I'm 30f and have been isolated the past couple years. I've made a lot of progress towards getting my life stable and on track for a hopeful future. But I also have a long way to go compared to my goals.
The most crucial missing component is lack of friendships and mutually supportive relationships. I want to make friends with similar interests who I can talk about business or supportive mindset related subjects with and go to the gym with and learn about their interests. I love to learn and I'm a great listener. But I don't know how to find people. In the past I have made all of my friends because they were roommates, landlords, or co-workers and that doesn't fit into my current circumstances. I also haven't bought clothes for years and I feel very awkward because of my lack of clothes. I am having trouble deciding my identity and what clothes will let me accurately communicate to people who I am and my aspirations. I want to feel healthier and more confident by going to the gym, but I need to find an experienced friend for me to go with. I'm very tired from my unfortunate job delivering Amazon packages full-time and on my days off I just want to study (I'm a student) and rest watching TV. I'm working on getting a new job hopefully in the next few months. But I need to bring things into my life that increase my confidence in order to feel like I can present my best self towards potential employers. I want friends that can help me learn how to be more professional and become accustomed with professional culture.
What do you recommend I do? It's great that I have goals and insight into my circumstance. I'm just overwhelmed and don't know where to start.

This is a throwaway account.
TLDR: I sent n*des to someone that spread them around when I was 13, and everyday I live with the fear that he will come back or one of his friends will come back to haunt me.
When I was 13, I had a crush on this guy (16-17) who lived in same town as me. Let’s call him M. I moved to a different country when M found me on Facebook. We began talking. I was a stupid teenager in a phase where I over sexualised myself, so I ended up sending him n*des. I soon began receiving DMs from M’s friends who asked for pictures and I learnt he was sharing these with them. I blocked him, and my boyfriend at the time managed to scare one of them off claiming he will tell the police, after which I stopped receiving these messages.
Now, I had serious issues, so this ‘habit’ continued till I was 17. At some point I learnt I had sent pictures to others who were mutual friends with M. A friend of mine posted a picture of me, and someone he knew sent him a text telling him about all these awful things he heard about me, including details about videos I sent to those guys. My friend already knew about my past so he told the guy that it must be rumours and it’s not true. I was 16 at the time, and realised I should stay away from my hometown because I might have a bad reputation.
When I was 18, I grew up a bit and stopped messing around. I met a guy who said he liked me, and I knew he was from the same town as me, so at some point he asked if I knew M. I said yes, and he told me that M’s friends back in our hometown went up to M and were sort of hyping him up that they heard he ruined a girl’s reputation completely. This guy was present at the time and learnt I was this girl when he asked his friends about me. I burst into tears when I heard this and never spoke to this guy again.
Now I’m 22. M moved to the same country as me about two years ago. No one has brought anything up about this phase in my life since I turned 19. I don’t need someone else to remind me about it because it’s always in my head. I was the worst version of a stupid teenager and because of that I can never live a life where I feel safe. I’m always conscious about my online presence thinking what if one of these people that think I’m disgusting go up to my new friends and tell them all these things about me? When I go back home to my town I can’t make friends because I’m worried that they’ll know things about me when I don’t even know them. Im terrified of just living, going outside.
Thank you for reading all this. I really needed to vent.

