The Dark Thing Beside You: Night Hags and Sleep Paralysis
In The Book of Nightmares, helplessness must often appear--how terrifying to be aware and immobilized, lying entombed below ground as the earth thuds on your wooden coffin roof, unable to speak or...
View ArticleHow To Fall Asleep: A Step-By-Step Guide
You're not supposed to take your laptop into bed with you at night, so compromise by bringing a book or a magazine in addition to your laptop this time. At some hazy, ill-defined point, decide you are...
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Women Trying To Sleep Unsuccessfully In Western Art History
okay rule A, don't take off her cloak when she's sleeping rule B, don't touch her hair when she's sleeping i don't care how asleep they are, don't bend over them and stare directly at their vaginas no...
View ArticleNight Terrors: On Sleep and Anxiety
I had my first recurring nightmares in preschool. They involved the witch from Disney’s Snow White waiting to snatch me in my laundry room. Sleep is a major mindfuck for most children. I was convinced...
View Article“Snoring Through Midnight”: Nights at the Sleep Clinic
Marissa Maciel's previous work for The Toast can be found here. After I graduated from college, a newly minted, twenty year-old psychology major, I worked at a sleep disorder clinic. The job put me in...
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Men Sleeping Quietly And Not Talking Or Bothering Anyone In Western Art History
shh nobody move don't wake him up he's conquistasnoring aww look look at how pretty his mouth is when he doesn't use it for talking Read more Men Sleeping Quietly And Not Talking Or Bothering Anyone...
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How About Quit Telling Me How Long To Nap For
Pretty sick of hearing from science exactly how long a nap should be. Are you coming over to nudge me out of this bed at exactly 4:47 before I cascade into a REM whirlpool, my friends? Because if not...
View ArticleWhat Your Napping Style Says About You: The Afternoon Despair Quadrant
Fell asleep while it was still light out, woke up while it was still light out: You are an effortlessly perfect person. You do things like read in magazines that it's optimally healthy to drink a small...
View ArticleDante Gabriel Rossetti’s “Jenny”
[Originally.] Oh my God, Jenny, you're such a mystery You like money and making out both, which is wild. Just straight-up nuts. You're asleep, almost as if you were tired or something. Maybe tired from...
View ArticleGuess How Fast I Clicked On “Ring the Bell for Matins: Circadian Adaptation...
AS FAST AS CLICKING CAN HAPPEN. Read more Guess How Fast I Clicked On “Ring the Bell for Matins: Circadian Adaptation to Split Sleep by Cloistered Monks and Nuns” at The Toast.
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