Sleep, Dream Journaling, Science, Applied Faith
Here’s yet another reason why dream interpretation dictionaries and websites are useless for understanding the meaning of your dreams: the implications of the symbols themselves can change from dream to dream. That’s because the meaning of the symbol depends on the context of the symbols and events of the dream. The context changes between dreams.…
To improve your sleep, this study says to eat kiwis. This other study says to eat cherries. There are a hundred other articles on the Internet that say to eat some food or another to help you sleep. Whatever vitamin and mineral a particular food has when it comes to promoting sleep is of trivial…
Dream journaling should never be a grind. It should be part of a routine. Once you know how to do it, once you develop the habit, dream journaling is the easiest and most convenient form of meditation with all the results. Yet all habits have a beginning and an end. Maybe, for some reason, the…
Stuck in a porn-watching cycle? You go to a porn website on your phone or laptop. You watch a few videos. You masturbate. You fall asleep. The next night you do it all over again. Does it seem hard to stop? Some people (usually men) feel like they need to masturbate to fall asleep. It…
Many places and people are willing to sell you a new bed. And that’s an understatement. There are probably more than a few places and individuals in your town, many in your city, and many online. Add in affiliate marketers and there are tens of thousands of businesses and individuals willing to sell you a…
And modern education has made you poorly equipped to understand it when it does One “good” thing about taking a literature course these days is the Internet. It can make it less time-consuming. Yet, as it is in many areas, the Internet is a double-edged sword. It cuts both ways. Literature courses often have onerous…
In Charles Dickens’s The Christmas Carol, the old, miserly protagonist Ebenezer Scrooge confronts his nightmares and emerges a better man. Though Dickens describes him as greedy, ill-tempered, and grasping, the man at least is good in that respect. Dream journalers sometimes have nightmares so unsettling they don’t want to write them down. They can’t write…
Whether you call it “hemp tea” or “CBD tea” doesn’t matter. It’s the same thing. Hemp tea is full of CBD. Go ahead and call it “CBD tea” if you prefer. In the United States it can be confusing, almost purposefully so. CBD still isn’t legal in every jurisdiction. Herbal teas are. Could that be…
Make sure your dream journal is ready for writing every night. A dream journaling hobby needs to be a habit. When it’s a hobby, it’s at its most powerful. Simply because we spend one-third of the day sleeping or in bed, a lot is going to happen when you climb between the sheets. One-third of…
How to try to solve the mystery of what bit you or someone else when you were sleeping.