Morning Life
Your guide to UK mattresses, pillows and beds so you can sleep better and enjoy better mornings.
When a Michigan funk band called Vulfpeck released an album of ten silent songs on Spotify, they were really onto a good sound. Spotify pays by the listen, so Vulfpeck asked fans to hit play on the album – named Sleepify – right before they went to bed. By streaming ten silent tracks in their …
The only thing that will ruin a holiday more surely than awful weather is a bad mood. Every holiday has at least one individual who gets lazy and short-tempered if they don’t get enough sleep. If you’re travelling alone or you can’t identify the tetchy one in your group, it’s probably you. A hotel stay …
In Poland, the ‘science’ of converting dream symbols into winning lottery numbers has endured since – well, the appearance of lotteries. Gamblers and pseudoscientists hit the jackpot by publishing books that claimed to reveal the key between your dreams and the lucky numbers. A monkey in your dreams, apparently, foretells ‘love gone cold’ and the …
When the sun hits the sky like a red, smudgy pizza pie, that’s called Rayleigh Scattering. As the sun hugs the horizon, its light has to pass through a thicker atmosphere on its way to the human eye. The blue in the sunlight scatters, leaving a red sunrise or sunset. For photographers, it’s time to …
While all humans need 7 to 9 hours of sleep, the quality and quantity of sleep differ from country to country. Sleep patterns can be affected by any number of regional differences — climate, medicine, access to electricity — and have continued to evolve throughout human history. To determine how sleep habits vary around the …
It’s the one thing that can drag you out of a hotel-perfect bed before you’re fully awake: a perfect hotel breakfast. Nobody talks about it, but a first-rate hotel breakfast can be the best part of your holiday. Beach? So much fuss. Museum? A feast for the intellect, but the senses went hungry. A luxurious, …
No song is quite as lovely as a lullaby. Nor is any song quite as useful. A lullaby bonds parent and baby. It also acts as therapy for mama or papa. One reason that some traditional cradle songs are so frightening may be that their first singers were expressing their fears and stresses of the …
