Shanspirations

I love sleep.  One of the most pleasurable daily gifts God gave, I think, is good, happy sleep.  I love to snuggle in layers of warmth on a crisp morning and feel the delightful tug of autumn luring me from bed.  I feel a sense of celebration for the wonderful night of sleep I had [...]

Here’s my experience with my sleep glasses from lowbluelights.com.
First of all, they work. By blocking the wavelengths of light that halt the pineal gland’s melatonin production, they allow melatonin to gradually increase in the hours before bed. Basically, as crazy as it sounds on the surface, these are glasses that make you get sleepy. They [...]

It is intriguing to me that improving circadian rhythm and sleep quality (by way of having a more natural flow of melatonin) can have such a variety of implications. Such as improving fertility and healthy menstrual cycles.
Here’s an excerpt from an article I enjoyed so much that it prompted me to read the author’s [...]

Here and here I wrote about LowBlueLights, a company that sells lighting products that largely eliminate blue light from your environment (light bulbs without blue light, glasses and computer screen filters that block it from reaching your eyes, etc).
I am so impressed with this concept. Basically, it is blocking the light wavelengths that halt melatonin [...]

In my last post, I wrote about how happy I was to have found a candlelight alternative. Here’s a little more about this concept. Note that the article says that “yellow, orange and red light has no effect on the pineal gland,” meaning they do not halt the pineal gland’s melatonin production. (And [...]

9/26/08 Edit to add:  This post was about sleep glasses that block blue light.  I later tried these, but ended up settling on buying bulbs without blue light that are amber colored.  For my family, this proved to be easier than using the glasses.  In the end, we have transitioned to this way of “doing [...]

I’m doing less study on sleep since transitioning from a night owl to an “early riser”, but I’m still very interested in the topic. This morning I came across a description of the stages of sleep that was written in a more interesting way than these descriptions usually are, and thought I’d post it, [...]

Edited to Add: the comments by the Alaska dwellers over at Choosing Home (link below) were fascinating to me because I’ve wondered for a long time, actually, about how sleep schedules work for someone living in Alaska. I know, of course, there is great variety in how households work, but the person who wrote about [...]