All-Nighters: A series of essays on insomnia (New York Times)

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I completely forgot to mention this short series that was running last week on the New York Times Opinion blog, focused entirely around sleep and insomnia.  The link above will take you to all the essays, and they’re all equally worth reading!

Excerpt:

While in theory “sleep hygiene” makes sense, in today’s culture, which affords no time for relaxation, it’s hard to put into practice.  We’re on the computer at all hours and then we snuggle with our Blackberries. Our kids are even more hyperactive, texting way past their bedtimes, although today even the concept of “bedtime” sounds quaint.  To compensate for being so tired in the mornings, they eat caffeinated foods, gulp energy drinks, and pop Adderall and Ritalin…As the anthropologist Matthew Wolf-Meyer notes, “If a society can’t rest, how can it sleep?”

Nwk has been fascinated by sleep, and lack thereof, for years. We love this series.