{"id":879,"date":"2012-07-22T10:35:07","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T18:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=879"},"modified":"2012-11-23T19:41:55","modified_gmt":"2012-11-24T03:41:55","slug":"sleep-improvements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/07\/22\/sleep-improvements\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleep Improvements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve made several changes over the past few months that have improved my sleep.<\/p>\n<p>A cool environment is important to my sleep, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chilitechnology.com\/Chili_Pad.html\">Chili Pad<\/a> has proven to be a better way to cool myself on warm nights than attempts at air conditioning. I have it pump water at 72 or 73 degrees through small tubes sitting between me and the mattress. I was careful to buy enough tubes to put the pump in the next room where its noise and light aren&#8217;t noticeable. One drawback is that the straps that should hold it in place no the mattress weren&#8217;t quite the right length, and broke immediately &#8211; that creates a minor problem where it slides around a bit.<\/p>\n<p>The second change was to use only lighting with <a href=\"http:\/\/LowBlueLights.com\">no blue light<\/a> an hour before going to bed. I had tried this more than a year ago by placing a red filter in front of my computer monitor and turning off most of the regular lighting. That produced little change even though it cut out 90 to 95% of the blue light. Last week I bought a red light to replace the remaining regular lighting, and now I see a moderate improvement in how quickly I can fall asleep.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve started occasionally using a sleep mask so that I can sleep a bit later than sunrise instead of letting the sun completely control when I wake up. But I don&#8217;t like the way it feels, so I won&#8217;t use it often.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also started using a Zeo, and intend to measure the effects of caffeine on my sleep. But I don&#8217;t like wearing the headband, so I won&#8217;t use the Zeo for long periods of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve made several changes over the past few months that have improved my sleep. A cool environment is important to my sleep, and Chili Pad has proven to be a better way to cool myself on warm nights than attempts at air conditioning. I have it pump water at 72 or 73 degrees through small [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[116],"class_list":["post-879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-sleep"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p80O1l-eb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":908,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions\/908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}