Because learning about your brain and sleep can be fun . . .
When you keep a dream journal for a while—and take the time to understand the dreams—you’ll note that sometimes two or more consecutive dreams are related. On the surface, they may or may not have the same subjects. Rather, it’s the meaning or the category that’s related. It’s not unlike a series of lectures from…
If you’re honest and can face the reality of your dreams—paying close attention—you’ll learn the lessons life teaches. As with any lesson, the quicker you learn these lessons the better off you are. By being a good student of life you avoid repeating the same mistakes. You find out what makes you happy. You learn…
Big family all gathered around in a circle. Price for experience—not available. Too many people. Not right. So you’ve dutifully written down what your dream was about and went back to sleep. Upon rising later, what you’ve written doesn’t make any sense. You recognize the words, but they don’t make sense. They don’t jog…
People are always looking for an edge. They want to find shortcuts. They want to come ahead of their competition. Adopting a new technology before everyone else can give you that edge—as long as there aren’t any unforeseen side effects. That’s will be the main argument for getting a neural implant. It allows you to…
When Paul McCartney woke up with the melody to what became the song “Yesterday” he had a dilemma: was it his or someone else’s? McCartney woke up and hurried to the piano. He worked out the melody that was stuck in his head to avoid forgetting it. He thought he had never heard it before…
Getting to know yourself through reflection and dream journaling can be painful. We all have an ideal, a belief about who we are. Our ideal self does certain things. Our ideal self thinks certain things. This ideal breaks down. I shouldn’t go around thinking about chocolate chip cookies all the time. You’re a little out…
Water and sleep go together. And lots of people end up with a lot of reusable water bottles. Many collect them. Many are given promotional ones. Some of them are appealing, on sale, and people end up with them at the last minute when they’re checking out of a store. Or they get influenced by…
How you can fall asleep faster—and without any medication—by using the Two-Pillow Ear Bud Sleeping Trick. Most people are side sleepers, upwards of 80 percent. Chances you are too. As side sleepers, they’re more comfortable sleeping mostly on their sides. This makes listening to sleep music, binaural beats, or sleeping sounds with your typical earbud…
Find yourself waking up angry because of a dream? Don’t let it go! Don’t forget it. Go on, write it down! We might do something only because it makes sense to do it. We brush our teeth, for example, because we want to avoid cavities. It makes sense to avoid cavities. They’re painful and…
A child of seventeen—a girl—country bred—untaught—ignorant of war, the use of arms, and the conduct of battles—modest, gentle, shrinking—yet throws away her shepherd’s crook and clothes herself in steel, and fights her way through a hundred and fifty of hostile territory, never losing heart or hope and never showing fear and comes—she to whom a…
Let us take a moment to appreciate the complexity of the human body—both yours and mine—and how this complexity affects how and why we sleep. For that, we will turn our attention to the limbic system located in the brain. You don’t hear much about this group of structures, though you feel their effects every…
You must balance everything in your mind. If you think this always goes off without interior controversy, you’re sorely mistaken.
She shows up with a smallish shrunken cooked head on a plate. The head was attached to some shoulders. I was surprised, taken back. It’s a dead human I’d be eating! I hesitate at first and then start eating. It’s delicious.