The Dream Dragon Written by Kathryn England Illustrated by Valeria Issa Xist Publishing 2/19/2015 978-1-62395-795-7 32 pages Ages 4—8 “A dragon protects a child’s dreams from nightmares in this picture book perfect for bedtime. Bedtime stories inspires a series of dream protectors for a little boy. The dream dragon keeps the nightmares …
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Dreaming
सैर सपनों की दुनिया की …. आईए !! आज आपको सपनो की दुनिया की सैर करवाते हैं. सपनों की दुनिया का यह शहर किसी अजूबे से कम नही है. यहाँ आकर कभी हम बच्चे बन जाते हैं तो कभी बूढे. कभी नेता बन जाते हैं तो कभी हीरो बन कर जनता को ओटोग्राफ दे रहे होते है. कुल मिलाकर इस दुनिया मे आने पर हम कोई भी रुप धारण कर सकते हैं या कुछ भी अनहोनी होते देख सकते हैं.
सपनो की इस लाजवाब दुनिया के सफर मे सबसे पहले हमे अनु मिली. 40 साल की अनु सर्विस करती हैं और दिन भर बहुत व्यस्त रहती है. जाहिर है कि घर पहुंच कर बिस्तर पर जाते ही नींद की आगोश मे चली जाती होगी. अनु ने भी मुस्कुराते हुए बताया कि यकीनन उन्हें लेटते ही नींद आ जाती है और फिर Dreaming…
वैसे तो ज्यादातर सपने उठने के साथ ही भूल जाते हैं पर एक सपना है जो उसे अभी भी अक्सर दिखाई देता है. सपना है कि वो स्कूल की परीक्षा देने जा रही है और देर हो गई है. पेपर शुरु हो चुका है और वो घबराहट के मारे रोने लगती है तो उन्हे परीक्षा मे बैठने की इजाजत मिल जाती है पर समय कम होने की वजह से घबराहट मे उनकी स्याही की दवात गिर जाती है और सारी उत्तर पुस्तिका खराब हो जाती है. जब उनकी नींद खुलती है तो पसीने पसीने होती है. खुद को संयत करने मे उन्हे थोडा समय लग जाता है पर फिर खुद पर हंसी आती आती है कि इस उम्र मे ऐसे सपने कैसे आ जाते है.
सपनो की ही दुनिया मे एक और पति पत्नी कुसुम और विनोद का जोडा मिला. जोकि दस साल से विवाहित हैं. सपने की बात सुन कर दोनो मुस्कुराने लगे. कुसुम ने बताया कि पिछ्ले दो चार बार से उनकी आखं खुलती है रात को पति के चिल्लाने की वजह से. वो सोते सोते हाय, हाय बचाओ, बोल रहे होते हैं. कई बार तो उन्होने ध्यान ही नही दिया क्योकि वो खुद भी नींद मे होती थी सुबह उठ कर जब इस बारे मे बात करते तब विनोद को याद भी नही रहता कि वो किस वजह से चिल्लाए थे. खैर, एक रात विनोद के चिल्लाते समय कुसुम की आखं खुल गई. उन्होने तुरंत अपने पति को उठाया पहले तो वो गहरी नींद मे थे पर कुछ पल बाद उन्होने नींद मे ही बताया कि वो एक सूनसान रास्ते मे जा रहे थे और अचानक कोई बुढिया आकर उनका बैग खिंचने लगी. इसलिए वो डर के मारे चिल्ला रहे हैं. बताते बताते वो फिर से सो गए. बात बता कर कुसुम हंसने लगी तो पति महोदय ने कहा कि अपनी बात भी तो बताओ जब एक बार तुम भी चीखी थी. इस पर कुसुम ने तुनक के कहा कि शायद वही बुढिया उनके सपने मे भी आ गई थी.
