Because learning about your brain and sleep can be fun . . .
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…
No matter where the facility is located, falling is one of the most common problems patients have when coming into the emergency department. Falls can be serious. You fall off of a ladder, fall down some stairs, or “fall” in prison (that’s what the inmates say when they’re attacked and don’t want to rat out…
You forgot something. How are you going to get it back? What are you going to do about it? It’s a classic dream with many variations that many people have from time to time or over and over. It could be that you find yourself at a party of some sort and you realize that…
Even though they happen in our heads, the sights and sounds of dreams are usually conveyed by the two main senses: seeing and hearing. Dream scenes consist of seeing something happen in your mind. In dreams, people can speak and music can play. Dreams that rely on the other three senses—taste, touch, and smell—aren’t completely…
What you eat affects your dreams? Some think so. Maybe the food affects the experience of your dream, not necessarily the content. Every so often, when I’m doing research for this blog, this idea crops up. No proof is offered, it seems to be assumed. The relationship between food and dreams There’s a relationship between…
If you’re honest and can face the reality of your dreams—paying close attention—you’ll learn the lessons life teaches. As with any lesson, the quicker you learn these lessons the better off you are. By being a good student of life you avoid repeating the same mistakes. You find out what makes you happy. You learn…
When Paul McCartney woke up with the melody to what became the song “Yesterday” he had a dilemma: was it his or someone else’s? McCartney woke up and hurried to the piano. He worked out the melody that was stuck in his head to avoid forgetting it. He thought he had never heard it before…
Find yourself waking up angry because of a dream? Don’t let it go! Don’t forget it. Go on, write it down! We might do something only because it makes sense to do it. We brush our teeth, for example, because we want to avoid cavities. It makes sense to avoid cavities. They’re painful and…
She shows up with a smallish shrunken cooked head on a plate. The head was attached to some shoulders. I was surprised, taken back. It’s a dead human I’d be eating! I hesitate at first and then start eating. It’s delicious.
Can your dreams foretell the future? If they can, how do you know when a dream is prophetic or precognitive—or just a reflection of your subconscious thoughts? Why would prophetic dreams be limited to St. Joseph, Edgar Cayce, and a few special other people? Why couldn’t you and I have prophetic dreams too? Great questions!…
Q: As of last week, I used to dream every night, sometimes having several dreams in the night. Last week I spent a night in a terrible hotel. The bed was lumpy and the room was noisy. I also got sick from dinner. Since then, I’ve stopped dreaming. I don’t remember any dreams when I…
There’s a type of dream where you might not even realize that you’re dreaming when you have it—the rehearsal dream. You might think of the dream as “just thinking about something.” It could be a meeting, a presentation, or a conversation you know you’ve got to have with someone. Be careful. Even if the dream…
Sometimes dreams will give you vague pictures and a rough outline that something’s going on. What exactly is going on? No idea. Something. You wake up. Minutes later, you have an idea. You come to a new understanding. Pieces snap together. Not a dream Technically, that’s not a dream. You’re in none of the stages…