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Disappointed.




Moving on...

Ibeme:
Annoyer, you done drink Starbucks before?

Face front, you can't boycott what you never patronised

Lol... I know it has no direct effect on/with me.

I am just engaging in a "political socialisation," if you will, through the Internet.


When I said I am invested in the boycott, and want to see it to the end, I meant it as an observer.

A001:
In spite of its highly subjective nature, people have got powerful, revolutionary ideas from the dream world. Most world's languages, a number of technologies, mathematical languages (formulas and equations), and others came to people via dreams.

So, it's beneficial to always pay keen attention to one's dreams.

You just might inspire me again to start keeping a 'dream book'. 🥲

There are many a dream I've had that are just so out of this world that I know would be great works of literature if I built on them, but I can't recall them anymore. The ideas, totally lost.

I remember one I had seeing myself in 'prehistoric' Egypt and there were pyramids all around me. 🤣

Somewhere I've never been in my life o.

Some are always so fantastic, bizarre and 'sonic-like'. Imagine if you take the multicolored setting of a club and you multiply it a thousand times. It's a sensory titanic.

Okay, I do research work in Physics, Mathematics, and Consciousness Science. I regard it as my life's work, a sort of calling based on some personal experiences (such as lucid dreaming and the likes) I had years ago while in the university and before then.

Waiiit. What research work still need to be done in Mathematics? 😭

I mean, doesn't it already have some set of fixed equations and rules? You mean, you're still adding the pre-existing mathematical formulas there are?

I can imagine kids in 3044 being mad at you for developing some complex calculation techniques now the way we used to be mad at the founders of the ones we learnt in school. 😂

A001:
Interesting.

These are some spritual/traditional/religious songs I love.

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMMmvvTdU/ - Osun's.

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMMmvQvp5/ - A Nordic/Viking own.

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMMmvTKFG/ - Throat singing commonly practiced by The Inuit.

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMMmvjeNC/


Wow. 😭😭😭

This- this is so-.


Reminiscent of the storming of the Bastille. Not quite like it, but perhaps a sub- action under it. Truly beautiful, and a once-in-a-blue-moon reminded of power truly residing with the people. Like corporations are, because the masses are. Now I'm really invested in this boycott, and want to see it to the end. Sees how smoothly Starbucks will sail through. Will make for an interesting political/economic analysis in the future.

A001:
Interesting. As humans, our physical reality is influenced greatly by happenings and events in the dream world (our inner world).

You'll find it easier to engage in lucid dreaming if your symmetrical partner at the other side (the non-physical realm, also called the spiritual realm in the cultural/religious context) wants you to have such a gift.

All the gifts we, humans, have and everything we do here are determined by that partner, which the Yoruba people call "ori" (inner head) in Ifa spirituality or "chi" in the Igbo culture.

It actually exists, and there are specific mathematical formulations underlying it in Consciousness Science based on Abstract Algebra and related areas.

So, it's always advisable for one to know oneself deeply (i.e., know your symmetrical partner, "ori" or "chi" ) via regular meditations so as to discover your gifts and how to make the best use of them to achieve greatness in the physical realm.

Also, it's good to find the most suitable way to meditate and connect with the inner self (the symmetrical partner) yourself, instead of adhering to a specific method discovered by others dogmatically in any religion or group.

Lol... these "spiritual" exercises...I'm as lazy to carry them out for real as I am as lazy about most things. So I cannot verify for myself if they are true or not. I only just feel drawn to them because it's mentally stimulating to *learn* about. And gathering a pile of knowledge I may never make use of (except in fiction-writing sha, so I guess they are not completely useless). I like to read about stuff like that mostly on an intellectual level. (I was once obsessed with finding the infamous The Book of Moses and the legend about it that abounded.


On one hand, I did not believe anything's going to happen to me if I read it. Simply read it. I was not going to try to use it as some ritual to summon a "demon" ).

Sometimes I can't help but feel like I could have been deeply involved in Yoruba traditional religion if the circumstances of my birth/the trajectory of my life had been different (I love Osun songs- maybe it's just their melodic quality). But I found Christianity (first. And by design, perhaps) and I'm comfortable with that because the very basic requirement for being an adherent is a belief in Jesus. And maybe baptism. Every other thing else that you can attempt spiritually as a Christian would depend on your growth level/depth. I'd take reading and pondering on a couple of passages a day over some meditational exercise I have to be *wholly* prepared for.