I'm only posting here because I feel as if I've ranted too many times to my friends and I don't want them to think that I'm using them as free therapy. I'm hoping that this just goes into the void.
I'm so unbelievably tired. Not even just physically but emotionally and mentally. It's to the point where I'm contemplating offing myself on a daily basis and the only thing keeping me from doing that is because I got double whammyed with depression and anxiety and the anxiety somehow overpowers everything and while I want to die I'm also terrified of the thought.
Nothing is going how I want it and at 22 years old I can't say I've done anything worthwhile. At this point there's nothing for me to go on for. I don't have a boyfriend or husband, I don't have kids, I don't have my own car and I can't even drive. I still live with my parents and when I'm not working I'm either crying sleeping or playing video games. I can't even talk to my parents about how mt depression is worsening because they won't help. They'll just say i have no reason to be depressed or make it about themselves.
I don't even think anyone in my house realizes that I never talk with them about my feelings. I just sit and listen to theirs and cry alone in my room because they either will take something personal or get angry at the way that I feel. Every day is either mt parents arguing or my mom and sister arguing or my grandma and mom arguing or my sister and dad and it's too much for me to bare. All i do is sit and hope no one explodes and somehow everyday someone does. I never have done that they all say what they're feeling regardless of how it affects everyone in the house and regardless of the concequences and how their relationships will be. I hate it, and while I don't believe that someone should keep their feelings in I also feel like if its something hurtful and could be said differently then you should aim to get your feelings out without blowing everything up especially when the things that you're feeling are because you perceive things in the wrong way.
I don't know how to explain it properly but an example would be that my mom says she thinks that she is being taken advantage of by my sister and I because we both still live under her roof (I'm 22 and my sister is 19) and we don't know how to do anything ourselves.
Growing up my mom was insanely strict and did not give me much freedom to do just about anything. I know how to cook, i know how to clean, hell I even am good at taking care of children because I was always stuck babysitting someones kid. But I dont know how to drive, im not good at socializing, i cant call and make doctors appointments myself because being on the phone triggers my anxiety. But like these are things my mom did not teach me how to do. How am i supposed to learn how to drive with 1 no car 2 no permission to use someones car and 3 no permission to get in my friends cars and go out for the day.
I cant even move out because I dont make enough money. All of my money is split between myself my mother and my sister and believe me when I say I dont make much. My sister also has to split her money. Theres no way to save theres no way to leave. Amd honestly I dont want to unless i have to. And not in the its cozy here im comfortable but in the im terrified of change and cannot imagine living away because I know my mom will make my anxiety worse by calling and saying mean stuff everyday. My sister even ran away at some point and her and my mom STILL found a way to argue every day. Everyone around me seems to lack common sense and empathy. I can't do this anymore.
I love my family and I cannot imagine myself with a different one, but I still wish to start over. I dont want to be fat anymore. I dont want to be sad anymore. I had hopes and dreams of what life would be like and so far I've hit none of my goals. And i know this post probably sounds bratty and spoiled, which is fine with me as I know im not doing the best job at explain im just rambling but at the same time I wish i had somebody to talk to other than my friends who I do love dearly I just hate bothering them.
At this point I just want to slip into a coma for a whike and let everything blow over. I wanted 7 kids, I still want 7 kids but how am i to be a mother when I dont even have a significant other and my depression and anxiety is so bad that I barely get up to take care of myself. Like im sitting here in a dark room tears running down my face from crying for 3 hours typing a stupid post on reddit like what.
And I dont want any advice, its too late for that. I'm not going to off myself unless I suddenly get rid of the fear of dying thats stopping me from doing so and I dont think thats going to be anytime soon. Im just tired. Im sorry for ranting and if you read this far im sorry you had to see this. I dont like dumping my problems on anyone and I do hope no one actually reads this because its kinda embarassing to be crying on the internet about my "unfair" life. Theres a bunch more I can say but I wont. Goodbye.

I am currently going through IVF in Japan and it is covered under the national insurance program, I pay 30%. It says I'm covered for 6 cycles.
Anyone know what is the definition of a cycle under the Japanese system? Is one FET counted as 1 cycle? I have 3 embryos frozen (1 is low grade), if I implant 1 each time, does that mean I used up 3 cycles?
I couldn't find any information regarding this and my doctor is not letting me do another egg retrieval. Ideally I would like to do more retrievals so that I can bank more embryos and choose the best one for FET.

2 days away from graduating and while a 5k is doable, i’ve never been a runner and still wouldn’t consider myself a runner. i’m so glad i did this program and will definitely continue to incorporate running 2-3x a week into my fitness routine, but a 5k each time seems a bit much, no?
what is your go to distance for running when you’re not training for speed of endurance after graduating?

Before I start, thank you in advance for reading this and for any assistance you may provide.
I'm an army vet, I was airborne infantry and did five and a half years in the 173rd and the 82nd. In 2014 I had a bad jump, messed up my hip, had a long recovery, and never fully healed. In 2016 I began having chronic pain running from my lower back to my right knee. In 2017 I was med-boarded because I was so debilitated from my injury. Since 2016 I've had doctors and physical therapists in the Army and the VA tell me that nothing was wrong and that I shouldn't be in pain. For the past 7 fucking years I have been in pain, waking up every day angry that I was alive because it was another day I was in pain. Like a 6 or 7 out 10, and trust me, I know what a 10 is. I spent every day drinking myself to sleep or more recently getting stoned to the point I was non-functional, all so I could have time out of pain and decent night of sleep. I have been depressed to point of being suicidal almost the entire time. The VA was useless, and particularly my most recent doctor was the worst. I never saw him more than 5 minutes, he would tell me nothing was wrong and rush me out of his office. On two occasions he outright accused me of faking my pain. Last week I finally turned to a private practitioner, who after a 30 minute conversation figured out that my sciatic nerve wasn't moving the way it should and that was the source of my pain. He did one deep tissue massage and showed me a stretch and I have been almost pain free for an entire week. I haven't needed drugs or alcohol since then. My depression is gone, and I have my life back.
Now to the point of this post. My life goal right now is to ruin my VA doctor's career. This piece of shit should not be treating anyone. I'm seeking any and all advice to accomplish this goal. If you know of something to help, please let me know. I'm a member of the DAV, but all I know about them is that they can help me file claims. Thank you again
Tldr: I've been in pain for 7 years, my VA doctor is a piece of shit, I want to ruin his career.

