adenosine build up and practicing yoga nidra
I'm a regular/daily yoga Nidra practitioner. I know that Andrew practices Yoga Nidra daily. Now that I understand how adenosine builds up in our brain to induce sleep at the end of the day I am concerned that practicing Yoga Nidra in the afternoon would lower the levels of adenosine making falling asleep later in the day more difficult. I suffer from insomnia and although Yoga Nidra helps me get recharged I don't want it to interfere with my sleep.
An idea about dreaming
I've lost track of who said this "Dreams are real while you are in them" but combine this with Stanley Greenspan "emotion organizes experience and behavior" and Daniel Siegel "It has been proposed that the left prefrontal cortex plays a dominant role in encoding of episodic memory whereas the right prefrontal cortex is essential in episodic retrieval." Then, is it possible that yesterdays issues are combined along emotional lines with previous events of the same emotion from the retrieval side and "lived" in the dream into storage? Maybe that's how they are resolved?
Dr. Mithu Storoni-stress proof your life
More of a suggestion than a question…can you please consider interviewing this lovely lady? I’m not related or affiliated to her in any way. It just seems like an excellent match for your podcast! She has a book out and a new one coming out later in 2024. “Mithu Storoni is a University of Cambridge-trained medical doctor (MD), certified in Ophthalmology, and also holds a PhD in Neuro-ophthalmology.”