@ThinkingRed in December 2020

@ThinkingRed 5 December 2020

Night Contacts While it's typically not advised to wear normal, soft contact lenses to sleep, night contacts are specially designed to be worn while sleeping to temporarily fix near-sightedness. They are specially prescribed by a doctor to correct the shape of your cornea (basically a soft part of your eye in front of your natural lens). To understand how this works, note that when people are nearsighted, it is due to their eyes not being able to focus light all the way to…

@ThinkingRed 12 December 2020

What is Sleep Paralysis? When we sleep, our bodies must shut down and literally paralyze our bodies. This is to avoid hurting ourselves or sleepwalking while we're dreaming in REM sleep. Of course, sometimes, our brain doesn't quite register the instant we're awake so if we're disturbed during REM sleep, there is a small chance that you may continue being paralyzed despite having regained consciousness, leading to a frightful period when we experience something like…