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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7 Sleep Tips For Night Shift Workers
Does your job entail working difficult shifts? Do you work nights, or have changing shift patterns from week to week? I know from personal experience that it can be very …
What Makes A Good Bedtime Routine For Children?
As you might already know, young children’s sleep problems are a common worry for parents. Whether it’s resisting going to bed, having nighttime fears, or continually waking in the night, …
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 …
What’s The Best Bedroom Color For Sleep?
How does the current color scheme of your bedroom make you feel when you slide into bed at the end of a long day? Do you find your eyes relax when …
How Do You Know You Slept Well? 4 Indicators Of Good Sleep
Sometimes you just know you’ve slept badly, and that it’s going to be a tougher day than usual. Other days, you might wake up with the feeling you didn’t sleep …
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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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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy For Insomnia & Your Online Options
The promise of falling asleep faster, reducing the time you’re awake in the night, and sleeping for longer would appeal to most people with insomnia. And if you can achieve …
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Short Sleepers: Why Some People Need Less Sleep
In our increasingly hectic and digitally connected world, many people regularly sleep for less than 6 hours per night. Personally, I prefer to sleep for at least 7 hours, but for various …
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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Why We Sleep And The Benefits Sleep Brings
Every night, billions of people climb into bed, close their eyes and leave the day behind them. Even the animal kingdom joins us in this mass exodus from consciousness. In …
How Do Sleep Trackers Work And Are They Reliable?
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?
Do you find yourself avoiding being in darkness? Do you sweat, shake, feel anxious or ill at the mere thought of the lights going out at night? If so, it …
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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 Adjusting Your Body Clock In Advance
Does it take you several days to adjust to a new time zone after a long flight? Do you wake up ridiculously early, or struggle to sleep when it still …
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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 …