इससे पहले की उनकी नोक झोंक और आगे बढती. हमने ही आगे बढने मे अपनी भलाई समझी. सपनो की दुनिया मे आगे हमे मिली 10 साल की मणि. मणि ने बताया कि बहुत सपने आते है. सपने मे कभी वो स्टेज पर गाना गा रही होती है तो कभी क्लास मे फर्स्ट आती है तो कभी दोस्तो के साथ जंगल मे खेल रही होती है. पर एक सपना भुलाए नही भूलता वो है कि एक रात वो सो रही है. कमरे मे घना अंधेरा है. अचानक दो तीन चोर आ गए. उसकी आंख खुल गई और वो डर के मारे पलंग के नीचे छिप गई. चोर वही घूम रहे हैं. वो चिल्लाना चाह रही है पर उसकी आवाज ही नही निकल रही. वो पूरे जोर के साथ मम्मी, पापा…!! चोर आए हैं चिल्लाए जा रही है पर मानो वो गूंगी हो चुकी है. उफ!! और जब आखं खुली तो इतनी राहत मिली कि बस!! बहुत डरावना सपना था वो. यह सपना शायद जिंदगी भर नही भूलेगा.
सपनो की दुनिया मे और आगे बढे तो 20 वर्ष की नाव्या मिली. उनसे पूछा तो एकदम से खुश होकर बोली कि सपने मे वो मिस इंडिया चुनी गई और अमिताभ बच्चन जी ने उन्हे क्राउन पहनाया. इतना ही नही रणबीर कपूर के साथ उन्होने फिल्म भी साईन की. शूटिंग भी शुरु हो गई थी. सब कुछ इतना अच्छा चल रहा था सब लोग उसके काम की उसकी खूबसूरती की इतनी तारीफ कर रहे थे कि उसी समय अलार्म बजा और वो गहरी नींद से जाग गई. बताते बताते वो उदास हो गई.
उनको शुभकामनाए देते हुए हम आगे बढे तो सामने से 30 वर्ष की दर्शना चली आ रही थी. उन्होने बताया कि बचपन मे एक सपना बहुत आता था. उनके घर के ड्राईंग रुम मे शो केस मे बहुत बडी गुडिया थी. कई बार उन्हे रात को सपना आता अब पता नही कि वो सपना था या सच्चाई थी कि वो गुडिया शो केस से बाहर निकलती और पूरे घर का चक्कर लगाकर वापिस शो केस मे चली जाती. सुबह उठ कर जब वो उस शो केस वाली गुडिया को देखती तो उन्हे लगता कि वो उन्हे देखकर मुस्कुरा रही है. यह सब देख कर उन्हे बहुत डर लगता पर उन्होने अपनी मम्मी को यह बात कभी नही बताई कि कभी उनका मजाक की ना बन जाए. अरे बाप रे! उनका सपना या हकीकत जो भी थी सुनकर तो हम भी डर गए और वहां से खिसकने मे ही भलाई समझी.
Dreaming …. 45 वर्ष की सुनीता मिली. सुनीता ने जो बताया वो भी काफी हैरान कर देने वाला था. उन्होने बताया कि करीब 4-5 साल पहले की बाता है. रात को जब वो सो रही थे तो सपने मे उनके स्वर्गवासी पिता नजर आए. वो गेट के बाहर हाथ मे कोई तोहफा लिए खडे थे.सुनीता ने बताया कि उन्हे देख कर वो बाहर आई उनसे वो तोफहा लिया और गले मिल कर बहुत रोई. फिर अचानक आखं खुल गई. अगले दिन उन्हे खबर मिली कि जो जायदाद का जो काम इतने सालो से अटक रहा था. वो फैसला उनके हक मे रहा और वो जीत गए. बताते बताते सुनीता भावुक हो गई.
Dreaming
सपने की दुनिया मे ऐसे और भी बहुत लोगो से मिले और उन्होने बहुत बाते शेयर की.कोई कहता सुबह का सपना सच होता है तो कोई कहता कि किसी मरे हुए इंसान को देख लो तो उसकी उम्र बढती है.किसी ने बताया कि सपने मे मोटी गाय को देखो तो फायदा और पतली गाय को देखो तो नुकसान होता है. सपने मे कोई बडी इमारत देख लो तो भाग्य उदय होता है इत्यादि इत्यादि!!सच, सपनो की दुनिया ही निराली है.