The only time I ever 'experienced' some inner 'alter ego', I did it as a writing exercise for my writer's block lmao. Now whether my brain completely tricked me into thinking I was legitly talking to another me, or it's real, it sha worked.


But I still really really believe a lot of these experiences are handiwork of the brain- all in the field of neuroscience as mentioned above. Trance, visions, soul ties (there's a "flame" from my past that I seem to communicate with in my mind, but I still can't put it past my brain just conjuring and making up things on my behalf because I want it to be so, and because it knows that I was obsessed with this person). So I do believe in otherworldly experiences, only that they are very rare and exceptional. The rest, it's the brain and its consciousness.

A001:
One of the most interesting papers I've read this month:

The Neuroscience of Lucid Dreaming: Past, Present, and Future

"Lucid dreaming allows conscious awareness and control of vivid dream states; however, its rarity and instability make neuroscientific experimentation challenging. Recent advances in wearable neurotechnology, large-scale collaborations, citizen neuroscience, and artificial intelligence increasingly facilitate the decoding of this intriguing phenomenon."

Source: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2024.03.008

In the coming years, some interesting gadgets (neurotechnology) could be built as applications of studies like this.

There was a time I wanted to induce myself into experiencing this. 😭😭


I read and read and read, and I chose a day to practice all I've been reading so finally in the night, my brain with carry on with the exercise and make me lucid dream. But omo, my liver failed me. 😂

I was scared of going mad because one of the recommendations was that you should constantly question whether you were dreaming or awake in the real world, all through the day. Every minute. Question the realness of what you're doing or holding.

I did it for a few seconds, and some things recommended before I chickened out. I feared that I'll forever not be able to differentiate between real life and dream world anymore. 🤣


I only "enjoy" lucid dreaming when it happens on its own. It's one of the best feelings ever 😃. Having "superpowers" in my dream that I'm able control? Nah, nothing compares.

folake4u:
Bros, why are you sending me a DM?

You and these Nairaland men. 🤣🤣


You crack me up.

CodedWealth:
What's the worst you can get?

C'mon, tell me.

Sorry, come again.

pocohantas:
Glad to hear this. I would have thought it is a genre thing because I am only finding out now that books are expensive, after I bought the one Geminità recommended. Those ones were even affordable. I saw expensive books and it made me respect writers and booklovers. It also made me hate piracy. Someone would work this hard to write a book, publish and people would go buy the pirated copies. Pheeew!

Anyway, reason that matter abeg. Na your talent you suppose use chop. Haha!

Nahh, they are o.


They are really expensive. From the binding to marketing/publicity, and even the time it'll take to print out copies is a lot of monies gone already.


Lol. Yeah, well. To be making "okay" money for living comfortably off of writing takes (time to) practice, consistency and probably some 'information/connection'. So it's not a breezy walk with talent alone.

Proserpina:


Like wetin concern Oodua with airline, shey nah witchcraft them won dey practice ni


Agbede meji

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Proserpina:
Eunoiaa can I delete it now?

Yes, please. I'm sorry for the late acknowledgement.

Proserpina:
Which one is Oodua airline? Una no fit make up better name?

Sounds like the name of a flight going inter-dimensional. 😂


Make person nor go end up for Agbede Meji Orun from earth.

folake4u:
It is not true for me oh.

I run, played football, do exercises with my big breast and never had back pain.

I guess people are different.

I guess so too.

Maysdevices:
There is a runs girl that lives two houses away from me

Many men have come and gone

But it is still so pointy, she can shoot you with her boobs sef

🤣🤣

folake4u:
My sister, I tire too.

Mine is bigger than yours and I don't still understand this back pain people associate with big boobs.

So it's not true for you?


Wow. With the way I see people posting about it online, I'd think it something every lady with big boobs experience.

Proserpina:
Eun oiaa

Hi

Hope you are doing good.... I don't have access to the email attached to this account

Can you give me an email you have access to? 😓


You can delete afterwards. Why I'm PMing is quite important.

WhoDeyHause:
So please and please I please need you to get my name out of your fvckin mouth hands.
Thank you.

That has never been hard for me to do with anyone.

