This article was written by our friends at headspace.com
It’d be nice if you could sink like a stone into sleep as soon as your head hits the pillow. But for most people, that’s not quite how it works.
Adults need between seven and nine hours of sleep per night, per the CDC, but many people have trouble accumulating that amount of Zzzs. A 2018 study of 150,000 American adults found that the percentage of people getting inadequate sleep — defined as less than seven hours a night — increased from 31% in 2010 to 36% in 2018. But it’s not just about the quantity of hours; the quality of hours matter, too.
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