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Sleeping at work?

If there is one thing that does not go down with the boss, it is falling asleep at work. Do it too often and you might just find yourself looking for another job. Falling asleep on the job, then, is not the best career move. So, why do we fall asleep at work and how can we stop it from happening? Put...

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What is sleep paralysis?

Sleep paralysis is something that happens to all of us but many of us will never consciously experience. At its most basic, sleep paralysis is where you awake at night but cannot move. When we are in the REM cycle of sleep, our bodies are paralysed. This evolved as a safety feature, ensuring that...

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Should you study before an exam?

Most people spend the night before a big exam cramming for the next day. However, recent research has shown that that time might be better spent sleeping- something that the majority of us would rather be doing. While many people claim that if you play an educational recording while sleeping you will...

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Not sleeping? You might as well be intoxicated.

If you are having trouble sleeping then you know how it can affected you. Sleep deprivation has a long and incredibly concerning list of symptoms- starting with the relatively obvious, things like irritation and forgetfulness, and moving through to the downright worrying and scary, including problems...

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Super Sleep Foods and Drinks

Sleep. For those people who find falling asleep a breeze and wake feeling refreshed and invigorated the next morning, sleep is a pleasant period of their lives that they do not need to put much thought or time into. For those unfortunate people who suffer from a sleep disorder, sleep is a stressful...

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How to make your child smarter with sleep

Every parent wants their child to be smart, it is one of the universal desires of parenthood. While there are a number of different ways that parents can go about ensuring that their child is as smart as they can possibly be there is one that society on the whole may have been overlooking for years...

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How much does a new baby cost in sleep?

You have probably already heard the figures that many people attach to the cost of raising a child. One stat has it that each child will cost you around $200 000 by the time they are eighteen, another puts this at $500 000. Whatever the financial cost, we all know that there are other costs involved...

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70% have experienced falling in their sleep

While in many ways our dreams are unique, with each individual having their own dreams, there are a number of commonalities and reoccurring themes and motifs that dream researchers have found that span across cultures and countries. In a way, it is like we have a common language of dreaming and this...

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Why we dream?

Dreams are one of the more enigmatic parts of life. There are a number of theories on why we dream at all and while none have been proven, there is one that has become increasingly probable. That is that dreams are the brain’s way of processing and sorting, of filing certain memories and deleting...

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Dreaming on purpose

For most of us, dreaming is a random and uncontrollable process. Most nights the dreams seem totally out of our control and we are usually only aware that they were even dreams after we wake up. However, on occasion, we will be aware that we are dreaming while we are dreaming. This awareness give...

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Dream more to prevent psychosis

On the surface, dreams might appear to be frivolous and not very useful, but the more study that is done on this strange and quixotic state, the more we are coming to realise that dreaming plays a vital role in our mental well being. A group of academics in Italy have recently shown that people who...

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Do the blind dream?

Dreaming is an extremely visual phenomena. It is not often that you wake up from a dream remembering what something smelled like, or sounded like, but you will often wake up remembering what something looked like. This conjures up the questions, do blind people dream? Are their dreams the same as...

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