dream journaling + sleep self-help
Sometimes you’ve got to wonder what your dreams are telling you. It’s easy to go on the Internet and type in a query. People do every day. When it comes to getting definitive answers about what your dreams are telling you, good luck with that! When you’re trying to understand what it means, it’s not…
The scent of lavender always brings me back to a rolling hillside in the Bay Area 10 years ago. It was a cool morning. I got out of the subcompact car I had rented and looked around, stretching. The air was full of the scent from thousands of purple flowers everywhere. The flowers crowded the…
Congratulations on both deciding to and being able to see the big, beautiful world on an intercity bus. This planet is full of adventure, both the good kind and the not-so-good. The key in life is to have more of the former kind of adventure and less of the latter. Part of having a good…
How a piece of tape can help you keep your dream journal at night with more eye comfort.
Most of us don’t have heroes anymore. That can make it hard to sleep. Like a sweet memory you gradually forget, heroes disappeared little by little sometime between 1973 and 1981. It’s hard to say when exactly. That’s not to say there’s nobody worth looking up to anymore. Every once in a while we have the example of…
My wife recently returned from a trip to Mexico. “There it is. My water pillow! I missed it!” she said, excited. There was a level of fondness there for the pillow I hadn’t heard before. “You missed it?” I said. “What?” At the time she said this, she had just returned home and had come into our bedroom…
White noise is in the ears of the beholder. Some people put a fan on in order to sleep, or they go out and buy a white noise machine. Unfortunately, according to some people, some white noise isn’t so “white.” It doesn’t stay in the background. Take white noise coming from wind turbines. Many people…
It has to be a thought that occasionally occurs to every “square” and “stick-in-the-mud” who don’t use hallucinogens: I’m no fun. Here I am holding a regular job, fulfilling my responsibilities to my family and society. There they are. They’re tripping out. They sure look like they’re having a good time getting wasted. Responsibility, and…
Travel can be an amazing amount of fun. There’s the opportunity to try new food, see new sights, meet new friends, and make lifelong memories. Many people have world travel on their bucket list. Travel is a goal for them. But, oh, that desynchronosis! The bane of travelers everywhere is also known as jet lag.…
Six Questions You Need To Ask When Considering Therapies For Sleep or Other Health Problems. Running for Senate must be tough. Almost winning is undoubtedly tougher. After his January loss to Sen. Ted Cruz, former Rep. Beto O’Rourke went to New Mexico and ate “holy dirt.” He brought some back for his family in Texas…