वैसे इस बात मे भी कोई दो राय नही कि सपने में सपने जैसा कुछ लगता ही नही. बिलकुल ऐसा महसूस होता है जैसे यह सचमुच में घटित हो रहा है. कोई हमेशा हमेशा के लिए इसी दुनिया मे रहना चाह्ता है तो कोई इससे तुरंत बाहर निकलना चाह्ता है. दुनिया भर के अनेकों मनोवैज्ञानिको ने भी सपने की इस दुनिया में झाँकने की कोशिश की, लेकिन इस रहस्यमयी दुनिया को जितना भी समझने की कोशिश की उतनी ही यह उलझाती रही.
इसी बारे मे जब हमने जाने माने मनोचिकित्सक से बात की तो उन्होने बताया कि सपने आना एक सहज प्रक्रिया है. अब सपने किस तरह के आते हैं ये हमारे मन पर निर्भर करता है. असल मे, कोई ना कोई बात हमारे दिलो दिमाग मे कही दब कर बैठी होती है जिसका हमे पता भी नही चलता और देर सवेर कभी ना कभी हमे सपने के रुप मे दिखाई दे जाती है.
जाने माने मनोविश्लेषक सिग्मंड फ्रायड के अनुसार हम अपनी अतृप्त एवं अधूरी इच्छाओं की पूर्ति सपनो के माध्यम से करते है. कोई जो भी कहे पर सपनों का संसार वाकई मे अनूठा, अदभुत और आश्चर्यजनक है …
Dreaming
5 Astro tips to overcome bad, horrible dreams-5
अक्सर हमें नींद में सपने आते हैं। कई बार ये सपने इतने डरावने होते हैं कि आंखें खुल जाती हैं और हम डर से पसीने-पसीने हो जाते हैं। इन सपनों में कई बार हम परेशान बच्चे, भटकती आत्माएं, जंगली जानवर, अंधेरे रास्ते या किसी खतरनाक संकट को देखते हैं जिससे हमें भयंकर डर लगने लगता है। ज्योतिष के कुछ साधारण से उपाय करके आप इन डरावने सपनों से बच सकते हैं।
प्रतिदिन रात को सोते समय हनुमान चालीसा का एक बार पाठ करके सोएं, आपको बुरे सपने आना बंद हो जाएंगे।
यदि रात में किसी भी तरह का डर लगता हो तो अपने सिरहाने के नीचे एक पीपल की जड़ तथा उसकी टहनी का छोटा सा टुकड़ा रखें। ये दोनों ही सूर्यास्त से पहले तोड़े, सूर्यास्त होने की स्थिति में अगले दिन ही पेड़ की जड़ और टहनी तोड़े।
कभी भी उत्तर तथा पश्चिम दिशा में सिर करके नहीं सोना चाहिए। ऎसा करने से शरीर के मैग्नेटिक करंट में बाधा पहुंचती है और दिमाग बैचेन हो जाता है। अक्सर इन दिशाओं में सिर करके सोने वाले चौंक कर उठ जाते हैं। पूर्व को सोने के लिए सबसे अच्छी दिशा माना जाता है। इस दिशा में सिर तथा पश्चिम में पैर करके सोने से अच्छी नींद आती है और बुरे सपनों से भी निजात मिलती है।
सपने में यदि बार-बार नदी, झरना या पानी दिखाई दे तो यह पितृ दोष की वजह से हो सकता है। इसके लिए अमावस्या के दिन सफेद चावल, शक्कर और घी मिला कर पीपल के पेड़ पर सूर्यास्त के बाद चढ़ाने से आराम मिलता है। See more…
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What warms your heart on a cold day? What warms your heart when the tides of change come crashing in? What warms your heart when the” no’s” become overwhelming? What warms your heart when the crowd scatters and you are “Home Alone”?
