Charlotte Arene’s remarkable stop motion animation captures the restless agitation of not sleeping well as though roiled by an angry sea. It’s a feeling many of us know well. Here is my list of tiny steps that can help you sleep, learned by trying them on myself.
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Andrew Weil demonstrates a simple breathing technique he calls “the single most powerful anti-anxiety measure I’ve found”. We don’t know anyone who wouldn’t benefit from it.
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When a friend mentioned that she often calmed her wakeful daughter by playing whale songs to her, I had to try it myself.
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(Video link here.) The Museum of Four in the Morning is a crowd-sourced collection of ‘four in the morning’ references from art, culture and elsewhere. It got me thinking about ways people handle being up at that hour of the night/morning that seems somehow like the farthest point on the clock: the quiestest, most alone time, when…
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