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Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
It's an interesting fax.
Another interesting fax:
I just had to AXE didn't I?
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
I wish I had someone to hug right now - hubby is up North and son is too cool for all that mushy stuff!
Virtual hug! (((((((Neesy))))))
I wish I had someone to hug right now - hubby is up North and son is too cool for all that mushy stuff!
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
thanks 
Wow - I only wear a size 6 1/2 - 7 - I better go measure my forearm!
Oh my gosh, you girls have tiny feet! I wear a size 10 shoe. My feet are huge.
((((Neesy)))) Go make your son hug you. I make my son hug me everyday. He pretends to hate it, but he'd miss it if we ever stopped.
Fact: I just got sucked into uselessfacts and couldn't get out for ages.
I discovered (among other things): Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their first cousins.
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
Gee - did they have any kids?Oh my gosh, you girls have tiny feet! I wear a size 10 shoe. My feet are huge.
((((Neesy)))) Go make your son hug you. I make my son hug me everyday. He pretends to hate it, but he'd miss it if we ever stopped.
Fact: I just got sucked into uselessfacts and couldn't get out for ages.
I discovered (among other things): Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their first cousins.
No! I've been eating wrong all along!
Hugging yer dealer releases Oxycontin.
I wish I had someone to hug right now - hubby is up North and son is too cool for all that mushy stuff!
!!!!!!!!!!I can turn the tap on in the bath with my foot
"Until the middle of the twentieth century, scientists thought that sleep was an unchanging condition during which time the brain was quiet. The discovery of rapid eye movements in the 1950s upended that. Researchers then realized that sleep is made up of five distinct stages that the body cycles through over roughly ninety-minute periods. The first is so light that if you wake up from it, you might not realize that you have been sleeping. The second is marked by the appearance of sleep-specific brain waves that last only a few seconds at a time. If you reach this point in the cycle, you will know you have been sleeping when you wake up. This stage marks the last stop before your brain takes a long ride away from consciousness.
"Stages three and four are considered deep sleep. In three, the brain sends out long, rhythmic bursts called delta waves. Stage four is known as slow-wave sleep for the speed of its accompanying brain waves. The deepest form of sleep, this is the farthest that your brain travels from conscious thought. If you are woken up while in stage four, you will be disoriented, unable to answer basic questions, and want nothing more than to go back to sleep, a condition that researchers call sleep drunkenness. The final stage is REM sleep, so named because of the rapid movements of your eyes dancing against your eyelids. In this type of sleep, the brain is as active as it is when it is awake. This is when most dreams occur.
The Nightmare, by Henry Fuseli (1781)
"Your body prepares for REM sleep by sending out hormones to effectively paralyze itself so that your arms and legs don't act out the storyline you are creating in your head. This attempt at self-protection doesn't always work perfectly, and when that happens, what follows is far from pleasant. Sometimes, it is the brain that doesn't get the message. This can lead to waking up in the middle of the night with the frightening sensation that you can't move your limbs. In the Middle Ages, this was thought to be a sign that a demon called an incubus was perched on the chest. Instead, this condition is simply a flaw in the sleep cycle, a wrong-footed step in the choreography of the brain's functions that allows a person to become conscious when the body thinks the brain is still dreaming.
"At other times, the body doesn't fully paralyze itself like it is supposed to. This is the root of a series of problems called parasomnias, of which sleepwalking ... is by far the most mild. Patients with REM sleep disorder, for instance, sometimes jump out of a window or tackle their nightstand while they are acting out a dream. Some patients I spoke with who have this disorder have resorted to literally tying themselves to the bedpost each night out of the fear that they will accidentally commit suicide."
"Stages three and four are considered deep sleep. In three, the brain sends out long, rhythmic bursts called delta waves. Stage four is known as slow-wave sleep for the speed of its accompanying brain waves. The deepest form of sleep, this is the farthest that your brain travels from conscious thought. If you are woken up while in stage four, you will be disoriented, unable to answer basic questions, and want nothing more than to go back to sleep, a condition that researchers call sleep drunkenness. The final stage is REM sleep, so named because of the rapid movements of your eyes dancing against your eyelids. In this type of sleep, the brain is as active as it is when it is awake. This is when most dreams occur.
