There's an app for naps

Many people report having disrupted sleep patterns since the start of the pandemic. Maybe it's down to worries about health or finances - your own or that of family or friends or people you've never met. Maybe it's because life just seems so different now from how it was a year ago. This twice-yearly clock-reset madness of springing forward and falling back doesn't help matters either, although if our provincial representative gets his way and gets the agreement of Quebec and New York (a lot of "ifs" there), that may soon change.

We've probably all heard the advice on practising good sleep hygiene. Try to go to bed around the same time every night and get up at about the same time every morning. Get things ready for the next day before you turn in at night so that you're not worrying about it when you're supposed to be sleeping, or racing frantically around the house when you're supposed to have left ten minutes ago. Do something calming and relaxing during the hour or so before bedtime and don't drink coffee unless it's decaffeinated.

And oh, yes - no screen time just before bed. It's that dreaded blue light, you know.

Hey, wait a minute. Now there's Restflix. Since our lives have all gone online anyway, why not press those long-maligned screens into service to help us get to sleep?

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/25/cnn-underscored/restflix-review/index.html

And as for the blue light problem? Well, my optician has an app for that too:

https://www.newlook.ca/en/bluselect?utm_medium=email&utm_source=ACS&utm_campaign=nle20201024Blueselect&utm_content=nle20201024BlueselectEN