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Lucid Dreaming. By lucid dreaming, you can gain complete control over the one place that no one will ever care about: your imagination. Just The Facts Lucid dreaming is a scientifically proven phenomenon. While some get into lucid dreaming in order to treat chronic nightmares, or to experience all facets of the human experience, approximately 99.8% of people use it as a tool for cheap and interactive 3D porn.
A lucid dream is a dream in which the dreamer is aware that he or she is dreaming, and he or she can even choose to control and manipulate his or her dream. How to Take Control of Your Dreams: So, you've doubled your weight over the past five years, you own a record-shattering collection of greasy pizza boxes and broken aspirations, and you're beginning to consider installing a toilet bowl in the place of your computer chair? In order to even begin to get control over your dreams, there are a few preliminary tasks you must complete. The Tasks: 1. "What? " Calm down! 2. Wake Initiated Lucid Dreams: L'esprit de l'escalier. L'esprit de l'escalier or l'esprit d'escalier ("staircase wit") is a French term used in English that describes the predicament of thinking of the perfect retort too late. Origin[edit] This name for the phenomenon comes from French encyclopedist and philosopher Denis Diderot's description of such a situation in his Paradoxe sur le comédien.[1] During a dinner at the home of statesman Jacques Necker, a remark was made to Diderot which left him speechless at the time, because, he explains, "l’homme sensible, comme moi, tout entier à ce qu’on lui objecte, perd la tête et ne se retrouve qu’au bas de l’escalier" ("a sensitive man, such as myself, overwhelmed by the argument levelled against him, becomes confused and can only think clearly again [when he reaches] the bottom of the stairs").
In this case, “the bottom of the stairs” refers to the architecture of the kind of hôtel particulier or mansion to which Diderot had been invited. Similar English terms[edit] In other languages[edit] Unbelievable Paper Transformer. Tall Painting.
Japanese numbers. [Back to the main Japanese page] When learning a foreign language, you would think that at least the numbers would be simple (don't we all have ten fingers?). We do all have ten fingers, but actually, number-related expressions in Japanese can be confusing. Learning to Count All Over Again There are several differences between the way Japanese and Indo-European languages deal with numbers. First of all, in Japanese there are two words for four, seven, and nine, but they're not interchangeable; you just have to know which one to use in each case.
But that's only the beginning of the number woes. First, the "counter" system. Now, there is a second, more generic, number system, in which you don't need a counter. Why use counters? Many languages classify nouns into various groups. English is one of the rare languages that has neither counters nor gendered nouns. But wait-- there's even more about numbers to confuse the Western mind. Not so in Japanese.
Numbers and the Uniqueness of Japanese. 36 Pictures That Look Photoshopped – But Are Not. The power of Photoshop is amazing, but still it doesn’t beat the power of imagination. Although many photos taken by professional photographers and enhanced in Photoshop can be absolutely stunning, the photos taken wisely and in a creative manner are even more impressive. Today’s showcase is dedicated to such photos, the ones that make people skeptical about not being manipulated and still they are genuine and impressive. They can be really inspiring and a pride to every photographer’s portofolio, no matter if they are funny, dramatic or just miracles of nature. Salar de Uyuni Water Fairy Burn the Sky Roof Dancers Infinite Possibilities Gelato di Nuvola God’s Canvas Please Don Not Fall, Cloud Lending a Helping Hand Cloud Dragon Falling Up Escape from Fairytale Land Morning Mood Got You Now Playing with Perspective Revenge Hot Dog More than a Mouthful Stool Camel Kisser There Is No Spork In Memoriam Jump from the Ship Rubber Duck Watusi Bull Volcanic Lightning Weather Phenomena Infamous Guatemala Sinkhole Last Drop.
