Sleep Life podcast: The relationships episode with Jenny Colgan

4 Jun 2019

Is your partner ruining your sleep life? 45% of over 1,000 UK sleepers we surveyed told us their partner was an obstacle to getting a good night’s sleep – and not in a good way. So we thought we’d hop between the sheets with someone who lives and breathes relationships from a creative point of view: author Jenny Colgan.

The bestselling romance and sci fi writer shared her thoughts on coordinating sleep schedules, insomnia and bedroom bugbears – and somehow we also got on the topics of sleep paralysis, recurrent dreams and the horror of encountering a sleepwalking child wandering around a Scottish castle…

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We talk about research and studies including:

• It’s More than Sex: Exploring the Dyadic Nature of Sleep and Implications for Health
• Ohio State martial stress and sleep study
• The effect of wake and sleep patterns on marital adjustment
• Professor Vicki Culpin’s The Business of Sleep

And you can find out more about being a great sleep – and life – partner in some of our other blog posts:

• How to hack your dreams like a creative genius
• Sleeping clean: why sleep hygiene is essential and how to do it properly
• Seven ways sleep deprivation is ruing your relationship
• Can you make yourself a morning person?

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