"Yin Sanpaku Eyes" refers to eyes in which the sclera is visible below the iris. It is said to signify a self destructive streak or emotional imbalance. “Yang Sanpaku Eyes” is when the sclera is visible above the iris and is associated with psychotic tendencies and rage.

 

 

Soviet peasants listening to the radio for the first time, 1928.

These cats look creepy.

Apparently they're being called XL Bully cats and are being bred in much the same extreme way as some dogs and are suffering horrendous health problems.

It's cruel, they need fur for obvious reasons. This should be stopped!

I came across this story recently, Said to be a true account.


So I guy tells his life story, so far,,,,,

He met the love of his life in high school where he was a keen basketball player. After persuing her for several months she finally agrees to date him.

They fall in love and marry after a couple of years

He gets a good job in finance and they move into a lovely house

A year after they are married, she gives birth to a daughter.

Two years later, she gives birth to a son.

The man enjoys his work, dotes on his wife and adores his two children. The seemingly have the perfect life.

When his son is about 5 years old he is on his own one night when his wife has taken the two kids out visiting. He notices something strange about a lamp they have on a dresser. It just didn't seem right to him somehow. He became fixated on this lamp and just stared at it for hours. When his wife returned the following morning he was still in the same place on the sofa. She asked him what was wrong with him but he didn't/couldn't explain how he felt. He just said he was feeling a bit off colour. For the whole day he stayed on the sofa and kept looking at the lamp and couldn't work out what was wrong, felt like he was having some kind of breakdown.

The following Monday he stayed off work which he had never done in his life. His wife was concerned and wanted to call the doctor but he shook it off and just said he would be fine. She took the kids to school and then went off shopping etc. Later on when she came back with the kids, he was still on the sofa. He became obsessed with this lamp but still couldn't explain anything to his wife. He couldn't work out what was going on with himself.

The following day he still stayed off work and said he had a headache. Yet again after his wife left he sat staring at the lamp. Eventually when hs wife came home and was starting to get really worried and said she was calling the doctor no matter what he said, he told her not to and said he just needed to take a walk and get some fresh air.

As he left the house he collapsed with excrutiating head pains and when he came to he was lying on a field somewhere with people staring at him. All of a sudden a police man came bursting through the crowd, picked him up and carried/dragged him to his police car, threw him in the back seat and drove off at top speed.

They arrived at a hospital where he was put into a bed. He asked if someone could call his wife and let her know but the doctors were puzzled.

He was told that he was there because he had been hit in the head with a baseball and had collapsed on the pitch. He had been knocked unconcious for only a minute or so.

He was in fact still only 18 and had been playing a baseball game in high school when he was knocked out.

In that minute or so he had lived 10 years of a life wherein he had married and had two kids.

He never got over this and developed severe depression, suffering the grief and loss of a wife and two children that in reality had never even existed.

jackb wrote:

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What a great story Geli if as you say it's a true story.

I don't doubt that it comes from a true experience as I can attest to time being very different in different states of consciousness.

A friend of mine in the seventies had some fliers printed up about his desire to start an advertising museum.

His real motive was the finding of old enamel advertising signs of value to him and whatever else he could lay his hands on.

He was allowed to look upstairs above shops that were at least 400 years old and often more in the centre of Stockport.

When he was invited to look above a second hand record store the guy said you'll love it up there but the cabinets you see are to big to move out of the building the way the modern alterations now are.

He finds a chemists shop with the words apothecary on almost everything.

Wow the prints the mirrors the porcelain... help yourself!

The young guys who owned the record store below had no idea!

My friend almost moved in the place up above as he rummaged and the guys below mostly forgot about him day after day.The main feature was a massive cabinet with small drawers which could he have gotten it out would have fetched a small fortune at auction.

He found drawers with hemp and drawers with cannabis on the labels but the contents had turned to useless dust.

Useless because he tried smoking them and nothing.

He found some metal tubes with a black cigar shaped substance inside wrapped in wax paper with a very mysterious aroma.

He sat down had a brew from his flask and nibbled a piece as he read the accompanying leaflet.

They were horse pills of pure opium.

Luckily he only nibbled a small piece as a pea sized piece of raw opium can be an overdose.

Stockport was suddenly for the first and last time flooded with opium!

First time I had any I was lying on the couch and then next thing I was in the middle of a battle with dragons and other mysterious creatures strange overly ornamated everything and the battles turned into wars that lasted years then I came round ... five minutes had passed... wow got to do that again!

Next I was a miner with a family living in opulence above the mine.

There were half a dozen of us who mined the exotic glowing pulsating material and lived a life of luxury above the surface when we weren't underground digging and picking and hauling the stuff out for the factory owners who couldn't get enough of it.

Over a couple of generations they failed to discover where the stuff came from but the intrigue in trying could fill a library.

Next time was all about pirates on the high seas.... these stories and adventures were generational but each time we returned to normality we hade been nodding on and off to any observer for a few minutes.

The nearest industrial drug to this is morphine.

 

 

 

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 Oh wow jack

 

that's amazing

 

i've never had opium.  Didn't the native american indians used to smoke it?

