izzou:
He should add Friday and wrap it up.

Honestly. 😂


Watin remain for the week again?

Peak humour 😂

Ellexy:
😭😭😭😭

😂😂😂😂

Ellexy:
Woye not Oasis X....

E say Twitter will open an office in Nigeria soon? 🤣🤣🤣


Nah, I need his brand of highness; that's a level of delusion I aspire to.

folake4u:
You're a lucky girl. ☺️☺️

Please 🤣🤣.

I almost forgot I was reading about 'celebrities'. 😭


Of course, they have access to the best cosmetic surgeons. I was almost fooled thinking it's good genes and that they are aging well. 😂


They look good, though; really good.


I wish them both well.

OasisX:


......I will bring the Eclipse to your doorstep dear, ain't an Oasis for a joke. If I could bring water to the desert, nothing gonna stop me from bringing Sun and Moon to your home as special gift to a special one.

Oh, Shakespeare is shaking in his grave 😭😂.


Oasis the wordbender 🤣.



But this is so sweet fr 😊.

OasisX:


.......that's the koko má Odogwu.

Anyway, Oasis my love, the only soothing spring in the scorching slate of my life as a Nigerian woman, are we not going to fly to America to see the solar eclipse? 🥺🥺


I want to see it so bad. Do you think we can still make it cross-continent if we leave now?

OasisX:
.....thanks for the clarification and I strongly respect our traditions. However if I may, for learning sake, ask a question sir. Is it necessary to re-hand her over to Akeredolu family?!

She is married to the family and definitely part of the family for life already. I am just curious to know why its necessary to perform the rite, but I still maintain my respect for all traditions regardless.

You people are/were talking about a woman lol?


I missed the conversation.

Proserpina:

I've not even read the thread but because of your comment...

Omo...I'm actually shocked at the fact of more Nigerians than I expected being sympathetic to Bob. Everyone's like, "he might be a sissy, but the EFCC should free him. No be only him spend money anyhow, so they are just harassing him needlessly and flouting his human rights." Asin, Nigerians, the country people we all know, are separating the gender identity of Bobrisky away from the crime EFCC purported he committed. A line of reasoning they never extend to homosexuals.

"He's an homosexual? K*ll him."

"They were caught in at an all-men party? Parade them publicly. Such is not our culture."


So it's like you people will rather accept "gender benders" who ensure the status quo of masculinity/femininity than accept an "unconventional" arrangement of masculinity/masculinity or femininity/femininity or nonconformists.

Wow.

Omooo. God dey create people sha.


So disgustingly condescending. Illiterates ontop symbols for naira notes?



Mtcheeeeeeewwwwwww. So stupid and foolish. Spits.

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.