I slept like a baby this past Memorial Day weekend.
Why? I took my family to visit my parents at their rural home. Far from the ambient lights and sounds of the city, my brain was actually struck by the absence of senses once we got to bed. I had stumbled into the textbook sleeping environment.
Falling asleep and staying asleep is a sensitive process. As summer brings its longer days and warmer weather, here are some basics worth nailing to improve your sleep:
Keep your bedroom cool
- Your body's core temperature drops as you approach sleep (and the decline helps initiate sleep)
- Encourage that process by being in an environment that allows your body to effectively give off heat
- Personal note: I have experimented a lot here and found that cooling the room a couple hours before bedtime is especially helpful so that the bed itself is cool and not just the air around it
Make your room dark (or wear an eye mask)
Reduce noise (or wear earplugs)
- Noise can increase the time it takes to fall asleep and also interrupt sleep with awakenings, reducing sleep quality
- This is a hard thing to control environmentally, and many people choose to combat environmental noise with ambient noise to make it less pronounced. We recommend comfortable earplugs in that situation to reduce overall noise levels
Sometimes we need a little external nudge to take care of the basics. There's nothing Sonnet pairs better with than a cold, dark, quiet room to give you the best sleep of your life.
- Tom from Sonnet
