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How You Can Sleep Better
You do want to sleep better, don’t you? Me too. After last weeks post, “If this is sleep research’s golden age, then why are we all so tired?” I picked up a copy of Dreamland: Adventures in the...
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What is the purpose of dreaming? And more on Circadian Rhythms
Continuing with our recent exploration of sleep, I came across this passage by sleep researcher Rosalind Cartwright in The Twenty-four Hour Mind: The Role of Sleep and Dreaming in Our Emotional Lives,...
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What Animals Can Teach Us About Health and the Science of Healing
“Obesity is a disease of the environment.” — Richard Jackson It surprised me too. Human doctors don’t routinely cooperate with veterinarians but they used to according to Zoobiquity: What Animals Can...
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Brain Rules: 12 Things We Know About How The Brain Works
If workplaces had nap rooms, multitasking was frowned upon, and meetings were held during walks, we’d be vastly more productive. Here are 12 things we know about how the brain works from Brain Rules....
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The Science of Sleep
Sleep is way more important than we realize. It’s also, according to David Randall in Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep, “the largest overlooked part of your life and … it affects...
View ArticleThe Science of Improving Your Performance at Almost Anything
Improving our performance is something we all seek to do. Given that we spend a lot of time doing things that we never get better at, I thought I’d share my “developing world class performance” file...
View ArticleThe Science of Sleep: Regulating Emotions and the 24 Hour Mind
Even if we often think of sleeping as ‘switching off’, it’s a complex state during which a lot of important things occur in our bodies. In particular, dreams are vital for helping our brains to process...
View ArticleWarnings From Sleep: Nightmares and Protecting The Self
“All of this is evidence that the mind, although asleep, is constantly concerned about the safety and integrity of the self.” *** Rosalind Cartwright — also known as the Queen of Dreams — is a leading...
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