dream journaling + sleep self-help
What is the sixth sense? What do you call it when you know something without using your sense of sight, hearing, touch, taste, or smell? This poorly defined other sense has been called the sixth sense, extra-sensory perception (ESP), second sight, psychometry, clairvoyance, precognition, and intuition among other things. The fact that there are so…
Christmas is over but the Nativity story doesn’t end. Today, western Christianity celebrates a time when the Jesus’s family was saved by his stepfather. This incident came to be known as the Feast of the Holy Innocents. This incident as well as some other incidents in the life of Jesus’s stepfather, St. Joseph, speak to…
You don’t always have to ingest or inject some substance to take medicine. Your body, wonderful living “machine” that it is, is like a compounding pharmacist. It makes a lot of its own. People don’t think of their body making its own medicine, but it does every hour of every day of every year. Your…
Analyzing other people’s dreams is a whole lot like analyzing their handwriting. People used to write in cursive handwriting almost all of the time. Now, when they take up a pen, they mostly print. While the Palmer method and other handwriting systems are still taught in some places still, it’s becoming less common, though calligraphy…
Why is love bombing called what it is? Good question! If you’ve ever seen the resulting effects of one, the answer will be obvious. In a love bombing, someone is trying to curry favor with a target and the people in their circle. When the emotions, the lies, the manipulations (also known as “the…
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…
It’s 2 a.m. You don’t have to be up until 6:30 a.m. You figure that’s four long hours away plus 30 minutes. If this goes on for the whole time, what, you wonder, are you supposed to do with yourself until then? This sucks! You’re irritated! You may or may not be able to get…
On June 13th, Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Zack Greinke didn’t allow a single Washington National player to reach base — until the seventh inning. If he had kept every opposing player off the bases until the ninth inning, it would have been what’s known as a “perfect game.” The seventh inning is about 3/4ths of the…
If you’ve read much of this blog you already know there are a couple of aspects to dreaming that we don’t think much of: trying to control dreams and dream dictionaries. In some circles this is controversial. Small industries are built upon both of those topics. The process of controlling your dreams is known as…
Reason and emotion, represented by the head and heart, fight at night. The two of them keep us awake and ruin our sleep. Don’t take sides in the fight. They’re both important. You won’t go far by favoring either one. How can we get them to sign a peace accord and let us get some…