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New Research May Make You Wonder If Blue Light May Be Good For Sleep After All

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These days, it is customary for people to take mobile devices into the bedroom when turning in. They may check their social media, chat to friends or even watch a movie or tv show on their phone. The consensus is artificial light stops you getting to sleep at night. It is felt the blue glare keeps you awake. However, a study has reportedly cast doubt on this assumption, suggesting the issue may not lie with the shade of the light, but the type. According to researchers at Manchester University, it might not be the blue of the light disrupting your rest, but its warmth and brightness. In the course of their experiments, they showed a variety of light settings to laboratory mice, to see how they reacted. Although the study, which published its results in the Current Biology journal, has not been without criticism. It was designed to explore the long-held belief artificial blue light can affect a person’s sleeping pattern. So, researchers decided to expose their mice/ guinea pig...
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Hope You Had A Happy Festival Of Sleep Day

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We all know the festive season can be a crazy time of year. It can all feel like a blur. So, it’s hardly surprising that, just after New Year’s, one day is set aside for you to rest and recharge your batteries. Allowing you to catch your breath after the madness of Christmas and take some time out before the New Year begins. You know December 25th is Christmas Day and January 1st is New Year’s Day. But are you aware two days after, January 3rd, has been designated the Festival Of Sleep Day? A special, unofficial holiday, celebrating both the joy and therapeutic benefits of having a nice kip. It is a holiday which, on the face of it, is a zany, tongue in cheek event, extolling the virtues of getting some sleep. However, by handling a subject in a fun, light-hearted manner on the surface, you can address the more serious aspects underneath. Nobody seems to know who exactly thought of the holiday or how it started, but people celebrate the Festival Of Sleep Day in different ways...
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Get Ahead With A Headboard From Beds Glasgow

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Beds Glasgow offers customers the unique opportunity to create and design the bed they always wanted, at a price that won’t break the bank. You will be able to compile and construct your bed set to your specific needs and specifications, covering the various components. These include finding the perfect style and size of bed and mattress, as well as the right headboard, to prop up your bedroom. This versatile item is the perfect adornment to put the finishing touch on your bed product. It can be both attractive and functional at the same time. Offering the best support while laying down, sitting up in bed reading, working on your laptop or checking social media on your phone. A headboard is also ideal for keeping your bedroom warm in the wintertime and cool in the summer. As a matter of fact, it is often felt headboards were originally designed back in Ancient Egyptian times for that very purpose, to hold off draughts and keep people warm at night. During the medieval period,...
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Did Lack Of Sleep And Skipping Breakfast Cause Pilot To Pass Out At Controls?

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There have been times when we may not have had enough sleep the previous evening or skipped breakfast before going to work in the morning. However, there are some professions where not getting the proper sleep, or reporting in an empty stomach, sapping you of energy, could have disastrous consequences. The point was brought dramatically home recently when it was reported a trainee pilot in Australia had not slept the night before and had not had a proper breakfast, was unconscious for over half an hour, during a flight. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau, otherwise referred to as the ATSB, carried out a thorough investigation on the incident, involving a solo navigation flight departing from Parafield, near Adelaide to Port Augusta airport in South Australia. The pilot had been flying for approximately 40 minutes, at a height of around 5,500ft, when he suffered a headache and turned on the autopilot. According to reports, just after relinquishing manual control of the air...
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Are You A Light Or Heavy Sleeper? There May Be More To It Than That

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Do you fall asleep as soon as your head hits the pillow and it feels like it will take a twenty-one-gun salute to wake you up again, then you could consider yourself a heavy sleeper. However, on the other hand, if you toss and turn all night and the slightest creek on the floorboards will interrupt your rest, you could be called a light sleeper. Many people think they are either one or the other, it is as simple as that. It has recently come to light that, according to recent findings, there are far more different types of sleep than we thought. It turns out, along with being a light or heavy sleeper, there are seven further classifications of sleep, which may apply to you. For instance, you might be a Maverick sleeper, where you could have issues with your body clock and have trouble achieving a consistent sleep pattern. You may not be able to develop a sleep routine, which can keep you awake as you struggle to reach REM sleep. If you are an early bird sleeper,...
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Choose The Best Orthopaedic Mattresses Available From Beds Glasgow

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Are you on the lookout for a mattress providing firmer support, especially if experiencing problems with your back and joints? You could have a comfortable and aesthetically pleasing solution by choosing a beautiful orthopaedic mattress. They have been helping people with back pain since the fifties when manufacturers first understood the importance of orthopaedics. Beds Glasgow has always been on the front line of advances in the latest bed products. We boast an awe-inspiring selection of orthopaedic mattresses, which will not only assist those with joint and spinal issues but prove a stunning addition to the bedroom. You can count on us to deliver the most durable and dazzling mattresses, at a reasonable price. Just look at the incredible range we have on offer, at our superstore near Glasgow or on-line. There is the marvellous Mezzo Orthopaedic Mattress, containing a 13.5-gauge spring unit with steel rod edging for additional support. The hypo-allergenic mattress has layers...
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What Is Sleepwalking?

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Have you ever found yourself traipsing through the house in the middle of the night, with no memory of what you were doing or how you got there? It is possible you may have been one of the millions of people around the world partial to sleepwalking. A very common condition, but how much do we know about it? Sleepwalking, often otherwise referred to as noctambulism or somnambulism is a type of sleep disorder from the parasomnia family. A state where a person carries out tasks while being asleep and not completely awake at the same time. If you are among the scores of people in the UK who sleepwalk, it usually takes place during deep sleep, while experiencing low consciousness. Generally, you will sleepwalk through the slow-wave sleep stage of non-rapid eye movement sleep, also known as NREM. You will reach your peak at the beginning of the night, where you may start sleepwalking in the first few hours after falling asleep. This is when you can perform everyday activi...
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