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The Sleepscape: Issue 43
by Manta Sleep
Featuring a hand-picked selection of the internet’s best sleep tips, products and curiosities
The Sleepscape: Issue 43
by Manta Sleep
Featuring a hand-picked selection of the internet’s best sleep tips, products and curiosities
🤔 Questions that keep us awake… Why is yawning so contagious?
(Answer at the end of the issue.)
🤔 Questions that keep us awake… Why is yawning so contagious?
(Answer at the end of the issue.)
Actionable wisdom:
“Connecting with nature allows the stressed portions of your brain to relax. Positive hormones are released in the body. You feel less sad, angry and anxious. It helps to avoid stress and burnout, and aids in fighting depression and anxiety.”
The next time you’re feeling anxious, skip the candlelight bubble bath and head for the wildlands instead. Healing Forest shares the myriad ways the Japanese practice of shinrin-yoku — forest bathing — can ease the stress that’s keeping you awake at night. See how diving into nature will even lead to better relationships and overall social health.
This week’s cool thing:
🎮 Lack of motivation for meditation? Have the Headspace reminders become too easy to ignore? Maybe you just need a little more incentive: what if your daily efforts resulted in transforming a barren digital campsite into a lush, living woodland? The meditation game Playne could be just the thing to get you back on track.
Side note:
📼 If you were a child of the Nineties, trips to Blockbuster Video were the foundation of your weekend entertainment (we hope you remembered the Sour Jacks!). Grab your popcorn and relive the nostalgia: the world’s last functional Blockbuster is allowing a select few Airbnb customers the opportunity to spend the night curled on the couch with a few (hundred) great movies.
💡Answer: Yawning when you see someone else do it — even in a video — is a sign of empathy and bonding, according to a study by Baylor University. Scientists are still trying to understand exactly why yawning is so contagious, but it’s believed to have been a social cue in early humanity’s development to signal to others of the tribe that it’s time for sleep.
We’re not the only ones susceptible to sympathetic yawning — chimps and dogs do it, too!
(Question at the top of the issue.)
💡Answer: Yawning when you see someone else do it — even in a video — is a sign of empathy and bonding, according to a study by Baylor University. Scientists are still trying to understand exactly why yawning is so contagious, but it’s believed to have been a social cue in early humanity’s development to signal to others of the tribe that it’s time for sleep.
We’re not the only ones susceptible to sympathetic yawning — chimps and dogs do it, too!
(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
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