A couple months ago me and my friends went on a camping trip. We had a small trailer and there was five of us, small enough to barley fit in the trailer but we managed. We liked to swim in the lake, go on hikes, that kind of stuff. We often told campfire story’s at night. They were never that scary. That was until one night we were all sitting down at the camp fire talking, drinking and snacking having fun. It was pitch black out with the only light source being the orange glow of the campfire.
We were surrounded by thick bush with a small trail leading to the main path area. We were beside the public bathroom area that was connected to the path. As we were all listening to one of my friends telling a campfire story, a tall pale man wearing old worn clothing and a cowboy hat with one of those big backpacks came out of the path. He interrupted asking if he could listen to the story, my friend (let’s call him drew) didn’t think much of it and politely said yes. Me, a bit suspicious, moved over to a log placed beside my friends chair a bit away from him. I sat down and he continued on with his story.
A few minutes later he Finnished the story and the man who came in , asked if he could tell a story. He explained it’s not like any other story, it’s one that will leave you sick in the stomach, one that will make you scared to fall asleep at night. They said sure and shrugged it off. Me, feeling a bit weirded out by the whole situation, told them I was going to use the bathroom. I went down the path as he began his story. I walk in the bathroom and go on my phone for a couple minutes I hear the old mysterious mans muffled voice in the background. After about ten minutes passed, I walked back to the area to see my friends staring blankly into nothing as if they had seen or heard something horrible.
The man was gone and it was completely devoid of any sound other than the faint crackle of the fire. I laughed it off and asked them what the man had told them. Drew, looking like he just saw a ghost just told me the man was sick walked off to his bed in the trailer. The other ones seemed pretty out of it as well. I didn’t really think it was a joke at this point. They put out the fire and walked back to the trailer. I put out the fire and got into the trailer. A couple minutes after I finnaly got comfortable, one of them groaned and insisted we slept with the lights on. I gave him a funny grin and he got really mad and told me that we don’t know what could be out there at night time. I shrugged it off and turned on the lights.
As we started to sleep one of them jolts out of their bed and the other ones all quickly looked at him in fear. He explained he woke up from a bad dream, drew got up and said he can’t do this anymore. The other ones were just as paraniod. I was starting to wonder what they had heard. I told them to just go to bed and they would be fine in the morning. I fall do sleep after about 20 minutes. They were still completely out of it. Around 3:20 I heard a loud thud. I looked around and they were all still up and biting their nails and looking around anxiously. I was still half asleep so I just went back to bed.
The next morning would be the night that will be forever burned into my memory. I woke up to find every one of them mangled beyond recognition. They were stretched and twisted , their face was completely frozen in the most disturbing facial expressions I have ever seen in my life.
Their fingers were crooked and their body was covered in blood. I screamed in complete horror as I ran out of the trailer. I didn’t call 911 I just started my car and drove out of that place as fast as I can. It’s been a few months and it’s still not on the news. I don’t know what they heard that night but what ever it was, I’m so glad I didn’t listen. If you see this crooked pale man, please, please respectfully leave.

I came to the US 6 years ago and got married to my boss four months later. We were wildly in love and I come from a very dysfunctional family that had no love, affection or kindness. And I finally found it. We were happy for some time and then things got toxic. I don’t wanna get into details, but it was a lot of manipulation and mental abuse.
I got my citizenship a couple of months ago and left him. He made me feel so worthless and small, constantly putting me down whenever he got a chance. But then apologising and being on best behavior until next fight. I don’t know how I even found the courage to just get up and leave the toxicity.
We own property together. And he made me sign some weird papers stating that if we split, it’s his. Didn’t let me contact a lawyer or anything, and actually rushed me to sign them. And then two years after the fact of purchase he decided to back up that agreement and blackmailed me into signing another one stating that we used disproportionate amounts of money to purchase the property (which is not true).
Anyway, now I’m asking for 30% of the sale amount. Which I honestly shouldn’t be settling for less than 50. And he has the guts to threaten me with uscis and saying he’ll file a tip form stating that he got used for a green card. We lived together all that time, traveled, had joint bills and bank accounts, taxes etc. Can he actually bring me any harm with USCIS? Or is it just bluff? Should I be worried and maybe get a lawyer? I actually need to start the divorce process as well.
What can you suggest? Should I let go of the property money and just let him be? He did say that he’ll have me deported no matter what. What a sick man… I can’t believe that was the person I loved and spent 6 years of my life with. I feel broken and pathetic 😭😭

New Releases for June 2023

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For more discussion, see the monthly New Releases post.

