This week in sleep news:
Back pain and insomnia linked
Your sleeplessness and your back aches could be linked, according to new research published in Frontiers in Neuroscience. Researchers from Zhejiang University School of Medicine looked at the causal relationship between different sleep disturbances, such as insomnia, short sleep duration, long sleep duration, and daytime sleepiness, and lower back pain.
Their study found that insomnia could cause lower back pain and vice versa. They also found that a genetic predisposition to lower back pain could increase the risk of daytime sleepiness, but they found no reverse causal relationship. This relationship needs to be further explored by more studies with larger samples for further validation.
Study finds happy music may improve newborn babies’ sleep
Maybe there’s some science behind your child’s lullabies. Researchers at the University of Dundee in Scotland set out to determine whether newborns could perceive and respond to different emotions in music. Their findings showed that certain kinds of music may help your newborn fall asleep faster. The study looked at newborn heart rates and movement in response to three different environments: happy music, sad music, and no music. They found that newborns who listened to happy music fell asleep more quickly.
Sleeping in the sky
Have you even wanted to sleep in the sky? A Dubai-based architecture firm, Ardh Architects, is working on making that a reality with a project called The Floating Retreat. Their recently released rendering depicts a series of individual tents hanging between two mountains. The Floating Retreat hopes to “bring luxury and comfort to those who cannot participate in mountain climbing or other adrenaline-filled outdoor activities,” Omran Alowais, owner of Ardh Architects, told Architectural Digest. There are no opening dates on the horizon just yet, but, should the project get the green light, the retreat would also offer guests activities such as mountain climbing and wadi treks.
Just how bad is blue light before bed?
We all know blue light before bed wreaks havoc on our sleep, but how bad is it really? A new study recently combined smartphone application use data from 75 participants with sleep data collected by a wearable ring. On average, the participants used their smartphones in bed for 5 min and 22.8 seconds. Researchers findings indicate that smartphone use in bed leads to a longer time to fall asleep, more time awake at night, higher heart rate & lower HR variability.
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