I have a whole list of favorite things I like to look at periodically. These are things that Warm My Heart. I found myself smiling and even laughing. They are things I feel that God has blessed me with. When I look at them I see stories! I see people, I see events… and more. Life is so much more than what we see during our day. Life is a tapestry of stories that intertwine and make memories for us. Some are so real we can almost re-live them just recalling them to our memories.
Favorite Things
- God my Father, Jesus my elder brother, the Holy Spirit my helper.
- All my Family
- Friends / art friends
- People
- Rosie and Violet
- Coffee with cream
- Purses
- Odd things for the house
- Floor Pillows
- Blankies
- Coffee Shops
- Art galleries
- Hankies
- Sketch books
- Lists
- Personal chef
- Trip to Maine and beyond
- Jeep
- Toys
- Children’s books
- Goat yogurt and blueberries
- Zinnias
- Colors : purply blue, raspberry, Yaya green
- Good movies with popcorn
- Breakfast in bed with a good magazine.
- grandsons!
- my SONS.
- a zillion best friends!
- colors
- the valley between Kenosha and BaileY
- the mountains
- a crackling fire in the stove
- falling snow
- deep snow and 4wheel drive
- My cozy studio
- a good book
- a comfy chair
- writing a story
- a bike ride . . …… and today…. Matthew!
Today’s Warm Fuzzy came from a friend. She took this wonderful picture of her son sleeping with my Peepsqueak plush. He is so cute! Matthew is on my list!
What are your favorite things? I am sure mine will grow!!
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The weather is teasing me! A warm day, a nice breeze, flowers peeking from the cold wet ground, and then WHAM! A freak snow storm! Such is life in Colorado. Peepsqueak is not worried. As you can see in this picture, he is thrilled to find the first Spring flower.
Do you have any flowers up yet? We only have a few tulips and iris peeking out of the dirt. Flowers are still a few weeks away. I am ready!
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Come February, without fail, I begin to feel the effects of Spring Fever. My tulips are peeking out, our trees are budding, and my heart begins pining away for warm weather. THEN it SNOWS 8 inches! haha!
There is no complaining on my part. Colorado needs the moisture! Like Peepsqueak, (above) I put on my coat and scarf and set off in our winter wonderland. Spring will arrive as it alway does, but there are sidewalks to shovel and a wood stove to load and lots of indoor activities to keep me busy until snow gives way to rain and flowers.
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In just a few more days it will be officially Fall! My absolute favorite time of year! It feels like the HOT balloon of summer has been pricked and it is slowly releasing all the hot air, giving way to cool mornings and evenings. The studio is a bustle of activity. New dreams and new hopes are coming alive.
You may say, all of that?… just because it is September 12th? Aren’t you depressed because things are dying? No! Not at all. Every season is glorious! All have their pros and cons but for the most part, I love them all and I love being…. ALIVE! haha!
The last few weeks have been busy with preparations for my SCBWI conference (http://www.scbwi.org/). I am a speaker and I am so excited. I love meeting more creative people and hearing about their dreams. The air is charged whenever we meet.
After that it is back to my studio for more fun! There is never a dull moment. Ideas are bouncing off the walls at times and knowing which one to work on is my biggest problem.
So, back to work with me! Happy Fall!
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After months of prep work, Surtex 2012 is history. It was a great time of meetings, and visiting with other artists. It almost feels like a dream now that it is over. I am filled with ideas and hope for the future!
Here is a picture of Margaret Anastas, my editor at Harper Collins, me, and Annie Stone, Margaret’s assistant. It was so fun sitting at Harper C. and visiting with everyone who worked so hard on Peepsqueak and his promotion. I do love my HC family. They had a nice breakfast for me and we all met in the Harper Collins library. I wish I had a picture of Jeanne Hogle. She was my graphic designer. She escaped the room before I could snap her picture.
After our meeting, I packed up 30 books and headed to the Javitz Center in a doozy of a rainstorm! I LOVED that cab driver for picking me up!!
Messing around with my friends Jane Shasky and Megan Halsey during my Peepsqueak book signing at Surtex. Everyone was in such a good mood!
