Tag: sleep

Making miksates…um, mistakes

The holidays are supposed to be a time of rest and relaxation, but if you’re like me, after several nights of parties, you feel pretty much as sleep-deprived as you did before the holidays, if not more so. Also if you’re like me, when you get tired you begin to make more miksates–er, mistakes, ranging …

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Insomnia

There’s a song in the Gilbert & Sullivan operetta Iolanthe that begins, “When you’re lying awake with a dismal headache and repose is taboo’d by anxiety….” and goes on to describe a horrendous night that begins with sleeplessness and ends with a horrible dream. W. S. Gilbert, it seems, was no stranger to insomnia. Nor are roughly …

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Lucid dreaming

I enjoy my dreams, which are typically full of James-Bond/science-fictional elements.  Sometimes they’re so exciting I regret waking up and not finding out how they end. Maybe I don’t have to.  Apparently it’s possible to learn to direct your dream while you’re in it.  It’s called lucid dreaming, and researchers at Stanford University have developed …

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A shortage of sleep

Are you feeling sleepy? If you are, you might think it’s the busy time of the year, but sleepiness isn’t limited to the holidays. According to scientists, around two thirds of North Americans are sleep-deprived all the time. Over the past century the average amount of sleep people get has shrunk by more than 20 …

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Internal clocks

Once in a while, everyone has trouble getting to sleep. (I rarely do, but that’s because, now that I’m married, I have to get up much earlier than I did in my single days, in order to get my wife off to work. Marriage as a cure for sleeplessness might seem a little drastic to …

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Sleep revisited

  “To sleep, perchance to dream…” So, did you sleep in over the long weekend? Chances are, you did. And maybe, if you’re like me, you felt guilty about it. After all, the summer’s almost over. We should all be outside enjoying the beautiful weather, or painting the house, or exercising, or spending time with …

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Sleep

  “To sleep, perchance to dream. Aye, there’s the rub . . . “ Aye, there’s the rub indeed–the rub being, nobody’s really sure why we sleep. Or why we dream. Or why either is important. Some scientists doubt that dreaming is of any great importance. They don’t have those doubts about sleep. We know …

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