Sleep Inertia: 10 Ways to Tackle Grogginess in the Morning

If you’re going to bed late by even 30 or 60 minutes, be it for watching that new Netflix show or for completing your work, stop!

Are you included in the set of tons of people who keep tossing and turning throughout the night, plagued by sleep disorders that make it difficult for you to get a restful sleep.

As you find your evenings getting more chaotic or, let's admit, boring, or you can't sleep at night, many like you turn to meditation as a nighttime refuge. But can we do meditation at night? Is it safe to do night meditation? Are there any downsides related to it?

The big difference between meditation and sleep is that in meditation, we stay alert. When we sleep, we're not alert. This is where practices like sleep meditation and deep sleep meditation come in. They help us experience the benefits of both sleep and meditation.

Ever thought about why we feel sleepy at night? Or even in darkness? This is because, in a dark environment, our body releases a hormone called melatonin, which triggers sleep. In this fast-moving world, we want to make each hour productive without realizing the harmful effects it might have. We all love to scroll social media or binge our favorite show before sleeping. But these devices emit blue light, which confuses the body's clock and stops the release of melatonin, which affects our sleep

Have you ever felt envious of dogs and cats napping several times a day? Ever faced a dilemma between lying down for a few mins and being productive? Turns out taking power naps adds to our productivity. These power napping benefits will help you choose in such tradeoffs: * Taking short naps improves your concentration and ability to remember things. * When tired, people tend to eat more unhealthy food instead naps and get refreshed. * Power naps also help in improving logical reasoning

Dreams are the key to our unconscious mind, as they reveal our repressed wishes. Researchers have found that in 7 hours of sleep, we usually encounter 5-6 dreams, and our brain activity during this time is of similar frequency to when we are awake. Here are 7 facts that might intrigue you about dreams: 1. Did you know our go-to website, 'Google' was the result of a dream? Larry page got his vision for Google in a dream in the middle of the night. What a world-changing dream it was! 2

Feeling tired, cranky & lousy? Spent last night tossing and turning? Getting a deep shut-eye is the answer! That groggy and grumpy feeling is just the starters in the menu of sleep deprivation. The main course offers a multitude of physical and mental ailments, such as: * Memory issues—wakefulness results in the brain being unable to form connections to process new information and to transfer short-term memory to long-term memory. * Weak immunity—lack of sleep weakens immunity against