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Since before time and space, the world was born and then there were humans!

The True Story Behind The Legendary Mothman Said To Terrorize West Virginia

By All That's Interesting | Edited By Jaclyn Anglis Published October 2, 2021 Updated September 21, 2022

As legend has it, the flying Mothman mortified countless Point Pleasant residents in the late 1960s. And when a bridge collapsed, the creature was blamed for the deaths of 46 people.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/mothman

https://youtu.be/frd_Q_taUds

Fairy Tales, Myths, Ghost Tales, and Folktales had to start somewhere!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy

Past generations, one or the other someone had to have that one family member who shared tall tales and ran with it till now 2023!

Along the way, the "Facts" had to start peering and showing not all stories are fake!

“Now stories must have some truth along with facts!” but sometimes it is good to leave it to the imaginations of the readers.

The {Internet is another way of manipulating the “Truth!”} some would also say; “embellishment is okay to fabricate the truth and it is good to have the readers to make their minds up to believe or not.

EARTH'S WATER IS ALWAYS CHANGING STATES

In a paper published by the University College Dublin's Centre for Water Resources Research, hydrologist James Dooge shares some facts that show the roots of our understanding of Earth's water cycle. According to Dooge, ancient ideas about water's relationship with the planet can be traced from as early as 1,000 B.C., with the Greek poet Homer depicting Earth "floating on a primal ocean." Of course, man's understanding of the water cycle has improved since then. Nowadays, scientists understand that Earth's water cycle (or hydrologic cycle) involves water's never-ending movement and state changes across, above, and even within the planet (via the U.S. Geological Survey) https://www.grunge.com/478229/parts-of-the-bible-that-science-has-confirmed-to-be-true/

We all count on science to provide Proof of how the world works and turns.

Since time, the {world was always mysterious,} things were sent out as a test to question everything and anything.

Sometimes scientists cannot prove the outcome and people sometimes must prove magic or phenomenon does exist.

Televisions, newspapers and even the web are now talking more about the phenomenon that does exist!

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The science behind lucid dreaming,

In lucid dreams, the dreamer realizes they are dreaming even as they remain asleep. What is the science behind this intriguing consciousness phenomenon? This special feature looks at the current research.

Typically, when we dream, we are not aware that we are dreaming, and the most unlikely events, characters, and environments seem real to us.

But now and again, some of us realize that we are in a dream as we are dreaming. This phenomenon is called “lucid dreaming,” and it has stirred the interest of researchers and the public alike.

Learning to control aspects of your dreams can be a great way of exploring activities you could never do in real life, facing and overcoming fears, and learning more about your subconscious.

In a previous special feature on Medical News Today, we have explained what lucid dreams are, talked about some techniques you can apply to achieve them, and looked at whether there are any risks associated with this practice.

So if you are interested in finding out how common lucid dreams are, who is more prone to having them and why, and what happens in the brain during a lucid dream, read on.

Denholm Aspy, Ph.D., who researches lucid dreaming, spoke to MNT and suggested that certain neurophysiological or neurochemical factors may also render a person more likely to experience spontaneous lucid dreams.

Some studies have found a correlation between lucid dreaming and sleep paralysis.

More often than not, lucid dreaming occurs during the REM (rapid eye movement) phase of sleep, which is also when many regular dreams occur. It is possible that neurochemical peculiarities may play a role in “switching on” parts of our consciousness when they would generally be “switched off.”

In sleep paralysis, the mind awakens to a certain degree, while the body remains asleep and unable to move. When that happens, individuals usually experience very realistic hallucinations, as though the content of a dream had “leaked” into the real world.

“It is […] likely that these sleep experiences are underlined by similar neurophysiology,” the study authors write.

What happens in the brain?

But what happens in the brain when a person experiences a lucid dream? “Lucid dreaming is a hybrid state of consciousness with features of both waking and dreaming,” write Julian Mutz and Amir-Homayoun Javadi in a review they published in Neuroscience of Consciousness in 2017.

In their review, Mutz and Javadi looked at previous studies concerning brain activity during sleep and, more specifically, during periods of regular dreaming versus lucid dreaming.

The two researchers found that during lucid dreaming, there is increased activity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, the bilateral frontopolar prefrontal cortex, the precuneus, the inferior parietal lobules, and the supramarginal gyrus.

These are all brain areas related to higher cognitive functions, including attention, working memory, planning, and self-consciousness.

Mutz and Javadi also note that by further studying lucid dreaming, scientists could learn more about different types of consciousness, which are less easy to separate and study at other times.

Tadas Stumbrys, Ph.D. — a researcher from Vilnius University in Lithuania, who specializes in the science of dreams — notes that perfecting the art of lucid dreaming is tempting for many people.

Many features of lucid dreaming remain a mystery, such as details about the brain mechanisms behind it. Another unknown is why lucid dreams can sometimes turn ominous — about 7% of them are, surprisingly, lucid nightmares, according to Stumbrys.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dreams-dreaming/

Leaving to the Reader to decide.