When you’re asleep, you can seem completely dead to the world. But when you wake up, in an instant you can be up and at ‘em. How does the brain turn on awareness or consciousness? This question has ...

To intend is to imagine and design desired futures. Intention can play a significant role in the creation of synchronicities. In this post, we weave together the prefrontal cortex, reticular ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When you wake up in the morning, it might feel like your brain just switched on at the ring of an ...

Ever feel like you’re in a rut? You can blame the reticular activating system (RAS) in your brain. The pastor and author Craig Groeschel writes about the idea in his book called Winning the War in ...

When you’re asleep, you can seem completely dead to the world. But when you wake up, in an instant you can be up and at ’em. How does the brain turn on awareness or consciousness? This question has ...

Dr. Marusak is funded, in part, by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health. Aneesh Hehr does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that ...