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It is extremely difficult for me to seriously consider any so-called intellectual comments or opinions of someone who cannot even construct a sentence or paragraph properly. Please learn how to write down and convey your thoughts correctly, or stay off of written media.

Hey i have a solution for that i don't know it will work or not.
1st thing u should not put ur hands on ur chest while sleeping.
2nd thing put a glass of water under ur bed becore sleeping.

Total bullshit Russ your just looking for a platform to get your ego stroked. Thats spritual mumbo jumbo if ever i heard some. From brain injury survivor !

my wife Susan suffered from a cerebral at the leak at the skull base its very hard for me to write about this i am not very clever especially with writing or explanation its very complex and my spelling is not that good so i hope you will bare with me i will not finish tonight but will endeavour to write up what happened to MY Wife Susan ;During the late 1980s Susan was very ill with deliberating headaches neck pains unfortunately this was not diagnosed properly she consulted with our doctor but who was completely ignorant as are many doctors he gave Susan neck brace but this was useless Susan was still very ill and he suggested that Susan should an optician Susan went to the optician he found a bulge in her eye he sent Susan back to doctors who sent Susan to hospital they kept Susan in overnight transferring Susan to the Shooters Hill hospital were she she remained for several weeks we or Susan was not told what was wrong with her only she had cranial hypertension to the both of us that meant nothing we were not told what was wrong with Susan. Susan was not told any thing nor was i remember a doctor being very rude to me and never explained what was wrong with Susan ,we knew that Susan had cranial hypertension but it meant nothing to us unless you are conversant with it you are completely in the dark ,i thought tension was pressure not loss of pressure through a leak this was in 1989 it went on till 2005 sorry not to finish but its very complex the out come is worth following Terry Gray,

Hi, you asked me if It's a sign of weakness and I'm pretty sure it's is because after that whole incident I started getting panic and anxiety attacks every night. I couldn't sleep because I was afraid to, I was getting depression just for the thought of what is going to happen to me when I fall asleep. So I think the reason behind these sleep paralysis is people showing signs of weakness.

I am a former methamphetamine junky. I currently have maintained 13 years of sobriety. I am also currently in college and this is my last semester before acquiring my Associates Degree in Behavioral Science in our community college here. I will then go on to the University and resume my studies to obtain my Bachelor's Degree in Behavioral Science. I am planning to be in the field of Substance Abuse Counseling, case management, mental health, in whichever the good Lord sees fit to open the door to have me to do? I used meth, cooked meth, and sold meth. I ate it, smoked it, and eventually shot it up several times a day. I have had many experiences with cooking, tanks of anhydrous blowing up, people cooking over open fires with ether and catching themselves on fire, people actually killing other people to keep them from snitching on them, and the list goes on. I have read several comments in here and some I can relate too, while others are just opinionated according to their own experiences- in which I can understand that as we are all addicts- yet we are each unique in our own ways. No two people are exactly the same- while no 2 people have exactly the same story. I feel that is a fair statement. I have been in the "addiction" side of drugs, and I am now in the "education" side of drugs, in which there is much for an addict to learn about addiction. The studies of addiction and the outcomes are very interesting. What causes people to become addicts and why some continue to use drugs and choose to not overcome addiction is interesting. Addiction does not just happen to everyone else. It happens to at least 1 person in every family, and it happens to many people in some families. My husband has been in prison for 20 calendar years because of a bad choice he made while on meth. Though he has turned his life around completely, he is still paying for 1 bad choice. I only have 2 biological sons that are both in prison serving lengthy prison sentences due to bad choices they made while on meth. I have a step son in prison for the same thing. I have had 2 cousins brutally murdered by persons under the effects of meth. I had a cousin commit suicide because he couldn't overcome meth addiction.
Why did I take all of the time to write all of this? My point is to make people aware of how much negative impact that drug addiction can have on a family. Whether its meth, heroin, cocaine, pills, or alcohol, they are all as addictive as the other. Drug addiction generally leads to jails- institutions- or death! If I can share this and gain enough attention to keep 1 or many people from going through what myself and my family have been through- THEN IT IS VERY WORTH IT! I am all alone because my whole immediate family are all in prison because of things they did while on drugs. So if someone ever offers you to try drugs- please remember- this is MY story- but don't think for a second that it can't be YOUR story too! Say no to drugs! May God bless and keep you all drug free- your future depends on it!

Hi everyone i want to share my experience. I just had this experience. This thing happens many times with me even when i travel. I can feel everyone around me. I don't hear any loud voices or any shadow. I just freeze and always want anyone to touch so that i can come in normal state. I want to much more about it.is it a sign of weakness. Reply me or call me

Life is a precarious thing - if a population's birth rate falls below two (and a bit) children per couple (as it has done in western cultures) it risks extinction. After 2 billion years of sexual reproduction, one would think that evolution would have solved the problem of successfully matching male and female (of course, evolution can't predict changes in climate, or the emergence of other external phenomena that may affect population survival).

