What are dreams for? Are they garbage processing by the brain, as Francis Crick declared? The royal road to the unconscious, as some Freudians believe? Or are they something more interesting, an intermediary between conscious and unconscious biological intelligence? Recent research out of one of the more innovative sleep labs in the world, guided by […]
Sleep For Sex
Better Living Through Sleep Sleep and sex regenerate people. They are made for and need each other. Humans cannot survive lacking the internal rebuilding of sleep; we cannot survive without sex. Less appreciated is how sleep and sex enhance the pleasure and creativity of both. Among the thousands of ways that happens, here are five […]
Seeking warmth and safety (6/4/12)
Temperature and Life How do you help a baby get through a vaccination? You warm her up. Because temperature matters a lot. And that fact also has implications – for adults who are trying to sleep and rest. Decreasing Pain Babies, like most human beings, don’t like getting shots – what the British call “jabs.” […]
Does lack of deep sleep up blood pressure? (9/9/11)
What About Sleep Causes High Blood Pressure? Funny things happen with media stories. Complicated science suddenly becomes simple, clear and distinct – with implications very different to what the research reveals. Such is the case with a recent article on hypertension. According to the report in BBC News, “Bad Sleep Ups Blood Pressure Risk.” What […]
Facebook for Sleep? (12/07/10)
Another Facebook Effect The Facebook effect may bring communities together on a host of different issues, but more people are using Facebook as a bedtime fix. Internet forecasters often like to say this time is different – this time they may be right. Travelodge Tells It You don’t expect hotel companies to put out surveys […]