Hacking sleep: Engineering a high quality, restful night. In case you haven’t heard, sleep is absolutely crucial to your health.
With a few simple strategies, you can get the high-quality, restful sleep your body and your mind deserves. Want to see our visual guide? Check out the infographic here… Introduction Sleep is just as important as nutrition and exercise when it comes to improving your health, performance, and body composition. Good sleep helps our bodies and minds recover, keeping us lean, happy, mentally focused, and healthy. But chronically bad sleep slathers on body fat, screws up our hormones, ages us faster, increases chronic illnesses, and drains our IQ and mojo.
(For more on this, see All About Sleep.) How to Reboot Your Sleep Cycle and Get the Rest You Deserve - Lifehacker. Sleep Hygiene. What's your best trick for waking up that doesn't involve caffeine? : AskReddit. YSK How to Properly Prepare and Execute a Perfect All Nighter. : YouShouldKnow. How To Remember Your Dreams.
[From NIGHTLIGHT 1(1), 1989, Copyright, The Lucidity Institute.]
Remembering your dreams is the starting place for learning to have lucid dreams. If you don't recall your dreams, even if you do have a lucid dream, you won't remember it! And, in order to be able to recognize your dreams as dreams while they are happening, you have to be familiar with the way your own dreams work. Before it will be worth your time to work on lucid dream induction methods, you should be able to recall at least one dream every night. Getting plenty of sleep is the first step to good dream recall.
Taoist Shamanism and Dream Yoga. Slideshows - Bedtime Yoga. Yoga For Bedtime Whether you are a night owl who would rather be a morning bird, have trouble falling asleep at night, or just need a little extra help relaxing before going to sleep, doing a little yoga before bedtime can help.
This routine—which you can do in bed—will put your body and mind to rest, helping you to sleep soundly through the night so you can wake up rested and fresh for the morning. No sleeping pills required! First things first. Get ready for bed. Short Meditation Sit up in bed comfortably, either with your legs folded or straight in front of you; whatever you can do with the most ease. Seated Twists Stay in your seated position and twist around to the back of your bed. Easy Forward Bend Keep your seated position and gently bend forward at your hips and let your hands stretch out straight in front of you on the bed. Legs Extended Forward Bend Flat Back Slowly start to straighten your legs in front of you. Legs Extended Forward Bend Round Back Lying Down Knee to Chest. Why am I sleepier when I sleep more? : explainlikeimfive.