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Sweet smells foster sweet dreams
Sleep with flowers in your bedroom if you want sweet dreams, work suggests. When the smell of roses had been wafted under the noses of slumbering volunteers they reported experiencing pleasant emotions in their dreams. An odour of rotten eggs had the opposite effect on the 15 sleeping women, the German scientists found. They told a Chicago meeting of the American Academy of Otolaryngology that they now plan to study people who suffer from nightmares.
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Road hog: Vegetarian driver suffers pig nightmare on motorway
The sight of a truckload of pigs headed for the sausage factory proved too much to bear for a German vegetarian woman who lost control of her vehicle as a result. Unfortunately, she crashed into another truck carrying pigs.
A vegetarian woman driving down a motorway in Germany was so traumatized at the sight of a truck loaded with pigs that she lost control of her vehicle and careered into another truck, which was also filled with pigs, police said.
"The woman found herself driving next to a large pig transport truck and the sight of the pitiful animals made her feel so sick that she jerked her steering wheel and started swerving," police in the western town of Gütersloh said in a statement released on Thursday.
"The result of her swerving was that the woman's van struck the side of another truck … which was also loaded with live pigs. The woman suffered little more than a fright but we were unable to ascertain anything about the state of the pig's health," police said. The sight of a truckload of pigs headed for the sausage factory proved too much to bear for a German vegetarian woman who lost control... more -
NIghtmare after waking up in bed
A robber not only carted away cash and belongings but before that had the cheek to lie naked beside a woman whose house he'd broken into.
The victim, a 36-year-old housewife, wrote in her report that she was fast asleep in the hall of her house at Kampung Bukit Tok Beng in Seberang Takir, when she was awakened by a naked man.
She claimed she was not aware that the man, who had caressed and slept beside her, was not her husband.
She said the intruder also had covered his face with a T-shirt.
The man tried to coax the woman to go into another room, saying he was drunk.
The woman then called out her husband's name and the thief replied “I am him”.
The housewife smelled something fishy as his voice didn't sound like her husband's. She then went to another room and found her husband fast asleep on the couch.
That's when she screamed causing the thief to flee by leaping out the window together with the stolen items.
State Deputy CID chief Supt Khairi Ahrasa said police were close to solving the case, as they believed the thief was from the same village.
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Nightmare Prep School
by Malayna
It may sound like a cheesy old horror flick, but it's basically what researchers are saying about the purpose of our scariest nighttime dreams; they help us deal with reality better. An article in Psychology Today talks about experiments that kept rats from reaching their REM sleep (the cycle when dreams occur). After such specific sleep deprivation, they were unable to gather the sense to be wary of predators or take care of themselves properly. Even when they were given stimulants to counteract the sleep deprivation they performed no better, so it seems it was not sleep deprivation alone that made them unable to cope, but more specifically the dream deprivation.
There have been many theories about dreams. Some think they help us with problem solving and emotional challenges, or that maybe they are just a result of the brain trying to make sense of the electrical activity that occurs while it restores itself during sleep. Others think dreams allow us to explore our darkest desires. But Finnish psychologist Antti Revonsuo tells us, "The primary function of negative dreams is rehearsal for similar real events, so that threat recognition and avoidance happens faster and more automatically in comparable real situations." People who have made it through scary situations often describe that it was like a dream. Maybe this is why.
"Nowadays, the evolutionary footprint is clearest in the dreams of children, who often dream about being chased by monsters, much the same way we were once chased by predators," says Revonsuo. "You insert a modern danger into that ancestral key and get a bizarre combination," says Revonsuo. "We dream of being chased, shot, or robbed, getting into traffic accidents, a burglar in our house, or perhaps smaller mishaps such as losing our wallets--and that prepares us for our waking life."
Robert Stickgold, a sleep researcher at Harvard Medical School, believes that dreaming is more than just rehearsal. He says it allows us to integrate and consolidate knowledge. During sleep, our brains are making sense of the world, discovering new associations, and looking for patterns. "That's how we create meaning," says Stickgold. "Our brain puts things together."
Though there are no absolute conclusions, we may find that all of theories are somewhat correct. But there is something inspiring about our dreams, whether good or bad. As the article says, we don't dream about other people's adventures, or about fictional superheroes battling monsters. We dream about ourselves. We are the heroes of our own dreams. And for that, we may find ourselves grateful for a nightmare or two.
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30 Dead in Baghdad's Worst Attack in Months
BAGHDAD -- Thirty people were killed Tuesday when a suicide bomber strode into a gathering of mourners at a home in eastern Baghdad and detonated an explosives-packed vest, the Interior Ministry said. It was the most brazen and deadly attack in the capital in months.
The force of the blast scattered severed arms and legs about the site of the attack, a house where scores of friends and relatives had gathered to pay tribute to a man killed three days earlier by a car bomb in Tayaran Square in central Baghdad.
One survivor ran in the street outside screaming and crying that five of her sons had been killed. Then she collapsed, said a car salesman who works nearby. BAGHDAD -- Thirty people were killed Tuesday when a suicide bomber strode into a gathering of mourners at a home in eastern Baghdad an... more -
Christmas, just another day in Iraq.
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Two separate suicide attacks, including one apparently targeting workers in a northern oil hub, killed at least 34 people on Tuesday, shattering more than a week of relative calm, local and U.S. military authorities said. BAGHDAD (AP) -- Two separate suicide attacks, including one apparently targeting workers in a northern oil hub, killed at least 34 peo... more
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Round 2 for Biotech Beets
But next spring, for the first time, Mr. Green intends to plant beets genetically engineered to withstand Monsantos powerful Roundup herbicide. The Roundup will destroy the weeds but leave his crop unscathed, potentially saving him thousands of dollars in tractor fuel and labor.
For Mr. Green and many other beet farmers, it is technology too long delayed. And the engineered beets could pave the way for the eventual planting of other biotech crops like wheat, rice and potatoes, which were also stalled on the launching pad.
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Sorry, for repeating graphic, but it's so fitting. But next spring, for the first time, Mr. Green intends to plant beets genetically engineered to withstand Monsantos powerful Roundup ... more -
Fat Mans Worst Nightmare
Fat man has a nightmare about flying candy bars. This is an indirect parody of those new snickers commercials.
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NO NEW NUKES
We have to stop the push for nuclear power, Greenpeace can help play a big part.
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