Apparently, parenting can be a nuisance if you don’t know how to handle your kids and get them to bed on time. Especially if they have these distractions such as computer games, gadgets or even have friends over, chances are even you may lose sleep with all the racket that they may be making. So how do you deal with them?

The key is to set some rules when its time to hit the sack. No playing of games or even placing them outside the room towards a neutral place in your home would be nice. Also, the usual lights out can always do the trick as kids constrained in the dark can force them to sleep as they have nothing else to do to distract them.

Some kids may have nightmares from trauma from these practices. But you can do some things to turn them into dreams. Just set your rules and stand by them. It may be hard for parents with soft-hearts but health and good sleep is bound to be the best result to negate all of it.

(Source) Telegraph.co.uk

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No one knows what sudden change of odors may soon set on the place where you are sleeping. It can be your room or perhaps outdoors when you decide to rough it. Either way, did you know that these aroma issues have a bearing on what you can potentially dream about once you doze off?

Just take the whole idea of bad odors in the simplest way and perhaps you could perceive that you are in for something bad when you sleep. It may sound fictitious but not according to the German researchers who have found that sleepers exposed to an unpleasant smell will have negative dreams.

Because our sense of smell involves such a sensitive and neurologically complex function, and because it’s so powerful in its influence on our behavior, it’s not surprising at all that so many scientists have studied the effect of different scents on emotion, memory, appetite, energy, and sexual arousal.

So the next time around, try to do something about an unpleasant odor. It can make a difference between nightmares and sound sleep.

(Source) The Body Odd

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LightMate Pillows

We all know the relevance of having good pillows to sleep on but the design of these pillows is likewise important. We are used to the standard pillow designs, usually square and colorful concepts that make them great cushion support for various parts of the body or perhaps something to cuddle on to, but when you think about this LightMate Pillow, you may think twice on whether it can truly provide you sleep or nightmares.

The design is not all that appealing. Unless you live in the extreme or ignorant side of life, chances are you may have trouble sleeping with it. But as long as you can sleep, perhaps it won’t matter. Well that depends on who is sleeping with these LightMate Pillows by their side.

Designed by artist Francesca Lanzavecchia, NightMates are “soft anthropomorphic pillows and warming lamps” that are supposed to keep you company (and comfy) at night. They come in different sizes, depending on how much anthropomorphic love you need, but you might wanna stick with the smaller ones that are more like Glo-Worms—the full sized ones are more than a little creepy, like something that slithered off the cover of one of my roommate’s NSFW manga collection to do wrong things to you while you sleep.

(Source) Gizmodo

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One can just imagine how if feels to sleep in a coffin. Eerie and gross as it may seem, it looks highly improbable to convince people to try it. But for people in Malaysia, there is more to sleeping in coffins than getting respite. It is a form of getting rid of bad luck, something that most of us surely want to do especially if you are that superstitious.

The daily reported that the devotees believed that by following the ritual, their families would be blessed with prosperity and good fortune.

The ritual was common in the old days but temples in Malaysia rarely carry out such ceremonies now as coffins are still considered “not a very good thing” by the community, the daily reported.

(Source) The Star Online

Though it seems this has been a traditional practice, it makes you wonder if you can truly sleep in a coffin or on the other hand, get nightmares from doing it. Well that is culture for you, something that differentiates each race today.

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Terrors can be synonymous with nightmares a person encounters when he is sleeping. However in reality, they are two different things although nightmares can be a part of sleep terrors.

Sleepnet.com describes sleep terror as:

Sleep Terrors are characterized by a sudden arousal from slow wave sleep with a piercing scream or cry, accompanied by autonomic (Controlled by the part of the nervous system that regulates motor functions of the heart, lungs, etc.) and behavioral manifestations of intense fear. Also known as Pavor Nocturnus, incubus, severe autonomic discharge, night terror.

Kind creepy isn’t it? But the thing is such happenings that go on in our sleep which we often term as dreams may eventually come to a climax wherein people may not be able to find ways to contain them.

Sleep terrors are not considered that harmful and the only resort that may be made available for patients suffering from it is that of consulting a sleep specialist.

Source: Sleepnet.com’s Rest of Sleep Disorders-Sleep Terrors

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