Study: Men Sleep Better Alone.
July 20th, 2006
While we’re on the topic of sleep today, a study from Vienna makes some interesting assertions about adult co-sleeping.
According to the findings, while men and women both claim to sleep better when sharing a bed, in fact the men are deluding themselves. Sensors indicated that male test subjects were actually not sleeping as deeply when sharing a bed. Further, cognitive tests the next morning showed that after co-sleeping men performed worse in cognitive tests than when they slept solo.
Women, on ther other hand actually do fall into a deeper sleep when sharing a bed with a partner.
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Bed sharing ‘drains men’s brains’ [BBC]
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1. Men and Women in Bed: Fur&hellip | July 21st, 2006 at 9:28 am
[...] Yesterday I posted the article “Study: Men Sleep Better Alone” which discussed research from Vienna about how men and women rate their quality of sleep. [...]
2. Tina Anderson | May 10th, 2007 at 11:28 am
I guess this study didn’t not include women who were over the age of 40? I find that I sleep much better alone! Women my age experience hot flahes and night sweats the last thing we want is a man snoring in our ears and crowding us out of the bed. I say if you love someone it doesn’t matter that your not sleeping together as long as you keep on having a sexual relationship. Staying close is important but you don’t have to have your significant other or spouse sleep with you if you are not sleep compatable. There are many other ways to be close to someone.
3. Kevin Kennedy-Spaien | May 10th, 2007 at 12:20 pm
Hi Tina, While I wrote this up a long time ago, I believe I still remember the ages of the subjects. If I’m correct, they were all in their 20’s as they were mostly grad students.
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