Disclosure: Thanks to Sleep Number for sponsoring this post.
It might not feel like Spring time around the country, but it’s coming. Can you even believe that Sunday, March 8th is Daylight Savings Time?! Yeah I couldn’t either. If you are like me, there are always mixed emotions when it comes to Daylight Savings Time (DST). I like it and I dislike it at times, but one thing is for sure it’s happening. Thanks to Sleep Number, here’s a few sleeping tips for daylight savings time change.
15 More Minutes
According to new national sleep survey from Sleep Number, over half (54 percent) of the respondents don’t feel they are getting enough sleep to be at their best. And when we lose an hour of sleep due to DST beginning, that sleep loss is even more evident. To make the time adjustment easier, don’t boil the ocean; start going to bed 15 minutes earlier than the night before… do this for 3-4 days.
Live in the Future
On Saturday, live your life as if it’s already an hour ahead. For example, drink your last cup of coffee at 11 am (because that is really noon). Since caffeine has an approximate half-life of 6 hours, you don’t want to consumer caffeine after noon as it may impede your sleep.
ok maybe not this way into the future..
Put Down the Screens
Survey results indicate that people who use devices in bed are more likely to feel they don’t get enough sleep (51 percent). Always make a screen-free zone about an hour before bedtime, which gives the eyes and mind time to relax before getting shut-eye (and allows the sleep hormone melatonin to trigger sleepiness). People in the Western region of the U.S. are the biggest tech-in-bed offenders, with 66 percent of respondents bringing devices to bed.
Here’s Tina Fey reiterating…
Monitor Sleep to Improve it
Fifty-eight percent of people wish they knew more about how to improve the quality of their sleep, yet only 16 percent actually monitor their sleep (versus 41 percent who track exercise and 43 percent who track diet). And, women are more likely to focus on improving their sleep compared to men. Sleep Number’s SleepIQ technology offers a simple solution to those who want to know better sleep.
What will our family do to prevent the feeling the lost hour? We will probably work in a few of these tips, specially the 15 minutes. We have black out curtains in our home so when it’s bed time, it looks like bedtime. So putting the boys to bed early and getting ourselves in bed early Saturday evening will the best way for us to “spring forward.” In my opinion. Here’s to an easy transition for you and your family!
Question:
Which tip will you be trying this weekend?
Sleep well!
Candy
Thanks to Sleep Number for sponsoring this post.
Now that my kids are older, it’s not really an issue. It was brutal when they were babies, though.
I want to monitor my sleep. i do not think i get the right amount of sleep each night.. i may wake up ok, but it seems to like i am not getting enough
I cannot wait til DST! I’m excited for it to be light out in the evenings again.
I’m not looking forward to daylight savings time. AT ALL. The kids seem to adjust better than I do. I’m going to try your 15 minute rule and hopefully I’ll breeze on through it.
I normally HATE Daylight Saving time because it always follows on my weekend to work and the “spring forward” is the worst!! I need that extra hour of sleep BAD. I am lucky I don’t have to work this weekend though 🙂
I love getting a little extra sleep, it’s so refreshing!
This is great! Time change has never really affected our family until this last time! It wasn’t very fun so these will be great tips to use!
I am here, commenting after long hours of nap. Sleeping is the greatest gift ever. Thanks for sharing your sleeping tips!
Ah… the joys and perks of working form home AND being a home schooling mommy! These are great tips though and definitely have had to adjust in the past.
Falling asleep, that’s my problem. Even though I go to bed early, it would take me an hour or two before I finally fall asleep. It’s hard!
I can’t wait for the time to change! I love having later sunsets. Tonight is going to be rough though.
I am lucky that I can usually do well when we have the daylight savings time change. Great tips for those who do not.
The time change in spring is definitely one of my least favorite days of the year. Especially now having a younger one around and always with my asd daughter.
Oh shoot that’s this weekend! Looks like I need to go to bed earlier tonight!
Ah, I’m enjoying my final extra hour tonight before the change. 😉 This year’s moving right along, isn’t it!
As I’ve gotten older I have found that I need less sleep. I am also able to take quick cat naps now that I couldn’t for many years.
I work overnight shift so sleep is a precious commodity. I normally do not take my devices into the bedroom. I have found it is best to stop using them and just relax about an hour before I try to go to sleep.
I forgot about it being Daylight Savings Time until I realized that I had overslept this morning. These are wonderful tips to help those adjust to the time change!
These tips are great. I have never really been bothered by Daylight Savings Time. Planning wouldn’t do much good for me. I suffer from terrible insomnia for log periods of time so I have learned how to manage without a lot of sleep.
I have to admit that I am one of those who do not like Spring Forward because I go to work early at 6 a.m. and it is already difficult to drag myself out of bed. Now I have to condition my body to wake up an hour earlier. Drat 🙁
I think I’ll go with the 15 minutes too. We usually go to bed at 9 PM but I went to bed at 8:30 last night. My husband was like, it’s only 7:30. LOL.
I am still living like I am in the past. I am having a hard time adjusting to Daylight Saving Time this year because I failed to prepare ahead of time.
for the first time in almost forever I want to say, I didn’t feel the lack of sleep for daylight savings time. I think what I ended up doing was just staying up so late on Saturday the I slept in sunday like I normally would. since all the clocks change automatically I almost had forgotten entirely about it lol.
I hate daylight savings time. I swear they do it to terrorize us. I wish they would just do away with it and soon. Thanks for the tips though. LOL!
I love it that there is still sunlight at 7pm. I can still do a lot of errands after work.
Great tips, we moved down to Florida coming from MN, I was so messed up with the time change.