Too little sleep may increase the chance of becoming obese, a study suggests.

People burn fewer calories asleep, so it might seem to be counterintuitive that more sleep prevents weight gain.

But it was found people who slept four hours or less per night were 73% more likely to be obese, possibly because of effects on appetite hormones.

The Columbia University study was presented to the North American Association for the Study of Obesity annual meeting in Las Vegas.

Also: Sleep may cut childhood obesity

A JAPANESE research team says it has created a technology that could eventually display dreams or what people have on their minds on a computer screen.

Researchers at the ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories succeeded in processing and displaying images directly from the human brain, they said in a study unveiled ahead of publication in the US magazine Neuron.

While the team for now has managed to reproduce only simple images from the brain, they said the technology could eventually be used to figure out dreams and other secrets inside people’s minds.

“It was the first time in the world that it was possible to visualise what people see directly from the brain activity,” the private institute said.

“By applying this technology, it may become possible to record and replay subjective images that people perceive like dreams.”

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“Can brain scans read our minds?”

As cool as this would be, I really hope this technology never gets developed because it would be instantly abused by pretty much any government or large corporation that got its hands on it.

For a few year’s now I’ve had sleep paralysis, and just recently realized I can move during these episodes. Little did I know after doing some research on the topic, I was in fact having an out of body experience. I was able to move about my apartment… but I noticed something odd this time around after close examination.

I was actually able to physically feel the environment around me [hard would floor, and a bottle cap that I mounted on my wall]. I was also able to see my mother getting ready for work, and the sounds of her movements matched with the image of my mum [in other words I concluded it was a dream nor hallucination... because in both of them I can't do the thing's that I mentioned before].

Now my question to you is, is this proof of a real “Spirit state”? I’m a paranormal investigator myself and I was just wondering if this could be our way of communicating with the other side, while still being capable of reentering your body afterward.

Short answer: sort of.

Long answer: Here’s what I would do to increase your level of certainty that you really are remote viewing the physical plane from the nonphysical plane. Ask someone to put an object with a simple shape in an opaque lidded jar.

For instance, a golf ball, or a cup or maybe a pen. Induce an OBE and open the jar and see what you find. Write down the what you see when you wake up. Do a couple more OBEs like that an build up a body of data about what you’re seeing in the jar, it will probably shift a bit each time.

Pick out what are the common attributes and come up with a guess on what you think the object is then open the jar physically and see how close you were. If you repeat this experiment several times you’ll probably find that sometimes you’re really close and other times way off base.

Here’s an Excel spreadsheet you can use to track about how accurate your data is:

Remote Viewing Template

So the short answer is that what you see in OBEs is a mix of physical information and nonphysical information. Sorting one from the other is possible not necessarily easy.

I have been having trouble getting to the vibrational stage. I dont know if you have seen my journal entries, but if you have, then you will be able to see that I have been able to get to the vibrational state almost every time I try to project. But, whenever I try to do it these days, I can no longer get to the same stage as before.

I just dont understand it… I am able to relax no problem, but I never get to the same level as I used to. The only thing I can feel is a SLIGHT vibration which goes away again. I remember I stopped trying to project for a little while. Is this the reason why Im finding it hard to get to the same state?

If I have to start over again, then I dont mind, because it’s my own doing. But, if it’s not that, then I have no idea what the problem could be. I have read that camomile tea is supposed to be good for astral projection. Do you know of any other things that can help you? Like, crystals or anything else? I need all the help I can get right now, man…

Vibrations are a form of nonphysical friction. Once you’ve had a lot of OBEs you clear out nonphysical blocks that caused vibrations and don’t really get vibes any more. You’ll enter a subconscious state and need to rely on other phenomena to tell how close to an OBE you are. Here’s a chart with hints to use to tell about how close you are so you don’t have to rely only on vibrations:

Chart To Tell How Close You Are To An O.B.E

Sleep paralysis is the most useful method of knowing if you’re ready to project or not. If you wake up and fall asleep several times in a row without moving (using a timer) you’ll enter sleep paralysis and be able to use any of the methods on the video to turn it into an OBE.