Here is my teeny tiny room at the Best Western. I was surprised at how small it was, but in the end, it was cozy and I was so glad I stayed there. It was a good retreat after a busy day.
Can’t forget my sweet agent Alicia Dauber. She had everything running smoothly!
Outside my window all the horse drawn carriages were lining up. New York is so full of LIFE!
As amazing as the big city is, it is always nice to come HOME! I had to get my zinnias planted!! Now it is back to work for the next show!
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Noun | 1. | hindsight- understanding the nature of an event after it has happened; “hindsight is always better than foresight”.Most all of us have had opportunities to look back on in our lives and see there was a path set before us to follow! Whether or not we have pursued that path is up to us. As I look back, even my disappointments were part of my present. |
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1. My childhood was fertile ground for make-believe. We had dress up clothes and plenty of games and things to keep us busy. I always LOVED dolls and I remember my imagination being so keen that I could believe my dolls were almost real.
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2. In Jr. High school I met a friend name Ronnie Burton. She made the most wonderful cartoons. I still remember how she drew the ears and the hair. She amazed me! Soon I began drawing my own cartoons. Just a few weeks ago we met up at our high school reunion. She is still my friend after all these years and she is still doing amazing art!
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3. When my children were young I read them book after book. I loved reading them stories. My favorite stories were the ones that made us laugh and laugh. Some of our favorites are Ruby the Copycat, Dabble Duck, But No Elephants, Patrick and Ted, Duncan and Dolores, Frog and Toad, Owl at Home and more. Anyone ever read Julie Andrew’s book called Mandy? I sat sobbing as I read that one. Even though I was an adult, my future was still being shaped and my desire to illustrate books for children grew.
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4. When my youngest was ready for reading we ordered Ladybug magazine. Since I was an artist and cartoonist I began entertaining the idea of illustrating for Ladybug. I sent off some art and was quickly rejected. I attended a SCBWI conference and an editor from Ladybug was there. She looked at my portfolio and hired me to illustrate the parent pages. It was a dream come true!
********************************************************************** 5. Meeting my hero, Tomie dePoala was great fun! He came all the way out West to meet ME! Ha!… Okay… so I never met him in person until this day, but he did write me a couple of times after I wrote to him. Yes, if you write an author or illustrator, they MAY just write you back! 2 Comments on Hindsight, last added: 9/7/2011 Display Comments Add a Comment Blog: The Poisoned Apple (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap) JacketFlap tags: Reading, Writing, Dreaming, Snoozing, Add a tag
I am on holiday. Nowhere exotic or even far or even anywhere (except in my imagination). Books will be read. Short stories will be devoured. My office may be de-cluttered or re-cluttered and possibly ripped apart or left just as it is. There will be candyfloss (even if I have to buy it from the van that occasionally rolls into the estate) and ice cream, maybe some Edinburgh Rock. There will hopefully (rain allowing) be beaches and arcades and arms full of stupid soft toys from those grabby things that will end up in the kids toy box and possibly dissected. There may be museums or I might just brush the dust off my shoulders and pretend I'm an exhibit from the late 1980s sitting in a deckchair beside a sign that reads, Here There Be Weeds. And there will be writing, or planning, or both. I shall see you all about the 7th or 8th of August. I'm actually looking forward to being unplugged, but I shall miss you all. Now it's time to sever my wireless box (this could take several hours).
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It’s that time of year again. A time to dream about the garden! Many people begin cleaning their homes but my mind travels to the garden. I am not a master gardener, but I love digging and planting and waiting to see what comes up! This year I am planting with my niece in mind. She is getting married in August and I love the idea of snipping off blooms for her center pieces! I picked up some seeds at the nursery today and will place an order at Burpee for some fancy zinnias! HOORAY for SPRING!!!! Rocks in my shoes, dirt in my hair, hahaha! FUN in the sun! …Okay, so we are expecting snow tomorrow and Monday… but I am already growing flowers in my dreams. Filed under: Just for fun, The Great Outdoors!
