[The Medici Effect](http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=RNiFM9br5PwC&pg=PP1&dq=medici+effect&ei=MVk-R6_SH6butAPY5vmvAg&sig=13bKqiqAfZLPqqZ03IVms35d9Ck) tipped me off to the benefit of [reading magazines from other fields during plane flights](http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=RNiFM9br5PwC&pg=PP1&dq=flight&ei=MVk-R6_SH6butAPY5vmvAg&sig=13bKqiqAfZLPqqZ03IVms35d9Ck#PPA86,M1). Several things I picked up from an issue of Psychology Today picked up for my plane trip yesterday (not online so I can’t link to it directly):<\/p>\n
* Dreams may be a way for our minds to [practice important situations before we encounter them in real life](http:\/\/www.bbsonline.org\/Preprints\/OldArchive\/bbs.revonsuo.html). Ever wonder why you have so many scary dreams?<\/p>\n
* Simply thinking faster [makes us feel happier and more creative](http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2006\/09\/060926171045.htm), no matter what we are thinking about.<\/p>\n
* Jasmine scent can make us sleep better.<\/p>\n
* [Yawning cools the brain](http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2007\/06\/070621161826.htm) to help us think better, and its contagious nature could be linked to better group survival when everyone did it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
[The Medici Effect](http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=RNiFM9br5PwC&pg=PP1&dq=medici+effect&ei=MVk-R6_SH6butAPY5vmvAg&sig=13bKqiqAfZLPqqZ03IVms35d9Ck) tipped me off to the benefit of [reading magazines from other fields during plane flights](http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=RNiFM9br5PwC&pg=PP1&dq=flight&ei=MVk-R6_SH6butAPY5vmvAg&sig=13bKqiqAfZLPqqZ03IVms35d9Ck#PPA86,M1). Several things I picked up from an issue of Psychology Today picked up for my plane trip yesterday (not online so I can’t link to it directly): * Dreams may be a way for our minds to…more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-Ac","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}