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Lucid Dream Overview Lucid dreaming happens when you’re aware that you’re dreaming. You’re able to recognize your thoughts and emotions as the dream happens. Sometimes, you can control the lucid dream. You may be able to change the people, environment, or storyline. This type of dream of control could potentially reduce nightmares and anxiety. Keep reading to learn more about lucid dreaming — what it is, when it occurs, and what you can do to experience it. When lucid dreaming occurs When you sleep, your brain cycles through rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and non-REM sleep. Non-REM sleep includes three separate stages. During non-REM, your brain waves, heartbeat, and eye movements gradually slow down. In REM sleep, your brain is extremely active. Your heart rate and eye movements also increase. Lucid dreaming, like most dreams, usually happens during REM sleep. In a lucid dream, you know that you’re dreaming. You’re aware of your awarene...

Leper colony A  leper colony ,  lazarette ,  leprosarium , or  lazar house  was historically a place to  quarantine  people with  leprosy  (Hansen's disease). The term  lazaretto , which is derived from the biblical figure  Saint Lazarus , can refer to quarantine sites, which were at some time also "colonies", or places where people affected by leprosy lived or were sent.  Many of the first lazarettes were operated by Christian monastic houses.  Leper hospitals exist throughout the world to treat those afflicted with leprosy, especially in Africa, Brazil, China, and India. Leper colonies or houses became widespread in the Middle Ages, particularly in Europe and India, and often run by monastic orders. Historically, leprosy has been greatly feared because it causes visible disfigurement and disability, was incurable and was commonly believed to be highly contagious. A leper colony administered by a Ro...

Machine Gun Kelly  George Kelly Barnes  was born in the late 1890s in Memphis, Tennessee. His family was fairly wealthy, and he lived an ordinary life until his enrollment at Mississippi State University. At first, he was only in small trouble, earning poor grades and racking up demerits. However, after falling in love with a woman named Geneva, he decided to quit school altogether. They quickly found themselves in financial trouble, so Kelly schemed up a plan and began working as a gangster after separating from Geneva. At the time, he was only 19. In 1927, he fell for a woman named Kathryn Thorne, whom he later married. Kathryn Kelly was a criminal in her own right. She bought him a machine gun, which spawned his nickname, “Machine Gun Kelly.” His crimes were mainly centered on taking advantage of Prohibition’s laws and on robbing banks. However, his most famous crime was kidnapping. With the help of a man named Albert Bates and the planning skil...

Crazy Badass Jungle Fighter Deep in the jungles of the Philippines, an  Australian soldier lays on a makeshift stretcher made out of bamboo and leaves. Using a mirror, a pocket knife, and no anesthesia whatsoever, the man starts making a small incision in his abdomen.  Biting down on a wooden stick to avoid screaming out in pain, the soldier proceeds with the ad hoc surgery, using his fingers to feel for his enlarged appendix.  In the distance, there’s the sound of gunfire as Japanese troops hunt down the Filipino guerillas sheltering the Australian. Time is running out, and soon the guerillas will have to move to a new location, whether the Australian man is ready to go or not- and that’s if he even survives this self-surgery in the middle of a disease-ridden jungle.  Born in Scotland in 1902, Robert Kerr McLaren emigrated to Australia in his teens, after serving briefly in the First World War.  The land down under soon became his adopted home, a...