Pink walls and white bed sheets – secrets to better sleep

No wonder girls find sleeping easier than men!

If you have trouble sleeping peacefully despite having a tough day at work and being tired to death, there is something wrong with your bedroom. Your bedroom has a lot to do in helping you relax your senses and send you to slumber land. However, that doesn t happen if you don t care much about your bedroom and keep it unclean. Here are seven simple tips for a good night s sleep.

A survey done by the National Sleep Foundation, US in the year 2011 found out that bedroom environment played an important role in helping one sleep better. In fact, people who made their beds, cleaned it and rearranged pillows were reported to be sound sleepers than the ones who ignored these mere tasks. An unclean room and unmade bed makes it difficult for people to get enough sleep [1]. Here are seven ways lack of sleep can affect you.

Well, if you make your bed every night and still find it difficult to fall asleep, try doing these two things to make the transition from being tired to falling asleep easier.

1. Paint the walls of your room pink: Research done as early as 1932 pointed out that visible light have a direct effect on the endocrine system and they somehow stimulate the pineal and pituitary gland in the brain. These changes happen through neurochemical channels and don t depend on the optic nerve for signals. This means that the light you see just before going to bed has an effect on your sleep and how it can affect your sleep cycle. These four breathing exercises can help you sleep like a baby.

Wondering why choose pink? An experiment done in 1978 depending on the previous finding suggested that the colour pink has a tranquilizing effect and can calm hostile or angry emotions brewing within. It can also calm the muscles and help relax the senses, removing negative emotions from the body. This effect can be achieved even by spending just 10 to 15 minutes in a room painted pink [2].

So, if your walls are of any other colour but pink, it s time to get the walls painted right away. Then as you unwind and relax, just before switching off the lights the colour pink will play its magic on you relax your tensed muscles, calm your mind and help you get enough sleep through the night. Know how eating right can help you sleep better.

2. Change your bed sheet to white: This is easier than painting your walls pink. As we all know that white is the colour of peace and helps experience tranquillity after a stressed-out day. This is a reason why you sleep so comfortably in your hotel rooms which is decked up with white bed sheets and pillows. Also, the colour white creates a halo like effect in a dark and dimly lit room. The clean effect that is reflected by the white sheets and pillows helps to sleep better as pointed out by the survey conducted by National Sleep Foundation.

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References:

[1] sleepfoundation.org/sites/default/files/sleepinamericapoll/SIAP_2011_Summary_of_Findings.pdf

[2] Schauss, A. G. (1979). Tranquilizing effect of color reduces aggressive behavior and potential violence. Journal of Orthomolecular Psychiatry, 8(4), 218-221.