Sleep. Sleep! The eternal hot wellness topic. Ariana Huffington is obsessed with it, Margaret Thatcher only needed 5 hours, your sister in law swears by blackout curtains… the list of urban sleep myths goes on and on. And yet, it still seems no one is getting high quality or enough z’s.
Ask any functioning adult about their sleep hygiene (we’re still getting used to that term, too) and they’ll embark on a 25-minute soliloquy about their habits, their dreams, and their weighted eye mask before finally admitting they sometimes take a Xanax just to get a solid REM cycle in. And who can blame them! How can something so crucial to our existence be so difficult? Well, maybe because we’re all overworked, anxiety-ridden and screen-obsessed. Sigh. That’s the bad news. The good news is over the years we have collected some very solid tips and tricks that help us drift into dreamland. (Disclaimer: we aren’t doctors, just very type-A, frequently-on-planes workaholics, and this is what we know.)
