Dr Alex Bartle: Why can t I sleep?
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Sleep expert Dr Alex Bartle joins The Weekend Collective to talk everyone to sleep - in a good way.
“I think people are craving relaxation,” says Christchurch-based marketing co-ordinator Courtney Collins, who regularly stays up into the wee small hours enjoying the “instant gratification” that comes from watching Tik Tok and Instagram videos.
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People are craving relaxation. and looking for it at later and later times. “It can be a little rebellious, like ‘no, I don’t want to go to be right now’, I want more of my time, more fun. “At that time of night, you don’t have that level of focus that you do maybe earlier in the day, so it’s easy to just scroll. Also, when it is so short form you just convince yourself, ‘oh, I’m only watching a couple’, but if you think about it, if each video is a minute, all it takes is 10 to sink 10 minutes.”
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Jane Phare is a senior business reporter for the New Zealand Heraldjane.phare@nzme.co.nz
As thousands of expats return home to escape the grimness of Covid-19 restrictions, many still work at night for their overseas companies. Jane Phare talks to Kiwis who ve kept their old jobs and consults sleep experts about the dangers of tampering with the human body clock.
Aucklander Lisa Winsor goes to bed at 4.30pm these days, an hour earlier than normal thanks to the end of daylight saving this month.
Her late afternoon bedtime is a routine she s kept up since returning to New Zealand from the US late last year, spending two weeks at an MIQ hotel and emerging with relief into a life free from physical distancing, closed restaurants and constant mask- wearing.
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