Your Sleep Score Isn’t Recovery
A sleep score has become a kind of morning weather report. You wake up, look down, and get a number that seems to explain the day before the day has even started. Eighty-seven: promising. Fifty-nine: concerning. The number may shape how you interpret your energy, your...
Do Couples Need Matching Bedtimes?
There’s a particular kind of relationship advice that sounds so obvious we rarely stop to inspect it: couples should go to bed at the same time. Not simply sleep in the same bed. Go to bed together. Lights out, ideally. Anything else can get framed as a small...
Can You Catch Up on Sleep?
There’s a deal many of us make with the week: I’ll sleep less now and catch up this weekend. It sounds reasonable. Monday through Friday are crowded. Work runs late. Someone needs something. One more episode turns into two. Then Saturday arrives, and sleeping in feels...
Is Eight Hours of Sleep Actually the Right Goal for Everyone?
Eight hours of sleep has become one of those health rules that can feel less like guidance and more like a nightly grade. You got seven hours and 12 minutes? Not ideal. Six and a half? Brace yourself. Nine? Are you somehow sleeping too much? I wondered when, exactly,...