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My work seems to have different phases. Last week was full of wild creativity! I browsed pages and pages of magazines with scissors in hand, blasted through bins of children’s books, and treasure hunted for color combinations in just about anything that came into view. If you could have seen into my brain you would have been scared. hahaha! This week the tide has turned. My days will be spent without any other human beings in sight and only a sleeping puppy or two at my feet. It will be this way until my ideas are sketched, inked in, scanned, and colored. For me it means many quiet solitary days. Someone singing on the radio or a person talking on the television might scatter my thoughts like a syiff wind blowing a newly finished puzzle off a card table into a million pieces! I don’t mind quiet days. In fact, when life gets crazy hectic I often retreat to this quiet place. It’s a source of strength to sit with my little cartoons that smile up at me. Call that crazy if you’d like … but its my little part of the world. Filed under: Kicking Around Thoughts, Work is Play....?
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Blog: OUPblog (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap) JacketFlap tags: dreaming, leonardo dicaprio, unconscious, rem, ellen page, Inception, Rosalind Cartwright, sleep science, twenty-four hour mind, waking, jerk, hypnic, dreams, Science, Current Events, sleep, A-Featured, dream, Psychology, Add a tag
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1.) In Inception, Ellen Page plays a “dream architect.” Can we actually influence what people dream about? That answer is: A little. If I drip water on you while you are in REM sleep (when most dreaming happens), you may tell me you dreamt it was raining. You would already have a dream story of your own creation going on but the water can be added to that dream as “Suddenly as I was trying to escape from this guy it started raining.” If I play a tape with the name of the love of your life over and over, you may begin to dream of that person. But what you dream of that person is what your unconscious needs to express about them. Dreams have an imperative of their own and resist our meddling. 2.) In the film, dream death automatically brings the dreamer back to consciousness. I’ve heard that we always have to wake up before that moment of death in a dream. Is that true, can we not “die” in our dreams? Death is not a common theme in dreams—unless you are elderly or very ill when death is a topic on your waking mind—and we do not often dream our death occurs even when we are falling from a height. We typically wake ourselves up before we hit the ground because our unconscious memory bank has no helpful images stored to handle the emotion in the dream. But others do dream of their own funeral or see themselves dead in the hospital. These dreams are rehearsals in fantasy for what is to come. 3.) The Inception crew can only escape from a multi-layered dream (dream within a dream, within a dream…) through a carefully engineered “kick” or that leg jerk that wakes us up when we are dream free falling. Why is the “kick” so common an experience in sleep? This is very common especially as we are falling asleep and the muscles relax. We often experience the need to resist that falling sensation and “save ourselves” by abruptly tightening the muscles again. This is called the hypnic jerk. It is a normal response and benign, except that we have to start over to fall asleep again and another hypnic jerk may happen again. 4.) Through a special machine the crew can enter one subject’s unconscious together. Is this something that people actually think could be possible? Has there ever been any record of people sharing dreams? Very occasionally identical twins who share so much common experience will have dreams that are very similar. Also people who share their waking experiences and tell each other about how they feel about it will have similar dreams on the same night. The next day one can finish the dream story the other is telling because they have had the same dream. None of this is magic or even science. We can know WHEN y
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We live in a culture that values speed; fast foods, fast cars, fast service, and fast decisions. All of this takes a toll. Fast food is blamed for the epidemic of obesity, fast cars for motor vehicle accidents, and the wish for fast service and decisions for an increase in the general level of frustration when we are inevitably put on hold. This “hurry up” lifestyle also has an impact on sleep – it has notably shortened the number of hours we as a society devote to it. When sleep experts speak to general audiences, one question they are often asked is, “How can I spend less time sleeping?” Those who ask this question tell us that sleep is a waste of time. Not only is that notion wrong, but the attitude behind it is largely responsible for the increase of several major public health problems. We now turn to those whose short number of sleep hours is troubling enough for them that