Because learning about your brain and sleep can be fun . . .
All I wanted was to sleep, but fear kept me awake. I fought back against insomnia with a time-tested sleep method employed by the United States Army. As a mother of two, I’ve known sleepless nights a bit too well. I was one of the 164 million Americans who contend with sleeping issues at least…
You slept a total of seven hours and 36 minutes last night. So what? You know the total because you wore a fitness monitor to bed. You synced it with your smartphone. In the morning, you looked at the result: 7 hours, 36 minutes. Now what are you supposed to do with this information? Sleep…
The next time you’re cleaning or decluttering, keep an eye out for a little bottle. Don’t throw it away! It can be glass or plastic—it doesn’t matter. It’ll be invaluable the next time you’re on the road. Some grocery stores sell little liquor bottles, though they’ve been getting banned in some towns. They’re of a…
Plenty of people have had psychic experiences. These experiences transcend every culture, every country, every time period. Why are you worried about talking about your psychic experience then? Everyone has their own reason, but a common one is you don’t want to sound crazy. You don’t want people to doubt your mental health. Some psychic…
It’s common to believe we should support the businesses espousing our values and avoid supporting companies that don’t. They call it “voting with your dollars” or “speaking with your wallet.” It makes sense on the surface. Sometimes other people see things differently than you do for one reason or another. This is one way of…
Journalists write and record the words of men like Elon Musk, Warren Buffet, and Bill Gates like they’re precious bits of gold tumbling from the mouths of living oracles. There’s some sense to it. These men are visionary and forward-thinking. Listening to them, you can feel that the future can be developed into this wonderful…
As recounted in the post on keeping a dream journal, one of the most famous dreams of all time was Elias Howe’s 1845 dream leading to the sewing machine’s invention. It was a dream that revolutionized an industry and changed the world. It has been called racist. For weeks, the young man had been working…
Cuddling, also known as snuggling, has benefits. Namely, cuddling releases oxytocin and serotonin. That makes you feel good. That means that when you’re sore and irritable, cuddling can make you feel better. “Energy healing” and “energy work” aren’t fundamental concepts in Western medicine yet that doesn’t stop you from hearing about them. You’ll also hear…
Energy body? Energy healing? I was skeptical. To me, energy healing, also known as energy therapy, was some kind of a joke. Then I went to a Therapeutic Touch (TT) seminar in the mid-90s. Attending the seminar was more about spending some time out of town with my wife. We were always busy with work,…
Life might be nicer if everything was fair all the time. If it were, however, life wouldn’t be a challenge. We’d all probably end up bored. If everything for everyone was fair, we wouldn’t ever need to feel guilty. We wouldn’t have more than someone else. We wouldn’t have less. We wouldn’t have to think…
Like sleep, distraction is disreputable in Western society. Sleep is convoluted with laziness. Distraction is conflated with inattentiveness. Done right and at the right time, distractions can help you cope with fear, pain, sadness, and other problems. Distractions can give you a break from thinking about things which you have no control over. They can…
Here’s yet another reason why most dream interpretation dictionaries and websites are useless for understanding the meaning of your dreams: the implications of the symbols themselves can change from dream to dream. The actual meaning of the symbol depends on the context of the symbols and events of the dream. The context changes between dreams.…
To improve your sleep, this study says to eat kiwis. This other study says to eat cherries. There are a hundred other articles on the Internet that say to eat some food or another to help you sleep. Whatever vitamin and mineral a particular food has when it comes to promoting sleep is of trivial…