shinji to give me a little experience in the mean time. I've fought about 8 Angels in my own. Ritsuko in cahoots with Seele and a civilian corporation arranged to have Units 01, 02 and my EVA stolen for testing with Kaoru Dummy System and it backfired. The EVA's were returned but mine had some serious damage done to it and it wouldn't let ANYone pilot it. After a long time they put me in her and she rejected the connection, I woke up in hospital (in the dream) really badly injured. They worked the rest of the bugs out and I piloted again, but my sync ratio was so low that I got hurt again in battle. I threw a temper tantrum and wouldn't pilot anymore, because of that Shinji and Asuka wouldn't talk to me. Kaoru turned up at NERV and revealed himself as the 17th Angel and Shinji and I were dispatched to fight. I decided that I'd fight to help Shinji. My sync ratio jumped back up to normal and all I could do in that battle was watch Shinji kill Kaoru. Right now in the dream I'm REALLY mad at myself because there was nothing I could do and my sync ratio has dropped 8 or 9 points and I'm in BIG trouble over that."...Joanne Clinch

"I have had two funny things happen to me lately. Here they are:

1st impact: At the junior high school where I go to, our hand bell chorus was having our spring concert. But we didn't have enough songs. So I went home and had lots of fun.... I took a midi file of "Zankoku na tenshi no thesis", and I went into my Midi workshop with a keyboard. I removed everything except the melody and the immediate harmony and printed them out as sheet music. So we played the Evangelion song at school, and no one knew it except me!

2nd impact: This one happened in computer class. Since all the computers on the Internet are behind a firewall, we had to go to a kiddie game site. I didn't get a computer, so I walked over to where my friend was playing some dumb soccer game. But I looked at someone else and he was playing a game with Japanese buttons. I saw a blue haired head shooting red things at a monster with black legs. I asked him to scroll up, and it was Sachiel, the 3rd Angel! I realized that the blue haired person was Rei, and she was shooting Longinus spears at Sachiel! The name of that game was Evangelion: the Shooting. An Eva game on a kiddie site? Way weird! Evangelion: The Shooting If that will not work, you can find it at bonus.com, under Monster Games. Ja ne!" ...Becky Reid

"While shopping in Seoul, Korea, I entered a shop that sold Anime Serbia. As I examined the merchandise a TV on the wall of the store began playing one of the Eva episodes. Like I normally do, I sang along with the song under my breath. After a few seconds I realized that I wasn't the only one in the store doing it. I looked up and discovered several other people , mostly Koreans, singing under their breath. When the song concluded we all kind of laughed. Talk about breaking a language barrier."...Zoro50