Snore no more with Nora

Of course you want your beloved bedmate to have blissful night’s sleep. But when that means interrupting yours with their abhorrent snoring? Less so. (She’s only smiling ’cause them dreamless evenings got her daydreaming about putting an eternal end to his noise.) Fear not, my fellow sufferers of constant, nocturnal, auditory assault imparted by your […]

Are your nightly hygiene habits the reason you can’t sleep?

It doesn’t make any sense. Here, I’m half asleep on the sofa after a soporific supper and cup of chamomile. Yet, not five minutes into scouring down my mug and molars in the bathroom, I’m ready to go for a night run. What gives? I was literally as alert as a roofie’d coed moments ago. […]

Huffington bed post: Ariana’s musings on snoozing

Why has nobody brought this to my attention? I can’t believe I’ve been writing for a sleep site for this long sans swinging the spotlight onto America’s queen of GTF-to-sleep-ery. Ariana Effing Huffington. For those of you who have zero point zero idea what I’m talking about, Ari (that’s my nickname for her; I feel […]

Symptoms of sleep deprivation: Runaway “feelz”

Rockin a serious case of 25/8 PMS? Losing friends? ‘roiding out? Got folks blow darting you from afar with tranquilizers? It might be a sign you’re just burning the candle at both ends. (And then upgrading from a candle to a blowtorch. Which you use to decimate all’a your relationships.) If you find yourself having […]

Symptoms of sleep deprivation: icky skin

Gotta bit of a grey pallor this morning? Yes, some days I’ll wake up to a particularly dismal looking dermis myself. It’s tough to describe – but something’s just off about it. Like one of the post mortem Death Becomes Her chicks who skipped their latest spray job to conceal their decaying faces. This might […]

What did we learn from the Russian Sleep Experiment?

Anyone here ever hear of the… Russian Sleep Experiment? *Shines flashlight creepily upward under chin* Oooh… mystery mists that drive you crazy? Getting possessed by the sleep deprivation devil? Unfortunately, now that I’ve gotten you all excited, I also have to be the one to tell you: It ain’t true. Yep. It’s a myth. A […]