I will beg YOU to mind your business, and skip anything that has to do with me and we wouldn't have any problem. If I mentioned or "indicted" anybody in anyway, it was never unprovoked. The Flint notably is one of the people here I nor dey get issue with (and I frankly haven't seen him in any ish with anybody). Does he have two heads?

Be like him and dey your dey.


Thank you too.

Mtcheeeeeeewwwwwwwww.

pocohantas:
I never knew this. Writers still eat though. Maybe it is dependent on the genre.

Lol. That's not true in the slightest. I mean what that user said.

I am in many writers' communities, and people only still talk about AI takeover in mostly hypothetical situations, and concerns about it that may rise up.


BookTok is literally a big category on TikTok and even bookstores have sections dedicated to "TikTok Made Me Buy It". Debut books are being released every other day. And demand for content writers haven't dwindled too.

The only people I can see being impacted by AI in the now are graphic designers. During that AFCON, a lot of big social media accounts and cable TV handles on Twitter were all using AI-generated pictures. Even the Erisco man, it's mostly AI graphics that people are using to troll him.

raumdeuter:
Swun we choose us a mod like when the Israelites went to Samuel and told him we want a king

How did quoting the whole passage add to your point now?


Hian.

FRANCISTOWN:
I'd rather I become a cow for at least I'd be useful to mankind or an ant for at least I'd be wise than to be a 21st century woman.

Don't you know that ye all 21st century women stink? Y'all have terrible body odour. Y'all very dirty and nauseating. Ew!

A gender with distorted hypothalamus, I refuse and cast and bind.

Take your own advice and leave women alone, including quoting them on NL.


Thank you.

Chee59:
This one is high

Chioma, me? 😂

izzou:
[color=royalblue]It's a decent one, actually.

I didn't think i would go far when i started. But each episode is brilliant and keeps you waiting to watch the next.

Also, it is educative. They actually give some knowledge about policing and it's something that keeps me interested

I heard it stops at Season 6.

I dey for Season 4 now.[/color]

I usually trust Pina's judgment on things, so I have no doubt it'll be as interesting as you've corroborated.

I find detective/forensic/investigative stuff like that the most interesting.

I cannot count how many books in the genre I've read. If reading was all it required to be certified, I would have become a medical examiner by now.


I'll check the series out, and see if I love it. Although I'm not a big fan of them.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]I never watch Shogun since Episode 4.

How is my Anjin and Mariko doing? Has she started feeling nauseous in the mornings?

The Rookie got me hooked for now.[/color]

You and proserpina should likely begin some form of Unholy Alliance Fan(dom) of The Rookie.


She's as obsessed.

OasisX:


......relief and prosperity are getting close.

The Bloomberg Africa post you shared? Lol


Is it going to affect the price of fuel in anyway? And it's until May. Is that how long it usually take a refinery to start being 100% functional and in business?


Because I've been reading about that refinery since last year and how it's going to start working.

OasisX:


......you've fought enough bae, let it go. When that nigga doxxed you here, remember we stood for you?!

Okay, baby.


What's the latest with Tinubu's government today?

iamoyindamola:
Seun it's high time we decide who moderate us here especially
If not that ban that took nairaland for days will repeat itself
One lowlife lunatic can't be here derailing, throwing stupid attention tantrums and we continue ignoring it

Better still allocate a reasonable mods here
Seun I am saying it now

Co-signed.


And I hope this will signal the start of peaceful relations between every single person in here; no bias.

OasisX:


....can you jez take a break?! Maja Masa là ń mọ akíkanjú lo ju Ògún.

I don't know what that quote means, but me I'm just having fun o. 😂😂


Shebi it is called "tako oro so" abi what is it? Is it a crime?

Don't feed the troll.

Starve it of attention and it'll die.

Egbere elejo iya
No one send your papa here
Me shade you 🤣🤣
I swear with my life you go deactivate if I reason your matter, but all that dan go as I no get that time
If we wan chop bone at least make small meat they there
You small aje you no even reach at all

Radarada

Shebi this one too is on topic, ba? 🤣🤣🤣


Let Semid4lyfe just show fess and let me see if he'll sanction 'everybody' on behalf of Mr. Tagger or not.


Was that all the fuel it took to get you started like a wailing car? Just a reference?

But look at me here thinking you've turned a new leaf eish... smh.

OasisX:


.....na una advise make we ignore her, na una still dey engage her. Make una stay one place abegi.

Shey you're seeing? 😂😂😂