Category Archives: Sleep Psychology

Recommended Sleep Psychology

Sleep Psychology

Caffeine and Sleep

coffee beans

Yes, it should be obvious that caffeine does cause you to not sleep…so the obvious solution? Just don’t drink coffee couple hours before bedtime.

Studies have demonstrated that caffeine disrupts sleep. When caffeine is consumed immediately before bedtime or continuously throughout the day, sleep onset may be delayed, total sleep time reduced, normal stages of sleep altered, and the quality of sleep decreased.

Caffeine’s effects on sleep appear to be determined by a variety of factors including dose, the time between caffeine in

Click Here to Read Full Article

Leave a comment

Lack of Sleep and Law enforcement

Lack of Sleep

A lot of mis-happenings in the world could have been avoided if it wasn’t for lack of sleep…

People in many high stress professions—such as medicine, law enforcement, or the military—often have to make quick decisions when they’re not well rested. New research confirms what common sense has long held: People don’t do their best thinking when they’re sleep-deprived.

via epochtimes

Click Here to Read Full Article

Leave a comment

Sleep Better with Tranquil Moments from Brookstone

Sleep Better with Tranquil Moments from Brookstone

Home after a long day? Turn on the Tranquil Moments from Brooksto

Click Here to Read Full Article

Leave a comment

REM Graph

REM Graph

Check out this REM graph for referencing how REM sleep works.

This is just a simple graph of the typical sleep cycle.I know this data is readily available, but it’s really nice to have it in a large, clean, graph format. Having this information really helps you know specifically when you should wake up, based on how long it takes to fall asleep. It should be noted however, that this chart is based on subjects that were not under the effects of any sleep alt

Click Here to Read Full Article

Leave a comment

How To Sleep Less and Have More Energy Than You Ever Had Before – by Kacper M. Postawski

How To Sleep Less and Have More Energy Than You Ever Had Before - by Kacper M. Postawski

Here’s an interesting article that might help you sleep less and have more energy!

, ,

Click Here to Read Full Article

Leave a comment

Sleep better by going to a virtual MindSpa

MindSpa

Here’s a cool gadget that helps you relax and sleep better by letting you go to a virtual world spa. It creates special frequencies so your brain relaxes.

The

Click Here to Read Full Article

Leave a comment

Smart Pillow analyzes your sleep

Smart Pillow analyzes your sleep

Here’s a Smart Pillow being developed in Japan to analyze your sleep and make you sleep better.

It is a well known fact that whatever may be our busy work schedules and social commitments, we must get a good night’s sleep to keep us physically and mentally refreshed, as well to protect us from serious diseases. Keeping this in mind Lofty Japan in assistance with assistance from Professor Hideki Tanaka of the Hiroshima International University psychological department has launched an electronic pillow “Don’t you think?” which analy

Click Here to Read Full Article

1 Comment

Sleepwalking woman had sex with strangers

google girl

Here’s a story of a woman who had sex with strangers while sleepwalking. If that was the Google girl, we wouldn’t regret being the strangers.

Sleep medicine experts have successfully treated a rare case of a woman having sex with strangers while sleepwalking.

The behaviour had disrupted the lives of the woman and her partner. At night while asleep, the middle-aged sleepwalker – who lives in Australia and cannot be identified for reasons of confidentiality – left her house and had sexual intercourse with strangers. The

Click Here to Read Full Article

4 Comments

Clinophobia – Fear of SLEEP

Clinophobia

Clinophobia (also known as Somniphobia) is a condition for people who fear sleeping. Whether you have fearsome monsters in your dreams or you wet your bed, this can be a serious condition if you have it. You can get some professional help if you have clinophobia here. (below is an excerpt from their website)

Defined as “a persistent, abnormal, and unwarranted fear of sleep&

Click Here to Read Full Article

Leave a comment

DIY – How to make a Lucid Dreaming Mask!

Lucid Dreaming Mask

Check out this DIY on how to make a lucid dreaming mask! If you’ve experienced lucid dreaming before, this is the one you can make and help you stay awake even in sleep!

For the uninitiated, lucid dreaming is a phenomenon whereby a person who is asleep and dreaming realizes that he (or she) is dreaming, and continues to control the dream, acting out fantasies or gaining special powers all within the dream.

I find it a wonderful concept –

Click Here to Read Full Article

2 Comments