Because learning about your brain and sleep can be fun . . .
One common reason people take narcotics and hallucinogens is to “relax” and “chill out.” They want to take the edge off of the hardness of life. The dangers and disadvantages of those often-illegal drugs are well known. Who hasn’t heard of overdoses, the lost families, the problems that they cause? Why in Hell would anyone…
When your AC calls it quits during the summer, getting a good night’s sleep can seem impossible. Fear not. We’ve got you covered with tips on how to catch some Z’s when your AC is broken. From creating a DIY cooling system to optimizing your sleeping environment, we’ll show you how to beat the heat…
You can’t really massage yourself to sleep. Not really. When it comes to yourself, stretching works better, though there are instructions for massaging yourself. For massaging yourself, you’ve got to use the more active parts of your mind. That makes it hard to drift off. Even if it doesn’t take much thinking to massage yourself,…
There’s a type of dream where you might not even realize that you’re dreaming when you have it—the rehearsal dream. You just 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…
There’s not a whole lot of creativity or originality when it comes to the way different people sit in a room. People tend to use a room in the same way. They favor the same chairs and the same places. Choices are dictated by the unchanging features of the room like the placement of the…
It starts with positive thinking, but it doesn’t end there.
There are many different types of prayer. There are formal, memorized prayers, informal contemporaneous prayers, songs, and spiritual reading. There are prayers of petition, thanksgiving, grace before meal, and aspirations. There are others too numerous to mention here. The Rosary, however, is a kind of a big prayer made up of many smaller prayers. It…
Almost every job in every industry seems to come with requirements to complete training in an LMS at least every year. They’re not often considered to be an employee benefit. They are. Many LMSes offer a free sleep course. LMSes—which are “Learning Management Systems—are cloud-based software packages focused on employee training. They can cover a…
When I was in school there was this kid, Dave. He remembered all of his dreams, so he said. They’d be crazy. They’d have monsters in them, people with no faces, and talking ducks. Every so often he’d keep us entertained before school and at recess with his tales from the night before. Sometimes his…
There’s far more than just one tip here. Try out a bunch of them and see which one you think is No. 1! Do you ever find yourself tossing and turning in bed, struggling to fall asleep or falling back asleep? You’re not alone. According to the National Sleep Foundation (NSF), three in 10 adults…