The Nightmare, by Henry Fuseli (1781)
"Your body prepares for REM sleep by sending out hormones to effectively paralyze itself so that your arms and legs don't act out the storyline you are creating in your head. This attempt at self-protection doesn't always work perfectly, and when that happens, what follows is far from pleasant. Sometimes, it is the brain that doesn't get the message. This can lead to waking up in the middle of the night with the frightening sensation that you can't move your limbs. In the Middle Ages, this was thought to be a sign that a demon called an incubus was perched on the chest. Instead, this condition is simply a flaw in the sleep cycle, a wrong-footed step in the choreography of the brain's functions that allows a person to become conscious when the body thinks the brain is still dreaming.
"At other times, the body doesn't fully paralyze itself like it is supposed to. This is the root of a series of problems called parasomnias, of which sleepwalking ... is by far the most mild. Patients with REM sleep disorder, for instance, sometimes jump out of a window or tackle their nightstand while they are acting out a dream. Some patients I spoke with who have this disorder have resorted to literally tying themselves to the bedpost each night out of the fear that they will accidentally commit suicide."
Jellyfish can live forever. They have the ability to age in reverse, growing younger until reaching the earliest stage of development, at which point they begin the life cycle anew.
I dunno about that. I've been awakened from a 20 minute nap and can tell you what I was dreaming."Until the middle of the twentieth century, scientists thought that sleep was an unchanging condition during which time the brain was quiet. The discovery of rapid eye movements in the 1950s upended that. Researchers then realized that sleep is made up of five distinct stages that the body cycles through over roughly ninety-minute periods. The first is so light that if you wake up from it, you might not realize that you have been sleeping. The second is marked by the appearance of sleep-specific brain waves that last only a few seconds at a time. If you reach this point in the cycle, you will know you have been sleeping when you wake up. This stage marks the last stop before your brain takes a long ride away from consciousness.
"Stages three and four are considered deep sleep. In three, the brain sends out long, rhythmic bursts called delta waves. Stage four is known as slow-wave sleep for the speed of its accompanying brain waves. The deepest form of sleep, this is the farthest that your brain travels from conscious thought. If you are woken up while in stage four, you will be disoriented, unable to answer basic questions, and want nothing more than to go back to sleep, a condition that researchers call sleep drunkenness. The final stage is REM sleep, so named because of the rapid movements of your eyes dancing against your eyelids. In this type of sleep, the brain is as active as it is when it is awake. This is when most dreams occur.
The Nightmare, by Henry Fuseli (1781)
"Your body prepares for REM sleep by sending out hormones to effectively paralyze itself so that your arms and legs don't act out the storyline you are creating in your head. This attempt at self-protection doesn't always work perfectly, and when that happens, what follows is far from pleasant. Sometimes, it is the brain that doesn't get the message. This can lead to waking up in the middle of the night with the frightening sensation that you can't move your limbs. In the Middle Ages, this was thought to be a sign that a demon called an incubus was perched on the chest. Instead, this condition is simply a flaw in the sleep cycle, a wrong-footed step in the choreography of the brain's functions that allows a person to become conscious when the body thinks the brain is still dreaming.
"At other times, the body doesn't fully paralyze itself like it is supposed to. This is the root of a series of problems called parasomnias, of which sleepwalking ... is by far the most mild. Patients with REM sleep disorder, for instance, sometimes jump out of a window or tackle their nightstand while they are acting out a dream. Some patients I spoke with who have this disorder have resorted to literally tying themselves to the bedpost each night out of the fear that they will accidentally commit suicide."
Maybe I just have a weird brain.
I am doing this today. I am not joking. When I open my linen closet, sheet creatures leap at me. And, to add anything to the closet, I have to stuff, stuff, stuff, slowly shut the door while the sheet creatures are pushing back, falling through the opening.
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I put this here as it is an interesting fact that linen closets breed and breath.
Pin by Gillian Parsons on Tips & Tricks | Pinterest
I put this here as it is an interesting fact that linen closets breed and breath.
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