The Japanese don’t sleep. They don’t nap. They do ‘inemuri’. Dr Brigitte Steger explains.
How to Fall Asleep in 2 Minutes or Less | The Art of Manliness
With our archives now 3,500+ articles deep, we’ve decided to republish a classic piece each Friday to help our newer readers discover some of the best, evergreen gems from the past. This article was originally published in March 2018. Have you ever unexpectedly found yourself with a snatch of time in which to steal a […]
Oidashibeya – Japanese Purgatory - Japan Intercultural Consulting
Employees are typically placed in a room, often windowless... their business cards are taken away, and they are forced to do menial, mind-numbing tasks, or given nothing to do at all.
Sleep Is the New Status Symbol (Published 2017)
Once we would brag of not needing very much of it. Now deep slumber is a coveted state achieved with gadgets, apps, gizmos and classes.
How to Fall Asleep in 120 Seconds
Trouble sleeping? Here's a military-tested trick for guaranteed slumber
Why We Sleep, and Why We Often Can’t
Does our contemporary obsession with sleep obscure what makes it special in the first place?
Methods to fall asleep quickly/instantly?
36 votes, 40 comments. Any tips on falling asleep INSTANTLY? For years I have been staying up until 1 AM (usually) and my body has adapted to it. Now…
Beds too short in 'worst-ever' Asian Games rooms, says Korea team - The Korea Times
TOKYO — Accommodation at the Asian Games starting this week in Japan is the "worst ever," Korean officials told AFP on Monday, also warning of "a s...
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You can learn a foreign language in your sleep, say Swiss
Study played newly-learned foreign vocabulary to students and compared their memory with those who were played the words while awake
Extreme night owls: ‘I can’t tell anyone what time I go to bed’
What happens when your natural sleeping pattern is at odds with the rest of the world?
Bicameral, Not Homoiconic
Parenthetically Speaking: Articles by Shriram Krishnamurthi
How To (Really) Learn A Foreign Language While You Sleep
The old saying that we can solve problems more effectively when we “sleep on it” may be especially true if the problem we’re trying to solve is learning a new language. Researchers from two Swiss universities wanted to know if they could enhance the learning of words from a foreign language [...]
I couldn’t sleep, then I tried cognitive shuffling | Psyche Notes to Self
The usual advice didn’t help my sleep problems, but then I tried an exercise that kickstarts the sleep-onset control system
The Notebook on the Pillow
On writing one sentence before sleep, and why the sentence does not need to be true so much as noticed.