Title	Author	ReleaseDate
Biography
Pageboy	Elliot Page	June 6, 2023
Rickey	Howard Bryant	June 13, 2023
The Church of Baseball	Ron Shelton	June 20, 2023
Fantasy
Psyche and Eros	Luna McNamara	May 25, 2023
The First Bright Thing	J.R. Dawson	June 13, 2023
Fiction
And Then He Sang a Lullaby	Ani Kayode Somtochukwu	June 6, 2023
Between Two Moons	Aisha Abdel Gawad	June 6, 2023
Empire	Conn Iggulden	June 6, 2023
Lucky Dogs	Helen Schulman	June 6, 2023
Such Kindness	Andre Dubus III	June 6, 2023
Watch Us Shine	Marisa de los Santos	June 6, 2023
The Cafe at Beach End	RaeAnne Thayne	June 13, 2023
Forgiving Imelda Marcos	Nathan Go	June 13, 2023
Nightbloom	Peace Adzo Medie	June 13, 2023
Reproduction	Louisa Hall	June 13, 2023
You Were Always Mine	Christine Pride	June 13, 2023
Welcome to Beach Town	Susan Wiggs	June 20, 2023
The Rachel Incident	Caroline O'Donoghue	June 22, 2023
Little Monsters	Adrienne Brodeur	June 27, 2023
Historical Fiction
Crow Mary	Kathleen Grissom	June 6, 2023
Killingly	Katharine Beutner	June 6, 2023
Lady Tan's Circle of Women	Lisa See	June 6, 2023
The House of Lincoln	Nancy Horan	June 6, 2023
The Last Drop of Hemlock	Katharine Schellman	June 6, 2023
The Paris Daughter	Kristin Harmel	June 6, 2023
The Wind Knows My Name	Isabel Allende	June 6, 2023
The Radcliffe Ladies’ Reading Club	Julia Bryan Thomas	June 6, 2023
The Last Lifeboat	Hazel Gaynor	June 13, 2023
Maddalena and the Dark	Julia Fine	June 13, 2023
Return to Valetto	Dominic Smith	June 13, 2023
Sally Brady's Italian Adventure	Christina Lynch	June 13, 2023
The Spectacular	Fiona Davis	June 13, 2023
Hotel Laguna	Nicola Harrison	June 20, 2023
I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home	Lorrie Moore	June 20, 2023
The Brightest Star	Gail Tsukiyama	June 20, 2023
The Glass Chateau	Stephen P. Kiernan	June 20, 2023
Banyan Moon	Thao Thai	June 27, 2023
The First Ladies	Marie Benedict	June 27, 2023
The History of a Difficult Child	Mihret Sibhat	June 27, 2023
History
Taking Berlin	Martin Dugard	June 6, 2023
Last Call at Coogan's	Jon Michaud	June 6, 2023
Never Give Up	Tom Brokaw	June 13, 2023
Horror
Maeve Fly	C.J. Leede	June 6, 2023
Literature
The Imposters	Tom Rachman	June 27, 2023
Memoir
Rocky Mountain High	Finn Murphy	June 13, 2023
Mystery
Relentless Melt	Jeremy P. Bushnell	June 6, 2023
A Disappearance in Fiji	Nilima Rao	June 6, 2023
All the Sinners Bleed	S.A. Cosby	June 6, 2023
Retribution	Robert McCaw	June 6, 2023
The Girls of Summer	Katie Bishop	June 6, 2023
The Game She Plays	Siena Sterling	June 6, 2023
Code of the Hills	Chris Offutt	June 13, 2023
Bad Influence	Alison Gaylin	June 13, 2023
The Puzzle Master	Danielle Trussoni	June 13, 2023
What Remains	Wendy Walker	June 13, 2023
A Stolen Child	Sarah Stewart Taylor	June 20, 2023
A Most Agreeable Murder	Julia Seales	June 27, 2023
Try Not to Breathe	David Bell	June 27, 2023
Nonfiction
George	Frieda Hughes	June 6, 2023
Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge	Helen Ellis	June 13, 2023
Adult Drama	Natalie Beach	June 20, 2023
Directions to Myself	Heidi Julavits	June 27, 2023
Like a Rolling Stone	Jann S. Wenner	June 27, 2023
Romance
Cassandra in Reverse	Holly Smale	May 11, 2023
Same Time Next Summer	Annabel Monaghan	June 6, 2023
Everything's Fine	Cecilia Rabess	June 6, 2023
My Magnolia Summer	Victoria Benton Frank	June 6, 2023
A Little Ray of Sunshine	Kristan Higgins	June 6, 2023
The Little Italian Hotel	Phaedra Patrick	June 6, 2023
Unfortunately Yours	Tessa Bailey	June 6, 2023
The Sweetheart List	Jill Shalvis	June 13, 2023
Famous in a Small Town	Viola Shipman	June 13, 2023
Love, Theoretically	Ali Hazelwood	June 13, 2023
The Favor	Adele Griffin	June 13, 2023
The Five-Star Weekend	Elin Hilderbrand	June 13, 2023
Summer's Gift	Jennifer Ryan	June 20, 2023
The Happiness Plan	Susan Mallery	June 20, 2023
The Wife App	Carolyn Mackler	June 27, 2023
The Seven Year Slip	Ashley Poston	June 27, 2023
Science Fiction
The Endless Vessel	Charles Soule	June 6, 2023
Girlfriend on Mars	Deborah Willis	June 13, 2023
Sands of Dune	Brian Herbert	June 27, 2023
Thriller
Cross Down	James Patterson	June 5, 2023
Girls and Their Horses	Eliza Jane Brazier	June 6, 2023
The Survivor	Iris Johansen	June 6, 2023
The Whispers	Ashley Audrain	June 6, 2023
Night Will Find You	Julia Heaberlin	June 8, 2023
The Long Way Back	Nicole Baart	June 13, 2023
Inside Threat	Matthew Quirk	June 13, 2023
Speak of the Devil	Rose Wilding	June 13, 2023
The Drowning Woman	Robyn Harding	June 13, 2023
The First Death	Kendra Elliot	June 13, 2023
The Gulf	Rachel Cochran	June 13, 2023
The Woman Inside	M.T. Edvardsson	June 13, 2023
You Can Trust Me	Wendy Heard	June 13, 2023
The Quiet Tenant	Clémence Michallon	June 20, 2023
The Spare Room	Andrea Bartz	June 20, 2023
What the Neighbors Saw	Melissa Adelman	June 20, 2023
Zero Days	Ruth Ware	June 20, 2023
The Only One Left	Riley Sager	June 20, 2023
Before She Finds Me	Heather Chavez	June 27, 2023
Have You Seen Her	Catherine McKenzie	June 27, 2023
Lay Your Body Down	Amy Suiter Clarke	June 27, 2023
The 9th Man	Steve Berry	June 27, 2023
Unknown
Fire Strike	Mike Maden	June 6, 2023
Be Mine	Richard Ford	June 13, 2023
I Walk Between the Raindrops	T C Boyle	June 13, 2023
Trial	Richard North Patterson	June 13, 2023
Palazzo	Danielle Steel	June 27, 2023
The Sweet Remnants of Summer	Alexander McCall Smith	June 27, 2023
The Boys from Biloxi	John Grisham	August 22, 2023

