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The Bedtime Stories We Tell Ourselves and Others: Part 2 of 4 Kids are always going through phases. When I was around seven or eight back in the 70s, I went through a phase that lasted for weeks. I wanted to listen to fairy tales at bedtime. That particular phase was before superheroes and after…
It happens to every man. Sometimes you feel powerless. You feel like you’re a member of the security detail on Star Trek, the crewmembers who are always anonymously getting killed. You’re doomed to defeat. Sometimes you feel like someone who goes up against Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan in a martial arts movie. Figuratively or…
You’d be better off if you had Thanksgiving every day. Not the eating part. If you had a Thanksgiving feast every day you might end up extremely overweight. That wouldn’t be good for your health. I’m referring to the giving thanks part of Thanksgiving, the part where people having the dinner together sometimes go around…
Taking medicine first thing in the morning is common. It’s easy to remember. It can be done after using the commode, washing hands, and brushing your teeth. You can wait until after breakfast, too. Morning affirmations should be thought of as a pill too; a thought pill. They go down best when they’re short, simple,…
Some people lead a staid, predictable life. Lucky them. They can count on being at home almost all the time. They’ve got a consistent routine. They’re the furthest they can be from sleep deprivation. Nothing bad ever seems to happen to them. They live in a place with quiet neighbors or space between the…
Life might be nicer if everything was fair all the time. If it were, however, life wouldn’t be a challenge. We’d all probably end up bored. If everything for everyone was fair, we wouldn’t need to ever feel guilty. We wouldn’t have more than someone else. We wouldn’t have less. We wouldn’t have to think…
Like sleep, distraction is disreputable in Western society Distraction and sleep go hand in hand. Letting yourself fall asleep means letting your mind wander. That’s another way of saying letting yourself be distracted. Both sleep and distraction have had a bad name for years. The photo above has become a famous meme about distraction. The…
Stuck in a porn-watching cycle? You go to a porn website on your phone or laptop. You watch a few videos. You masturbate. You fall asleep. The next night you do it all over again. Does it seem hard to stop? Some people (usually men) feel like they need to masturbate to fall asleep. It…
Police officers get to see the worst of humanity. Dealing with violence, crime, neglect, narcissism, anger, and the general underbelly of humanity is their stock-in-trade. This carries over to bedtime. A study from 2011 showed 40 percent of police had at least one sleep disorder. Most commonly, the disorder was physically expressed as sleep apnea.…
There’s no good way to measure the direct effects of “self-care.” There are indirect measurements, like average blood pressure, cholesterol level, and other things like that. Beyond that, there’s only you and the way you feel. You’re obligated to do it alone; by yourself. Everyone else is too. It suffers from a lack of support.…