5 Things You Shouldn’t Do When Your Sleep Gets Disrupted

As we’ve pointed out before, not being able to fall asleep easily isn’t the only manifestation of having poor sleep. If you get woken up in the middle of the night and find it difficult to fall back asleep again, that’s also a serious issue that will harm your health. This can rob you of getting enough restorative deep sleep and prevents you from making the most out of your slumber.

If you often gets woken up in the middle of the night, however, there are things that you can do to mitigate its negative effects. Keeping yourself from becoming fully awake is one of the most important ones. By pulling this off, you might just be able to learn how to go back to dreamland right away without denting your sleep cycle too much.

How do you do this? Here are a few things that you shouldn’t do to prevent waking yourself fully:

Don’t use your phone or any electronic screen.

The blue light in your gadgets will signal your brain that it’s time to wake up. So instead of being a useful tool in helping you get sleepy, it will do the opposite. So stay away from screens if you want to go back to sleep.

Don’t hold your pee in.

If you woke up because you’re feeling like you need to go to the bathroom, go ahead and do it. Holding it in will just keep you up all the more.

To avoid waking yourself up by turning on the lights, it would be nice to use nightlights in your hallways or install dim lights around the house for nighttime use. This way, you won’t be joted awake by bright lights when you need to go to the bathroom.

Don’t stress yourself out over the hours of sleep you’re missing.

This is one of the worst things that you can do when you want to go to sleep. If you keep fretting that you’re not asleep yet, your cortisol levels will rise and keep you awake. So, if you can find ways to keep your mind off from the fact that you are missing out on a good amount of sleep, you might have a better chance of catching some shuteye again.

Don’t stay awake in bed but also don’t do a high-energy activity.

Forcing yourself to fall asleep again is a common response when you woke up in the middle of the night. However, it would be best to get out of bed if you’ve realized that you’re having a hard time sleeping. Doing this will help you disassociate the bed from sleep difficulties which can help you sleep better later on.

Once you’re out of bed, you should make sure to avoid doing a high-energy activity. This will definitely wake you up and not tire you out and will make it harder to fall back asleep. Do something relaxing and calming instead to better ease yourself into sleep.

These are just a few things that you can do to keep yourself from sabotaging your own sleep. If nothing works, however, it might be best to see a doctor to get professional help.

Sleep Roundup: A Few Interesting Reads about Zzz’s to Start Your Week

Sleep may not seem like the most exciting activity but if you get to know it better, it’s actually very fascinating. There are so many different aspects of this body function that it shouldn’t be surprising that there are lots of interesting information about it. Even just related tidbits about it can be intriguing.

Just how fascinating sleep can be? We’ve rounded up some of the latest sleep-related reports to showcase this. Check them out below and see for yourself just how interesing sleep can be:

These luxury beds will let you sleep in a masterpiece.

British luxury bedmakers released a National Gallery Collection in early 2018 which features various artists’ works. Those who have always dreamt of sleeping on a work of art can have any piece owned by the National Gallery recreated into a bed through this collection. Now even one’s sleep can be high-brow.

“Nap bars” are now becoming a thing abroad.

With the general populace being so sleep deprived as of late, those in the sleep industry are coming up with new techniques to help people get some zzz’s. Quite a few mattress makers have set up their own “nap bars” or “pay-per-nap stores” which are basically just stores where you can book a pod where you can nap. You can also liken them to hotels, except you won’t really get a room to nap in and you’re charged by the hour. It’s quite an interesting concept, really.

If you’ve always found Bob Ross’ tutorials soothing and relaxing, this podcast series might just help you fall asleep.

A lot of people turn to podcasts nowadays to help them fall asleep. This is why some folks thought it might be helpful to convert Bob Ross’ shows into a podcast as to help people fall asleep more easily.

Sleeping with an electric fan on apparently comes with a few dangers.

Being from a tropical country, an electric fan is a necessary appliance to have in the bedroom. It turns out, other cultures find this to be dangerous. A lot of their arguments make sense but we don’t think we’ll be giving up our fans at home just yet.

While these articles won’t really help improve your zzz’s, they’re still quite entertaining and amusing. So, if you’ve always been curious about sleep, you’ll definitely find them good reads.