Because learning about your brain and sleep can be fun . . .
Can sleeping be considered a real hobby? You just lay there and close your eyes. Hearing that and thinking about it, some might say, What a boring idea for a hobby! People who pursue hobbies usually have events where they get together with other like-minded people. Motorcycle enthusiasts get together with other enthusiasts to ride…
Keeping a dream journal may make you feel vulnerable. You have to keep the journal by your bedside. It has to be easy to write them down to have the best chance to catch them with a pen and paper. Unfortunately, the journal is there for anyone who goes into your bedroom to read unless…
The phone rung. The dogs barked. A gunshot went off. Whatever happened, you woke with a start. You’ve suddenly sat straight up in bed. Your sleep has been interrupted. The thoughts running through your mind melt away quickly. You now have forgotten most of your dream or were stopped dreaming in the middle of the…
Some people think of masturbation and porn as a natural sleeping pill. In a way, they’re right. When you watch porn, your brain releases oxytocin. This hormone relaxes you and quells anxiety and fear. It’s not called the “love hormone” and the “cuddle hormone” for nothing! This calming effect allows you to go to sleep.…
Is there a high-speed underground transcontinental railroad that extends underground from coast to coast in the United States? I’m not sure. You might not be sure either. Common knowledge suggests no. The bias, therefore, would say “no.” The existence of such a transportation system isn’t realistic. When would something like that have been built? How…
Too bad there’s no Duolingo or Babbel to help you speak and understand the symbolic language of dreams. Does this mean that you’re going to have to learn some other way to interpret your dreams? Not hardly. The adage says, “a picture is worth a thousand words.” That becomes a whole lot of words when…
In many ways, Bernarr Macfadden was the “father of fitness. He had strong opinions about how to avoid insomnia. Bernarr Macfadden started a magazine and a popular movement. The movement and magazine had the same name: “physical culture.” Watching what you ate and seeing that you got exercise wasn’t as popular among Americans before he…
So what do you call it when you know something without using your sense of sight, hearing, touch, taste, or smell? This poorly defined other sense has been called the sixth sense, extra-sensory perception (ESP), second sight, psychometry, clairvoyance, precognition, and intuition, among other things. It also often is referred to as a “gut feeling”…
In Islamic dream interpretation, the importance of “true” dreams was first promulgated in the 7th century by Muhammad, the prophet and founder of the faith. Muhammad believed dreams were important. This was because after he was gone further prophecy would only be revealed in dreams. The process and tradition of Islamic dream interpretation were later…
May all your dreams in 2020 be good ones! Don’t be afraid to make any New Year’s Resolutions. You never win unless you try. The Dream Recovery System
There are many reasons to eat moderate amounts of good, healthy food. Eating healthfully, however, can be challenging to do consistently. Anyone who has tried and failed at a diet can attest to this. It’s a daily conflict between the desirability of eating healthy versus the taste and convenience of junk food. As they say,…
Christmas is over but the Nativity story doesn’t end. On December 28 western Christianity celebrates a time when the Jesus’s family was saved by his stepfather. This incident came to be known as the Feast of the Holy Innocents. This incident as well as some other incidents in the life of Jesus’s stepfather, St. Joseph,…
Dream interpretation used in this way comes in somewhere at the intersection of art and science like so many other things. It’s building on the work of Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Fritz Perls, and others on what we know about how the brain functions. The art comes in applying the symbols you remember from your dreams to your life and your questions.