they seek professional help. This is not the case for all short sleepers; some manage to live productive lives and make significant contributions to society. These are the ones who occupy the extreme left-hand tail of a normal distribution of average hours of sleep needed to feel rested. Most of us will fall in the middle of that curve, needing between 7 and 9 hours, with an average close to 8. Short sleepers average 5.5 hours. Very few people are truly physiologically and psychologically healthy with only 5 hours of sleep on a nightly basis. Those who, as adults, were 8-hour sleepers but can no longer get that much sleep are in trouble. Some cannot get to sleep without a prolonged struggle, while others get to sleep but wake repeatedly. Then there are those who wake too early and cannot get back to sleep. Insomnia is a useful model to test the contribution of sleep to keeping us healthy in mind and body. … What is the definition of “short sleep”? Sleep experts are reluctant to answer this question by giving a specific number of hours. As noted, there is just too much variability among individuals in the amount of sleep it takes for them to accomplish the “rest and restoration” functions of sleep. When we are getting “enough” sleep, we wake up feeling physically refreshed, in a reasonably good mood, and able to function well throughout the day without undue sleepiness. All of us experience a down time around mid-afternoon, called the “circadian dip,” or sometimes known by the more colorful name, “circadian slump.” This is when our internal body temperature drops, bringing on a natural tendency to feel sleepy enough for a midday siesta. If you can get through this without falling asleep at your desk or in your car and then feel all right for the rest of the day, your number of sleep hours is right for you. Another indicator of how much sleep is enough is the number of hours we sleep when sleep is unscheduled – that is, when we need not wake up at a set time, like on weekends and vacations. Since we tend to go to bed later under these ci
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By: Kelly Hoeckelberg-Young,
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I've mentioned it often ... my love of travel. Recently, and for various reasons, 'big' travel has not been able to grace our to-do list. When I start feeling antsy, but can't hop on the next flight to some wonderful destination, I look through pictures. This week, I have been enjoying Kauai. We traveled there in late 2007. Please join me on a quick photo-trip through the gorgeous island ... and be sure to play the video at the end! Rainbow east of Kiahuna Beach ... Our last night on the island, we were graced with this gorgeous sunset (taken in Po'ipu) ... Bottle Palm in the National Tropical Botanical Gardens ... Oh, to have a tree that looked like this one, located in the parking lot of the Botanical Gardens ... A stunning orchid in the Botanical Gardens ... A sky flower, also in the Botanical Gardens ...
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Blog: Watercolor Wednesdays (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap) JacketFlap tags: creating, dreaming, inspire, Add a tag Here is are my little characters Camille and Winston. I must tell you that I love creating characters. They live in my head until they are expressed through pen and ink and watercolor onto paper. Creating characters gives us a chance to express ourselves as well. Maybe relive your childhood through a character. Or create that person that you would like to be or someone that you remember from the past. It gives us the ability to play and dream! I encourage ALL of our WAWE members to really try to do this prompt. You never know what magic YOU will create that could possibly be the beginnings of a great story book, animation short, greeting card line, or even toy! And you don't know who or how you will inspire other members. he he he he! Happy creating!! V
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Thank you, Chicago Tribune, for the lovely review of The Hair of Zoe Fleefenbacher Goes to School! Blog: Picture Bookies Showcase (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap) JacketFlap tags: child, Ginger Nielson, fishing, dreaming, Father's Day, drifting, Add a tag Drifting and Dreaming of a day fishing with dad. Happy Father's Day
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Blog: Ginger Pixels (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap) JacketFlap tags: Ginger Nielson, fishing, dreaming, Father's Day, drifting, Add a tag ©Ginger Nielson 2009 Drifting off to dreams after a day of fishing with dad.
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By: April Henry,
on 11/13/2007
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I heart Scott Adams. I heard him speak in 1996, and he took one of my questions (calling me "the lady in red" and inscribed the book "To April (Scary Woman)" which I believe at the time was a compliment. |
I wish I could hear your talk at the conference. Will someone be making a video of it for you?
aaww…. no..no video. wish you could have come too.