So. Sleep. I have been attentive to it since I started getting migraines since lack of sleep is a significant trigger for them. (And migraines do encourage one to consider alternate ways of spending one's time.)
I track mine (I use Sleep Cycle as an app) and am currently averaging around 7:45, which is better but I'm trying to nudge it up a bit (since when I let myself sleep in on weekends, I'm fairly regularly sleeping 9-10 hours, which suggests there is not enough during the week.)
I am very picky about the actual bed. I have a thing where sleeping on white sheets is Weird (hotels are very hard) and have had a set up for about the past decade which involves:
- dark blue and green flannel bedding (fitted sheet, comforter cover, pillow cases)
- a wool mattress pad and the recent addition of a wool comforter (which I adore: if you have heat regulation issues when you sleep, I've found wool helps a lot: it breathes and reduces heat when there's too much in a way synthetics don't.)
- a large U shaped body pillow (the U shape is handy because I am less likely to hurl it off the bed in the middle of the night)
- a memory foam pillow
- and a buckwheat pillow on top of that. (I have very broad shoulders and am a side sleeper, so a lot of this is angling issues.)
And then I try hard to get the bedroom down to a reasonable temp. I'd love 68, but my apartment runs hot in the winter (I have not had the heat on in a month at all, and it hasn't gotten below 70)
Also one cat, usually taking up the bottom centre third of the bed or sometimes the bottom right or left corner. (Very occasionally other locations. When I need Extra Supervision, she comes and curls up near my head.)
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I track mine (I use Sleep Cycle as an app) and am currently averaging around 7:45, which is better but I'm trying to nudge it up a bit (since when I let myself sleep in on weekends, I'm fairly regularly sleeping 9-10 hours, which suggests there is not enough during the week.)
I am very picky about the actual bed. I have a thing where sleeping on white sheets is Weird (hotels are very hard) and have had a set up for about the past decade which involves:
- dark blue and green flannel bedding (fitted sheet, comforter cover, pillow cases)
- a wool mattress pad and the recent addition of a wool comforter (which I adore: if you have heat regulation issues when you sleep, I've found wool helps a lot: it breathes and reduces heat when there's too much in a way synthetics don't.)
- a large U shaped body pillow (the U shape is handy because I am less likely to hurl it off the bed in the middle of the night)
- a memory foam pillow
- and a buckwheat pillow on top of that. (I have very broad shoulders and am a side sleeper, so a lot of this is angling issues.)
And then I try hard to get the bedroom down to a reasonable temp. I'd love 68, but my apartment runs hot in the winter (I have not had the heat on in a month at all, and it hasn't gotten below 70)
Also one cat, usually taking up the bottom centre third of the bed or sometimes the bottom right or left corner. (Very occasionally other locations. When I need Extra Supervision, she comes and curls up near my head.)