Kitten riding turtle. Japan Has Pretty Manholes. If you think there's a problem with telling a group of Japanese people that they have really pretty manholes, then you're ignorant and we don't want to talk to you. Japan has some of the beautifully decorated manhole covers we've ever seen, but you'd be likely to miss them if you didn't bend over and take a better look. Here are a few of our favorite painted and etched manholes from Japan's city streets. Still life: Bent objects » Article » OWNI.eu, Digital Journalism. UPDATE: The Return of Bent Objects Wires transform these objects from inanimate to hilarious works of art. Little polish girl McDonalds as Sculpture Materials Yeah, this is where those come from Dancing Queens English breakfast Sylvia Muffin put her head in the oven. The introvert Bananas in bed – let’s slip into bed together You Say Tomato, I Say Tomahto. Fruit with life experience Zombies are nuts about brains Modest pear Literary interpretations Paper training our little dog, Frank A little cat doodle Photo Credits: Terry Border at Bent Objects View more In Pictures sets on Owni.eu.
Seven Things You Didn't Know About Medical Marijuana. Get Topic Updates Share Slideshow Written by Emily Lapkin and Medically Reviewed by Scott Pearlman, M.D. 1. Legal in 15 States Think you know it all about medical marijuana? You might be surprised to learn it's already legal in 15 states. Advertisement. The blue and the green.
Via my evil twin Richard Wiseman comes one of the best color optical illusions I have ever seen. The original was apparently posted on Buzzhunt Akiyoshi Kitaoka’s incredible optical illusion website: You see embedded spirals, right, of green, pinkish-orange, and blue? Incredibly, the green and the blue spirals are the same color. At first I thought Richard was pulling our collective legs, being a trickster of high magnitude. So I loaded the image in Photoshop and examined the two spirals. In the two squares displayed below, the one on the left is colored using the same color from the blue spiral, and on the right using the green spiral. Like I said, incredible!
The reason they look different colors is because our brain judges the color of an object by comparing it to surrounding colors. See? The overall pattern is a spiral shape because our brain likes to fill in missing bits to a pattern. So the next time someone swears they saw Jesus, or a UFO, or a ghost, show them this picture. Norway_102_by_lonelywolf2.jpg (JPEG Image, 1280x840 pixels) World's smallest orchid discovered with petals only one cell thick. American botanist Lou Jost, one of the world's leading orchid hunters, is responsible for discovering 60 new species of orchid in the last decade alone.
But it's his latest discovery that might be the most unique and unusual. "I found it among the roots of another plant that I had collected, another small orchid which I took back to grow in my greenhouse to get it to flower," he said of his latest discovery. "A few months later I saw that down among the roots was a tiny little plant that I realized was more interesting than the bigger orchid.
" As reported by The Independent, the minuscule new orchid is just 2.1 mm wide, and instantly supersedes the species Platystele jungermannioides as the world's smallest. In fact, the petals are so thin that they are just one cell thick and transparent. It was found in the Cerro Candelaria reserve in the Ecuadorian Andes, a remote region made famous as home to most of the world's smallest orchids. Code of Conduct. Still Looking For Paradise? Maldives - justpaste.it.
Double chain of twenty-six atolls… The Republic of Maldives, or simply the Maldives, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean. It consists of approximately 1,190 coral islands grouped in a double chain of 26 atolls, along the north-south direction, spread over roughly 90,000 square kilometers, making this one of the most disparate countries in the world. The atolls are composed of live coral reefs and sand bars, situated atop a submarine ridge 960 kilometers long that rises abruptly from the depths of the Indian Ocean and runs from north to south.
Crystal clear waters, beautiful white sand beaches, swaying palm trees and fabulous dive sites – that’s why the Maldives, is known for being one of the best tropical holiday destinations in the world. ...and no need to climb ;) With an average ground level of 1.5 metres (4 ft 11 in) above sea level, it is the lowest country on the planet. Summer never ends ... Crystal clear waters and azure blue lagoons... Resorts in the Maldives. DeviantART: where ART meets application! DearRebeccaRose on deviantART. Facebook. Welcome to Gaia.