What the Heck Bit Me In Bed?
How to try to solve the mystery of what bit you or someone else when you were sleeping.
Author: James Cobb
What To Do When You’re Too Troubled To Sleep
Police officers often see the worst of humanity. Dealing with violence, crime, neglect, narcissism, anger, and the general underbelly of humanity is their stock-in-trade. This carries over to bedtime. A study from 2011 showed 40 percent of police had at least one sleep disorder. Most commonly, the disorder was physically expressed as sleep apnea. Soldiers,…
Washing and Changing Bedsheets? Flip Your Mattress.
Here’s a secret to sleeping well, saving money, and avoiding back pain. Do you change your sheets every week or so? That’s easy to remember to do. The sheets start feeling pasty and a little stiff, not soft like when they come out of the dryer. It’s natural to remember to change your sheets. When…
Self-Care Means Sleep Enough
There’s no good way to measure the direct effects of “self-care.” There are indirect measurements, like average blood pressure, cholesterol level, and other things like that. Beyond that, there’s only you and the way you feel. You’re obligated to do it alone; by yourself. Everyone else is too. It suffers from a lack of support.…
Social Jet Lag: A Real Drag
Get the jet-lagged, crummy feeling of an intercontinental airplane ride with none of the excitement and none of the bills; Suffer from social jet lag! You can go far to the south or north, all the way to a different country, even another continent. Physically, you’ll feel fine. Your physical location won’t disrupt your circadian…
How to Harness the Obscured Power Of Dim Dreams
What were you doing in the dream? Fighting, I don’t know. I don’t remember it well. Maybe there’s a puzzling line or two a character spoke in the dream. “Hopa, hopa!” What does that even mean? There’s next to nothing to go on, not much to interpret, little to understand. Some dreams are intricate, incredibly…
Quick Dream, Long Time
Sometimes the time it takes to understand a dream is much longer than it takes to have the dream itself. A picture is worth a thousand words. Unbound by physical constraints, unlike other information transmitted through your five primary senses, dreams are more than pictures. They’re communications affecting all the senses. You’re making a huge…
Sacred Space: Creating An Environment To Nourish Your Spirit
Sometimes the words of a language fail you. They come up short when describing a concept. There are numerous examples of this. To take one, waldeinsamkeit is a German word meaning being alone in the wilderness while relaxed, solitary, and contemplative. In English, we can group words with this meaning. The result doesn’t quite…
What Makes A Dream A Vision?
When you call someone a “dreamer,” it’s something of an insult. Yet, when you call someone a “visionary,” that’s high praise. Why? What’s the difference? There’s not that much beyond the way the word sounds, the connotation it carries. To many people’s way of thinking, dreaming connotes pie-in-the-sky fancies. Impractical ideas. Something that doesn’t work…
Move That Mattress On The Floor Already!
Admit it. It doesn’t seem right to put the mattress on the floor. First, there comes the problem of moving the cumbersome thing. You might have to ask for some help from someone to manage it. Second, it doesn’t seem right to sleep on the floor. It’s like someone from a strange place would do.…