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How your mattress affects your sleep

We all know the feeling of sleepless nights spent tossing, turning and the exhausted mornings that follow but did you know that sleeping on the right mattress can really help to alleviate these horrible problems and remind you what it feels like to be truly rested? It is now commonly known that mattresses...

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Scared of the dark

Remember when you were young and you had a night light? Most of us did, the dark is something that many young children fear. It is the unknown, the potential for anything to be lurking in those inky shadows, which frightens young children. Fortunately as we grow older we lose that fear and can sleep...

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Use of technology before sleep

If you are like most people, your bedside table will have been gathering technological devices as well as their associated chargers and stands so that it now looks somewhat like a control desk at NASA! Back in the good old days most people had a glass of water and a book on there, but now we all seem...

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Is sleep learning possible

For many years there has been the idea that people are able to learn when they are asleep. There are apocryphal stories, urban legends, of people who have fallen asleep listening to some educational recording only to wake up later having memorised it. These examples have never been replicated in a...

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Take a sleepcation

Ok, so you have been working pretty hard out for ages, burning the candle at both ends, and you feel exhausted, worn out and at your wits end? Well, maybe it is time you took a sleepcation. A what, you may ask? A sleepcation is a vacation where you sleep, but it is not just an ordinary holiday with...

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The optimal time to head to bed

Many people who struggle to sleep want to know what the best time to go to bed is. However, there is not a specific time, say 10.25, that you should go to bed but rather it is more important to keep to a consistent time. What this means is that it is more important to go to bed at the same time every...

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Undo your stress and sleep

Sleep as we all know, is vital to our lives. Even one bad night of sleep can lead to a horrible day the next day, and if you are constantly having issues with falling or staying asleep then it can start to have long term serious physical and mental consequences  which can range from obvious problems...

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What not to do before bed

Here are five things to NOT do before bed: 1.Don’t take the wrong pills just before bed, while a stuffy nose keeps sleep at bay, so does pseudoephedrine, the main ingredient in many OTC decongestants. Pseudoephedrine has been known to cause insomnia. Instead use a decongestant formulated specifically...

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Five signs you need more sleep

You probably already know why you need more sleep, especially if you have just become a parent! However, for those who mightn’t be sure if they are getting enough sleep here are five signs that you are not: 1.You are always hungry. Yes, constant hunger is a sign of not getting enough sleep....

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Women suffer from sleep apnea too

For some reason there is a prevailing idea that sleep apnea is largely a male problem, that could be caused in part because men are more commonly accused of snoring than women. However, the reality is that women suffer from sleep apnea. Sleep apnea affects a wide number of people, including young...

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To sleep or not to sleep

Often one common theme in the story of successful people is that they have sacrificed sleep for success, that they have either gone without a full night’s sleep or even skipped sleep on a regular basis throughout their career to get to where they are, this runs counter to much of what we hear...

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The impact of sleep deficit

We have all felt it at some point, whether it is just a bad night’s sleep, or no night’s sleep, or a week of insufficient sleep. Sleep deficit gets us all at some point. Most of us will shrug it off and get back to sleeping well, but some people will stay in deficit for long periods of...

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