I’ve been open to multiple people around me i just don’t want to talk about sexuality that much with my family. but Ik they really don’t care like everyone is just chill and loving to a lot of people. and I just don’t really care but I get scared if one day my mom just comes home and there’s a guy with me and we ain’t jamming with guitars if you know what I mean. One thing that brought this on is we’re going down to Florida and we’re gonna be just saying to those people who have bigoted views to shove it. And well she got me a shirt that says ally like yeah I support the lgbtq because I am one of ‘em but like i don’t want to talk about it just kinda let it be casual. I told her once and she kinda didn’t understand like I said “i’m pansexual” then she says “what’s that” so I told her and she still didn’t understand so i just kinda let it be. Then we watched bohemian rhapsody together and she just told me afterwards “if you ever want to be with someone either boy or girl or whatever in between be safe” I kinda just took that as a “use condoms” so that just made me smile

Whether I'm bodying you, going head up in a close match with you, or you are bodying me to the point me holding the controller makes no difference I'm having fun.
Manon is so much fun to use, and I never thought i would ever use Honda. In fact, as a long time SF fan from the 90s he was the only World Warrior I didn't touch. Lol
Looking forward to what's to come. This game is already more fun than Scrubby Fighter V.

I have recently decided to explore the options of sugar daddies out there. I’ve had one for about 6 months and he invited me to an event months ago. And of course I agreed to go. I’ve been seeing a new one for a little while. We haven’t met up a lot. But he just let me know he’s going to the same event. I have not talked about exclusivity with any of these men. But it’s making me nervous that I might run into this new one. I’m just not sure what to do. What would you ladies do in this kind of situation?

