The Atlantic
How to Sleep
Summary · 20+ min · · Not getting enough sleep can have serious consequences, but people’s lifestyles often show a worrying disregard for the human body’s natural wake/sleep patterns. In this informative and entertaining article, health media guru and senior editor at The Atlantic James Hamblin, MD, looks at people’s paradoxical relationship to sleep and explains the physical and mental effects of their attempts to meddle with their body’s natural rhythms. getAbstract recommends this article to anyone looking to understand what happens to the brain and body when sleep proves elusive. · Shared by 820, including Marco Unternaehrer, Simon Wüthrich, Beth Price Almeida, Jane, ⎝Stéphan Lam⎠💬, Scott Williams, @ShannaPeeples@mastodon.nl, Nils Hitze, Dez S. Papp, Harpreet Singh, Dominik Grolimund, Stowe Boyd, Jono Mallanyk, getAbstract, Helmi, Bernhard Huessy, Liv 😷, Florian Hanke 🍎, Brian Tomlinson ⚡️, Chris Messina
The Guardian
My life became immeasurably better when I stopped keeping my phone by my bed
3 min · · When I couldn’t sleep, I would turn to my mobile for a portal into another world. But there were definite downsides to scanning Instagram in the early hours · Shared by 22, including Sarah-Jayne Gratton, Liv 😷, Dean Anthony Gratton, Thomas Power