Explore the Power of Sleep and Dreams
In the week before Christmas 2021, Brad Harbert of Ankeny, Iowa, a Des Moines suburb, was woken out of his sleep in the middle of the night. It wasn’t the alarm going off. He was sleeping through that. Rather, it was his dog Roxy, a Husky-Coonhound mix. Typically mellow, that night she was anything but.…
Swap daily activities between the morning and the rest of your day as needed for resiliency and outstanding results. Once upon a time, there was a young boy with many bad habits. This bothered his father, so he corrected him. “Don’t do this,” the father would say. “Don’t do that.” The young man ignored him.…
Not all “call” is created the same. There’s no one answer to the question asked above that makes sense for everyone, everywhere. For some businesses, industries, jobs, somebody needs to be on call. Economics dictates it. It’s the way work is done. It’s hard to change it. While the person on call doesn’t necessarily have…
Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” is a great song about a child and his nightmares, but there’s nothing great about shaking with fear and lying in a pool of sweat from having a bad dream. Nightmares can shake the strongest, toughest person to their core. That’s because they reveal our deepest fears. Some people feel once you’re…
Intuition is the feeling of relative certainty without proof or evidence. Does this mean that it’s another way of saying that you’re jumping to conclusions? Yes and no. If you’ve ever recovered information from a dream you’ve not had any other way of knowing, you’ve had an intuitive experience. If you’ve ever felt a warning…
For some, getting a regular amount of sleep is a lot like trying to improve any area of their life. It’s hopeless. Rather, it’s not hopeless. Not really. They just think that it is. After days, weeks, months, and even years of failure, they start to think it is. Insomnia is a problem. Problems need…
There are more than a few mysteries when it comes to behavior and sleep. For example, when it comes to staying awake, why would a reasonably prudent person get hooked on meth when there are so many bad examples of what can happen? It would seem that almost anyone could see the first dose of…
Over the last two thousand years, Christians have developed a lot of different prayer methods and aids. The variety suits a variety of situations and people. Perhaps the newest of the aids is the Christian bedtime pray app. Each app is geared toward a slightly different audience of Christians. Each takes a different approach. One…
Sleep takes up a major chunk of the day. That can conflict with your other goals. How can you sleep less yet maintain health? I spend hours every week writing a sleep blog. I’m also longtime a sleep science enthusiast with a 25-year background in healthcare. I’ve both read and experimented a lot with sleep.…
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…