Interesting Wikipedia articles?

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Project C

739 posts

204 months

Saturday 6th October 2012
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Sleep Paralysis

Sleep Paralysis - suffered from this myself a few times although not recently thankfully - Waking up (or as falling to sleep) and being paralysed for a short while.

petrolsniffer

2,461 posts

173 months

Saturday 6th October 2012
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Mosman said:
Dead Hand - Russian fail-deadly nuclear deterrent...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand_(nuclear_wa...

and whilst I'm on the cheerful subject of nuclear annihilation...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_of_last_resor...



Edited by Mosman on Friday 5th October 16:37
The cold war facinates me perhaps it's a strange fancination

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_f... No idea if this has been posted but this must of took some nerve!

mrtwisty

3,057 posts

164 months

Saturday 6th October 2012
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Project C said:
Sleep Paralysis

Sleep Paralysis - suffered from this myself a few times although not recently thankfully - Waking up (or as falling to sleep) and being paralysed for a short while.
Yep, I have had this about once a year for quite a while now. You do get used to it when you know what is happening, but as Wikipedia says:

Many people that experience sleep paralysis are struck with a deep sense of terror, because they sense a menacing presence in the room while paralyzed—hereafter referred to as the intruder. This phenomenon is believed to be the result of a hyper vigilant state created in the midbrain.[7] More specifically, the emergency response activates in the brain when individuals wake up paralyzed and feel vulnerable to attack.[15] This helplessness can intensify the effects of the threat response well above the level typical to normal dreams; this could explain why hallucinations during sleep paralysis are so vivid.

Really not nice the first time it happens!

Urban Sports

11,321 posts

202 months

Sunday 7th October 2012
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Joseph Williamson the mole of edgehill Liverpool, I've actually visited the tunnels.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Williamson_(ph...

Urban Sports

11,321 posts

202 months

Sunday 7th October 2012
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Urban Sports

11,321 posts

202 months

Sunday 7th October 2012
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Urban Sports

11,321 posts

202 months

Sunday 7th October 2012
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Urban Sports

11,321 posts

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Urban Sports

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Google [bot]

6,682 posts

180 months

Sunday 7th October 2012
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Roger Rogerson. If you ever get the chance to see the mini-series Blue Murder, I suggest you do:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Rogerson#sect...

Gwagon111

4,422 posts

160 months

Sunday 7th October 2012
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Project C said:
Sleep Paralysis

Sleep Paralysis - suffered from this myself a few times although not recently thankfully - Waking up (or as falling to sleep) and being paralysed for a short while.
If you get a proper bout, it's st scary. You are well aware if what's going on, but you can't do anything. You think your making a sound, but your not. It's a very strange thing to experience.

Urban Sports

11,321 posts

202 months

Sunday 7th October 2012
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Disappearance of Frederick Valentich

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Valentich

Urban Sports

11,321 posts

202 months

Sunday 7th October 2012
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Urban Sports

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Gwagon111

4,422 posts

160 months

Sunday 7th October 2012
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Urban Sports said:
I love these nutters, they crack me right up. I like to encourage them, it's very entertaining.

JudgeMental

7,251 posts

232 months

Sunday 7th October 2012
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Urban Sports said:
Seattle Windshield Pitting Epidemic

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Windshield_Pi...
Autoglass were behind that

vtgts300kw

597 posts

176 months

Sunday 7th October 2012
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Gwagon111 said:
If you get a proper bout, it's st scary. You are well aware if what's going on, but you can't do anything. You think your making a sound, but your not. It's a very strange thing to experience.
I get it maybe once a month or so. It's sometimes "scarier" than usual. And I have the unusual feeling of mentally forcing my limbs to wake up, and can "feel" the sensation moving down my limbs, but if it doesn't happen fast enough, I FREAK out mentally and try scream.

Gwagon111

4,422 posts

160 months

Sunday 7th October 2012
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vtgts300kw said:
I get it maybe once a month or so. It's sometimes "scarier" than usual. And I have the unusual feeling of mentally forcing my limbs to wake up, and can "feel" the sensation moving down my limbs, but if it doesn't happen fast enough, I FREAK out mentally and try scream.
yes it doesn't get any easier, no matter how many times it happens.

Rouleur

7,014 posts

188 months

Sunday 7th October 2012
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List of unusual deaths http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_death...

This is pretty grim:

1816: Gouverneur Morris, an American statesman, died after sticking a piece of whale bone through his urinary tract to relieve a blockage.

Slink

2,947 posts

171 months

Sunday 7th October 2012
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Gwagon111 said:
vtgts300kw said:
I get it maybe once a month or so. It's sometimes "scarier" than usual. And I have the unusual feeling of mentally forcing my limbs to wake up, and can "feel" the sensation moving down my limbs, but if it doesn't happen fast enough, I FREAK out mentally and try scream.
yes it doesn't get any easier, no matter how many times it happens.
ive had something, i guess is a form of sleep paralysis, but i am paralysed in my dream and cannot move or do anything, but its not the whole dream me not being able to move, im having a strange dream, then i start getting really heavy, then fall over and cannot move, like i am so drunk i cant move or say anything. has happened a couple of times now, but not recently thank god. quite scary.