It is a general analysis that sleeping naked is not only good for the body, but is also very good for the health. Researches have shown that when people sleep naked, it improves the quality of life in people as well as the lifespan. It is very beneficial for the bodily comfort in every way.
Dozing off at work can be an embarrassing experience. It can also create a bad impression about you at work. A recent study on US office workers found that 30% were sleep deprived. You can think up a bizarre excuse, try the following list of 16 things you can do to avoid snoozing at office.
Last week we highlighted some techniques to help you stay awake at work. But that doesn’t mean taking a nap at work is a bad idea.
More and more companies are allowing their employees to reap the benefits of power naps. Google does it, Nike does it and even British Airways has allowed pilots to take short naps during flights. So why can’t your boss let you catch a few winks at work?
Power naps are a form of a short sleep that ends before the beginning of deep sleep or slow wave sleep. Power naps have been proven to restore your mental agility and performance. Many interesting studies have been done on power naps and here are some of their findings. If you are yet to try power naps, this is a good time to start.
Here is a scenario; a person hears a noise in the middle of the night, and wakes up. The person tries to move, but realizes that the body is paralyzed. While in bed, the person is completely conscious, and realizes that weird things are going on around. The person has woken up into the ‘dream world’. This may sound like the scene of a horror movie, starring Lili Taylor. It is a typical description of a true medical condition called “sleep paralysis”.
It is a strange phenomenon in which people find themselves awake in a dream for a second or may be a minute, and often experience scary hallucinations.
People have one common misconception about sleep, and hardly believe that there are stages of sleep. It is believed that sleep is just when the body “turns off” for some hours, and then “turns back on”. Sleep is looked at as a reflexive and constant process. That is certainly not the case. Sleep is a genuinely active state. Apart from the body constantly moving while asleep, the brain activity is much more varied than the normal “awake” state.
Insomnia is can be a pain itself. Not getting enough sleep makes you irritable and often the things you hate seem worse. It is what exactly sleep researches found, when they tested sleep loss with the ability to feel pain.
Sometimes we wish our dreams took place in real life. While most of us experiences dreaming in a manner similar to watching a movie, some people ‘act out’ their dreams while still fast asleep.
Dreaming has always fascinated the human mind. Throughout history dreams have played an important role both in culture and politics. Stories about dreams as prophecies are found on all main religions. Even today, we are curious about our dreams.
A sleep study usually becomes necessary when a person observes that they are suffering from common sleep disorder like symptoms and they want to receive a proper diagnosis for their mysterious symptoms. Sleep tests measure vital statistics — things like breathing, heart rate, possible sleep disturbances, brain waves and more, so that accurate data may be compiled and a definitive conclusion may be determined.
Do I really have to break my new mattress in?
The short answer to this one is definitely a ‘yes’. All mattresses, regardless of type will need to undergo an initial period of what has come to be known as ‘breaking in’. Many people receive a surprise when their new mattress is finally in pride of place on the bed, only to find it doesn’t feel anywhere near as good as the one they tried in the store. The mattress in the store will likely have been there for a while and have had lots of people to lay on it to try it out. This means it is already broken in. Yours isn’t.
The sleep position which we choose, or which our body tends to choose, is very important to our quality of sleep as well as how we feel in the morning.
But which sleep position is best for the most regenerative sleep?
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