Benefits of Sleeping in a Hammock

Sleep is the one thing that links everybody. It’s something that’s essential to life like eating and drinking is, and it can have as much of an effect on your lifestyle as the above can too, if not more. There are such varying effects that can be had, and getting too much sleep or not enough sleep can change the way your day - and even week - can pan out. Think of a number of times you’ve become exhausted at the end of one day - this is a lot of the time because of the poor amount, or quality, of sleep that you had the night before.

Although the amount of sleep we get during a night is an important measure of how we will react the day after, it’s actually the amount of quality sleep that we get during an evening that is more likely to leave you feeling great, or otherwise than the amount of sleep. Waking up time and time again at night, but spending 8 hours in bed is hardly going to fill you with the focus and energy you need in the same way that having 6 hours of high-quality sleep will do. You need to find ways and means of making sure you get more hours of quality sleep.

There are plenty of ways to aid yourself in getting great quality sleep and most of these ways are fairly common. Making sure you use the right number of pillows to be comfortable, is one way of helping yourself. Correcting the temperature in the room you’re in is a sure-fire way of stopping you waking in the middle of the night, freezing cold and really tired! There’s a bunch of other ways of improving your sleep, too. Soothing audio is one of the most popular ways to send yourself to sleep.

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Strangely enough, though, there’s a left-field way of contributing to added value during sleep that I must say even I have never thought of before a couple of weeks ago, and by this, I mean changing exactly what it is you’re sleeping on. And yes, I mean ditching the bed for something a little more exotic. How about trying a hammock?

Sleeping in a hammock will surely provide images of beautiful beaches and soft sand but there’s a serious message here about choosing somewhere to sleep that suits you and provides added comfort. That’s exactly what a hammock does. It’s even worth just having one in the house so you can use it every now and again to feel the odd benefit on. But if you’ve got poor sleeping habits, getting rid of them and your old bed could find buying a hammock being promoted to the top of your shopping list.

Why A Hammock?

I get it. It’s a pretty good question. Why would you buy a hammock if you’re used to and comfortable using your current bed? Well, you may well be used to it and you might find it comforting but sooner or later you need to realize that these things aren’t helping your sleeping pattern, and you need to try something new. And sure, beds are more traditional, but sleeping is all about habits, so when you have bad ones, it can really affect your moods and how likely you are to sleep that night. You may need to change up your current sleeping situation to break out of some bad habits. Although this may seem like a slightly crazy option to knock you away from your bad sleeping pattern, there have actually been studies that suggest choosing a hammock over a bed has really great effects on your sleeping.

First of all, the rocking motion. Through sleep monitoring studies and years of research, sleep experts have actually found there to be evidence that the rocking and swaying motion that you get my using a hammock over a bed is advantageous to how well you actually sleep. The reason it is thought to be better for you is because of the synchronization in your brain that reminds it off how you were lulled to sleep as a child. Rocking back and forth, very much like a child, offers a quicker route to sleep and sends you into a deeper sleep than that if you’re in a standard bed.

Sleeping in a hammock is proven to send you into a deeper sleep as we’ve discussed earlier, but it’s also supposed to be good for you if you have any back issues. As daily life becomes rougher and we’re being asked to do more for less in our jobs, back pain is becoming an almost daily feeling. Sleeping on a mattress encourages us to take up all kinds of shapes and sizes in the quest to get comfortable. Yet, while we’re doing this, we often compromise our posture and cause ourselves worse pain than we’re helping. Sleeping in a hammock is a sure-fire was to ensure that we’re sleeping on our backs and staying in the same position all night as opposed to taking to scrunched up positions and causing more damage than good. Multiple medical reports back up this claim, which is more than enough evidence for us to try out sleeping nautical.

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As opposed to a bed, where you may share with a partner and loved one, a hammock gives you your own space to sleep and your own area to be comfortable without being woken by the other person in your bed. Why not try out this as a method of helping you sleep if you’re particularly warm or restless? There’s nothing worse than not being able to sleep whilst the person next to you is in a lovely deep sleep.

Of course, setting up a hammock may seem like a strange way of sleeping better, but the benefits of this set up may be the thing to help you improve sleeping once and for all. It’s certainly worth giving it a try, you’ve got little to lose.