Self-help for improved sleep + dream journaling = a better life.
How well do you think you’d sleep if your muscles kept twitching all night? Not well at all, I’d bet. The next time someone gives you a hard time about eating somewhat healthfully, tell them twitching all night might be fine for them. You, on the other hand, like to rest when you sleep. Unless…
On the first night, the crowd sat to eat at a long picnic table. On the second night, more guests arrived and sat around the same table, squeezing together. Someone placed a plate in front of each guest. The good plates were being used, the dreamer realized. It wasn’t the everyday dishes. On night three,…
When presented with a blank wall, a muralist has almost a universe of options. He or she has the freedom to paint almost anything. The only restraint, perhaps, is applied by the property owner, local ordinance, the artist’s talent and his or her vision. Sometimes the wall’s owner has an idea. Sometimes it’s a governmental…
The drip, drip, drip of a faucet keeping you awake is bad enough. But when the dripping is coming from your head and armpits it has to be worse. Profuse sleep sweating has to be one of the most troubling sleeping problems there are. Oftentimes it defies easy explanation. In extreme cases, the individual wakes up feeling like someone…
Your mind is pretty much behaving like a game of Jenga. Instead of wooden blocks, however, it’s one worry after another that’s stacking up. Up, up, up, the tower of worries go until they eventually come crashing down. It’s a bad kind of creativity. Instead of coming up with interesting ideas, you’re coming up with…
Crisp rice cereal combined with dried cherries makes for a natural sedating combination that can help you get some shuteye. When eating it in moderation, the rice cereal provides a satiating slow-burning fuel. The dried cherries are a natural source of melatonin. The milk finishes off with some essential minerals. It’s a lot more tasty…
“Dirty jobs” and TV’s Mike Rowe have become synonomous over the last 15-plus years. If you’ve flipped through cable TV channels sometime during that time you’ve probably seen Rowe doing all kinds of things. He’s mucked out the bottom of a giant chicken coop. He’s cleaned cow skulls. He’s collected vomit from many different animals.…
Why is love bombing called what it is? Good question! If you’ve ever seen the resulting effects of one, the answer will be obvious. For now, realize that if actual bombs were typically tactically used against a single person instead of a group, love bombing might be called “love sniping.” In a love bombing, someone…
Q: If a man or a woman has questions and they want answers, what do they do? A: There are several things they might do. They could get on the Internet and start searching. They could go to Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, or one of the other search engines. They could go to the library and…
Some supermarkets have dozens of varieties of trail mix these days. It wasn’t always this way. The creation of and access to all these concoctions is a relatively recent innovation, at least compared to how long people have been eating it. As recent as the 1970s and 80s, it wasn’t that way. You mostly had to make your…