If you're serious about remembering dreams, it's important to sleep well at night. While people dream during the first 4-6 hours of sleep, most of those dreams are associated with memory and repair. As sleep progresses, periods of REM (rapid eye movement) become longer, leading to more interesting dreams.
Get a dream journal
After dreaming in the REM stage, it's not uncommon to wake up and then fall back to sleep. Most people forget dreams during these short arousal periods and move on to another sleep cycle. If you wake up from a dream, do not open your eyes or move. Looking around the room or moving may distract you from the dream. Remember the dream as fully as you can. Then open your eyes and write down as much as you can remember before going back to sleep. If you're too tired to write down details, try to record important points and then flesh out the description after you wake up in the morning.
Be sure to keep a pen and paper on the night stand rather than in another room. If you have to leave the room to record dreams, chances are good you'll forget the dream or else lose motivation to record it as soon as you wake up.
If writing isn't your thing, record your dream using a tape recorder or your phone. Make sure to go back and listen to the recording, to see if it jogs your memory, allowing you to recall more detail.
Remind yourself to remember
For some people, the only tip needed to recall dreams is to tell yourself you can remember dreams and then remind yourself to do so. An easy way to do this is to write, "I can remember my dreams" on a sticky note, place it somewhere you'll see it before you go to sleep, and read the note aloud. Even if you've never remembered a dream before, believe that you can do it.
Get an anchor
Writing or some people, it's easier to remember dreams before opening their eyes. For others, I t helps to set a dream anchor. What's a dream anchor? It's an object you see right when you wake up that you choose to associate with your morning goal of remembering dreams. Rather than staring off into space, trying to remember a dream, look at the dream anchor. You don't have to focus on it—looking past or through it is fine. Possible objects could include a lamp, a candle, a glass, or a small object on the night stand.
Look Through a Window
It will take less effort to recollect dreams if you develop the power of observation. Look out a window and pretend it's a dream that you're observing. Describe the scene, including the colors and sounds. What season is it? Can you identify the plants that you see? What is the weather like? If there are people in your view, what are they doing? Do you see any wildlife? What emotions do you feel? You can write down your observations, record your voice, or draw a picture to capture the practice "dream". Over time, as you repeat this exercise, you'll gain an awareness of details you may have missed and it will become easier to describe the scene. Training yourself to observe the waking world will translate into improved skill describing dreams.
Everyone experiences an upset stomach at one point or another in their lives. Stomachaches may strike for so many reasons such as contaminated food to chronic disease. Also, the symptoms may vary depending upon the causes but some of the common signs of an upset stomach include stomach pain, headache and vomiting. You don’t need to look further than your kitchen because you’ll find the safest and best natural remedy for an upset stomach in there. Although, there are several over the counter medicines available in the market to treat the problem, but such medicines are not safe for a long-term usage. While on one hand, natural remedies do not cost you much, they are quite effective and pose no risk of side effects on the other hand. Just a small root of ginger is all you need to fix you stomach troubles.
Below are some top methods to use ginger to treat upset stomach and gas troubles
Raw ginger
Ginger has anti-inflammatory properties that neutralise stomach acids and increase the production of digestive juices. Hence, it helps you with the digestion process and eliminates the excess gas from the intestinal tract. Just peel off skin of a small ginger root and eat 1 gram of it on a regular basis.
Ginger juice
You can also take ginger in the juice form to treat upset stomach. Extract juice from ginger and add some sugar in a glass of warm water. Drink this mixture to get rid of flatulence and bloating.
Ginger tea
You can also chug on ginger tea, which is replenished with all other natural ingredients to treat an upset stomach. Stir ½ a spoon of ground ginger in 1 cup of hot water and steep it for 3-5 minutes. Strain the juice and add a little sugar or honey to it. Consume it twice daily to get relief from an upset stomach.
Sometimes, making little changes can make all the difference. If your weight-loss motivation is dwindling, you can come back stronger by making small changes in your diet, physical activities, and lifestyle. Little changes for weight loss are not just easy to make but also gives one time to develop or hone habits to keep weight in check for a long-run.
Small lifestyle changes for weight loss
Get a good night’s sleep
A study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine suggested that lack of sleep undermines your attempts to lose weight. Sleep deprivation increases hunger and reduces energy. It is advisable to get at least seven hours of sleep each night. It is advised to reduce the amount of caffeine and not be too active close to your sleep time. Make sure you go to bed at the same time each night.
Eat lean proteins:
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, eating lean cuts of meat and low-fat dairy products boost weight-loss efforts.
Walk more, take stairs
One of the easiest ways to add to weight-loss efforts is more physical activity. This doesn’t mean that you have to work out all day. Walking more is an easy way to add to physical activity. Walk whenever possible. Take the stairs at the office or at shopping malls.
Buy foods with caution
Pre-packaged foods have hidden saturated/trans fat and sugar in them. Therefore, read labels carefully and buy only if it fits right into your diet.
Keep track of calories:
Weight loss is more than a combination of right eating and physical activities. Keeping calorie count in check is extremely important. First, you need to ensure that you have to eat requisite calories for weight loss effort. Second, you need to make sure that you are burning more calories than you are consuming.
Eliminate fat foods
Try and eliminate fat foods from your diet and replace it with fat-burners. For example, you can eliminate cheese on your sandwiches, drink sugar-free coffee, drink fat-free milk and by adding salads to your meals.
Relaxation bath not just eases stress, but also helps one sleep well by inducing drowsiness.
Have a relaxation bath at night
Drink more water:
Drinking more water aids in weight loss, suggests a study published in Obesity journal. Filling your stomach with water makes one feel full, to make him/her less hungry and thereby, reducing calories. Moreover, it helps your metabolism run more efficiently.
If a are reluctant to follow a strict diet or exercise plan for losing extra weight, you can boost your weight-loss efforts by making little changes.
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