The Sleepscape: Issue 28
by Manta Sleep
Featuring a hand-picked selection of the internet’s best sleep tips, products and curiosities
The Sleepscape: Issue 28
by Manta Sleep
Featuring a hand-picked selection of the internet’s best sleep tips, products and curiosities
🤔 Questions that keep us awake… I don’t remember any of my dreams. Am I dreaming at all?
(Answer at the end of the issue.)
🤔 Questions that keep us awake… I don’t remember any of my dreams. Am I dreaming at all?
(Answer at the end of the issue.)
Actionable wisdom:
“If you regularly snore at night it can disrupt the quality of your sleep—leading to daytime fatigue, irritability, and increased health problems. And if your snoring keeps your partner awake, it can create major relationship problems too.”
😴 While we all experience occasional snoring from time to time, chronic snorers jeopardize their health in addition to causing sleep issues for those around them.
If you fall into the latter category, check out HelpGuide’s tips to stop snoring. They cover the reasons you snore and provide helpful solutions to ensure that you (and everyone in hearing range) will get a good night’s sleep. (And maybe give these a try.)
This week’s cool thing:
🎨 Some of us are born artists, some take years to develop the skill and some of us only dream about it.
And then there’s Londoner Lee Hadwin. Lee, a nurse by profession, has done hundreds of beautiful works of art — all in his sleep, with no recollection of creating them. He claims to have no creativity in the waking realm, yet when he turns in for the night, a sleepwalking Dalí arises.
Side note:
🌳 You’ve gotta see how a couple brought the outdoors indoors to create DevolutioN Park in their 27th-floor apartment in Xiamen, China. The 90-square-meter “parkpartment” features a winding trail, five benches and all the nature you would expect. Finally, an ant-free picnic.
💡Answer: Even though you may not be able to recall your dreams, it’s extremely likely you’re still having them — because from infancy, we dream for an average of two hours every night.
During REM sleep (the prime dreaming stage) your brain releases a dose of vasotocin, a forget-me-now chemical that cleans up after dreams and makes them difficult to recall. Use of alcohol or marijuana, prescription medications, sleep disorders, PTSD and other factors can also inhibit your ability to remember your dreams.
(Question at the top of the issue.)
💡Answer: Even though you may not be able to recall your dreams, it’s extremely likely you’re still having them — because from infancy, we dream for an average of two hours every night.
During REM sleep (the prime dreaming stage) your brain releases a dose of vasotocin, a forget-me-now chemical that cleans up after dreams and makes them difficult to recall. Use of alcohol or marijuana, prescription medications, sleep disorders, PTSD and other factors can also inhibit your ability to remember your dreams.
(Question at the top of the issue.)
Back matter:
As always, if you got something out of this email and know someone else who would too, we’d love it if you forwarded it to them.
And if you want to improve your sleep (or the sleep of someone you care about), all of our products are designed to do just that.
Finally, if you come across anything interesting this week, feel free to send it our way! We love sharing things that we find through readers of this newsletter.
Have a great week,
The Manta Sleep crew
“If you regularly snore at night it can disrupt the quality of your sleep—leading to daytime fatigue, irritability, and increased health problems.”
#sleep #actionablewisdom #mantasleep
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