10 Ways To Keep Your Bed Warm In Winter
The good news is that it’s much easier to warm your bed than to cool it. To start with, your body naturally creates a lot of heat. And while that …
Tips For Sleeping Better On A Plane
Unless you’re blessed with the rare ability to sleep anywhere, the chances are you’ll have difficulty sleeping well on a plane. As a frequent flyer, and being very tall, I …
Fitbit’s New Sleep Tracking: Testing The Alta HR
The original article In 2017, Fitbit made some major changes to its sleep tracking. The Charge 2 HR, Blaze, Alta HR and Ionic now provide sleep stage tracking, better sleep …
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BedJet V2 Review
The BedJet promises to both cool or warm your bed as the seasons and your temperature needs change. I normally use a simple bed fan in the summer, and my …
How Sleeping In Separate Bedrooms Improved Our Sleep
A while back, my partner and I came to the conclusion that sleeping well alone was better than sleeping badly together. It’s an admittedly unorthodox approach to sleep, but it’s …
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Do You Learn Better By Studying Late Or Sleeping?
Studying for exams, preparing for interviews, work presentations – sometimes there just aren’t enough hours in the day to get all that information to stay in your head. With so much …
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10 Plants That Might Help You Sleep
Do you keep any plants in your bedroom, adding a touch of natural color and beauty? My personal favorite is a trailing spider plant that sits by the window. It’s …
Full Moon Insomnia: Does The Moon Affect Your Sleep?
Can you remember how well you slept the last time there was a full moon? Do you feel that when the moon shines brightest, things just don’t seem quite right? …
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Gifts For Insomniacs – 10 Great Sleep Gifts
As an insomniac myself, I’m always happy to receive a gift that upgrades my bed or helps improve my sleep in some way. I mean, I love chocolates and the latest …
The Best Wake-Up Lights To Help You Wake Up Gently
A wake-up light is a great way to make getting up in the morning an easier and more pleasant experience. If you’re not a fan of loud alarms, or you …
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10 Sleep Deprivation Experiments
Sleep deprivation is a fascinating topic, spawning a wide range of research and experimentation over the years. Many of the experiments were rigorously scientific. But there have also been some …
Sleep Deprivation: What Happens When You Don’t Sleep?
How often do you feel you get enough good quality sleep at night – sometimes, almost never? And if consecutive days of sleep deprivation stack up, do your mood and …
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My Top 10 Tips For Insomnia
I’ve spent more than 20 years coping with insomnia. Fortunately, it’s nowhere near as severe today as it once was. Even though I still have the occasional bad night, I …
Why You Can’t Sleep Well On The First Night In A New Place
If you sleep away from home, do you struggle to fall asleep as easily as you might do in your own bed? And even if you do get some shuteye, …
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How Much Sleep Do You Need? Calculate The Ideal Amount
The exact amount of sleep you need differs from person to person. And several factors all play an important role in determining how much sleep you’ll need to be at …
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How Do Sleep Trackers Work And Are They Reliable Enough?
You spend around a third of your life asleep, with the amount and quality of sleep having a huge impact on the rest of your life. So it’s natural to …
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How Alcohol Affects Your Sleep
Does an alcoholic drink help you sleep better during periods of insomnia, or when life seems particularly stressful? Perhaps you just enjoy a quiet drink at the end of a …
Fear Of The Dark Phobia: Is It Keeping You Awake?
When I was 13 years old, my parents bought a rundown old house in the middle of the English countryside in Somerset. It was a beautiful house that just needed …
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False Awakening: Dreaming About Waking Up
Have you ever had a dream in which you think you’ve woken up, only to then wake up later for real? Perhaps you even got out of bed, started your …
The Best Cooling Mattress Pads & Bed Fans For Hot Nights
It’s not easy to sleep when you can feel your sweat tickling your skin as it rolls off you in the fabric sauna your bedroom has morphed into. Keeping your …
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The 5 Most Comfortable Mattress Toppers
Using a mattress topper is an effective way to improve your bed, and is usually much less expensive than replacing the original mattress. If you need to breathe new life …
How To Choose A Mattress Topper
Replacing your mattress can be very expensive, so a mattress topper is a great way to revitalize or change the style of your bed instead. With some careful research, the …
Mindfulness Exercises To Help You Sleep
Do you sometimes struggle to sleep because you lie awake thinking about work, family, health, money or relationships, and just can’t find an ‘off button’ for your mind? Maybe you …
Rescue Remedy Review – It Didn’t Work For me
Bach’s Rescue Remedy is an unusual alternative medicine and in some ways a controversial one. It’s widely used around the world, yet has no scientific evidence that it’s any better …
How To Avoid Jet Lag By Planning Ahead
Does it take you several days to adjust to a new time zone after a long flight? Do you spend a day or two waking up ridiculously early, or struggle …
Can Sleep Help You Solve Problems?
Have you ever gone to sleep pondering over a problem you just can’t solve? And when you wake up, you mysteriously feel that you have the answer? And when you’re …
Confusional Arousals (Sleep Drunkenness)
If you’ve ever experienced confusional arousals, you may have done something as equally strange as what I’m about to describe. Two weeks ago, I woke up in the middle of …
Sominex Herbal Review
Sominex Herbal is an over the counter sleeping tablet that’s made and sold in the UK. Note that there are two types of Sominex – you can read about my …
The Best Air Mattress For Guests And Camping
Have you ever experienced a bad night’s sleep because you had to keep pumping air back into your mysteriously deflating air mattress? Fortunately, you can now find reliable air beds made …
How To Keep Cool At Night: 15 Ways To Beat The Heat
Feeling too warm in bed can trigger an uncomfortably sweaty night of wondering when we’re going to address climate change. Not only is it unpleasant lying in bed feeling like …
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