Because learning about your brain and sleep can be fun . . .
Sometimes meeting the need for sleep calls for mental and emotional flexibility. Stuff happens. Airlines cancel flights. You end up sleeping on the floor of an airport lounge. Sometimes you run over something and that something puts a hole in your gas tank. You end up having to sleep on the side of a lonely…
In our day, probably the greatest obstacle to getting a refreshing and recharging night of sleep is non-stop activity. Both we and our electronic devices are always on. Smartphones and computers interfere with our ability to fall asleep with their beeps, notifications, and addicting design. Their addictive lure beckons when we should be asleep. Sleep…
The delicate line between sleepy and sleep deprived is thinner than a single thread. Sleep deprived implies a more sustained state of exhaustion as compared to just being plain sleepy. It’s a debate best left to the experts—and while many of them like to get into the nitty-gritty details, let’s be honest: there’s not much…
The subconscious has been known to pick up certain signals and hints the conscious mind misses. For example, when you meet someone and there’s something incongruous about what they say and the way they behave. That incongruity leads you to not trust them. Being in touch with your subconscious can help you zero in on the reasons for this feeling. It can even save your life.
So how well do you think you’d sleep if your muscles kept twitching all night? If someone gives you a hard time about eating somewhat healthfully, tell them twitching all night might be fine for them. You, on the other hand, like to rest when you sleep. They might look at you quizzically. Inform them…
An episodic dream is a dream that continues in episodes over two or more nights. On the first night, the crowd sat to eat at a long picnic table. On the second night, more guests arrived and sat around the same table, squeezing together. Someone placed a plate in front of each guest. The good…
Ajo, Arizona is a little down in the middle of the Sonoran Desert 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 murals…
Clammy hands. Cold, sweaty feet. A cold, sopping pillow. The drip, drip, drip of a faucet keeping you awake is bad enough. When the dripping is coming from your head, back, and armpits into your sheets, it has to be worse. Cold night sweats have to be one of the most troubling sleeping problems there are. …
Your mind is pretty much behaving like a game of Jenga. Instead of wooden blocks, however, it’s one worry after another that’s stacking up. Up, up, up, the tower of worries go until they eventually come crashing down. It’s a bad kind of creativity. Instead of coming up with interesting ideas, you’re coming up with…
Crisp rice cereal at bedtime combined with dried cherries makes for a naturally sedating combination that contains both melatonin and tryptophan. It could help you get some shuteye. You can call this midnight snack insomnia “the cereal cure.” As they say in clickbait hype, “Drug companies probably would rather you not know about this!!!” Seriously…
“Dirty jobs” and TV’s Mike Rowe have become synonymous over the last 15-plus years. If you’ve flipped through cable TV channels sometime during that time, you’ve probably seen Rowe doing all kinds of things. He’s mucked out the bottom of a giant chicken coop. He’s cleaned cow skulls. He’s collected vomit from many different animals.…
The events culminating with a love bombing can leave one wondering. Why did I disregard my suspicions? Was there a way to stop it from happening? Maybe, maybe not. However, it’s just one reason to up your game regarding dream interpretation and spirituality. Friends and family are a blessing. They add enjoyment and richness to…
Whether it’s sleep or some other issue, roll up your sleeves, and get to work on solving it yourself first If a man or a woman has questions and they want answers, what do they do? It depends. There are several things they might do. Exactly what might depend on their personality and what resources…