Living with anxiety, whether temporary or as a chronic disorder, is a daily and permanent challenge. Therefore, part of the process consists of working with mechanisms to deal with attacks and exercises to control anxiety. One way to break the negative chain is sleep. Anxiety causes trouble sleeping, and trouble sleeping ends up accentuating symptoms …
Sleep quality
Discovering ASMR, the viral Internet trend that helps a lot of people sleep
Unless you’ve lived the last few years under a rock or don’t use any social media, you have definitely come across some ASMR content. You may not be familiar with the expression itself, but you surely know what it represents. This sensory phenomenon started to become fashionable between 2015 and 2016 and has since turned …
Here is why you wake up in the middle of the night
For many people, it is a routine: they go to bed knowing that in the middle of the night they will wake up, often at the same time. And there is no reason for it – they just wake up. This issue has a name: interrupted sleep. Interrupted sleep – that is, one that starts …
Tips to fall asleep faster and stop rolling around in bed
Here’s some food for your thoughts: have you noticed that, in order to fall asleep, we need to pretend to be sleeping? It turns out that the time that passes between turning off the lights and actually falling asleep can start to get longer and longer. That is why so many people come to the …
When daytime sleepiness becomes a warning sign
Have you ever felt tired ‘out of nowhere’ in the middle of the afternoon? Sleeping during the day can happen to anyone who had a bad night, exercised a lot, or even came down with a cold or flu, which drains our energy. All this is normal. But when that uncontrollable daytime exhaustion is excessive …
Is sleeping too much a bad thing? Excessive sleep can be a sign of a problem
You know that cliché phrase that says that everything in excess is bad? I bet you’ve heard it from your grandmother, aunt, or mother. And they all were right. Everything in excess really is bad, even sleep. Yes, sleeping too much is bad. But don’t worry, like (almost) everything in life, there’s an explanation. We …
Which are the different types of insomnia?
Contrary to popular belief, not all people who suffer from insomnia have the same symptoms. As happens with the different classifications for sleep disorders, there are also different classifications and types of insomnia. In the definition of the International Classification of Sleep Disorders, this characteristic is already evident. ‘(Insomnia is) a repeated difficulty of sleep …
4 facts about snoring you need to know
Did you know that, according to a Universidade de São Paulo survey carried out in the mid-2010s, more than half of Brazilians report snoring? Want more? Superinteressante magazine revealed in a report that nighttime noise is the third leading cause of divorce. In the same report, the magazine tells the story of a lady whose …
What is the best light for the bedroom?
Starting with the blue light emitted by electronic devices, luminosity is considered one of the great villains of sleeping well. But did you know that there is a way to have it as an ally of your night’s sleep? And, most importantly, what is the best light for the bedroom? Bedroom light: the difference is …
Know the best sleeping position
From time to time, an image with many sleeping positions, from the most common to the most bizarre, goes viral on Twitter. People will comment how they sleep. It’s an image like this one. But how about you? Which sleeping position is your favorite? And do you know which one is the best to ensure …
The pressing question: how many hours to sleep?
A quick check on Google shows more than 230 million results for searches on the ideal amount of time we should sleep. Considering this and popular culture, we… go nowhere, because we’ll get many different answers. But then… how many hours should we sleep? If you clicked on this post expecting an exact number that …