Hindi kami ganun ka close ng father ko but he will always be one man I will always look up to.
He is only a high school graduate, my mom just had some high school education. But they worked hard to keep a small buy and sell business and they sent us all 4 of us to private catholic schools from grade school to college.
It was always my mom who we shared our daily life with -- crushes, silly fights with friends. She would be first person we show our school cards to. We would ask nanay to ask Tatangs permission in our behalf so we can go out with friends. So our mom would be the one to tell our rather about the going-ons in our life. Since mom passed away 15 years ago, my father was still always there, but I guess ako yung nawala.
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I would always still visit home. Flying in and out once or twice every 3 months, spend a weekend or a week. We don't talk much because I don't know what to tell him. He would always remind me about savings, "Baka di ka nag-iipon", or "sino yang mga kasama mo pag bumabyahe ka", "Mag exercise ka", "Hinay sa pagkain". Mostly one-liners lang during dinner. Then he would just listen to our kwentuhan ng sister and mga pamangkin ko during meals.
In one of my trips home, sinama ko yung isang female friend ko who wanted to visit Mindanao. I told my sister so she could prepare one of the rooms and also to inform my father. I introduced my friend and he welcomed the guest pero napansin ko that he was not as warm compared pag may ibang visitors sa bahay. His usual line would always be about serving the meal, or ask the visitor to rest.
My sister pulled me aside. "Ate, sinabi ko kay tatay na may friend ka kasama. I think akala nya siguro boyfriend mo. Na shock siguro sya na babae ang friend mo."
We had a good laugh at that at that time even now when I think about it again. I did not know he still wished I get married.
But when I think of that incident like now with much deeper thought. He did not know anything about us at lalo about me since my mom passed away. Physically we were still there but since nanay passed away, nawala din pala kami sa buhay nya.
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I am so sorry, Tang. I may never have told you as often pero palangga ka gid namon.
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The more I learn the more I realize that the matrix is a frequency prison. It limits perception to the frequency bands decoded by the five senses. And everything outside of that we are unaware of. Unless you are sensitive to energy. In which case you can sense things like ghosts, negative entities, energy, etc that is outside the frequency bands of the five senses.
The matrix is really two worlds overlayed on top of each other. The frequency bands decoded by the five senses and the astral. We know that the astral exists in the same space as the frequencies decoded by the five senses because of things like ghosts and hauntings. And because different places have different energy.
So what is the matrix. It's an attempt to limit perception to the frequencies decoded by the five senses. Some of us can perceive beyond this though. Because I'm an astral traveler I'm very sensitive to energy. And I can sense when ghosts and entities are nearby. There was a time when I was more targeted by negative entities and could sense them in my house.
Negative entities are not self aware thought form constructs. But they are usually much more powerful then your average thought form. They were constructed by evil people. Then those negative entities made more of themselves and now they reproduce like crazy. The point is I can sense them. Even though they are in the astral.
So the physical world and the astral exist in the same space but at different frequencies. When those frequencies are close on the dial you get things like ghosts and hauntings. This is a good thing because it means that astral is right here. It is just outside the frequency ranges decoded by the five senses. So the physical world and the astral exist in the same space at different frequencies.
From what I can tell the world out there is mostly in our head. The five senses decode the frequency bands that the matrix is limited to. Sends that information in the form of electrical signals to the brain. And then it decodes it in the form of a three dimensional hologram. So the matrix is largely happening in our head. The brain acts as a virtual reality headset.
The only thing out there is frequency fields that get decoded by the five senses. There is no solid world. Solidity is an illusion decoded by the brain. There is nothing out there but the frequency fields decoded by the five senses. And the astral. When you sense things in the astral like ghosts you are perceiving without using information decoded by the brain. So you are perceiving more of what is really out there.
When ghosts manifest and you can see them they have to enter the frequency ranges decoded by the five senses. Then that information is sent to the brain and it decodes a ghost. But most likely the system tries to keep out ghosts so if someone does come in from the outside and try to appear as a ghost the entire system and it minions would try to stop them. So it takes a lot of energy for a ghost to appear in the frequency ranges decoded by the five senses. So it doesn't happen very often.
I had an experience once where a negative entity tried to murder me. It manifested for a few hours. I could feel it touching me. I've never seen anything like and I don't want to see anything like it again. It was insane. But it's experiences like that that show that the matrix and the astral are really in the same space at different frequencies.
The matrix is a locked down frequency prison. It does everything it can to limit perception to just the frequency bands decoded by the five senses. It also does everything it can to lower the frequency of the planet and lower people's awareness. To that end the elite do dark rituals on points where ley lines intersect. And cause negative energy to spread across the planet through the grid.
There is a grid system that runs through the matrix. I've seen it when it's become momentarily visible. It looks like a honeycomb pattern. The elite build monuments and stone circles where powerful grid lines intersect. And they do their rituals on these locations to the lower the frequency of the planet.
So the matrix is a complex system. But we can understand it. It is a frequency construct prison. And the brain is at the very center of it. Without the brain to decode the frequency ranges of the five senses the matrix would cease to exist. It would be nothing but a bunch of frequency fields. And it would have no solidity. The brain is a hologram that decodes holograms. It's a frequency field that decodes frequency fields. So the matrix is mostly in our heads. Beyond that it's just a bunch of frequency fields.
But the astral is there. It exists in the same space as the matrix. But unlike the matrix it doesn't have a complex encoding decoding system like the brain. In the astral you mostly see things as they are. There are exceptions to that. I had an astral experience where I mind tricked myself into not seeing a man who was right in front of me. But usually you just see things directly. The eyes decode the frequency range of visible light and send those signals to the visual cortex in the brain. But that doesn't happen in the astral. In the astral you mostly see things directly as they are.
So the matrix and the astral overlap. And exist in the same space. If you have ever had an encounter with a ghost you know that. The matrix encodes frequency fields that get decoded by the five senses and sent to the brain. But in the astral you just perceive things directly. So these are complex systems that overlap.
Different places in the matrix have different energy and that energy is the astral. Also different places where bad stuff has happened are haunted. So we can infer from that that there is a three dimensional world out. One is a world of frequency fields decoded by the brain. And the other is a world where things are perceived directly. So they are very different worlds but they do overlap. They exist in the same space at different frequencies.
So the matrix is a locked down frequency prison. It tries to limit perception to just the five senses. But with people like me it has failed because I can sense things that are in the astral. I think it's also important to point out that our memories are in the astral. The akashic records is really a fourth dimensional astral AI database. And it stores our memories. Usually you only have access to the memories of your current life. But some people remember more then that. So our memories and consciousness are in the astral. So the matrix is a complex multidimensional frequency prison.So I hope this helps explain how the matrix works. If you have an questions let me know in the comments.

