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4.) Google will also find the songs of your favorite bands.

3.) Google will also find movie release dates for you

2.) Google will also help you calculate your tips.

There are things that can be done with Google but lack of knowledge about it has kept people from using it.
Here are a few add yours;

1.) You can use Google as a timer, just set the time in the search bar as shown here.

greatnow:
the picture looks like a situation where the pastors shouts...there is someone in this crusade ground with Ebola... Everybody go pick race

True bro...I can see the next Olympics Champion

hardbody:
I thought the mantra was #protect your votes. Why una come dey run na.

Even your leaders vote and go home while you people want to die on top mandate that will only impoverish you the more

Come and get my PVC and protect it for me. #temple run 3

Fierce-looking armed thugs stormed a polling unit in Akwa Ibom state and carted away election materials while voters who had come to vote took to their heels in fear of being shot.

GIDITRAFFIC ‏@Gidi_Traffic posted the picture of twitter.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/04/voters-on-the-run-as-armed-thugs-cart-away-ballot-boxes-in-akwa-ibom/#sthash.fCl4oXEe.dpuf

Sometimes you wake up in the
middle of the night and can't
move — here is the scientists explanation

Written by CHRISTINA STERBENZ

What is sleep paralysis?

Every few months I have a terrifying experience
in the middle of the night.
I wake up but can't move, except for my eyes,
which dart frantically underneath fluttering,
heavy lids. I feel a heavy presence on top of my
chest, squeezing the air from my lungs and
throat. Then a shadowy, cloaked figure starts
looming just within the corners of vision.
I'm not dreaming. And no matter how many
times it happens, the panic sets in. As a kid, I
thought the devil had paid a visit to my
bedroom.
Now I know these symptom stem from a strange
sleep phenomenon called sleep paralysis. While
various social and psychological factors can
influence the prevalence of sleep paralysis, a
2011 paper combined 35 studies with more than
36,000 participants total. The authors found that
7.6% of the general population experiences
sleep paralysis, rising to 28.3% in high-risk
groups, like students who have a disrupted sleep
pattern. And in people with mental disorders,
like anxiety and depression, 31.9% experienced
episodes.
"When you're experiencing sleep paralysis, you
become conscious," Daniel Denis, a PhD
candidate in cognitive neuroscience and
researcher at the Sleep Paralysis Project , tells
Business Insider. "The idea is that your mind
wakes up but your body doesn't. "

