What position should I sleep in, and is there a ‘right’ way to sleep?

  • Written by: Christian Moro, Associate Professor of Science & Medicine, Bond University
What position should I sleep in, and is there a ‘right’ way to sleep?Photo by Andrea Piacquadio: https://www.pexels.com/photo/photo-of-sleeping-man-3771069/, CC BY

After 50 years of research, eminent Stanford University sleep researcher William Dement reportedly said the only solid explanation he knows for why we sleep is “because we get sleepy”.

Even though sleep may be, as one researcher put it,...

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