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.