Tips to Cooler Sleep This Summer
Sleep is the panacea for most ills. Tired and depressed? Go to sleep early and wake up feeling upbeat and better about yourself. Body paining? Get eight hours of good sleep and see how refreshed your body feels the next morning. Skin breaking out? Put the roses back into your cheeks with sleep. Your body’s tissues, muscles and joints heal themselves while you sleep, so you wake up a better version of yourself than the previous night.
But sleeping well in the summer is not always possible – the heat can keep you up, you don’t want to crank up the air conditioner further, and you wake up feeling cranky instead of well rested. People in Dubai must live in hot climatic conditions, or we can say they are used to it. But, inside the home in your bedroom, you do not need just air conditioner to have a good sleep. Mattresses also play an important role for it. August is considered as the hottest month in Dubai. So, you need a combination of air conditioner and cool gel mattress or luxury mattress in Dubai to have a cooler sleep or to establish an optimal sleep pattern which can help you with healthy sleeping habits as well. Overall, resulting in good health and well-being for you.You might need some help getting proper shuteye this season in Dubai or in UAE. From keeping your feet cool to buying a luxury mattress, we present some simple tips for a cool and pleasant sleep this summer:
* Get a cool gel mattress. Your body rests on your mattress all night. So if your mattress tends to trap body heat or is lumpy and uncomfortable, you might experience disturbed sleep several times in the night. Or you might wake up irritable or with dull aches and pins all over your back and shoulders. Here’s a simple tip for better sleep this summer: get a luxury mattress that has cool air cell gel tech memory foam inside. This technology helps body heat dissipate instead of trapping it, thus ensuring that you remain cool as a cucumber while you sleep. Besides, the memory foam moulds to your body contours but springs right back into form when you leave the bed. This luxury mattress lasts for several years and is one the best investments you can make towards comfortable sleep for years to come.
* Use cotton sheets instead of satin or silk. You might love your luxurious satin sheets that speak volumes about your sensual side. But the summer season in Dubai is not the ideal time to go ‘Ooh la la!’ with your bed linen in the boudoir. Rather, you must invest in cool and thin cotton sheets that do not absorb heat and which dry up quickly in case you sweat during your sleep. Avoid crisp cotton sheets as you will just end up feeling scratchy. The softer the bed sheet, the better for you. Look for a thread count of 800 or higher when picking cotton sheets for a soft feel.
* Cool your heels – literally. This is a simple enough trick with a basis in science. Did you know that your body expels heat through your extremities? During the summer, your head, hands and feet have higher basal temperature than the rest of your body. If you can keep these parts of your body cool, then you end up feeling much cooler overall. Applying this principle to bed time is simple enough. Add a few ice cubes to a hot water bottle and place the bottle at the foot of your bed. Make sure that both feet touch the bottle as you sleep. The cold temperature at the base of your feet replaces the heat that was there earlier, and you start feeling comfortable within minutes. From here, it’s only a matter of time before restful sleep beckons!
* Eat cooling foods for dinner. What you eat for dinner and what time you eat, have a bearing on your sleep quality. Eating too late, or eating a heavy dinner are both wrong habits that ruin sleep in the night. Aim to have your dinner before 7 pm – metabolism slows down considerably after this time, and your digestion becomes sluggish. Also eat light dinners that will make you feel full – salads comprising fresh fruits and vegetables, clear soup, or a smoothie made from a couple of fruits, will keep you satiated without feeling overfull. Avoid greasy, spicy food for dinner and exercise portion control. Also drink fresh fruit juice daily (do not add white sugar) to keep your body temperature down.
The tips mentioned above might seem elementary, but they will help you get the best ever sleep this hot summer. We hope you get on board and enjoy several nights of deep, uninterrupted sleep this season. Catch you on the other side!