Because learning about your brain and sleep can be fun . . .
You don’t have to sit cross-legged on a cushion in the middle of a room with a candle burning in front of you to meditate. Meditation doesn’t have to be this complicated/inconvenient. If you do all that, you’re wasting time. Dream Focus provides a way to get the benefits of meditation without the inconvenience. What…
Socks or no socks in bed? That’s the question. Why not do both? You might want to wear socks in the winter and keep them off in the summer. Socks can keep your feet warm during the winter or any time of the year if you’ve got poor circulation. Even if you’ve got great blood…
People have had warning dreams for centuries, probably ever since there’s been people. It’s part of being human. Will the fate come to pass? Probably not. We’ve got a terrible track record with dream warnings and other kinds of warnings as well. Dreams communicate with symbolic language. They often don’t make much sense when considered…
We’ve all had busy mornings. For whatever reason we wake up late, or we have to be somewhere early, and it doesn’t seem like there’s time to write anything in the dream journal. But if you’re going to use your dreams to gain insight into your life and the people around you, you’re going to…
When a notebook sits conveniently on your nightstand, for many people it becomes a target for all kinds of writing. To-do lists Phone numbers from ads Usernames and passwords to websites Measurements for different projects Notes about some kind of computer code or process that you’ve got to do over and over. Whatever comes…
One-third of the population says they’re on a diet at any given time. Nineteen out of 20 of those individuals fail to reach their goals. What gives? Often, dieters fail to take into account the importance of sleep and exercise. Exercise can help you lose weight. It increases your metabolic rate. The body uses more…
Making sure you’re getting enough Vitamin C can improve your sleep. Too little “C” has been shown to result in poor mood and sleep. Pay close attention if you don’t like fruits and vegetables and have trouble sleeping! Vitamin C has several benefits for sleep that aren’t commonly known or often forgotten: Stress and anxiety…
However it shows up, driftwood is an interesting object to see in a dream. The meaning doesn’t really vary much. It depends on whether the driftwood refers to you (the dreamer) or to someone else. Unlike a lot of other objects, the meaning you of driftwood in a dream stays remarkably consistent. Wood is what…
Can you be your own therapist? It’s not can. It’s more like you must be your own therapist, or at least co-therapist. Even if you can find one. There’s an acute shortage of therapists and other mental health professionals, generally speaking. Being your own therapist starts the moment after you work up the awareness and…
There’s sleep, and there’s SLEEP. Sleep in lower-case letters is time spent with your eyes closed. It’s dozing off in front of the TV as a show blares on. It’s checking a box to get through to the next day. SLEEP, on the other hand, is energizing. It’s waking up and feeling much better than…
That there’s a connection between religion and sleep hygiene is not a new idea. People have been praying at bedtime since the day after forever ago! Yet it’s a connection the medical establishment doesn’t talk about in our mostly secular society. Many healthcare practitioners don’t feel comfortable addressing the issue. In a survey of 3,257…
When it comes to AIs, humans might end up replaced in many different career paths, from artist to driver, to writer. One area where we humans need not worry about replacement is dream interpretation, though several companies are offering AI-guided dream interpretation. AI’s won’t have the insight to adequately understand and interpret your dream as…
You don’t have to title your dream when you write it in your dream journal. It’s your journal. You don’t have to do anything. There’s no absolute penalty for not giving your dream a title. Stories usually have titles. An entry in a dream journal is like a little story, so it too should have…