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The recovery position can help you or someone else recover Most people prefer to sleep on their side, either the right or left. There are problems with sleeping on your back or face down, like with breathing or being uncomfortable by having your weight smash in your nose. Generally speaking, lying on the left is…
Progressive Muscle Relaxation (PMR) is a sleep-inducing technique that deserves to be in your toolbox. Keep it handy, ready to use on nights when your brain doesn’t want to shut down. It’s at least as effective as a sleeping pill, and the best answer to sleeplessness when you have a churning mind. Why PMR works…
10-3-2-1 sounds like something a quarterback might say when calling a play during a football game. Or something Mission Control might say before sending a spacecraft into orbit. And it is kind of like that. Instead of the endzone, the quarterback, or Mission Control, 10-3-2-1-0 is a countdown to Dreamland. It’s a reminder. Like PACTREPS, …
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…
One common reason people take narcotics and hallucinogens is to “relax” and “chill out.” They want to take the edge off of the hardness of life. The dangers and disadvantages of those often-illegal drugs are well known. Who hasn’t heard of overdoses, the lost families, the problems that they cause? Why in Hell would anyone…
When your AC calls it quits during the summer, getting a good night’s sleep can seem impossible. Fear not. We’ve got you covered with tips on how to catch some Z’s when your AC is broken. From creating a DIY cooling system to optimizing your sleeping environment, we’ll show you how to beat the heat…
You can’t really massage yourself to sleep. Not really. When it comes to yourself, stretching works better, though there are instructions for massaging yourself. For massaging yourself, you’ve got to use the more active parts of your mind. That makes it hard to drift off. Even if it doesn’t take much thinking to massage yourself,…
There’s a type of dream where you might not even realize that you’re dreaming when you have it—the rehearsal dream. You might think of the dream as “just thinking about something.” It could be a meeting, a presentation, or a conversation you know you’ve got to have with someone. Be careful. Even if the dream…
There’s not a whole lot of creativity or originality when it comes to the way different people sit in a room. People tend to use a room in the same way. They favor the same chairs and the same places. Choices are dictated by the unchanging features of the room like the placement of the…
It starts with positive thinking, but it doesn’t end there.