Why you can't move

Sleep has three or four stages of non-REM (rapid
eye movement) sleep and one REM state. While
people can dream in any stage, REM is the most
closely associated with vivid dreams, the type
that seem real.
The brain also stays active during REM —
"almost comparable to during the day," Denis
explains. People naturally become paralyzed
during REM, probably to prevent themselves
from acting out their dreams, a process known
as REM atonia.
Many who wake up during this state simply
open their eyes and quickly begin to move
around. But those suffering from sleep paralysis
experience "a sort of failure of the molecular
clock," as Denis puts it. For whatever reason,
REM atonia continues after you've waken up.
Most episodes last a few seconds to a minute,
but in much rarer cases, people can require 10
to 15 minutes before they fully regain motion.
About that shadowy friend of mine —
researchers don't have the best explanations for
he/she/it. To start, I could be experiencing my
brain's interpretation of myself. The parietal
lobes may be monitoring the neurons in my
brain telling my limbs to move, according to a
study from UC San Diego, published in the
journal Medical Hypotheses . Since they can't,
the brain hallucinates the intended movement.
Denis explains that the "intruder" might also be
due to an over-active amygdala, a part of the
brain responsible for fear (among other things).
"You wake up with your amygdala screaming,
'There's a threat!'" he explains. "So your brain
has to invent something to fix the paradox of
the amygdala being active for no reason." While
the amygdala remains active during REM sleep,
total paralysis right after awakening can send it
into overdrive.
The experiences
One of the first in-depth studies on sleep
paralysis in 1999 defines the three main
categories of sleep paralysis hallucinations as
the "incubus," the "intruder" and "unusual
bodily experiences."
In the first case, people feel an intense pressure
on their chests, inducing the feeling that they
can't breathe.
As the authors note, sleep paralysis affects only
the "perception of respiration." Breathing is
reflex-based, so nothing truly separates these
poor few from the oxygen they desperately
need. It just feels that way because they're
afraid.
“When you’re in REM, your breathing is very
shallow and your airways become quite
constricted, so it would be difficult to breath
anyway," Denis explains. "But when you become
conscious of that, it can be terrifying."
People experiencing the second category, the
"intruder," can feel a "sensed presence, fear,
and auditory and visual hallucinations," the
researchers note. Essentially, your mind invents
a vision to solve some sort of paradox in the
brain that occurs during sleep paralysis. The
authors describe it as a "hypervigilant state of
the midbrain," which can make people highly
aware of even the smallest stimuli and "biased
toward cues for threat or danger." That's why a
small sound can seem horrifying to someone
experiencing sleep paralysis.
The intruder and the incubus go hand-in-hand.
Both symptoms typically involve the threat-
activated systems in the amygdala , as
mentioned earlier. Some people even relate the
"intruder" and the incubus, reporting that they
feel someone strangling or suffocating them,
Denis says. But the third type of sleep paralysis
hallucination, the "unusual bodily experiences"
are the least common.
When people experience "unusual bodily
experiences," they often feel like they're having
an out-of-body experience, levitating or flying
around the room, as the 1999 study explains.
This third type appears to be associated with
REM stages where the brainstem, cerebellar,
and cortical vestibular centers are activated,
according to a 2013 study of 133 patients with
panic disorder .
The pons, which inhibits movement during
sleep, falls into that area, Denis notes. "You feel
like you're moving when you're not because the
area of the brain that coordinates that is
overactive," he says.
Myths and folklore
Cultural beliefs also strongly influence these
hallucinations and experiences, leading to the
creation of folklore and myth, which can blur
fact with fiction. The " Old Hag," for example, is
the primary interpretation of sleep paralysis in
Newfoundland. And similar fantastical stories
exist about the Boto, a pink river dolphin in the
Amazon Basin that transforms at night into a
lustful prowler, explains " The Devil in the
Room," a documentary that explores the
paranormal and mythical aspects of sleep
paralysis.
Take a look at Henry Fuseli's 1781 oil painting,
"The Nightmare," shown below, thought to be
one of the clearest artistic interpretations of
sleep paralysis.
Personally, my over-active amygdala conjures
images of the devil — unsurprising considering
I live in a majorly Christian nation and grew up
mildly Catholic. From his research, Denis says
that "modern Western culture" tends to see
burglars, rapists, and aliens.

Prevention

While sleep paralysis can be hereditary, it can
happen to anyone. Factors like lack of sleep,
sleep disturbances, jet lag, and shift work can
increase someone's likelihood of experiencing
it, and certain groups, like African-Americans ,
can also experience it more commonly. Sleep-
paralysis episodes have been linked to
hypertension, seizures, and narcolepsy, a sleep
disorder where people lose their ability to
regulate sleep cycles and can fall asleep at
random and unexpected moments.
While stress, anxiety, and depression often
trigger the episodes, we can't exactly control
these factors. So beyond trying to reduce stress
and getting plenty of sleep, how can you
prevent the terrifying onset of sleep paralysis?

Avoiding sleeping on your back could help.
Research has shown that people that experience
sleep-paralysis episodes are three to four times
more likely to occur in people who sleep in the
supine position. Some people even use
nightwear that makes lying on their back
uncomfortable, according to Denis.
But if you do wake and find yourself unable to
move, focus all your energy on wiggling a toe or
finger. "So long as you can move one muscle,
that breaks the paralysis," Denis advises.

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just destroyed the beauty of nature.

