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Sleep experts swear by these tried-and-true tips to help you fall asleep quickly. Many of these tips can help you fall asleep in five minutes. Others might work in just 40 seconds!
wikiHow is an online wiki-style publication featuring informational articles and quizzes on a variety of topics.Founded in 2005 by Internet entrepreneur Jack Herrick, its aim is to create an extensive database of instructional content, using the wiki model of open collaboration to allow users to add, create, and modify content.
How to Sleep is a short comedy film written by and starring humorist Robert Benchley.Filmed and released by MGM in 1935 (as part of their "Miniatures" series), it features Benchley as a narrator as well as film subject, discussing four parts of sleep—causes, methods, avoiding sleep, and waking up.
In Richard Strauss's 1932 opera Arabella, Zdenka/Zdenko, the daughter consigned to live as a boy because of family finances, contrives to pretend she is her sister Arabella to sleep with Matteo, with whom she is secretly in love. The bed trick can be seen in Eliza Haywood's novel Love in Excess.
Judy Travis turned on her baby monitor to talk to her two girls when she heard them screaming at each other instead of sleeping -- and the moment they heard her voice, they promptly pretended to ...
Headspace Guide to Sleep is a 2021 animated docuseries created for Netflix in collaboration with Headspace. [1] [2] The seven-part series explores the science behind getting healthy sleep and provides advice on how to do so. [3] Each episode ends with a guided relaxation to help prepare you for sleep. [4] [5] It was released on April 28, 2021. [6]
Yobai (Japanese: 夜這い, "night crawling") was a Japanese custom usually practiced by young unmarried people. It was once common all over Japan and was practiced in some rural areas until the beginning of the Meiji era and even into the 20th century.
Yawning is commonly associated with imminent sleep, but it seems to be a measure to maintain arousal when sleepy and so it actually prevents sleep rather than inducing it. [8] Yawning may be a cue that the body is tired and ready for sleep, but deliberate attempts to yawn may have the opposite effect of sleep induction.