New Releases for June 2023

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Title	Author	ReleaseDate
Biography
Pageboy	Elliot Page	June 6, 2023
Rickey	Howard Bryant	June 13, 2023
The Church of Baseball	Ron Shelton	June 20, 2023
Fantasy
Psyche and Eros	Luna McNamara	May 25, 2023
The First Bright Thing	J.R. Dawson	June 13, 2023
Fiction
And Then He Sang a Lullaby	Ani Kayode Somtochukwu	June 6, 2023
Between Two Moons	Aisha Abdel Gawad	June 6, 2023
Empire	Conn Iggulden	June 6, 2023
Lucky Dogs	Helen Schulman	June 6, 2023
Such Kindness	Andre Dubus III	June 6, 2023
Watch Us Shine	Marisa de los Santos	June 6, 2023
The Cafe at Beach End	RaeAnne Thayne	June 13, 2023
Forgiving Imelda Marcos	Nathan Go	June 13, 2023
Nightbloom	Peace Adzo Medie	June 13, 2023
Reproduction	Louisa Hall	June 13, 2023
You Were Always Mine	Christine Pride	June 13, 2023
Welcome to Beach Town	Susan Wiggs	June 20, 2023
The Rachel Incident	Caroline O'Donoghue	June 22, 2023
Little Monsters	Adrienne Brodeur	June 27, 2023
Historical Fiction
Crow Mary	Kathleen Grissom	June 6, 2023
Killingly	Katharine Beutner	June 6, 2023
Lady Tan's Circle of Women	Lisa See	June 6, 2023
The House of Lincoln	Nancy Horan	June 6, 2023
The Last Drop of Hemlock	Katharine Schellman	June 6, 2023
The Paris Daughter	Kristin Harmel	June 6, 2023
The Wind Knows My Name	Isabel Allende	June 6, 2023
The Radcliffe Ladies’ Reading Club	Julia Bryan Thomas	June 6, 2023
The Last Lifeboat	Hazel Gaynor	June 13, 2023
Maddalena and the Dark	Julia Fine	June 13, 2023
Return to Valetto	Dominic Smith	June 13, 2023
Sally Brady's Italian Adventure	Christina Lynch	June 13, 2023
The Spectacular	Fiona Davis	June 13, 2023
Hotel Laguna	Nicola Harrison	June 20, 2023
I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home	Lorrie Moore	June 20, 2023
The Brightest Star	Gail Tsukiyama	June 20, 2023
The Glass Chateau	Stephen P. Kiernan	June 20, 2023
Banyan Moon	Thao Thai	June 27, 2023
The First Ladies	Marie Benedict	June 27, 2023
The History of a Difficult Child	Mihret Sibhat	June 27, 2023
History
Taking Berlin	Martin Dugard	June 6, 2023
Last Call at Coogan's	Jon Michaud	June 6, 2023
Never Give Up	Tom Brokaw	June 13, 2023
Horror
Maeve Fly	C.J. Leede	June 6, 2023
Literature
The Imposters	Tom Rachman	June 27, 2023
Memoir
Rocky Mountain High	Finn Murphy	June 13, 2023
Mystery
Relentless Melt	Jeremy P. Bushnell	June 6, 2023
A Disappearance in Fiji	Nilima Rao	June 6, 2023
All the Sinners Bleed	S.A. Cosby	June 6, 2023
Retribution	Robert McCaw	June 6, 2023
The Girls of Summer	Katie Bishop	June 6, 2023
The Game She Plays	Siena Sterling	June 6, 2023
Code of the Hills	Chris Offutt	June 13, 2023
Bad Influence	Alison Gaylin	June 13, 2023
The Puzzle Master	Danielle Trussoni	June 13, 2023
