Jezebel: Zzzz

Sleeping Beauties?

Dodai Stewart — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:20:00 EST

Is a blog dedicated to "granny downtime" cute or creepy? Some of us are leaning towards the latter, but only because pictures of unconscious people are weird. [Napping Nanas] More »

Can You Get A Decent Night's Sleep With A Loved One In Bed?

Moe — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:30:33 EST

There is nothing like the blissful, thoroughly entangled sleep enjoyed in the arms of a new beau... to remind you of the cruel impermanence of first love, the dopaminal mirage that is the notion you can ever be truly content with someone else, how monogamy sucks and nothing ever lasts etc. etc. etc. Know what I mean? Because let's face it: sleeping in the same bed as your boyfriend all the time sucks, a sad truth addressed in the March Elle by a woman, Ruth Davis Konigsberg, whose husband Eric is a talented feature writer for the New York Times but who the fuck cares; it's not like he's running for president, the point is he snores. And violently kick his legs upwards in the middle of the night, a condition called Periodic Limb Movement Disorder, or PLMD, which seems as good a reason as any to vilify the pharmaceutical industry once more for assigning a technical name to another behavior exhibited by EVERY BOYFRIEND I EVER HAD/go in for a Klonopin prescription. More »

Raise Your Hand Head If You're Sleep Deprived

Dodai Stewart — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:30:00 EST

Hand Head If You're Sleep Deprived" alt="Click here to read Raise Your ~~Hand~~ Head If You're Sleep Deprived" src="http://cache.jezebel.com/assets/images/39/2008/03/small_alarmclock030408.jpg"/>

In today's Wall Street Journal, Melinda Beck writes that she goes to bed at around 2 a.m. and sets the alarm for 6:30 a.m., but hits the snooze button repeatedly."I'm a night owl," she claims. But when she talks to Dr. Christopher Drake, with the Henry Ford Sleep Disorders and Research Center in Detroit, he has a different take on it: He diagnoses her as sleep-deprived. "The human body needs approximately seven to eight hours of sleep a night to maintain optimal alert levels during the day," Dr. Drake says. And the kind of crap the good doctor expects one to do to get a good nights sleep? Keep lights as dim in the evening, give up caffeine after 6 p.m., cut out alcohol. Dr. Charles Czeisler, director of sleep medicine for Harvard Medical School says good sleep hygiene means "a cool, dark, quiet place to sleep, free of cellphones, BlackBerries, text messaging, instant messaging, iPods, TV, the Internet." In other words, if you want to sleep well, you need to give up your "life." And it's worse if you have a kid. More »

"Snore Cure To Save Marriages!" crows The...

Dodai Stewart — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:30:00 EDT

"Snore Cure To Save Marriages!" crows The Sun. Boffins (that's scientists, in Brit-speak) have developed a mask to stop the airflow obstruction that causes snoring. But all you have to do is take one look at the "invention" to realize a cure has not been found. Quoth Anna, "No man is gonna sleep in that contraption." [TheSun] More »