sleep

Residency is the time in a physician's life when he or she has graduated from medical school, but is not yet fully licensed. It can range from three years up to thirteen years (depending on specialty and subspecialty), and is often the most intensive time in a physician's life.  Read More »

There are sheep everywhere. Counting sheep, that is. TV commercials for mattresses have them, huge balloon’s shaped like sheep (accompanied by their counting number on the side!) are outside mattress stores, and just in case these new mattresses and good old sheep counting tactics don’t help you, there are over the counter sleeping pills to help you conk out.  Read More »

Usually take an afternoon nap from 12:00 to dinner time just because I have nothing to do. But recently I have noticed something very strange about waking up from these naps. About 75% of the time when I wake up I am in a complete panic; cold sweats, breathing hard, paranoia, completely scared of everything.  Read More »

Here's a frustrating situation I have. All of my best ideas, my most personally inspiring thoughts, come while I'm trying to go to sleep. Whether it's an excellent rebuttal for an argument I was having earlier that day, or just something that would make a good blog post, these ideas always come to me at the most inconvenient of times: while I'm about to doze off...  Read More »

I think it was the second semester of my sophomore year of college that I mastered the art of successfully pulling an all-nighter (or more than one—in a row.). I won’t go into that here, though. Purposely avoiding sleep is not the smartest thing in the world, and I won’t be responsible for making it easier for all of you to accomplish.  Read More »

I always find myself having weird dreams such as my family members turning into snakes and trying to eat me, or driving off of a cliff in a car full of clowns. But this dream was deffinately one of a kind and I'm pretty sure had its own little subliminal message.  Read More »

My eyes were still blurring from the impact the pillow had on them when my Resident assistant woke me up by lightly banging on my door. “Please take our survey to make dormitory life better for future residents.” She must have thought I was slow because I seriously did not process that fast enough to respond. I took the paper and sat down at my desk.  Read More »

“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart.... Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” -Carl Gustav Jung  Read More »