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Cat and bedtime
I sympathize with the girlfriend who finds sharing the bedroom with the cat strange. My husband felt the same way. Thought I was spoiling the animals. I introduced the first cat and now we've moved up to one cat, four dogs, and a bigger bed. Life moves on. Today's purrs may be exactly what is needed to mask tomorrow's snores. No arguing in the ...
Posted to Slate V by cirebon on April 14, 2009
Unembraced
You really need to get over yourself and realize this may not be about you. Your body heat may be overwhelming your bedmate and making him (or her) extremely uncomfortable. Personally, I like to sleep with at least a fan on in the room for cooling, and to have a woman, even one I love very much, coiled around me would send me into paroxysms of ...
Posted to Dear Prudence by MisterMasters on July 17, 2008
Remedy for loss of sense of smell
My sense of smell had left me, or at least 85 percent of it. I visited a nutritionist for a totally different problem. When he looked at my list of symptoms, checked off from his symptom list, he told me that he was sure I was lacking zinc. He sent me for a nutrient profile at SpectraCell Labs and they found that I was, definitely, deficient in ...
Posted to Medical Examiner by carlon7 on July 9, 2008
Great post - but its just like Jet Lag
Hi Deepa, I really enjoyed your article as my job requires me to be in on time. And my start time, until recently, is either 8am weekdays or 6am on Sunday morning. I love being both a night owl and an early bird (to quote the Office ''It means I'm wise, and I have worms'') I can do either and get a kick out of both times of day, I find early ...
Posted to Medical Examiner by skepticalsinner on June 18, 2008
Doing it backwards
Everybody tries to do this backwards. I have been through this so many times, I can't count them. I have worked construction where we wanted to be through by 2:30 in the afternoon to avoid the Texas heat. I worked in a New Orleans bar where my shift started at 10 p.m. What people try to do is to get up earlier in the morning. They trick is to ...
Posted to Medical Examiner by russellk on June 17, 2008
Can a night Owl become a morning person? I did!
Oh yes. The infamous title of ''night owl''. I have been dubbed a night owl for as far back as I could remember. I have never liked getting up early in the morning, nor have I ever enjoyed getting less than eight hours of sleep in one evening. After having my son, I had tried and tried to become a morning lover but I had failed miserably. I've ...
Posted to Medical Examiner by SaphireLee on June 17, 2008
Psychologist says De-Stress with High-Tech/Low-Cost FREEWARE
In order to complement the positive effects of meditative hypnosis, I highly recommend the following unique FREEWARE program (the “Virtual Light & Sound Machine” Meditation Software) that effortlessly induces DEEP MEDITATIVE states, via the phenomenon of audio-visual stimulation... FREE ...
Posted to Medical Examiner by Jerry0065 on April 1, 2008
sleep - weight: chicken - egg
Why does it appear that the assumption is that sleep effects weight instead of vice versa? Brian
Posted to Medical Examiner by bsengel1 on November 14, 2007
Re: How much sleep do you need?
I drove a truck (18 wheels) for 9 years. Due to the nature of the business, my sleep schedule was often erratic. But the DOT rules were such in the beginning that this wasn't an issue, because I could take a nap when I needed it. As long as my rest/sleep added up to an accumulated 8 hours, I felt good, and stayed in the graces of the law. ...
Posted to Human Nature by semisweet on September 27, 2007
Re: How much sleep do you need?
William Saleton is right, sleep is biologically important. Not long ago I read a study which linked the onset of Type II diabetes to inadequate sleep. An odd thing to stumble upon, contradicting most of our most cherished belief about the disease - that it's strictly a product of gluttony. When it comes to human nature, the simple, easy ...
Posted to Human Nature by Urgelt on September 26, 2007

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