Improve Your Sleep, Improve Your Life
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…
Remember this: there’s always a reason why you have a certain dream. You can dream about anything; why that particular thing? If you have similar dreams over the course of two or three days, it’s normal. If these similar dreams stretch on for weeks and months, you should ask yourself why. That’s a heckuva long…
There’s sleep, and there’s SLEEP. Sleep in lower-case letters is time spent with your eyes closed. It’s dozing off in front of the TV as a show blares on. It’s checking a box to get through to the next day. SLEEP, on the other hand, is energizing. It’s waking up and feeling much better than…
Is it an alternative to a sleep divorce? Can it make sleep difficulties better? Or only make them worse? A lot of stuff published on the Internet seems to exist for one reason and one reason only: to sell something. That seems to be the case with the Scandinavian Sleep Method. The idea was featured…
Tips for night shift workers Several extensive studies have given working the night shift a bad name over the last fifteen years. Working the shift seems to promote lousy health habits. Night shift workers smoke more. They weigh more. They’re three times more likely to get into traffic accidents. These effects pool together. Altogether they…
When it looks like you might have to suffer a night of little sleep, it helps to have a trick to help you fall asleep in your bag. One useful and flexible technique is the fake scenario. Where the mind goes, the body follows. What is a fake scenario? A fake scenario is a story…
If only the mind came with an off switch. If it did, you could flip it and shut off a racing mind when you needed to sleep. With a switch, you could stop overthinking right in its tracks, right away. The switch couldn’t affect your brain, however. That would be a disaster. You need your…
Here’s why you think you’re not dreaming when you sleep …and how you can start dreaming again. “I don’t have dreams,” you say. Or is it that you haven’t had any dreams when you’ve slept—at least it’s been a while? Do you feel like you’re being shut off from creativity, making you feel dull? That’s…