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People always struggle against one thing or another. They’re always struggling to quit something, start something, or stop something. They even struggle to stop struggling, to relax. The circadian rhythm is part of the struggle. Also known as the wake/rest cycle, men and women struggle to wake up and struggle to go to sleep. You…
In illustrations of “A Visit From St. Nicholas” by Clement Clark Moore they always show the narrator getting up out of bed with an old fashioned sleeping hat complete with a tassel. The classic poem, more commonly known as “The Night Before Christmas,” frames the idea in the collective mind as to what a sleeping hat, also known…
When going to bed, people brush their teeth. They put on some loose, comfortable clothing. They tighten their bedsheets. It’s all part of a routine in getting ready to go to bed. Rituals like these routines help one get in the mindset for sleep success. According to a multinational 2013 survey, 50 percent of the people…
What Influences Your Dreams? There are two things about the subject of dreaming I don’t find much value in: trying to control dreams and dream dictionaries. In some circles this is controversial. Small industries are built upon both of those topics. The process of controlling your dreams is known as lucid dreaming. There’s a lot…
It’s important to come to terms with these voices. While there is a stigma in our society associated with hearing voices, it’s important to realize that, over time, it’s a common experience for many people.
Reason and emotion, represented by the head and heart, fight at night. The two of them keep us awake and ruin our sleep. Don’t take sides in the fight. They’re both important. You won’t go far by favoring either one. How can we get them to sign a peace accord and let us get some…
Bonzo knew what to have before bed. For people, it’s not so simple. This, in a nutshell, is the hungry person’s bedtime dilemma: if he or she eats something too heavy before bedtime, it’s going to sit in the stomach all night like a rock. Yet if the hungry person doesn’t eat anything before bed,…
Practice makes perfect. If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well. The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is practice. Those are the things people say about getting good at all kinds of activities. Individually these sayings have been applied to all kinds of sports, art, and games. Sleeping, on the other hand, is viewed as a…
Sometimes they call learning by Experience (or experiential learning) “The School of Hard Knocks.” “Hard Knocks” sounds like a painful way to learn something. It can be. It doesn’t have to be. Actually, experiential learning is the best way to learn something. Not only does it communicate the information, but experience illustrates its worth. Knowledge is a possession. With any possession, it’s best to…
In warfare, bombs are employed against groups of people, not individuals, unless it’s as part of a booby trap. If it’s a booby trap, then the assailant is trying to take out either single or multiple targets. If bombs were typically used against a single person, love bombing might be called “love sniping.” However, in love bombing, someone is trying…