Sleep is essential to all because it helps our mind and body reenergize itself for tomorrow’s set of activities. While we are sleeping, there are several trouble shooters that work overtime to repair damaged cells, tissues and fine-tune our body systems. Having adequate sleep enables our mind and body to be in an optimal condition. [...]
CPAP devices are intended for the treatment of sleep apnoea, specifically obstructive sleep apnoea. This is a condition where, during sleep, the muscle and tissues around the windpipe in the throat lose tone and collapse causing an obstruction, or entirely blocking, the windpipe. This obviously causes a pause in the patient’s breathing, which continues for [...]
Lucidity is not the same as dream control. It is possible to be lucid and have little control over the dream. However, becoming lucid in a dream is likely to increase your ability to deliberately influence the events within the dream. With practice you may extend the amount of control that you have over dream [...]
Modafinil (Provigil, Alertec, Modavigil, Modalert, Modiodal, Modafinilo, Carim, Vigia) is an analeptic drug manufactured by Cephalon, and is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of narcolepsy, shift work sleep disorder, and excessive daytime sleepiness associated with obstructive sleep apnea. The European Medicines Agency has recommended that in Europe it [...]
There’s one very popular line that tells how snoring can isolate you from your employment and from the social scene. “Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone”- this more often than not, proves true for many individuals who have terrible experiences with snoring together with other breathing problems. Those who [...]
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a condition where both men and women experience repeated interruptions and stoppages in airflow during sleep that can range in duration from a few seconds to more than a minute. This causes the sleeper to choke, stir and wake up until normal breathing is restored, and this cycle may repeat [...]