QOTD - time o’ the day edition
Oct 7, 2008 Questions
Are you a morning or night person?
I’m a night person. Although it’s nice to go jogging early, mornings are just not good for me. Too tired, want sleepy. Like the song says, “waking up is hard to do”. Or something like that.
You?”
Why is it So Hard to Wake Up in the Morning?
Jul 28, 2008 Health
Picture the scenario:
You hear this noise. It’s the most annoying noise you have ever heard, yet all it is is a song playing on the radio. You start to recognize the song, but quickly go back to being quite annoyed. You have just been pulled out of a deep sleep, and despite the fact that you have been in that sleeping state for 7-8 hours, you still feel almost dead to the world. “If only it was a Saturday, then I could sleep in a little…”
Why is it so stinking hard to get up sometimes? An article I just read suggests that it might be our own doing, especially to those of us sleeping in on the weekends.
Your clock is controlled by the suprachiasmatic nucleus, a part of the brain that controls the body’s biological rhythms… People who have trouble crawling out of bed probably have an inner clock set to late wake-up and sleep times, a condition known as phase delay.
It is possible to adjust your phase-delayed body clock, Matheson says, but at a price: No sleeping in on the weekends. “When people sleep late on weekends, they revert to their natural phase-delayed rhythm,” she explains. This makes it harder to wake up early on weekdays. You can train yourself to wake up earlier, Matheson says, by setting your alarm 15 minutes earlier each day (and heeding its call).
Also, if you watch TV or visit my lovely website right before beddy-bye time, that might contribute as well. So stop reading and go to bed!
The New Website… Here it is!
Mar 19, 2008 me
So here is the deal.
Every night, I have some pretty weird, random dreams. They are pretty entertaining most of the time, and my friends get a kick out of them when I tell them. So I thought to myself “Self, why don’t I post these dreams for the world to read”. So that is what I am going to do. Each post will be brief, since nobody wants to read a long post about anything really. So whatever happens in my dreams the night before that is entertaining, odd, crazy, and random, I will post.
Also, if you have strange dreams, you can be an author here on this site (at least a few of you). So if interested, email me some examples, and I will let you know. But in the meantime, point your browser to myrandomdreams.com and subscribe to the feed.
I could be way off, but I think this could be (mildly) entertaining!
Tags: adam riggins, dreaming, dreams, ideas, sleep, Thoughts, website
A new website idea… Coming soon.
Mar 19, 2008 Housekeeping, Thoughts
I am working on a fun idea for a website that could be potentially interactive and thought provoking. Or, it could be the dumbest idea ever. But regardless, it will relate to all of us in one way or another. I hope to roll it out in the next few days, but hopefully you all (my loyal and faithful readers) will give me some feedback.
Anyone out there ever have really weird dreams that are totally random? If so, let me know. I might need your help…
Tags: adam riggins, dreaming, dreams, ideas, sleep, Thoughts, website
My BRILLIANT idea for an invention
Mar 10, 2008 Thoughts
When I sleep, I mostly breathe through my mouth and/or snore. This is not a good thing because I normally wake up through the night with a dry mouth. in fact, sometimes my tongue is also dry. It is a VERY uncomfortable thing to wake up to at 3am.
Well, what if there was some kind of “lubricant” (that sounds so gross) that you could ingest. Maybe a lotion kind of thing that would essentially coat the inside of your mouth and maybe your throat as well. It would be like hand lotion for hands, only for the mouth. Is that even possible?
I think I am on to something here.
Question of the Day - Day Off Edition
I took the day off today. As I type this (at 11:20am), I am still in my pajamas, watching Survivor, with no intention of changing that any time soon. So this leads me to today’s Question of the Day:
Have you ever worn your pajamas in public?
For me, the answer is yes. In college I would wear them to class at times, especially when I was running late. I think that it is totally acceptable while in college since so many did it. But yeah, if class is at 8am and you wake up at 7:53, the PJ’s are making an appearance in class.
How about you?
How to Fall Asleep Quickly Every Time
Dec 1, 2006 Uncategorized
from wikiHow:
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Fall asleep quickly every time after establishing a habit of drifting off to sleep while listening to books on CD. This allows the active mind to stay active initially but eventually it will drift off to sleep on its own. The habit becomes a case of conditioning - hear narrative talking voice, fall asleep. Eventually it will take only a very few minutes to fall asleep.
Steps
- Using a portable CD player, check out books on CD from the local library and put the disk in the player.
- Turn the volume down to barely audible and start the book.
- It won’t take long to drift off to sleep and the mind will become ‘conditioned’ to sleep after this becomes a habit.
Tips
- Recommend nonfiction, narrative-type books. Exciting stories and thriller/suspense fiction won’t work. Books on history, travel narratives, poetry, and long-winded literature will work. This is a great way to listen to all of the classics, such as The Scarlet Letter and anything by Jane Austen.
- Recommend CD player as that can be restarted at the point left off the night before. Cassettes won’t work well for this and neither do MP3 players as they will stay on all night and not cut off like a CD player.
- This is a slow way to work through a book. Most nights will only make a few minutes progress before falling asleep so it might take a week to go through one disk. To finish the book more quickly, play the CDs while doing chores (not driving) or exercising.
- Be sure to pack CD player along + disks when travelling. You’ll need it.
Warnings
- Keep the volume barely audible.
- Since the conditioning is to fall asleep while listening to a narrative voice, listen to music in the car and not books.
- Do not train yourself to fall asleep to boring narrative if you expect to attend important lectures (college), meetings (work) or speeches (anywhere).
- Push player unit out of your way when moving around in your sleep - let it drop to the floor (carpeted) or onto nightstand.
Things You’ll Need
- CD player. Sony used to make an indestructible unit that will last forever: Sony S2 Sports CD Walkman. Try amazon. Uses 2 AA batteries, and they last a long time.
- headphones, earbud type
- books on CD checked out from the local public library
- if no one else is in the room with you at night, use a clock radio with CD player installed instead of a portable unit.
