A recent Business Week article reported that catching a nap at work is getting the go ahead in the traditional 9-5 workplace. Great news but the article didn’t really talk about those with a “non traditional” or shift work schedules–currently 20% of the American workforce. What about them? Shift Work Snapshot In terms of sleep [...]
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Society & Sleep
Last week, we pointed our Facebook fans to a Huffington Post article written by Dr Gayatri Devi, MD, about sleeping pills. The article generated some interesting comments, so I thought I’d jump into the conversation. The Good Sleeping pills have gotten a lot of flack, but would it be better if they just didn’t exist? [...]
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Valerian
This guest post is from Ryan Hurd of DreamStudies, a website & blog devoted to exploring and explaining various sleep phenomena. Here, Ryan discusses Sleep Paralysis, a temporary condition that can sometimes occur during the initial phases of sleep onset and wake. Sleep Paralysis is not yet a household word, despite the fact that 40% [...]
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Here are 32 of our favorite entries from the @Zeo ‘Send Me to Sleep’ Twitter Contest – we asked you: What Helps You Sleep At Night? Of the 1,200+ responses to our first big foray into the Twittersphere, we pulled out some of the responses that stood out – some based on style & others [...]
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Vacation
What do you think the sleepless states have in common? This map is from the results of a very interesting survey that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released last week. According to the survey, more than 1 in 10 Americans report insufficient sleep every night for the last month. That number is [...]
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As a follow up to Jason’s last post about Zeo’s adjustable snooze, we took an early peak into the Zeo Sleep Research Center’s database (which has over 10,000 individual nights of data) to see how much time people actually spend snoozing. Snoozing Your Way Out of Bed The graph from Jason’s post shows what snooze [...]
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Society & Sleep