Because learning about your brain and sleep can be fun . . .
There are many different types of prayer. There are formal, memorized prayers, informal contemporaneous prayers, songs, and spiritual reading. There are prayers of petition, thanksgiving, grace before meal, and aspirations. There are others too numerous to mention here. The Rosary, however, is a kind of a big prayer made up of many smaller prayers. It…
Almost every job in every industry seems to come with requirements to complete training in an LMS at least every year. They’re not often considered to be an employee benefit. They are. Many LMSes offer a free sleep course. LMSes—which are “Learning Management Systems—are cloud-based software packages focused on employee training. They can cover a…
When I was in school there was this kid, Dave. He remembered all of his dreams, so he said. They’d be crazy. They’d have monsters in them, people with no faces, and talking ducks. Every so often he’d keep us entertained before school and at recess with his tales from the night before. Sometimes his…
There’s far more than just one tip here. Try out a bunch of them and see which one you think is No. 1! Do you ever find yourself tossing and turning in bed, struggling to fall asleep or falling back asleep? You’re not alone. According to the National Sleep Foundation (NSF), three in 10 adults…
Remember this: there’s always a reason why you have a certain dream. You can dream about anything; why that particular thing? If you have similar dreams over the course of two or three days, it’s normal. If these similar dreams stretch on for weeks and months, you should ask yourself why. That’s a heckuva long…
You don’t have to sit cross-legged on a cushion in the middle of a room with a candle burning in front of you to meditate. Meditation doesn’t have to be this complicated/inconvenient. If you do all that, you’re wasting time. Dream Focus provides a way to get the benefits of meditation without the inconvenience. What…
There’s sleep, and there’s SLEEP. Sleep in lower-case letters is time spent with your eyes closed. It’s dozing off in front of the TV as a show blares on. It’s checking a box to get through to the next day. SLEEP, on the other hand, is energizing. It’s waking up and feeling much better than…
Should you set the alarm or wake up naturally? When someone sets an alarm clock, there’s fear at work: fear of missing work, school, or whatever. The fear may be warranted. If you go to bed too late, you’ll be tired in the morning. Do that every day and you’ll set yourself up for long-term…
Is it an alternative to a sleep divorce? Can it make sleep difficulties better? Or only make them worse? A lot of stuff published on the Internet seems to exist for one reason and one reason only: to sell something. That seems to be the case with the Scandinavian Sleep Method. The idea was featured…
If you’ve tried and still found that you have difficulty keeping a dream journal, try subliminal conditioning. Subliminal recordings play motivating phrases at a low sound level for the conscious mind to perceive. What this means is that you won’t hear the phrases consciously. Instead, you’ll listen to them subconsciously. The “Remember Dreams” subliminal audiotape…