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After “what happened,” one question is almost always important to ask about your dream. Here it is: “How did it make you feel?” Were you happy? Sad? Anxious? Relaxed? Or something else? The answer will color your interpretation of every other symbol that comes up in your dream. Sometimes it’s a natural question. You’ll wake…
Dreams can be and often are immersive. When you’re dreaming, you can’t always tell the difference between the waking world and the world of your dreams. If you don’t value the ideas projected in dreams, they’ll fade. One way to tell the difference between dreams and reality is to change something up when you’re…
Q: A girl I went out on a second date with told me that she had a dream where we were married and that we had a couple of kids together? She said that she didn’t want to get married right now, that she just thought that it was a weird, interesting dream. I don’t…
They say if you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always got. Except that’s not true. Sometimes times and circumstances change. Despite what Law of Attraction proponents suggest, you can’t control the world with your mind. Simply wishing doesn’t make anything so. Your routine can become set in stone like a statue.…
People get uncomfortable doing the same things day after day. They sit in chairs most of the day and don’t move all that much. With a stiffening of their joints and a tightening of their tendons, pain and stiffness skyrockets. Stretching or disciplines like tai chi and yoga are good solutions. Unfortunately, like meditation, they…
Many think analog watches, the ones with “hands” on the watch face, have little practical purpose in today’s world. People don’t seem to need them, they say. There are digital clocks everywhere: on your phone, on your computer, on your TV screen. In many places, children are taught to use them, but they forget. Telling…
Crouched, waiting in the shadows, our hero springs. He comes up behind the guard and places a chloroform-soaked rag over the guard’s face. The guard gasps and inhales the chemical deeply. He faints. Our hero pulls the guard’s body to the side in the shadows. He opens the door and leaves. Chloroforming someone is a…
With trial and error and an adaptable attitude, you can sleep when you’re sick. When you’re sick, sleep is essential. The key to kicking your cold isn’t taking antibiotics or antivirals. It’s not healthy food or getting enough vitamins. It’s not ignoring your illness. It’s rest: sleep and rest are the key to getting over…
The recovery position can help you or someone else recover Most people prefer to sleep on their side, either the right or left. There are problems with sleeping on your back or face down, like with breathing or being uncomfortable by having your weight smash in your nose. Generally speaking, lying on the left is…
Dreamwork, what they call working with your dreams, can be tricky. You can go for a period where you think you’re not having any dreams. When that happens, dreamwork is hard. If you’re not having any dreams, you’re not able to work with anything. Yet you are. EEGs and the techs at a sleep lab…
You spend about 1/3 of your day asleep in your bed in your bedroom. Then, most jobs—even the ones where you work from home—account for another 1/3 of the day, a total of 16 hours. Many people have a toilet, shower, and sink near or adjacent to the bedroom. You’re going to shower…
If you don’t try to remember, journal, and understand your dreams, you’ll never know what insights you’re missing. What you miss out on is a nightly chance to understand the world and yourself better. Most people don’t take any steps to make use of the time that they’re asleep to more fully experience and understand…
Ideas don’t have to be complex to be powerful. Rather, they have to be acted upon. They must be tried. The idea has got to be taken from the page into practice. Product of your environment Do you know anyone who has beat the odds growing up? They come from the kind of place where…