There’s no denying that the planet is getting hotter and hotter, and it’s beginning to affect areas of our lives we didn’t think it would.
Including our sleep.
Sara Mednick, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of California, Irvine, told Yahoo!, “If you look at the projection of temperatures across the next 50 years, what you find is that global temperatures are going to be increasing, and it’s going to influence people’s sleep.”
Apparently when our bedroom’s are too hot, it negatively effects the quality of sleep we get from night to night, as hot temperatures can actually disrupt stage three sleep, during which the body enters slow-wave sleep, which is a deep state of rest in which brain activity slows down to recover from the day.
Azizi Seixas, an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, says, “Heat can affect your ability to get to stage three and the amount of time that you spend in phase three.”
Both experts agree the ideal temperature is 65 degrees Fahrenheit, or between 67 to 69 degrees Fahrenheit, and that cooler temperatures are actually a signal to your body that it’s time to go to sleep.
Mednick says, “Getting into a cool temperature means that you’re conserving your energy, and it’s a good signal for the brain that you’re going to rest.”
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