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Turning Off Your iPad Can Help You Sleep

Posted on May 17, 2010 by Brian Yalung

Gadgets have always been identified as nuisances for sleep. And just in case you haven’t heard yet, the iPad is perhaps one of the popular devices we have today that can cause some sleep disruptions. Aside from being too preoccupied with what you can do with this Apple device, it seems that the light that they emit can be critical as well.

The deal is that your brain reacts to the amount of light that enters your eyes. Reading through the iPad is indeed the modern way of getting yourself to sleep but

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Counting Sheep Useless?

Posted on May 4, 2010 by Brian Yalung

It has been a common belief that counting sheep can put you to sleep. That was before. Today however it seems that this is not as effective. Thanks to some researchers over at the Oxford University, trying to count sheep, imagine a peaceful scene, or go about their usual pre-sleep routine was conducted. While counting sheep can still make you sleep, it seems that it took a longer time to set in. Worst, it seems to have a bad effect.

Oxford researchers concluded that the activity doesn’t take up

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Apple iPad Affects Sleep?

Posted on April 24, 2010 by Brian Yalung

It is a fact that gadgets contribute on the sleep problems most people deal with these days and apparently Apple’s iPad is no exception. And while the iPad has been classified as an e-reader, the difference lies heavily on the device make. The iPad has a touchscreen liquid-crystal display that, like computer screens and television sets, emits light.

In case you forgot, these are radiations that can affect your sleeping habits. These light-emitting devices keep the bra

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The Link Between Fibromyalgia and Sleeplessness

Posted on January 20, 2010 by Brian Yalung

It seems that there is a link between Fibromyalgia and sleeplessness and this has been exposed at this month’s Fibromyalgia Aware Magazine. Tryptophan in Total Sleep from FluidEssentials, Inc. has been found to be responsible for resolving low serotonin levels. The body’s sleep cycle begins as night falls, when the brain naturally converts Tryptophan to serotonin. Serotonin then coverts to melatonin, and melatonin induces sleep.

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Sleep CD Could be the Perfect Christmas Gift

Posted on December 12, 2009 by Brian Yalung

Here is a gift you can give yourself or any friend who you know is suffering from sleep deprivation or even insomnia. The Harmonic Sleep CD from Sound Health Products does offer the usual soothing sounds to make you sleep but features subliminal “harmonics” that are said to encourage slow, relaxing sleep waves in the brain even though they are too faint to hear. Alternatively, the Delta Sleep System CD contains tones that supposedly match the frequency of delta sleep waves, in theory cuing the brain to make sleep waves of its own.

Both CDs are sold at various site

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Pzizz Announces Sale of Sleep iPhone Apps

Posted on December 11, 2009 by Brian Yalung

Pzizz Sleep iPhone App

Pzizz Technology has announced a special price off on two of its sleep-related apps, the Pzizz Sleep and Pzizz Relax for the iPhone and the iPod Touch. Both are being sold for a limited-time offer price of $2.99. Both apps are designed to aid sleep and provide help with insomnia to sleep deprived consumers.

According to the company, Pzizz uses neuro linguistic programming, music and sound effects and binaural beats to softly lull you to sleep. NLP is a system in which the brain is viewed as a computer that can be reprogram

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Sleep Better, Faster with RealSleep #1

Posted on December 9, 2009 by Brian Yalung

Sound technology has been known to be a key catalyst in getting some great sleep and now it looks like NeuroPop Inc. is aiming to help sleep deprived kids sleep faster and stay asleep longer. RealSleep #1 is a CD that plays like any standard audio CD but makes use of three types of nearly inaudible sounds which when embedded into music work directly to the brain’s arousal centers which slow kids down from the day and fully relax their minds which will ultimately lead to sleep.

RealSleep is the product of 15 years of research on hearing, balance, and sleep by Horowitz, an A

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The Baby Sleep Site Re-Launches

Posted on December 7, 2009 by Brian Yalung

The site was originally known as Pick Nick’s Brain and now with a new handle, the Baby Sleep Site aims to provide a new series of online services starting with an online membership program ideal for parents to learn more on various methods to understand and help their baby sleep. In a sense, this is a new kind of sleep coaching reference, making use of the Internet as its medium.

Users are offered a wide range of options for one low price, allowing them to custom-design their own sleep coaching program that includes hands-on products like e-books tutorials, online support

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What State Are Dreams In?

Posted on November 9, 2009 by Brian Yalung

Dreams have drawn various conclusions. Some say they are subconscious states while others claim they are a parallel straight of awareness. Others call them an emotional state drawn from what we have already encountered prior to sleep while others call it something as an omen. Which is which? There is no specific explanation for dreams. Scientists continue to debate on its frugality. But analyzing dreams is perhaps the closest we can get.

The latest analysis is that of tagging dreams as a physiological. The brain is warming its circuits, anticipating the sights and sounds and

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Memory Formation Evidence from Sleep Discovered

Posted on September 15, 2009 by Brian Yalung

Though we haven’t seen any concrete proof on how we can benefit from proper sleep as far as our memory is concerned, it seems that this logic is going to be backed up soon with this new discovery by Rutgers University, Newark and Collége de France, Paris research team. It seems that they have scored a major breakthrough discovering a mechanism that is responsible for associating sleep with memory formation.

Normally, we address it to the time of sleep. Other than that, no clear evidence exists. But now it looks like the said research teams outdid themselves. They have dete

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