Because learning about your brain and sleep can be fun . . .
Science is good. We owe much of the advancement of the human race over the years to the scientific process. That being said, should you study your dreams like a scientist? Or should you study your dreams in some other way? If not, then like what? What do you want to do with your life?…
The summer fire season is cooking throughout much of the United States and northern hemisphere. A forest fire can be miles away, but if the wind blows right, and the fire gets big enough, the smoke can make it hard to sleep at night. Same with an air-polluting factory that starts up operation. Or the…
People learn in their dreams and they’re not aware of it. It’s hard to understand how much learning goes on because most people don’t remember their dreams. The conclusions get buried somewhere in their subconscious. It’s easier to quantify the learning you do while awake. When you study for something, take a test, and pass…
Should you set the alarm or wake up naturally? When someone sets an alarm clock, there’s fear at work: fear of missing work, school, or whatever. The fear may be warranted. If you go to bed too late, you’ll be tired in the morning. Do that every day and you’ll set yourself up for long-term…
Not all of us (probably none of us) could build a time machine out of a DeLorean—not even if we tried using another car like an old Mustang or Prius. We wouldn’t even know where to begin. Maybe someone has (or eventually will) believers in the Mandela effect suggest, either now or in the future.…
Jung’s collective unconscious evolves and includes computers Files not saving. Computers slow, delaying while updating. Viruses. Bloodshot irises. Internet worms. File not found errors. And that’s not to mention the endless e-mail. Our waking lives can be the stuff of nightmares when our computers fail or when we fail our computers. They’re the…
Dreams can be vivid or dim. Usually, the dreamer doesn’t physically feel anything. They might feel something in a nightmare. Usually, it’s a quick shock or jolt. Take a dream of falling. The dreamer has the experience of falling, falling, falling, and then BOOM! He or she lands in bed. The dreamer physically feels like…
Since the human body makes it for itself, everyone should always have enough vitamin D. Reaching a level of 20-50 ng/ml shouldn’t ever be a problem. Yet sometimes it is. When you don’t have enough of that particular vitamin, you get profoundly tired. It doesn’t even matter if you’ve slept enough hours. When the sun…
So you’ve seen something you think you’ve seen before, somewhere. They call the phenomena déjà vu. Time is supposed to be linear where one thing happens after another in a logical sequence. Every occasion is supposed to be all-new and never-before-seen. When your experience of time doesn’t match that it can be jarring. Here are…
Cannabis today isn’t the same plant it was 50 years ago. It’s important to update our perceptions and forget about using it to aid sleep. Jeff Spicoli, Sean Penn’s much-loved character in 1982’s Fast Times at Ridgemont High, is an example of the old stereotype of the typical marijuana user. Richard “Cheech” Marin and Tommy…