Self-help for improved sleep + dream journaling = a better life.
Ideas flash into your mind triggered by an inspiration. Good or bad, unfortunately they leave in a flash too. If you ask “what if?” If you’re comfortable in your environment. If your mind wanders and smashes two or more ideas together unbidden, you’re probably someone who comes up with a lot of random ideas during…
Sofa sleeper or, conversely, sleeper sofa. Pull-out couch. Couch mattresses. Sofa bed. Any variation of that or the above. Whatever you want to call them, they’re not actually meant for sleeping in unless you’re around five. Even if you’re five, whether they’re meant for sleeping is highly debatable. It’s one of those products that sounds…
Sometimes meeting the need for sleep calls for mental and emotional flexibility. Stuff happens. Airlines cancel flights. You end up sleeping on the floor of an airport lounge. Sometimes you run over something and that something puts a hole in your gas tank. You end up having to sleep on the side of a lonely…
In our day, probably the greatest obstacle to getting a refreshing and recharging night of sleep is non-stop activity. Both we and our electronic devices are always on. Smartphones and computers interfere with our ability to fall asleep with their beeps, notifications, and addicting design. Their addictive lure beckons when we should be asleep. Sleep…
Saying “sleep-deprived” can give you a dangerous attitude So are you sleepy or sleep-deprived? When you’re talking about yourself, it shouldn’t matter. The distinction between the two are, at most, separated by a thread. The distinctions are best left to experts for debate. Many experts like to split hairs with little insight to be gained by such hair-splitting. If you’re sleep-deprived, you’re…
In your dream, you notice a spirit floating over the room. The entity touches everyone sitting around a coffee table in your living room. It’s a warm, friendly presence. You’re smiling. Everybody seems to be enjoying themselves. The corporeal sit on sofas and chairs. The incorporeal float above. You recognize the scene from earlier last…
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…