{"id":227,"date":"2020-03-24T07:38:40","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T15:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/?p=227"},"modified":"2020-03-24T07:38:40","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T15:38:40","slug":"whats-the-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/24\/whats-the-purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s the purpose?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sometimes I have some strange nightmares. I used to think that maybe it was some telltale sign about my psychology or outlook on life or a premonition of what was to come. But I noticed I always woke up from my nightmares either too hot or needing to pee. So now I just think that I\u2019m waking up because I\u2019m either too hot or I need to pee. Nightmares are just the mechanism my body uses to wake me up. It helped me to ask, \u201cWhat\u2019s the purpose of a nightmare?\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also noticed that my nightmares are even stranger when I eat foods with MSG in them, or once when I took an anti-malarial medicine (Lariam, mefloquine) that mentioned possible side effects of nightmares. <br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I have some strange nightmares. I used to think that maybe it was some telltale sign about my psychology or outlook on life or a premonition of what was to come. But I noticed I always woke up from my nightmares either too hot or needing to pee. So now I just think that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/24\/whats-the-purpose\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What\u2019s the purpose?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions\/228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}