Technology plays a vital role in our everyday lives. The laptop you use to draft reports, the phone you read emails on while on the train, the bluetooth signal that powers your headphones, even the heater that generates the hot water for your shower and the microwave in which you reheat your food. All these Read More…
The 5 Stages of Sleep: Understanding How & Why We Sleep the Way We Do
Perhaps the most necessary component of our everyday lives – but the least understood – is the phenomenon of sleep. Though it’s still quite a mysterious process, we do know an increasing amount about sleep. So let’s start at the beginning: what exactly is its purpose? Sleep was once considered an extended state of rest, Read More…
Understanding Delta Brain Waves & Sleep
Delta brain waves are the lowest and slowest brain waves, carrying a frequency range of between 1-4Hz. Delta brain waves are active mainly in stages 3 and 4 of sleep. Sleep stage 3 is known as slow-wave sleep (SWS), which consists of delta waves at less than 3.5 Hz. At this stage you no longer produce any reaction to environmental stimuli. Stage Read More…
Have You Got the Insomnia Gene?
Are you a life long bad sleeper? Do others in your family sleep like babies while no matter what method you try, you lie awake without fail night after night, getting just a few hours sleep each night? Until recently, insomnia was considered a purely psychological complaint triggered by stress, grief or sleep disruption as Read More…
How to Use Self Hypnosis to Fall Asleep
Hypnosis is a scary concept for some because it is wrongly associated with lying on a couch and being under the control of a hypnotist you’ve only just met. All sorts of stories have been publicized over the years citing incidents of abuse of position and general negative experiences. The good is that hypnosis doesn’t have to Read More…
Why Sleep Deprivation Commonly Occurs in Students
It is no coincidence that a large number of people first develop sleeping problems at University. I regularly speak with people who tell me that they slept well until the time they flew the nest and went to stay in halls of residence or a shared house. This is because university presents the perfect breeding Read More…
The Truth About the Polyphasic – Uberman Sleep Fad
Polyphasic sleep is the practice of sleeping multiple times in a 24-hour period, as opposed to sleeping for 8 hours through the night. The phrase was introduced by psychologist J.S Szymanski, and in the last 5 years has become popular among the “Uberman” sleeping community. There are in fact many people who experience a kind Read More…
How Binaural Beats Can Make You Sleep Better
Thanks to a discovery by German experimenter H. Dove in 1839, and further research by Doctor Gerald Oster in 1973, it was realized that audio signals are capable of entraining the brain to automatically move into specific frequency ranges. When we are in a state of high anxiety the speed of our brainwaves increases, and Read More…
Understanding the Connection Between Memory and Sleep
Recent research conducted at the National Academy of Science has demonstrated that memory and sleep are intrinsically connected, and that broken sleep affects our ability to store memories. The research has helped to explain how memory problems are caused in medical conditions like sleep apnea and Alzheimer’s. The Stanford University research, conducted among mice, showed that mice that Read More…