What Remains	Wendy Walker	June 13, 2023
A Stolen Child	Sarah Stewart Taylor	June 20, 2023
A Most Agreeable Murder	Julia Seales	June 27, 2023
Try Not to Breathe	David Bell	June 27, 2023
Nonfiction
George	Frieda Hughes	June 6, 2023
Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge	Helen Ellis	June 13, 2023
Adult Drama	Natalie Beach	June 20, 2023
Directions to Myself	Heidi Julavits	June 27, 2023
Like a Rolling Stone	Jann S. Wenner	June 27, 2023
Romance
Cassandra in Reverse	Holly Smale	May 11, 2023
Same Time Next Summer	Annabel Monaghan	June 6, 2023
Everything's Fine	Cecilia Rabess	June 6, 2023
My Magnolia Summer	Victoria Benton Frank	June 6, 2023
A Little Ray of Sunshine	Kristan Higgins	June 6, 2023
The Little Italian Hotel	Phaedra Patrick	June 6, 2023
Unfortunately Yours	Tessa Bailey	June 6, 2023
The Sweetheart List	Jill Shalvis	June 13, 2023
Famous in a Small Town	Viola Shipman	June 13, 2023
Love, Theoretically	Ali Hazelwood	June 13, 2023
The Favor	Adele Griffin	June 13, 2023
The Five-Star Weekend	Elin Hilderbrand	June 13, 2023
Summer's Gift	Jennifer Ryan	June 20, 2023
The Happiness Plan	Susan Mallery	June 20, 2023
The Wife App	Carolyn Mackler	June 27, 2023
The Seven Year Slip	Ashley Poston	June 27, 2023
Science Fiction
The Endless Vessel	Charles Soule	June 6, 2023
Girlfriend on Mars	Deborah Willis	June 13, 2023
Sands of Dune	Brian Herbert	June 27, 2023
Thriller
Cross Down	James Patterson	June 5, 2023
Girls and Their Horses	Eliza Jane Brazier	June 6, 2023
The Survivor	Iris Johansen	June 6, 2023
The Whispers	Ashley Audrain	June 6, 2023
Night Will Find You	Julia Heaberlin	June 8, 2023
The Long Way Back	Nicole Baart	June 13, 2023
Inside Threat	Matthew Quirk	June 13, 2023
Speak of the Devil	Rose Wilding	June 13, 2023
The Drowning Woman	Robyn Harding	June 13, 2023
The First Death	Kendra Elliot	June 13, 2023
The Gulf	Rachel Cochran	June 13, 2023
The Woman Inside	M.T. Edvardsson	June 13, 2023
You Can Trust Me	Wendy Heard	June 13, 2023
The Quiet Tenant	Clémence Michallon	June 20, 2023
The Spare Room	Andrea Bartz	June 20, 2023
What the Neighbors Saw	Melissa Adelman	June 20, 2023
Zero Days	Ruth Ware	June 20, 2023
The Only One Left	Riley Sager	June 20, 2023
Before She Finds Me	Heather Chavez	June 27, 2023
Have You Seen Her	Catherine McKenzie	June 27, 2023
Lay Your Body Down	Amy Suiter Clarke	June 27, 2023
The 9th Man	Steve Berry	June 27, 2023
Unknown
Fire Strike	Mike Maden	June 6, 2023
Be Mine	Richard Ford	June 13, 2023
I Walk Between the Raindrops	T C Boyle	June 13, 2023
Trial	Richard North Patterson	June 13, 2023
Palazzo	Danielle Steel	June 27, 2023
The Sweet Remnants of Summer	Alexander McCall Smith	June 27, 2023
The Boys from Biloxi	John Grisham	August 22, 2023