Sleep is a common human want, however there’s no common resolution to combating it.
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If you happen to inform 5 individuals you’ve got hassle sleeping, you’re prone to get recommendations for 5 gadgets which you could buy. “Sleep goes the way in which of different forms of buyable ‘wellness,’” my colleague Megan Garber wrote final yr.
As anybody who has tried sleep hacks or sleep devices is aware of, what works for you is a really private factor. Sleep is a common human want, however there’s no common resolution to combating it. And generally the issues behind unhealthy sleep can’t be solved by a masks or an app in any respect. At present’s publication explores sleep hacks, outdated and new, and the way they obtained so tied up in America’s client tradition.
On Sleep Instruments
Your Pillows Would possibly Be Killing Your Neck
By Olga Khazan
After waking up with a searing ache that radiates all the way down to my shoulders, I hunt for the offender.
Why Everybody Ought to Sleep Alone
By Mallika Rao
On the virtues of splitting up for the evening
The Protestant Sleep Ethic
By Megan Garber
A latest memoir considers how a lot we concede once we regard relaxation as a name to judgment.
Nonetheless Curious?
Different Diversions
P.S.
I lately requested readers to share a photograph of one thing that sparks their sense of awe on the earth. BD, 73, in Nederland, Colorado, despatched this picture of “watching lovely crows on a chilly winter day.”
I’ll proceed to characteristic your responses within the coming weeks.
— Isabel