 

the mind is a very curious machine.

Gelico wrote:

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I came across this story recently, Said to be a true account.


So I guy tells his life story, so far,,,,,

He met the love of his life in high school where he was a keen basketball player. After persuing her for several months she finally agrees to date him.

They fall in love and marry after a couple of years

He gets a good job in finance and they move into a lovely house

A year after they are married, she gives birth to a daughter.

Two years later, she gives birth to a son.

The man enjoys his work, dotes on his wife and adores his two children. The seemingly have the perfect life.

When his son is about 5 years old he is on his own one night when his wife has taken the two kids out visiting. He notices something strange about a lamp they have on a dresser. It just didn't seem right to him somehow. He became fixated on this lamp and just stared at it for hours. When his wife returned the following morning he was still in the same place on the sofa. She asked him what was wrong with him but he didn't/couldn't explain how he felt. He just said he was feeling a bit off colour. For the whole day he stayed on the sofa and kept looking at the lamp and couldn't work out what was wrong, felt like he was having some kind of breakdown.

The following Monday he stayed off work which he had never done in his life. His wife was concerned and wanted to call the doctor but he shook it off and just said he would be fine. She took the kids to school and then went off shopping etc. Later on when she came back with the kids, he was still on the sofa. He became obsessed with this lamp but still couldn't explain anything to his wife. He couldn't work out what was going on with himself.

The following day he still stayed off work and said he had a headache. Yet again after his wife left he sat staring at the lamp. Eventually when hs wife came home and was starting to get really worried and said she was calling the doctor no matter what he said, he told her not to and said he just needed to take a walk and get some fresh air.

As he left the house he collapsed with excrutiating head pains and when he came to he was lying on a field somewhere with people staring at him. All of a sudden a police man came bursting through the crowd, picked him up and carried/dragged him to his police car, threw him in the back seat and drove off at top speed.

They arrived at a hospital where he was put into a bed. He asked if someone could call his wife and let her know but the doctors were puzzled.

He was told that he was there because he had been hit in the head with a baseball and had collapsed on the pitch. He had been knocked unconcious for only a minute or so.

He was in fact still only 18 and had been playing a baseball game in high school when he was knocked out.

In that minute or so he had lived 10 years of a life wherein he had married and had two kids.

He never got over this and developed severe depression, suffering the grief and loss of a wife and two children that in reality had never even existed.

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 That is amazing.

 

To a far lesser degree, you can have an in depth dream, vivid and full of details, and it can happen in the space of a couple of minutes yet it seems much longer.

Wow, really looks like horns 🤔

Rosalia Lombardo

She's known by many names: the Girl in the Glass Coffin, Sleeping Beauty, the World's Most Beautiful Mummy, and the Best Preserved Mummy in the World. In death, she's become something larger than life. Thousands of visitors each year flock to the Sicilian Catacombs just to catch a glimpse of her tiny body.

Nearly 100 years after her death, Rosalia has changed little. Still sealed inside her tiny glass coffin, Rosalia sleeps, her little head poking above a fading silk blanket. Tufts of blonde hair still flowed down her cheeks, and a silk bow was still tied firmly around her head. The only sign of time has passed is an oxidizing amulet of the Virgin Mary, which rests atop Rosalia's blanket. It's so faded that it's almost unrecognizable.

This is Rosalia Lombardo, the famous child mummy.

Embalmer Alfredo Salafia performed the procedure that preserved Rosalia. For nearly a century, the exact formula remained a mystery, lost to the grave with Salafia. In 2009, a biological anthropologist named Dario Piombino-Mascali tracked down the eternal formula through Salafia's living descendants.

The chemicals included formalin, zinc salt, alcohol, salicylic acid, and glycerin. The combination of alcohol and the climate conditions within the catacombs would have dried Rosalia's body, Glycerin would have allowed the body to mummify, and salicylic acid prevented the growth of mold. The magic ingredient was zinc, which gave the body rigidity, essentially turning it into wax.

Because of the near-perfect nature of Rosalia's body, some skeptics claimed that the real body was replaced with a realistic wax replica. Such a theory became one of the topics of a History Channel documentary in the 2000s. In it, x-ray equipment was brought to the catacombs, and Rosalia's coffin was x-rayed for the first time in its existence. They discovered not only a skeletal structure but that her organs were still intact. Her brain was perfectly visible, only having shrunk 50% due to the mummification process.

In 2009, a National Geographic documentary had an MRI performed on the body, producing the first 3D images of Rosalia both inside and out. The MRI confirmed all of her organs were perfectly intact. It also showed her arms at her sides. Nobody has ever looked underneath the blanket that covers Rosalia's body since she was sealed inside her coffin 90 years ago.

Further adding to the lore of Rosalia's mummy are reports of her eyes opening! Several time-lapse photos exist that appear to substantiate this claim, showing them opening at least 1/8 of an inch, revealing her intact blue eyes underneath.

The most likely cause of this rather creepy phenomenon is changes in room temperature or simply an optical illusion. Yet it's fueled many a cult's belief of Rosalia's spirit returning to the body and is Rosalia's most infamous myth.