We now know soooo much about sleep – how much we should be getting, how much we actually aren’t, the “multivolume fright compendium” of risks attached to not enough sleep, and the booming optimisation industry promising to fix it all. And yet the more we chase the perfect eight hours with all the right tools, the further away it seems to drift.
This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson pull apart our collective obsession with “fixing” sleep. We get into the viral TikTok bedtime routines engineered for peak rest, sleep as the latest optimisation frontier for the hustlers among us, and the people who simply can’t sleep – from chronic insomnia to the genetics of true short sleepers. If you don’t hear from us next week? Idk we’re probably sleeping.
☆ Flavour up your Dry July with Angostura Bitters. We’ll see you at the bar this month with a lemon lime n Angostura bitters in hand, our go-to non-alc choice (it’s a literal Aussie icon). ☆
Emily’s (@gildedwhim) viral wind-down routine on TikTok
Your Quest For Perfect Sleep Is Keeping You Awake by Stacey Colino, Time
Why Some People Thrive on Four Hours Of Sleep by Shayla Love, The New Yorker
Why Can’t Americans Sleep? by Jennifer Senior, The Atlantic
Franz Kafka's Insomnia Haunted Him, But It Also Fueled His Creativity, Antonia Perciaccante interview, Huffpost
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