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Two months into the Melbourne lockdown, Erin Lyall stopped being able to get out of bed.
She used to wake at 7am and work out in her home gym. But as September rolled around, and the daily case numbers in Melbourne began to level out even as restrictions remained in place, that routine succumbed to grogginess.
“I am waking up around 7.30-8 o’clock but the sleep inertia is really bad,” she says. “So I am just lying there trying to get motivated, and I am checking my phone for a bit, seeing what the [coronavirus] numbers of the day are, and then trying to get up.”
Sarah, who asked for her last name not to be used, is the same. Where once she woke at 7am and cycled to work, now she rolls out of bed at 8.55am for a 9am meeting. Her sleep is also disrupted by “those weird Covid dreams”.
www.theguardian.com
Interestingly, I am getting my normal amount of sleep, and my life hasn't really changed to the extent of most as I have worked from home for over a decade, but I have definitely been dreaming more 😱 I suspect it's due to a low-level anxiety about the situation we are in
I'd highly recommend 'Why we Sleep' by Matthew Walker, it is a really interesting book about the science behind sleep, something we all do (to some extent!).
She used to wake at 7am and work out in her home gym. But as September rolled around, and the daily case numbers in Melbourne began to level out even as restrictions remained in place, that routine succumbed to grogginess.
“I am waking up around 7.30-8 o’clock but the sleep inertia is really bad,” she says. “So I am just lying there trying to get motivated, and I am checking my phone for a bit, seeing what the [coronavirus] numbers of the day are, and then trying to get up.”
Sarah, who asked for her last name not to be used, is the same. Where once she woke at 7am and cycled to work, now she rolls out of bed at 8.55am for a 9am meeting. Her sleep is also disrupted by “those weird Covid dreams”.
How coronavirus has wreaked havoc with our sleep
Some of us can’t get enough. Some are getting too much. Then there are all the weird dreams. What’s Covid doing to our sleep?
www.theguardian.com
Interestingly, I am getting my normal amount of sleep, and my life hasn't really changed to the extent of most as I have worked from home for over a decade, but I have definitely been dreaming more 😱 I suspect it's due to a low-level anxiety about the situation we are in
I'd highly recommend 'Why we Sleep' by Matthew Walker, it is a really interesting book about the science behind sleep, something we all do (to some extent!).
