Posted on 04/08/2017 9:09:24 AM PDT by Mariner
Sleep today is a measure of success, a skill to be cultivated and nourished. Credit- Tim Robinson
At M.I.T.’s Media Lab, the digital futurist playground, David Rose is investigating swaddling, bedtime stories and hammocks, as well as lavender oil and cocoons. Mr. Rose, a researcher, an inventor-entrepreneur and the author of “Enchanted Objects: Design, Human Desire and the Internet of Things,” and his colleagues have been road-testing weighted blankets to induce a swaddling sensation and listening to recordings of Icelandic fairy tales — all research into an ideal sleep environment that may culminate in a nap pod, or, as he said, “some new furniture form.”
“For me, it’s a swinging bed on a screened porch in northwestern Wisconsin,” he said. “You can hear the loons and the wind through the fir trees, and there’s the weight of 10 blankets on top of me because it’s a cold night. We’re trying a bunch of interventions.”
A product that measures air quality and other intangibles in your bedroom, and then suggests tweaks to help you sleep better.
Meanwhile, at the University of California, Berkeley, Matthew P. Walker, a professor of neuroscience and psychology and the director of the Sleep and Neuroimaging Laboratory there, is working on direct current stimulation as a cure for sleeplessness in the aging brain. Dr. Walker is also sifting through the millions of hours of human sleep data he has received from Sense, a delicately lovely polycarbonate globe designed to look like the National Stadium in Beijing that measures air quality and other intangibles in your bedroom, then suggests tweaks to help you sleep better.
“I’ve got a mission,” he said. “I want to reunite humanity with the sleep it is so bereft of.” Sense is the first product made by Hello Inc.,
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There's even folks that are not quite sure if they slept at all.
I have sympathy for all of them. I hear the numbers are increasing. But I cannot relate.
Absent unusual sound or light, once my head hits the pillow I'm completely unconscious for 7-9 hours. I think I learned to sleep on demand in the Navy.
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I sleep to get away from this.
LOL! :)
:-)
Study dogs.
They know how to sleep.
Sometimes, my dogs are so worn out from sleeping that they need to take a nap.
USN is great training for that and good coffee for wake up!
It sounds like you may have had a slice or two of the mid-watch coffee. :=)
MY problem is the dark eyes that make me look like I am walking dead.
My wife was recently naturalized and is now an American citizen, and I can't post one single picture of us together.
She is SO radiant and happy and my eyes almost disappear in a natural, Lone Ranger mask.
I think THAT is why they are advertising that magic chemical that takes the bags away right before your very eyes.
Bags under your eyes apparently are a money maker in America.
I also like sleeping in cold. If it were up to me, I'd keep the bedroom windows open all winter and just put on extra blankets. So long as I have a hot shower to jump into when I wake up!
At home I keep an eye dropper full of boiler fuel.
It’s necessary to add a drop to a hot, black cup of Joe to achieve the sheen on top.
‘Lest one wants to settle for regular coffee.
Me too
^^^Wins the internet^^^
Most of this crap would be completely laughable if it were not so pitiful.
Sleeping well is definitely important for health!
I turn my radio on low, tuned to NPR. I guarantee it will put you to sleep.
Our very way of sleeping these days is wrong. We should all go back to practicing “second sleep”.
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-16964783
http://www.sciencealert.com/humans-used-to-sleep-in-two-shifts-and-maybe-we-should-start-to-again
You can read them, too.
Ear plugs and an eye mask further assist, along with turning the thermostat lower.
Doing all of these things greatly increased our quality of sleep.
Weighted blankets? Just get some furbabies. They’ll weigh you down.
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