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Storm Eunice making you anxious? Here are some techniques to help you sleep soundly when there’s a storm raging outside
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Getting to sleep can be tricky at the best of times, but trying to drop off when there’s a storm raging outside your window is a whole different matter. To help you get a good night of shut-eye tonight, T3 spoke to sleep expert Dr Verena Senn to see if she had any techniques to share.
Verena is the resident sleep expert atEmma(the brand behind two of our best mattress picks right now – theEmma OriginalandEmma Premium), and has a PhD in Neurobiology and nearly 15 years' of research on the brain, sleep patterns and psychological behaviour on her CV, so she knows more than most about the topic. Here are her top tips for how to sleep in a storm:
#1. Stay calm
Storms can feel scary and unsettling, so chances are you might be feeling more anxious than usual. However, because you need your body to feel relaxed in order to drop off, that anxiety can have a major impact on both your quality of sleep and the speed at which to fall asleep, explains Verena.
#2. Snuggle up
#3. Listen to white noise
“With howling wind and rain against the window, noise can also be a huge factor in disrupting your rest during a storm," explains Verena. “White noise – or that ‘shhh’ sound that you might associate with TV static – is produced when every frequency the human ear can hear is played at the same amplitude. Similar to white noise, pink noise with its deeper sounds and lower waves, has been found to help brain activity to decrease, in turn helping you to fall asleep.”
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Both white and pink noise can help to relax your brain and prepare it for rest, as well as helping to mask the sounds of the storm outside (although big booms of thunder and the like will probably still wake you, sadly). You can get dedicated white noise machines, or use a pair ofsleep headphonesto play white noise directly into your ears.
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