#sleep (20 links)
Weirdly practical guide.
- Nightly 8-Hour Sleep Isn't a Rule. It's a Myth. psychologytoday.com
Conventional wisdom is that caffeine interferes with sleep. But if you caffeinate immediately before napping and sleep for 20 minutes or less, you can exploit a quirk in the way both sleep and caffeine affect your brain to maximize alertness.
- The Sleep Book thesleepschool.org
We break this vicious cycle of Insomnia through our globally pioneering use of Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) & Mindfulness for chronic Insomnia.
When the American Academy of Sleep Medicine reviewed the literature on infant and child sleep training, it reported that in 17 out of 19 published studies, unmodified extinction—the clinical term for crying-it-out—effectively reduced bedtime resistance and the frequency of nighttime wakings, concluding that it “has a strong record of accomplishment.”
- Sound machine study should not cause parents to panic: White noise doesn't make your baby deaf. slate.com
If you, like me, have used a white-noise machine to help your wee one sleep, you probably had a panic attack when you…
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- Goodnight. Sleep Clean. - NYTimes.com nytimes.com
Sleep, it turns out, may play a crucial role in our brain’s physiological maintenance. As your body sleeps, your brain is quite actively playing the part of mental janitor: It’s clearing out all of the junk that has accumulated as a result of your daily thinking.
- Sleep: The Ultimate Brainwasher? | Science/AAAS | News news.sciencemag.org
- The Science of Insomnia io9.com
- Wake Assist - a Mac OS X wake up fix dssw.co.uk
Fixes the stuck-until-clicked wake problem
"A tiny program that puts an icon in the right side of your menu bar. Click it to prevent your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers. Click it again to go back. Hold down the Command key while clicking to show
- Lock Screen and Sleep Display with Quicksilver - MtDewVirus mtdewvirus.com
Looking for a quick way to lock your screen and put the display to sleep on Mac OS X using Quicksilver?
- Sleepbot Environmental Broadcast sleepbot.com
featuring a random cycling of some of the most sleep-worthy tracks ever created.
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Does anyone have any techniques for executing a pleasant, refreshing nap?