The Most Woke Ways To Get More Sleep

There’s a $40 billion global market dedicated to helping you get more – and better – shut-eye. We break down two new innovations at the forefront of the rest revolution

Have you heard the one about how sleep will change your life? Of course you have. We all know lack of sleep comes with a laundry list of side effects, from decreased productivity to a dissipated sex drive, depression and anxiety. We know, and yet all this thinking about losing sleep is making us anxious, which means we’re less likely to sleep. It’s a vicious, exhausting cycle.

But experts are no longer concerned simply with how much we sleep, they now want to know how effectively we sleep, as well. Studies show that dreaming helps us to cope with stress, retain memories and regenerate neurochemicals like mood boosting serotonin.