Because learning about your brain and sleep can be fun . . .
My wife recently returned from a trip to Mexico. “There it is. My water pillow! I missed it!” she said, excited. There was a level of fondness there for the pillow I hadn’t heard before. “You missed it?” I said. “What?” At the time she said this, she had just returned home and had come into our bedroom…
Beauty might be in the eye of the beholder, but whether noise is “white” seems to be in the ears of the listener! Some people put a fan on to sleep. Some go out and buy a white noise machine. Others have no use for either device. According to some people, some white noise…
It has to be a thought thunk by every stick-in-the-mud who refuses to touch hallucinogens: I’m no fun. Here I am holding a regular job. Here I am fulfilling my responsibilities to my family and society. There they are. They’re tripping out. They sure look like they’re having a good time getting wasted. Damn them!…
Travel can be an amazing amount of fun. There’s the opportunity to try new food, see new sights, meet new friends, and make lifelong memories. Many people have world travel on their bucket list. Travel is a goal for them. But, oh, that desynchronosis! Desynchronosis, the bane of travelers between time zones everywhere, is also…
There Are 6 Important Questions You Need To Have Answered For Therapies For Sleep or Other Health Problems. Running for Senate must be tough. Almost winning is undoubtedly tougher. After his January 2019 loss to Sen. Ted Cruz, former Rep. Beto O’Rourke went to New Mexico later that year and ate “holy dirt.” He brought…
Maybe you have very bad vision and are worried about it getting worse. Maybe you’re involved in optics for some reason If not, a concern about the effects of blue light (also known as High Energy Visible or HEV light) on the eyes and skin may seem offbeat. Even overblown. Nobody can see blue light.…
Part 4 of 4 History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes. Mark Twain When we’re looking forward to the future, we can make predictions based on technology that’s already here or coming soon. We can also use theories. Using the Strauss-Howe Generational Theory to attempt to predict anything precisely is abuse, misuse, and misunderstanding of the…
Part 3 of 4 Someone who looked to Edgar Cayce as a model would be looking to find their own truth within themselves. The 1930s and 1940s, when Cayce lived and was at the height of his influence while he was alive, presaged the period of spiritual seeking the 1960s became. Cayce on sleep: “Sleep…
Sometimes emergency departments will get patients who are hypothermic. A child will have fallen through ice into a pond during winter. A man will have been found passed out laying on a cold garage floor for hours. A woman will have been sitting in thin clothes better suited for a summer on a frigid night…
Part 2 of 4 Nobody exists in a vacuum. Society influences everybody. Consider Edgar Cayce a Western version of an Eastern yogi. He’s what a yogi would be if they were shaped by Western society. As a Westerner, it was inevitable he come into contact with people who wanted to objectively and subjectively study his…
Part 1 of 4 It can be hard to date the origin of any term. I first heard the term “evidence-based practice” sometime in the late ’90s. It’s an offshoot of “evidence-based medicine,” introduced around 1992. The idea behind it wasn’t new; the term was. Over the years, usage spread into areas tangential to healthcare. That…
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…
Part 3 0f 3 The brain is physical. It exists in the physical world. The mind is nebulous. It’s your consciousness. It’s not entirely of this world. The brain has a physical makeup. That makeup is called anatomy. So, too, does the mind have a makeup. The makeup is called a mental state. The mental state can be compared…