Because learning about your brain and sleep can be fun . . .
When properly understood, dreams can transform us. But within the dream itself, transformations often happen. Dreams aren’t bound by the rules of the waking world. The Laws of Physics don’t apply. Dreams operate under their own laws. The first law is that if you can think it, you can dream it. The second one is…
War dreams can be almost as horrific as real-life war. I say almost because there’s usually an awareness within a dream that you’re dreaming. Even if the dream is hyperrealistic, there’s something off about the experience of any dream that tips you off that it’s a dream.
In this map from Reddit, lots of people in countries in the English-speaking world dream about their teeth falling out. In the rest, dreams about snakes are common. Pregnancy, too. For some countries, you’ve just got to wonder: what is it about a country that makes a dream subject so common? Undoubtedly, it’s having certain…
It starts with positive thinking, but it doesn’t end there.
There are many different types of prayer. There are formal, memorized prayers, informal contemporaneous prayers, songs, and spiritual reading. There are prayers of petition, thanksgiving, grace before meal, and aspirations. There are others too numerous to mention here. The Rosary, however, is a kind of a big prayer made up of many smaller prayers. It…
Most people don’t have precognitive dreams. They may reel off an accurate prediction now and then, but that’s more of a question of getting lucky. It’s not useful if it’s not consistent. That doesn’t mean one can’t put two situations together and determine a likely result. That’s not the same thing as being able to…
Sometimes dreams don’t have a discernable story or scene. They’re too disorganized or minimalistic to put into words. When this happens, the SOM format doesn’t work. How are you going to make or tell a story if there’s no story? Try this alternate dream journal method. What to do When this happens, simply make a…
Did you break your diet? It can be hard to keep a diet, especially when foods that tempt you to break it surround you. You’ve got to have some wins sometime. If you don’t, you can start to feel like a loser, like being at the weight you want to be at is impossible. If…
Sometimes you’ll draw a blank when you wake up and try remembering what you were dreaming about. Maybe you were woken suddenly and the memory of the dream shatters. Maybe the details were simply dim. Whatever the reason, you know you were dreaming and you’re coming blank. You might only be left with a memory…
Reishi mushrooms are not your average fungi. The bioactive components found in reishi mushrooms (Ganoderma lucidum) have been shown and suspected, among other things, to have a soothing effect on the nervous system. One such compound is triterpene, which can ease anxiety. While not familiar to many Americans, reishis have long been used for general…