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How I Achieved Better Sleep With The Help Of Technology Despite our best efforts, we’re not always able to get a full night’s rest. If you can’t just fix your sleep problems, a quick nap might do the trick — but only if you time it just right.
Wrapping newborns to sleep often makes them feel settled, but if you wrap them too tightly it can lead to hip damage. The Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne has produced a video outlining the correct way to wrap a child to eliminate that risk.
It’s not news that sleep is tied to learning — even a 90-minute nap can significantly help boost your brain power. If you want to cement new knowledge in your brain, recent sleep research demonstrates that a good night’s sleep following your studies has a significant impact on your ability to retain information.
iOS: Ideally, you wouldn’t need to hit snooze, and you’d jump right out of bed as soon as your alarm went off. For those of us who need those extra five minutes, Wave Alarm is an alarm clock for iOS devices that looks great, wakes you on time, and lets you effectively “hit” the snooze button by waving your hand over your iPhone’s front-facing camera.
OS X: If you’ve wanted to start using sleep technology to help you get a better night’s rest but have been deterred by the cost, you’ll want to give Wake Up Light a look. It’s a standard alarm, but instead of waking you up with sound it simulates a sunrise on your computer screen.
We’ve looked extensively at apps designed to improve your sleep patterns, but there’s always a lingering question: can the data from the apps be trusted? Writing at open academic site The Conversation, University of Western Australia software expert David Glance suggests the answer is “yes”.
Dear Lifehacker, Every now and then I have to work really late on a project and end up sleeping pretty poorly or not at all and then I’m afraid I look like one of the living dead the next day. When people comment that I look tired, I feel self-conscious about the bags and dark circles under my eyes and everything else about my appearance. Is there something I can do to not look like crap after a bad night of sleep?
No matter how carefully you plan and schedule your sleep, you’re bound to have a night of bad sleep now and again. To help recover, Health Magazine recommends a technique called paradoxical relaxation to trick your brain into thinking you took a nap.
The notion that eight hours sleep is essential to health is widely repeated, but — as we’ve noted before — fails to take into account that individual requirements vary. Something else you probably didn’t know: the idea that we need a long continuous period of sleep is a relatively modern innovation.
When you’re lying in bed trying desperately to fall asleep, your mind may seem like your worst enemy, keeping you awake. If you keep your mind focused, however, you may fall asleep faster. Redditor JarlOfBacon suggests counting the Fibonacci sequence.
