BY: DANIEL KORN I’m the kind of guy who wants a full, eight-hour sleep every night. It’s the only option for me to operate normally—in fact, I got only seven last night, and now it’s 4 PM and I’ve been staring…
How to fall asleep in under one minute using this simple breathing pattern
BY: TED BARNABY If you’re like me, it probably takes you anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour to fall asleep at night. However, I recently learned a breathing pattern that allows me to fall asleep in as little as…
Cuddle cafés: you can now pay to snuggle with strangers
BY: SINEAD MULHERN You can now rent a cuddle partner when you’re at a peak of loneliness. Cuddle-based services that charge clients by the hour to cuddle with a stranger have hit Toronto. Vancouver company, Cuddlery, is arriving in Toronto…
Why people who sleep in are actually smarter than early risers
BY: TED BARNABY Believe it or not, researchers have actually determined that people who stay up late and sleep in all morning are typically more intelligent than those early to bed and early to rise. The original hypothesis was formed,…
NASA will pay you $18,000 to stay in bed for 70 straight days
BY: ROB HOFFMAN Usually at some point in the day (and for some of us, multiple points) many of us find ourselves wishing we could abandon our responsibilities to return back to our beds to live out the rest of…
A brain orgasm could cure your insomnia
BY: VANESSA NIGRO Have you ever been watching someone perform a very intricate or high-concentration task, or take part in a stimulating conversation, when suddenly you are overcome with an unwarranted tingling sensation? The feeling starts at the top of…
Sleep deprivation could be the root of the student mental health crisis
BY: LILITH We’ve all been there. You procrastinated a bit too long on that paper and now you have one night left to cough up 5,000 words on how the minor characters in Macbeth somehow sparked the First Gulf War.…