You spend a third of your life asleep! Here's how to make it better...
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Introduction for Episode 228
Yo what's happening, Bag?
Whatever happened to that laid-back 60s Allen Ginsberg kind of feeling, when we all used to know and love each other, Pouch?
WE ARE NOT WITCHES!!!
Think Tank Words for This Episode
- STATISTICS
- CONTRARY
- NEBULOSITY
Show Notes for Episode 228
- Mike Mandel has completed 70 trips around the sun!
- Sleep and dreams - the morpheus factor
- How do we spell contrarian? D-I-C-K
- Being deprived of sleep and dreams causes mental and physical problems
- Your brain cycles every 90 to 100 minutes in a sleep cycle
- You briefly awaken between cycles
- The human nose tells you to turn over when you're asleep
- We cycles through brainwaves, beta to alpha to theta to delta
- NREM is no rapid eye-movement. REM is near the surface of awareness
- Human Givens Theory says we discharge emotional states through REM and dreaming
- If you're deprived of dreaming, you'll start to dream when awake!
- The hypnagogic state is when you're going into sleep!
- To go to sleep, you lie there as if you're asleep and pretend you're asleep!
- Hypnagogia is related to hypnosis!
- Visual shuts off first, and auditory shuts off last...
- The hypnopompic state is when we come out of sleep
- Most hypnopompic hallucinations are visual!
- Digression!
- Jay F. is now Rupture Boy!
- Auditory states can bleed over into your sleep and dreams...
- "Only the beginning!" Dan Zwir in Mike's dream!
- Theta waves are creative waves!
- We need to complete sleep cycles. Alarm clocks prevent that.
- Cortisol is at its highest first thing in the morning!
- Dreams resolve emotions through metaphor
- Sleep paralysis is awful. The brain awakes but the body is shut down!
- Why did the 2 teenage girls castrate their father with a straight razor? It was April Fool's Day!
- The 6 Step Reframe can clear-up sleep paralysis...
- Nightmares are bad dreams that awaken you!
- Night terrors are fear or panic in an NRAM state with no memory of it
- Insomnia is horrible, and the worst thing is to try to fall asleep!
- Mental overstimulation can cause insomnia...
- Mike hears the RUSH song Tom Sawyer in his head!
- No caffeine after lunchtime!
- People on Death Row don't sleep well before the electric chair...
- Too much screen-time can screw up your sleep!
Special Report from Hypno North Meaford Ontario!
- The 3am wake up is horrible! Check out Nux Vomica if your doctor says it's okay...
- Reframe that wake up as an hour you've just been given!
- Chris listens to podcasts when he cannot sleep...
- Sleepwalking happens while in NRAM sleep, and is most common in kids...
- Stress can cause sleepwalking!
- Slow down before bed! No TV or computer!
- In Canada recreational cannabis is legal, and you can take it before bed
- Valerian can help some people. But not the ones it wakes up!
- Hops, skullcap and chamomile help sleep for some people...
- Make sure your room is dark and cool...
- The body temperature has to drop in order to sleep...
- Do not skimp on quality with your bed, your eyes, or your shoes!
- The sound of rain or surf can calm your mind...
- Slow down your breathing to activate the parasympathetic nervous system...
Empowering Questions: Ask yourself: What is the quality of my sleep…and what am I prepared to do…now…to improve sleep quality and duration?
Metafive: The camera stuck in my throat
Ending: Reverse Engineering
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