“What Is The Biggest Mystery We Still Aren’t Close To Solving?” (25 Pics)

It's simple: Dreams are when we roll our eyes back into our heads and see what we're thinking (or so I decided when I was 4). It still makes a bit of sense to me :-)

Brain gets bored while night systems run and repair, so it entertains itself.

There’s research that suggests it’s a byproduct of the brain ‘washing out’ and replenishing neurotransmitters used up during the day.

I can remember every dream I’ve ever had since I was 5 to the point where there’s a literal cinematic universe in my dreams and locations I’ve been visiting for years that don’t even exist. My friends think this indicates I don’t sleep well

I don't know how I managed to be able to do this, but if I have a dream go in a direction I don't like, I can concentrate and change it. Although I wake up in the morning with a headache from hèll though.

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"How does meat think?" 🤣

Brains are mostly fat, though...

It’s interesting that science has no idea what consciousness but so many people state ‘I believe in science, so there’s no after life’. If we don’t know what consciousness we sure as hecky peck don’t know what happens to it after we die. There not being an afterlife (or reincarnation) is as much a belief as the rest.

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I’ve yet to hear a concise definition of what consciousness is, I.e. what we mean when we say “consciousness”. It seems to consist of mostly subjective experiences, a kind of internal narrative. That makes it practically unmeasurable. People with “locked in syndrome” are conscious but unable to move or speak - so we can’t define consciousness based on observable behavior. Hence, anything COULD be conscious, even rocks and atoms.

Think they mean flesh?

When we find out, the next thing would be figuring out how to s***w it up.

Good for them. Look what happened to the ones we "discovered"...

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"Two people can keep a secret, if one of them is dead." - Ben Franklin, or somebody

The current federal government would not follow any statutes of limitation. I doesn't even follow the explicit language of the 14th Amendment.

Hopefully they put a confession in their will, so we can know eventually.

Never heard of it.

The Cottingley Fairies girls only admitted their photos were fakes after more than 60 years, so there’s plenty of time. I grew up seeing the photos in books as ‘unexplained mysteries'

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I used to lie awake as a child trying to think about this and just freaking out

When I was a kid I assumed that if we managed to somehow ‘teleport’ something ‘outside’ the universe then because of the fact that literally nothing exists ‘outside’ the universe, either the object would completely disintegrate, ie all information about the object remains lost forever and not preserved or the object’s internal energy would trigger a sort of Big Bang event creating a new universe branching off from ours but since the internal energy would be far too little, the new universe would collapse in less than a fraction of a second

Nobody’s brain can fathom it, if there’s an end then what is on the other side of the end? And we can’t wrap our heads around the fact that there might not be an end

I used to lay out in the grass gazing at the sky for hours, so it was inevitable that I'd continue that gazing with all the gorgeously amazing telescope images we now have. But understand it??? I've never been able to wrap my brain around any of it.

When I was a kid I decided that everything we see including the universe is just part of a larger being and that humans are just cells or something inside thar lifeform.

It's super annoying, too, both for the person who has it (me) and the person who shares their bed (Mr OG).

We know a lot of causes but maybe not all. Low iron / anemia is absolutely one of them. I take iron every day and it disappears. …unless I forget for like a week in a row and it comes right back more annoying than ever.

Once in a while one leg will suddenly kick out while I'm sleeping. It's annoying and wakes me up.

I developed this annoying syndrome in my late 40s, and it lasted for about 20yrs off and on. I was diagnosed with hypertension, went on meds, and drastically reduced my salt intake. Voilà, the RLS disappeared. Ahyep, salt exacerbates this syndrome.

I sincerely suggest any sufferers try taking a good magnesium supplement every day. Obviously there can be more than one cause, but it’s well worth trying and won’t do you anything but good anyway.

It's a tough diagnosis. I wish you the best of luck in your treatment.

My husband had brain cancer, it made him do some really strange things

This isn't a mystery at all: he's a dog. He first appeared in the 1932 cartoon "Mickey's Review," and was originally named Dippy Dog. This was changed to Goofy in 1934, with his first appearance under that name being "Orphan's Benefit." The difference between the two is that Goofy is an anthropomorphic character, and Pluto is not.