dream journaling + sleep self-help
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…
What Influences Your Dreams? There are two things about the subject of dreaming I don’t find much value in: 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 lucid dreaming. There’s a lot…
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…
Asking 5 Big Questions Can Raise the Value of Experience Sometimes they call learning by Experience (or experiential learning) “The School of Hard Knocks.” “Hard Knocks” sounds like a painful way to learn something. It can be. It doesn’t have to be. Actually, experiential learning is the best way to learn something. Not only does it communicate the information, but experience illustrates…
Most of us don’t have heroes anymore. That can make it hard to sleep. Like a sweet memory you gradually forget, heroes disappeared little by little sometime between 1973 and 1981. It’s hard to say when exactly. That’s not to say there’s nobody worth looking up to anymore. Every once in a while we have the example of…