Check out pzizz, some type of audio that helps you sleep. If you have an Ipod, you can stick their sleep module on it and start sleeping better.

The Sleep module is designed to help you switch off, calming your thoughts and allowing you to enjoy hours of restorative sleep, no matter what kind of day you’ve had.

Lucid dreaming is when you know you are dreaming inside a dream. I am sure many of you have had that experience before. There are ways to increase your chances of having a Lucid dream. Wikipedia has a good list of induction methods for lucid dreaming including these:

• Fall asleep while focused on your intention to remember that you’re dreaming.
• Let yourself genuinely believe that you’ll become lucid—without intending to become lucid—so that you really will.
• Keep your consciousness while falling asleep and go straight into a dream.
• Wake after some sleep and then return to bed.
• By repetitive visualisation, incubate a dream in which you do a reality check.

I’ve personally have been successful by watching my hand and telling myself, “Am I dreaming?”, to associate my hand with that sentence.  Since hand is used often, I can remind myself once I start dreaming.

Although this(Bush) goes against our website views and what not, it has some interesting articles on how to maximize use of your time and become an early riser.

Check out:

• How to Become an Early Riser
• How to Become an Early Riser II

They look so happy together…and peaceful.

via padrebergamaschi

Well, I guess the twitch that people do (including myself) right after falling asleep is perfectly normal according to some researchers.

This strange falling sensation and muscle twitch is known as a hypnagogic myoclonic twitch or “Hypnic jerk” If this has happened to you on more than one occasion, don’t worry, you are not alone. Close to 70 percent of all people experience this phenomenon just after nodding off, according to a recent study at the Mayo Clinic.

Most experts agree that this is a natural part of the sleeping process, much like slower breathing and a reduced heartbeat. The occurance is well known and has been well documented. However, experts are still not completely sure why the body does this.