Each year, select parts of the world would practice Daylight Savings Time with the hopes to save on energy, a practice that goes way back to the 1800s. While this should fare well as far as energy conservation is concerned, sleepers have issues against it.
Daylight Savings Time is setting back the clock by an hour, something that people dread and laud. For the sleeping people, adjustment is an issue. As some people struggle to get good and fluent sleep, DST forces them to sacrifice one h
We have heard of crazy claims in the past and now here is a man who claims who he has not slept for for about 968 hours. Tyler Shields claims he has not slept for the said period, claiming as well he has set a new world record for staying awake for 40 days.
Of course, he may be sending out feelers to the Guinness Book of Records to which the latter is not biting. It is simply too hard to prove and too dangerous according to them.
During the wide-eyed maratho
Monsters, fictional and untrue as they may, are the bane of some kids. Blame it on stories and some TV shows, but monsters can hinder a child’s sleeping endeavors. And while parents try as they might to calm down the young tykes, perhaps this iPhone app can help them out.
The app is called the LLC Monster Meter which comes with four different monster detection technologies that can get your kids feel better. In short, the app was made for kids and help them overcome their fear of monsters lurki
Here is a tip for the parents out there. When it comes to knowing how long and when your babies sleep at night, 2 to 4 month old babies sleep normally sleep through the night. This was found through a study made by the University of Canterbury in New Zealand.
The study should be helpful to parents, especially the ones who have to deal with sleep deprivation since they have to deal with their babies closely. A new study suggests that about half of babies will be sleeping through the night after about
Sleep Experts has announced the 7th Share the Warmth Blanket Drive, a program intended to benefit the Genesis Women’s Shelter. Families are asked to drop of new or gently used blankets at any of their 34 store locations from today up to Thanksgiving.
This year’s drive shines the spotlight on teen dating violence, with Highland Park High School and Rockwall-Heath High School joining forces to collect blankets and raise awareness of this type of domestic violence.
In addition to b
Various professions will keep you up and render you less sleep. And for photographer Tyler Shields, sleeping for 8 hours after 40 days of not sleeping is as reasonable as it gets.
For the record, Shields claims that he only sleeps two nights a week and sharing his journey. This included extreme headaches and woozy from the lack of shuteye.
He attracted intermittent news coverage, most recently via an October 23rd interview with AOL’s Weird News. In the end however, the question
Remember that Siesta contest posted some days back? Well apparently a winner was declared and he hails from Ecuador. A 62 year old unemployed security worker named Pedro Soria Lopez took the title and went home $1,400 richer after showing off a 17 minute snooze highlighted by decibel snores.
There were over 360 contestants organized into groups of five and were given 20 minutes to lie down on couches and sleep for as long as they can. Each contestant was timed by a doctor with a pulse-measuring device
Charles P. Rogers introduces a whole new line of mattresses designed to provide a supportive, comforting and rejuvenating platform to help enhance sleep and beddings. This makes the new collection a keen addition to their product line.
The new mattress and box were made to work together, providing support where needed. The collection includes: St. Regis, Biltmore, St. Charles and Gramercy.
All four mattresses have a high coil count for proper support, a quilted top, border and bottom for
In what has to be an odd competition of sorts, Spain is holding its first national siesta championships in Madrid to determine who is the best napper there is to date. Napping is of course associated on how people (probably workers) who can easily take a snooze when break time comes.
Participants are monitored as they lie on bright blue sofas in the middle of a shopping mall for a 20-minute nap. Pulse monitors are attached to their bodies where a maximum of 20,000 points will be awarded to the
According to a new research, UK businesses are losing a fortune from people who have lack of sleep. About £280 per year per annually is being lost with workers waking up feeling tired and unrefreshed to perform their duties.
About over 27% of the working nation are suffering from this dilemma which doesn’t even include sick days too. Half of those questioned said they drag themselves into work feeling tired over 20 times a year.
It says shattered workers are 23% less satisfied in
