Clarissa, Author at The Sleep Consultant

Best Sleep Schedule for CEOs and Executives: What Actually Works

Somewhere in the business literature of the last decade, a story took hold: successful CEOs wake up at 4 a.m. Apple’s Tim Cook. AmEx’s Kenneth Chenault. Various Fortune 500 leaders. The implication, repeated through countless productivity articles, was that early waking was a cause of success rather than a personal preference of some successful people. […]

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Best Sleep Strategy for Long-Haul Flights: The Performance Protocol

The default approach to long-haul flights is improvisation. Maybe a glass of wine to take the edge off. Maybe a movie. Maybe a melatonin if you remember to pack it. You land somewhere between sluggish and wrecked, lose a day or two to recovery, and accept the cost as the price of international travel. For

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Sleep Talking in Adults: Why It Happens and What It Means

You probably didn’t discover this about yourself by yourself. A partner mentions that you said something strange at 3 a.m. A roommate brings it up over coffee. A travel companion tells you, half-amused, that you had an entire conversation with someone who wasn’t there during the night. Sometimes the content is mundane — work-related, fragments

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Why Do I Sweat When I Sleep But the Room Is Cold? Causes and What to Do

Most people who experience night sweats can blame the environment. The room was too warm. The blankets were too heavy. The window was closed. It was a hot summer night. These are real causes of nocturnal sweating, and they’re easy to fix. But there’s a different pattern that’s much more diagnostic: sweating heavily at night

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Burning Feet at Night: Causes and What to Do About It

It usually starts when you get into bed. Within minutes, your feet feel hot. Not just warm — hot, sometimes burning, sometimes prickly, sometimes deep aching warmth that seems to come from the bones themselves. You kick off the covers. You stick your feet outside the sheets. You press them against the cool side of

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Cold Hands and Feet at Night Disrupting Sleep: Causes and Solutions

You’re in bed. The room is at a reasonable temperature. The blankets are pulled up. And yet your feet feel like ice blocks. They’re so cold that warming them under the covers takes 30 minutes — or doesn’t happen at all. You consider socks, then reject them as too restrictive, then reconsider. You contemplate a

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Numbness and Tingling at Night: Why It Wakes You Up and What to Do

You wake up at 2 a.m. with one arm completely numb — dead weight, no sensation at all. Or your hands are buzzing with pins and needles so intensely you have to shake them out. Or your feet have gone strangely tingly, and the discomfort is enough to pull you fully awake. You shift positions,

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Restless Body at Night: When It’s Not Just Restless Legs

Restless legs syndrome gets all the attention. It has a name, diagnostic criteria, clinical guidelines, even commercials for medications. But many people experience something different: a generalised, full-body restlessness at bedtime that doesn’t stay confined to the legs. Your arms feel jittery. Your back wants to twist. Your torso wants to move. There’s a deep

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Sleep Paralysis: Why It Happens and How to Stop It

You wake up, but you can’t move. Not your arms, not your legs, not even your head. You can see the room, you’re fully aware, but your body is frozen. Often there’s a feeling of pressure on your chest, like something heavy sitting there. Sometimes you sense a presence — maybe at the foot of

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Hypnic Jerks: Why You Twitch Awake Just as You Fall Asleep

You’re drifting off. The day is finally letting go. Your body is heavy, your mind is starting to drift into the strange dreamlike territory just before sleep. Then — a sudden lurch. Your whole body jerks. There’s often a fraction of a second where it felt like you were falling, sometimes from a height, sometimes

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