dream journaling + sleep self-help
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…
Whether it’s sleep or some other issue, break the problem down, roll up your sleeves, and get to work on solving it yourself first If a man or a woman has questions and they want answers, what do they do? It depends. There are several things they might do. Exactly what might depend on their…
Some supermarkets have dozens of varieties of trail mix these days. It wasn’t always this way. The creation of and access to all these concoctions is a relatively recent innovation, at least compared to how long people have been eating it. As recent as the 1970s and 80s, it wasn’t that way. You mostly had to make your…
Life happens. The usual way of ensuring you get a good night’s rest should be to be active during the day, get some exposure to the sun, avoid drinking too much coffee, and approaching bedtime with a sense of relaxation. That’s what the best sleepers do. Unfortunately, sometimes life interferes with the usual way of…
People always struggle against one thing or another. They’re always struggling to quit something, start something, or stop something. They even struggle to stop struggling, to relax. The circadian rhythm is part of the struggle. Also known as the wake/rest cycle, men and women struggle to wake up and struggle to go to sleep. You…
In illustrations of “A Visit From St. Nicholas” by Clement Clark Moore they always show the narrator getting up out of bed with an old fashioned sleeping hat complete with a tassel. The classic poem, more commonly known as “The Night Before Christmas,” frames the idea in the collective mind as to what a sleeping hat, also known…
When going to bed, people brush their teeth. They put on some loose, comfortable clothing. They tighten their bedsheets. It’s all part of a routine in getting ready to go to bed. Rituals like these routines help one get in the mindset for sleep success. According to a multinational 2013 survey, 50 percent of the people…
The scent of lavender always brings me back to a rolling hillside in the Bay Area 10 years ago. It was a cool morning. I got out of the subcompact car I had rented and looked around, stretching. The air was full of the scent from thousands of purple flowers everywhere. The flowers crowded the…
My wife recently returned from a trip to Mexico. “There it is. My water pillow! I missed it!” she said, excited. There was a level of fondness there for the pillow I hadn’t heard before. “You missed it?” I said. “What?” At the time she said this, she had just returned home and had come into our bedroom…
White noise is in the ears of the beholder. Some people put a fan on in order to sleep, or they go out and buy a white noise machine. Unfortunately, according to some people, some white noise isn’t so “white.” It doesn’t stay in the background. Take white noise coming from wind turbines. Many people…