You’ve barely slept but you cannot afford to sleep in anymore.
Here are some tips to get through the day after you’ve been up most of the night with a newborn, noisy neighbours or just that naggy voice inside your head.
‘Sleep on it. Things will look better in the morning.’
It is an old wives tale and an advice many parents give to their children lovingly. There are countless anecdotes from famous scientists, artists and philosophers who problem-solved or had new bursts of ideas after sleep.
How accurate is this advice?
When we were tasked to choose a face for our launch and our first collection, it was not a hard choice. Aside from her good looks and vibrant personality (that was infectious and easy to capture through the lens), May Wan is the kind of woman we dreamt of wearing Selenightco.
We spend almost a third of our lives doing it, yet it’s fascinating how much we don’t know about sleep.
We’ve pieced together some interesting facts and secrets about what happens when you snooze – they won’t make it as dinner date conversations but they might entertain and even surprise you.
Pulling an all-nighter to finish a report? An extensive sleep study conducted in the UK by the Oxford University and the Royal Society of Public Health found more health risks associated to a lack of sleep. One interesting finding is the fact that not getting enough sleep affects our body the way alcohol does.