{"id":14157,"date":"2024-04-16T07:04:10","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T06:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=14157"},"modified":"2024-04-16T07:04:10","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T06:04:10","slug":"health-wellbeing-sleep-aids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=14157","title":{"rendered":"HEALTH &amp; WELLBEiNG: Sleep Aids"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pqS_9SaKA3A?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Most nights nowadays I listen to a video such as the one above, which helped me sleep last night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have the volume fairly low. And I might place the phone face down, so the light from the screen doesn\u2019t undo the good work the audio is doing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I started listening to these things at night during a period of appalling insomnia, probably about a year ago. These days, or rather nights, I\u2019m sleeping like the proverbial baby. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And videos of this sort have played a part. I like ones in which one can discern the \u2018plop\u2019 of individual drops. As opposed to the \u2018frying bacon\u2019 effect of some. I guess that could be described as \u2018slow heavy\u2019 rain, as opposed to \u2018light fast\u2019 rain?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are loads of such videos, and channels devoted to them. One hopes they are benign!? The good ones &#8211; and most I\u2019ve tried seem pretty good &#8211; are 8-10 hours or longer, in duration. And, crucially, are not interrupted by the evil blight of advertising. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most nights nowadays I listen to a video such as the one above, which helped me sleep last night. I have the volume fairly low. And I might place the phone face down, so the light from the screen doesn\u2019t undo the good work the audio is doing. I started listening to these things at &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=14157\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;HEALTH &amp; WELLBEiNG: Sleep Aids&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-3Gl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14157"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}