I sleep with Matthew McConaughey. Yes, you read that right. That wonderful actor with the distinctive drawl and voice is my nightly bedtime companion. #SomethingLikeLife#sleep
Last comic before I go to a month-long sick leave to heal from my well-earned battle wounds! :D
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After CPAP #Recall, Philips Must Institute New Safeguards in Agreement With #DOJ
The settlement comes nearly 3 years after the company acknowledged that an industrial foam fitted inside its machines could degrade and release toxic substances into #patients' masks.
The first night with our first ever memory foam mattress from Nectar seems to have been a good one.
I woke up with next to no pain like I have been doing for a long time now. It wasn't a struggle to get out of bed due to the back pain either, which is very nice.
It is just day one, so we'll see how things go over the next week or two, but it was a decent nights sleep so far.
So I apparently sleep talk quite badly... From what I've been told. What I sleep talk about has nothing at all to do with what I dream about. What so ever.
Once I was told I shouted "Oh no! Are you okay?"... And more recently I was told I said "It's just you and me now Sam."... which just reminded me of lord of the rings.
Has anyone ever heard anyone sleep talk to themselves.
I am yet to find a sleeping coach application that takes my individual needs into account, and doesn’t feel like it’s trying to fit me into a generic box. I get it, Garmin, I need to learn how to sleep longer, but giving me this unrealistic goal that will probably happen once in my lifetime, is not going to make me more motivated to change. It feels like standard sleep research is all about punishing you with unattainable goals that someone just decided should be the average
Going to bed at night is time travel towards a morning cup of #tea. #Death is exactly the same except you can't tell if there is tea or not. Or a you. Or anything, really.
Sleeping fewer than seven hours is associated with a higher risk of developing high blood pressure over time, according to a new study.
While the association between #sleep patterns and #highbloodpressure has been reported, evidence about the nature of this relationship has been inconsistent, according to researchers.
I haz a new bed as of today, courtesy of friends. Even more than the attractive bedframe, with under-bed storage drawers yet, I treasure the gel-and-memory-foam mattress for promising the ol' CrankyBod<tm> a decent night's sleep for a change. We'll see how sleep goes tonight.
Check out this amazing stat on car crash prevention in the local paper (here in southeast New England, USA) re adjusting school start times so teenagers don't get up at 6:00 a.m.:
"A study…at the University of Minnesota in 2014 found that in Teton County, Wyoming, crashes involving students 16 to 18 years old…reduced by 70% when they changed their school start time from 7:35 a.m. to 8:55 a.m., the most drastic change among schools involved in the study."
Speaking of #sleep issues and "oversleep." A few years back there was a study that came out showing that increased sleep was linked to developing dementia.
Now, the media reported this as "Study finds sleeping too much causes dementia!" and a lot of people glommed on to that, because it confirmed their biases against rest and sleep.
But I read the main study at the time and in fact, it showed that not! getting enough! sleep! hastened dementia.
Call waiting lines are a different beast when you have IH - it becomes a fight between you and sleepiness, drizzled with salty hope that you can actually talk and understand what the call is about when you finally get there half an hour later...
World Sleep Day raises awareness about sleep-related issues. Most people with ME/CFS report sleep difficulties, and studies reveal correlations between poor sleep quality and reduced quality of life in ME/CFS.
Read more: https://www.meresearch.org.uk/world-sleep-day-2024/
It’s crazy how easilyr my sleep pattern gets derailed. Yesterday all it took was me falling asleep early enough that I woke at 2:30am and couldn’t get back to sleep.
I spent most of Monday in a weird zombie state. But in the evening I forced myself to stay up until I zonked around midnight.
I woke at 4:30 or so and felt fresh as a spring lamb. Still baffles me. Sleep irregularity is the norm in my experience.
Three or four years ago, I noticed a correlation between #alcohol consumption and very poor #sleep quality. I cut out beer and mixed drinks, limiting myself to sharing a single bottle of #wine with my wife once a week.
The effects of alcohol still plague me on those nights (typically Sundays, so Mondays I’m exhausted). The image on the left shows my heart rate over night after wine consumption, and the other screenshot is a fairly typical night when I didn’t have any wine. You can see how different they are.
I’m keeping a list of wines which don’t cause these issues, but that list so far is really short. Totally trial and error. I’m looking for more.
If anyone else has found strategies which help mitigate this issue, I’d love to hear what they are, aside from cutting out wine entirely. Thanks for any help!