Ha! I am loving the idea of these glasses... but I'm not sure that I could stand the looks from my wife if I popped these on from the early evening until bedtime. LOL.Gumby wrote: If you look at the reviews, you'll notice that many of the users of these $8 glasses are experiencing some major melatonin surges. You put those babies on and before long you feel like turning in for the night without the usual cortisol interference.
Still, these look awesome and I think I'll definitely pick up a pair. If nothing else, I think it would make sense to wear them when I'm awake during my segmented sleep. Even though I keep the light very low, why not limit my exposure to the blue wavelengths? Thanks for the idea!
That sounds amazing. That schedule makes my wimpy little 30 minutes of early morning wakefulness sound kind of pitiful. The world has changed so much since the days where segmented sleep was universal. The road back to that level of segmented sleep can only be walked by the very determined. I will be sure to check out that TED talk!Gumby wrote:Jessa Gamble wrote:Well, it turns out that when people are living without any sort of artificial light at all, they sleep twice every night. They go to bed around 8:00 p.m. until midnight and then again, they sleep from about 2:00 a.m. until sunrise. And in-between, they have a couple of hours of sort of meditative quiet in bed. And during this time, there's a surge of prolactin, the likes of which a modern day never sees. The people in these studies report feeling so awake during the daytime, that they realize they're experiencing true wakefulness for the first time in their lives.
I completely agree. Tibetan Dream Yoga (a several thousand-year-old form of yoga that focuses primarily on lucid dreaming) emphasizes the concepts that your article describes so well. Thanks, BTW -- that's a short but excellent read.Benko wrote: Virtually all of us are 99% asleep because we are not present to our lives i.e. :
We spend a great deal of our mental energy being whipped back and forth by our emotions as if they were real things. Dream yoga teaches (correctly, IMO) that our emotions are nothing more than dreams. They have no form, and they begin and end entirely inside of our minds. If we are fooled into thinking that they are real, is it any surprise we are fooled into believing that our nighttime dreams are real?
In other words, the path to awareness in the nighttime is laid when we're aware in the daytime. As you point out, that's a rare thing in the modern age. Compounding this is the fact that the awareness-raising practice of segmented sleep has also fallen by the wayside.