Because learning about your brain and sleep can be fun . . .
As a species, we didn’t start out this way. We weren’t really meant to live amid all this light pollution. It’s progress in some ways, an irreplaceable loss in others. There’s no going back. Our ancestors didn’t have streetlights, neon signs, porch lights, and motion-detecting lights every hour of the day. Light at night has…
You don’t always have to ingest or inject some substance to take medicine. Your body, wonderful living “machine” that it is, is like a compounding pharmacist—it makes a lot of its own. People don’t think of their body making medicine, but it does every hour of every day of every year. Your body produces a…
Every branch of the United States military knows coffee. It’s a “mission essential.” Generally speaking, they don’t know coffee as a gourmet, though brands like Starbucks and Seattle’s Best are available at many military facilities. The military knows coffee in the way that it’s a well-used tool to get the mission accomplished. Whether it’s to…
Why illustrate an article about how to stop someone from snoring with a picture of Charles Atlas? Charles Atlas was not known to snore. Because… Isometric exercise is nothing new. They work. They’re safe. They’re simple. You can do them anywhere. Charles Atlas was known for his ads in comic books and for building his…
Sometimes meeting the need for sleep calls for mental and emotional flexibility. Stuff happens. Airlines cancel flights. You end up sleeping on the floor of an airport lounge. Sometimes you run over something and that something puts a hole in your gas tank. You end up having to sleep on the side of a lonely…
So how well do you think you’d sleep if your muscles kept twitching all night? If someone gives you a hard time about eating somewhat healthfully, tell them twitching all night might be fine for them. You, on the other hand, like to rest when you sleep. They might look at you quizzically. Inform them…
Your mind is pretty much behaving like a game of Jenga. Instead of wooden blocks, however, it’s one worry after another that’s stacking up. Up, up, up, the tower of worries go until they eventually come crashing down. It’s a bad kind of creativity. Instead of coming up with interesting ideas, you’re coming up with…
Crisp rice cereal at bedtime combined with dried cherries makes for a naturally sedating combination that contain both melatonin and tryptophan. It could help you get some shuteye. You can call this midnight snack insomnia “the cereal cure.” As they say in clickbait hype, “Drug companies probably would rather you not know about this!!!” Seriously…
“Dirty jobs” and TV’s Mike Rowe have become synonymous over the last 15-plus years. If you’ve flipped through cable TV channels sometime during that time, you’ve probably seen Rowe doing all kinds of things. He’s mucked out the bottom of a giant chicken coop. He’s cleaned cow skulls. He’s collected vomit from many different animals.…
The events culminating with a love bombing can leave one wondering. Why did I disregard my suspicions? Was there a way to stop it from happening? Maybe, maybe not. However, it’s just one reason to up your game regarding dream interpretation and spirituality. Friends and family are a blessing. They add enjoyment and richness to…