Because learning about your brain and sleep can be fun . . .
Sometimes something happens during the day. Whatever it is, you can’t stop thinking about it. Or maybe you watch something on the Internet. Whatever it is, it fills your thoughts when you sleep. They’re not dreams. Oh, no. Dreams have more form and shape than these thoughts. These are ideas that you’re mulling. It would…
People can walk and chew gum at the same time. Why can’t they dream two or three dreams at once too? They can walk, chew gum, and even talk at the same time, of course, but the brain doesn’t usually work that way when it to dreaming. More than anything, when you have two dreams…
The rain was falling out of the sky in dense sheets like it was being poured from some buckets. I was under the roof of a flat-roofed house of the kind I had cared for 35 years before when I was a student at the university. In real life, the building was one of several…
[OC] UPDATE – 2.5 years of my GF and I tracking the sleep quality impact of various choices/behaviours. These were the 9 most significant effects. Note – white dash indicates the % effect 5 months ago. by u/HeroJournal in dataisbeautiful While it’s impossible to track everything because not everything can be assigned a numerical value,…
Can two people have the same dream at all? A female friend is telling you about their dream from last night: “There was this field covered with grass. We were standing next to each other. I looked up into the sky and there were clouds, but the thing was that they were in the shape…
Have you ever noticed how you can become sleepy when you drink a glass of hot milk before bed? Now note we’re talking about hot milk without cocoa. Cocoa is a stimulant. That drink is also full of simple sugar—a source of quick energy, the exact opposite of what you want and need before settling…
4/7 Once you start keeping a dream journal, you’re not going to have a breakthrough every night for the rest of your life. That’s not realistic. Neither are you going to have one amusing dream after another, though there’s a certain joy in a dream that amounts to a fun hallucination. You’re going to have…
Ajo, Arizona is a little down in the middle of the Sonoran Desert known that used to be known more as a stopping point between Phoenix and the closest ocean in Mexico. As dreamscape murals have gone up all over the downtown area, it’s become more than that. It’s now trendy, at least regionally. Ajo’s…
Bonzo, the monkey, knew what to have before bed. For people, it’s not so simple. This, in a nutshell, is the hungry person’s bedtime dilemma: if he or she eats something too heavy before bedtime, it’s going to sit in the stomach all night like a rock. Yet if the hungry person doesn’t eat anything…
HOUSTON — The National Sleep Foundation Sleep Show kicked off yesterday at a convention center downtown. It’s scheduled to run through Sunday. New and established companies from around the United States and the world, are attending along with thousands of people. The convention features seminars on various aspects of sleep, the sleep industry as well…