dream journaling + sleep self-help
There’s the old saying, “The devil is in the details.” When it comes to dream interpretation and dream journaling, however, the saying should be, “The angel is in in the details.” The value of dreams is magnified by the richness of the details you can remember. People who ascribe little worth to dreams often don’t…
Fifty years ago, lots of people fell asleep to the monophonic sound of AM radio. Due to the characteristics of the broadcast frequency, AM radio stations carried news, information, and music from far-off cities at night, frequently reaching communities more than a thousand miles away. You’d lay in your bed, listening to the fantastic world…
People come up with all kinds of health advice. Some of it’s very good, very perceptive. Some of it is terrible. One of the stupidest bits of advice I’ve come across recently is that you should do calisthenics and other exercises in bed. It’s not repeated in just one place. It’s repeated in many places…
Can you imagine a world where it’s a luxury to get up from a bed to walk around in an apartment-sized living area? When self-driving cars progress further down the development curve, it could happen. Beyond the effects on jobs in transportation like truck driving and delivery, wages won’t keep up with real estate price…
If you think every dream you journal is going to be profound, surprising, or funny, you’re going to be sorely disappointed. Some dreams are boring. The themes of some dreams are so dull, so obvious. They’re like something off of ATRRS in the Army or produced by the human resources at a large company. Tell…
You can get in trouble when you treat relationships as tools. You can also have problems when you treat tools as relationships. Your body, however, falls into a grey area. You need to treat it both as a tool and a valuable relationship. This can be tricky and hard to do. If you do, you…
Grounding (also known as earthing) sounds, at first, like a bunch of hokum. When proponents talk about how it works, they usually cite all this mumbo-jumbo about being connected to the Earth and being inline with nature. Their rhapsodic explanation sounds similar to other healing scams. Skeptics inevitably roll their eyes and say, “Pleeze!” The…
Listening to sleeping sounds with a pair of earbuds as you drift off to Dreamland can be like going on a vacation with a little imagination. Maybe it’s the best kind of vacation. There are no crowds or airport security at the airport. There’s no lost luggage. There are no lines to wait in at…
You may have seen rows of prayer candles in grocery, drug store, discount, and big-box stores alike. They usually have a pretty drawing on them. The ones found in the United States are often dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Virgin Mary, St. Michael, St. Joseph, or another sacred concept. When the coronavirus…
The Centers for Disease Control has a great article about what to do if you’re sick with COVID-19. It has another one, too, about caring for someone at home who has COVID-19. These instructions are pertinent for a wide group of people. For others with preexisting conditions, they don’t cover the whole existing dilemma. Think…