Posted by Ryan Baldwin on
Posted by Ryan Baldwin on
Have you ever woken during your slumber to find yourself paralyzed, unable to move or talk, seeing things that are not there and riddled with an overwhelming fear of supernatural suffocation? If you have experienced an episode similar to this, you are within the 8% of the population that experience Sleep Paralysis. Sleep paralysis, also known as “the worst thing ever”, is defined as “being unable to move during awakening” (Sharpless, 2016. "A clinician's guide to recurrent isolated sleep paralysis"). The condition is a type of parasomnia caused by a dysfunctional overlap of waking sleep stages and REM...
Posted by Chris Rittmeester on
Why do you get sleepy after eating a big meal? The Gold Coast has great restaurants that you can visit, and you can always get some really good meals here. But the reality is that whenever you have a big meal, you always end up getting rather sleepy. That does bring a question, why do we end up being sleepy when we eat well? It all comes down to our metabolism. Our metabolic process transforms the caloric intake into energy. But if we don’t use that energy, we end up having a metabolic problem. Another similar issue happens when you...
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