Because learning about your brain and sleep can be fun . . .
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…
Creating your own affirmations is an effective way to help you achieve your goals if you employ the principles. 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…
Sleep deprivation can be deadly when the going gets tough. 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…
If you’ve got thousands of dollars to spend on a mattress, save time. Skip this post. Go to one of the mattress stores and have at buying one. You’re a lucky person. This article isn’t for you. If you’ve got a more modest budget, you certainly don’t want to buy any big-ticket item before you…
In a previous post, I compared several weeks of my dream journal to Blue Opossum’s. He responded to the April 12 blog post by e-mail. Blue Opossum is a metacognitive dreamer. He’s aware of a whole lot of his dreams, far more than most people. There are misconceptions in your post, but that is to…
Understanding yourself better using your dream journal (Part 7/7) When you compare your dream journal to someone else’s, you’re probably coming as close as you can to seeing the inner mind of someone very different from you, no matter who they are. They have a different personality, different experiences, and different roles and reasons for…
Understanding yourself better using your dream journal (Part 6/7) Blue Opossum (a pseudonym) is a K-12 educator from Australia. He has an incredibly detailed recall of his dreams and a heightened awareness of the different stages of sleep. He’s got a real gift. Born in 1960, his dream journal, for practical purposes, starts in 1963…
The how and why of understanding yourself better using your dream journal (Part 5/7) Don’t compare yourself to others. Be yourself. Compare yourself to yourself. These ideas find their way into all kinds of creative expressions. There’s a big reason it’s on so many minds. Creators are creative people. Each has a spark or many…
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…
Part 3/7 Everyone, no matter how young or old they are, has dreams. They also have other people in their life, people who might not understand their dreams the way they do. They can’t. No matter how close you are to someone, your experiences and their experiences are different. You’re two different people after all.…
—Part 2/7 Without a written record, dreams are quickly forgotten, often as soon as an hour of waking up. There is no good way to remember your dreams without a written dream journal, preferably on paper. With paper, you can draw. You can write notes in the margins. It’s far more flexible. Understanding the dream…
Part 1/7 “There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know.” Donald Rumsfeld When former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said…
Which is the most important when it comes to good health? What’s the most important when it comes to losing weight? They’re all important, of course. But which is the most vital? What’s the health priority? First, we won’t put air or oxygen on the consideration list. That gas is simply the most important health…