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Editor’s Note: Instead of just watching your dreams, what if you could make conscious choices as they unfolded? Self-Control & Self-Awareness are the central tenants of Lucid Dreaming, the process of entering into a conscious unconsciousness. It’s thought that a number of people have experimented with and written about lucid dreaming, but it can be [...]
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When it comes to sleep, we’re doing it wrong. At least, that’s the allegation of some historians and sleep researchers who suggest that bedding down for seven to eight consecutive hours of rest is unnatural. I find this interesting on a personal level, as I have no problems sleeping through the night. Yet their argument [...]
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In my house, time no longer matters. My wife and I are both going to bed late at night, and waking up long after the sun rises, but our sleep in between is erratic and broken by periods of restlessness. It’s like we have become untethered to the cycles of the sun or any other [...]
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It doesn’t take an expert to tell you that pregnancy isn’t easy. Not only does it take a very visible toll on woman’s bodies but it kills their sleep. According to the National Sleep Foundation (NSF) 78% of women develop insomnia when they are expecting. And that’s just the beginning. While this is common knowledge, [...]
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It happened precisely at 7:34 am. I fell back asleep and felt my body become paralyzed. Then I sat up, and felt “myself” lift out of my physical body. I floated above my bed and melted into the window. I entered the thin pane of the glass and hovered inside its boundaries. Then I woke up. [...]
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REM. It’s the stage of sleep where a day’s memories are processed and stored. Anything that you’ve deemed to be “important” will be cataloged somewhere in your brain while the rest will be forgotten. If you skimp out on REM – say by not getting enough sleep- you’ll negatively impact this process and won’t be [...]
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Editor’s Note: Last week, we looked at how long a sleep debt could last for, and how one can go about paying it back. But what if there was a way to avoid a sleep debt–or not have it hit so hard? Dream & Sleep Expert Ryan Hurd explains how this works.–Andi@Zeo Q: Can banking [...]
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Editor’s Note: Today’s post comes from Zeo Expert Answers, a library of articles written by sleep experts answering your questions. Our users have asked all sorts of great questions and we want to share some of them with the community at large. If you’ve got questions about your sleep, and want to hear what the [...]
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This guest post is from Ryan Hurd of DreamStudies, a website & blog devoted to exploring and explaining various sleep phenomena. Here, Ryan discusses Sleep Paralysis, a temporary condition that can sometimes occur during the initial phases of sleep onset and wake. Sleep Paralysis is not yet a household word, despite the fact that 40% [...]
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