1. Donatella Versace

2. Nicole Kidman

3. Tara Reid

4. Lindsay Lohan

Is it baptism

2. Yawning and stretching at the same
time is called pandiculating.

3. Kangaroos can't jump backwards.

4. A strawberry is not actually a
berry But a banana is.

6. Barbie's really name is Barbara
Millicent Roberts.

7. Boobytrap spelled backward is
partyboob.

8. A barnacle has a the largest penis to
body size ratio. It's 7 times it's body
size.

9. It's impossible to hum and hold your
breath at the same time.

10. A group of flamingos is called a
flamboyance.

11. The poem never stated that Humpty
Dumpty was an egg.

12. Octopi can climb any surface but
astroturf.

13. Eating a polar bear's liver could
cause you to ingest a lethal dose of
vitamin A.

14. The word typewriter can be typed
using keys in the top row of the
keyboard.

15. A woodchuck can chuck 136 cubic
centimeters of wood.

Bonus fact! When you Google
"wingardium leviosarr" this is what comes
up

I think They do look alike, do you?
Kim K left and her daughter North West
right.

Source: Linda Ikeji

snowhyt:
OMG!! is s/he rilli a she?? *faints*

Yes hun, and she is straight

snowhyt:
OMG!! is s/he rilli a she?? *faints*

Yes hun, and she is straight

Guess what is wrong with her? Miracles are everywhere? Guess?

One man meat, another man ****. Are these photo sexy. Share you view.

ogedanny:
I bought a social networking script and I need help on how to upload it to my hosting account.

2nd reply on point...I can teach u how to upload it too. Just hope you have a good biz plan to make it a hit.

agoadiv:
go n slip dude...stop following men of God for de seek of ur future...... got dat

I know You meant to say "sake" not "seek", your iphone's auto-correct messed it up. Sorry

What of Majid and Segun? They look Alike too

englishmart:
[img]http://nairaland.com/attachments/2078085_aneketwinsjune2014bellanaija_com04_jpeg58227fe78ad00f60e016174713446274[/img]

they are not total in resemblance.. One of them has a bigger set of bosoms

Wettin carry ur eyes go dia?

If you are a mobile game developer, introduce yourselves

This is no longer banger...I know a grenade explosion when I see one...and that's that

I saw this banner just now and decided to share with you guys. Let's make this trend, Share others funny banner you have seen around you

Invest in #fimvillage - No 1 African Movie Social Network

korel9:
In France where I schooled such billboards don't exist.

Who asked you where you schooled? You just go around mentioning locations on any type of post.

E.G
Post: A boy threw a stone.
Your answer: That's how they behave here in france

VickyyB:
Why would I be having sex with my boyfriend.

My future husband owns my virginity.

Madam is your boyfriend not your future husband.

I believe what you wanted to say is that you will give in when you are married.

All Brooklyn Nine-Nine Fans get in here...

Airforce1:
Nnena my crush

She's a celeb and we know her here in United states


May God bless your marriage my darling

Any small post u go add location...who ask you?

E.g
Post: A girl die.
Your Answer: that's how they are dying here in USA.
#notmybizsha

Babe2sure:
Rubbish! Utter rubbish!
Benefit ko, detriment ni.











I know, its men that will read and digest the five benefits. The benefits is for them. Na their stock in trade.
Won ti gbe nkan ti e mon je de.

Ghostlady:
lol its true especially the small boys thou

Wettin carry these people come ooooooo #claiming #ijustclicktoviewcommentnotthepost #ididnotreadijustlookedatit
#onlymenwillread
#foolishmenwisewomen
####derisgodooooo

Sylvarresta:
Bravo! applaudise........ but girls here in Spain will never listen

Broda, why u too dey lie like this...u no dey spain joor

solid3:
Take a look at this pix and tell us who dies with reason.


*solid*

I would love to but first, wetin carry them go dia. Children listen to you parent.

Final Destination 10...