It’s difficult to be woken up during this stage — and if you do, you can expect to feel groggy and “out of it.” Typically, deep sleep occurs within an hour of falling asleep and you usually get more deep sleep during the earlier part of the night. (More on why that matters ...
Humans were created with the innate need to sleep, and babies are tiny humans. They will learn to settle and wind down at night, but turning on the light sends mixed signals. After their days and nights are straight you don’t want to do anything that will unnecessarily awaken them in ...
As light falls on a person’s eyes, a message is sent to their brain that stimulates production of cortisol, known as the energy hormone. Waking up to dawn simulation has also been proven to help keep a person’s internal body clock in sync. It helps to regulate our circadian rhythm, p...
Rags to riches is one of the most basic plot diagrams. A character starts in a bad place at the start and things get better and better. Here's how theplot pointswork in rags to riches: The exposition sets up the protagonist's generally negative situation in life. ...
To create suspense, set up a dramatic question. A dramatic question is something like, “Is he going to make it?” or, “Is she going to get the man of her dreams?” By putting your protagonist’s fate in doubt, you make the reader ask, what happens next? To do this well, you ...
Leaving the gym earlier, Gadot stopped to talk to a woman with long blonde hair who looked like she’d just woken up and was slowly getting her 10 minutes of cardio in before the real workout began. It was the newly slender Adele, whom I didn’t recognize until she let loose with ...
It has gotten to the point now where if I move to get up, he get’s up too. For example, he was sound asleep the other night, snoring and all. I got up to use the bath room. When I shifted to get out the bed, he shifted in my direction. When I got up, with eyes still ...
would be lying if I said every day I found plenty of time to spend with my interns and get my work done, as both could be a full-time job. But it’s those moments you don’t realize you’re affecting someone that makes the reward, days, months, or years later, so much sweeter....
to get acquainted with Yale University’s motto, “Lux et Veritas.” But few have had the bone-deep experience of poverty and struggle that can lead to a different kind of knowing—an awareness that there are things you can’t be taught in the Ivy League; that there are different lights...
Tyler: I was a beautiful little boy that lived in the woods of New England, New Hampshire. So I grew up in the woods listening to the wind. It was just the silence and Mother Nature, no one around—it was an awful lot of magic there. When I started smoking weed, in ’65, ’66...