Pro Tips For Converting Your Busy Bedroom Into A Sleep Nest
Creating aesthetically-pleasing homes is essential, but it isn’t the only element of homemaking worth considering. Function matters too.
A bedroom, for instance, should be a place you go to get the shut-eye you need. If you find that you can’t sleep, it is not doing its job.
In this post, we’re going to look at some pro tips for transforming your busy bedroom into somewhere you de-stress and sleep like a log.
Install A White Noise Machine
Not everyone is in the fortunate position of being able to drift off to sleep in silence every night. The majority of people live in busy cities with sirens, traffic, and trains whirring around outside all night. It is the price you pay for a central location.
But that doesn’t mean you can’t fight back. You can!
A lot of people swear by white noise machines to drown out the sound of the city. These pieces of equipment emit frequencies that help to cancel out the distinctive incoming noises, helping you drift off into a deeper sleep.
Upgrade Your Old Mattresses
Old mattresses did the job, but they weren’t ideal. Many relied on thick, heavy coils to provide springiness. And relatively few offered internal air circulation to stop you from sweating like a hog all night.
Now, though, you can pop down to your local mattress store and get something far more high-tech. Many manufacturers, for instance, have found ways to combine the air circulating properties of coils with the comfort of memory foam. Others now make mattresses with reinforced edges and different zones to provide lumbar support.
Having the right mattress can make a big difference in the quality of your sleep. Researchers have found that people who use quality mattresses spend more time in the coveted REM state – allowing them to recover better after a hard day at work.
Use Blackout Curtains
Regular curtains might look good, but they’re probably not doing much for the quality of your sleep. Unfortunately, they let in too much light, which can wreak havoc with your body clock.
The human body is a carefully calibrated machine, designed to work in-sync with nature. You can leave somebody underground with no access to the external world for a year, and their sleep-wake cycle will remain roughly intact.
Many cities, however, are saturated with light pollution, and this can wreak havoc with this system. When streetlight hits your retina, it signals to your body that it is time to wake up, even if it is the middle of the night.
Blackout curtains are, therefore, essential for surviving in the modern world. They prevent artificial light from affecting your sleep patterns.
Don’t Do Work In Your Bedroom
Finally, you want to adjust your behaviors so that you get into the habit of treating your bedroom as somewhere that you use for sleep only. Way too many people sit up in bed, firing off emails on their laptops, before switching them off and getting shut-eye. But all these behaviors do is train your brain to feel alert in your bedroom – the opposite of what you want.
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