When it comes to mate selection, the simplest rule: WHAT WORKED ONCE STANDS A BETTER THAN RANDOM CHANCE OF WORKING AGAIN seems obvious, even infallible. It implies that the closer the child can become like its same sex parent, and later choose as a mate the closest replica it can find of the opposite sex, the more likely the match will result in a successful birth. After all, this is the whole point of sexual reproduction - to pass on a package of life-promoting physical and behavioural traits. Yet observation says otherwise.

Can anyone suggest why this simple rule is not in operation? How could other mechanisms override this rule?

There is no right way to dance. Everyone who loves music gets into it in their own way. Those who worry about how good they look are more interested in the way they're being perceived and so aren't truly immersed in the music but those who just move in a way that brings them pleasure regardless of judgement are more part of the music. If you want to go purely on aesthetics, then I've seen attractive and unattractive dancers of every race. Those white people that are seen as unable to dance are likely dancing with more abandon in their rooms where there isn't an audience to shallowly judge them against their own personal idea of what constitutes "good dancing". There are as many ways of personal expression through dance as there are people. And not everyone gets into posing on the dance floor, some just don't give an eff and prefer to just move how they move. You can entirely lose yourself to music just by moving your hands. Dance equals free expression. And for those that maintain that white people can't dance most definitely haven't been to the parties that I have. Connecting with music on a deep level is a spiritual experience whether you're stomping the earth or reaching for the sky. Let's put this myth to rest and accept that everyone can dance and aesthetics are subjective.

Hi Irina,

Sorry you and your husband are going through all this. If he is monitored closely and getting treatment, his chances of keeping a lot of vision are very good. The key is to see the eye doctor whenever he notices any changes, not to wait, because it is crucial to get prompt treatment if you have a bleed. I don't think using one eye can weaken it. I have never come across anything saying that. However, if he were to patch the bad eye (which I have been tempted to do before in order to focus better out of the good eye), the patched eye can become lazy from lack of use, so they don't recommend that.

As to your question of whether people have useful vision in an eye affected by CNV, I think there is probably a wide range out there. I think it rarely takes away all vision, but it really depends where the scaring is and how quickly it is treated. Mine is right in the center of my eye, so I have pretty much no central vision in that eye. I eventually found out that my CNV is from an inflammatory condition related to myopia. Treatment for that has caused glaucoma and cataracts. My eye is constantly dilated and I pretty much can only see 20/400 out of that eye right now, but I'm still amazed at how much I CAN see with that level of loss. It's all in flux right now, so I hope that I get more improvement, as I originally got down from 20/400 to 20/40. I HIGHLY recommend requesting an ICG dye test if your husband's doctor did not do one. It allows them to see more in the retina than with OCT and fluorescein angiography. I saw several well known retina specialists and none of them did this test on me. When it was finally done, they discovered an inflammatory condition that had gone untreated for 7 months, causing permanent damage. There is an article on pubmed about myopia and inflammation: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22454750. It talks about the "iceberg" effect of the ICG test because so many things can be missed without it. Not saying everyone has something that can be found on that test, but it is certainly worth ruling out inflammatory lesions as a cause of vision loss at the outset.

i agree with you that susceptibility carries a harsh suggestion that one is vulnerable. of course, it's true. they are. hypnosis is mind control and all of us who practice it know damned well that it is. no one wants to forget a number or their name or wants to be humiliated on stage; social expectation, peer pressure, and knowing what a show usually entails have no effect once a subject is under; their awareness is fundamentally truncated; whatever they thought they were up there for, they are up there for entirely different reasons once in trance. and no one is merely playing along; as you know, playing along makes them more likely to enter trance, so all aboard! no one has volition while under--they simply obey. they obey because their critical faculties are offline thanks to hyper focus; all the general understanding they possess is now hidden behind the mentally weakening effect of that focus. they now slur speech, for example, a sure sign of impaired reasoning. their grammar simplifies. complexities smooth into simplicity. so, yeah, faykabe requires we all pretend they have volition while under. saying this puts subjects at ease. at ease, they go under more easily and once under belong to us.

so, all that said, reassuring the subject is vital.

i suggest the anodyne term "compatibility." there is no charge positive or negative to being compatible. it enhances the illusion of volition, too. makes it sound almost romantic. all for the better since change work has been shown time and time again to be amplified when a subject prefers the magic to the science.

i was looking for a summary and i found this and i was so excited but its so fucking long i might as well just read the book oml good job tho thanks i guess fml help me

--lowkey annoyed teenager

sorry for the random "lingo" that i used if anyone reads this rip

Agreed that a better understanding of what is actually happening in patients with Arnold-Chiari malformation is needed. Thanks for posting!