American rap superstar Eminem is someone who you would associate with some rather wacky requests when it comes to staying in hotels but this is one we think no one would expect from him.
The hip-hop megastar apparently demands that his hotel windows are covered in tin foil in order to help him get the best night’s sleep.
The rap mogul regularly jets around the world and as he suffers from insomnia he finds that he struggles to get to sleep. Due to his difficulties sleeping he’s come up with a crazy routine which helps him get the best possible rest but it means he can’t have any light entering into his room. The tin foil helps him to achieve this but this isn’t the end of his wacky routine. He also has to have some kind of music or sound in the room to help him relax and get the best sleep he can.
Speaking to The Sun newspaper, a source said: “The noise and darkness gets Eminem the best night’s sleep, he uses the technique as he’s always jumping time-zones.”
He’s previously spoken about his battle with insomnia and his battle with sleeping pills, especially after Michael Jackson’s death.
He said: “When you read things about Michael Jackson it’s hard to decipher what is true, but there’s the story of how he woke up at whatever time and he needed something to go back to sleep because he had this or that and it didn’t work. That’s exactly what used to happen to me. I would take a couple of pills and I would be up an hour later and I’d want more. Then I’d take more and that would be enough to maybe get me back to sleep for two more hours. Then I’d be wide awake again. So I definitely can relate.”
Maybe Eminem just needs to pay a visit to The Odd Mattress Company and check out our range of comfortable continental mattresses.
The typical day of an average Brit has been revealed by some recent studies and according to the findings, the normal Briton has seven hours and six minutes worth of sleep every night.
The research discovered how the usual day shapes up from what time we wake up, have dinner and go to bed. And it showed that 6:47am is the average time people set their morning alarm. However, most sleepyheads hit the snooze button and go back to sleep for another 25 minutes.
A poll from Sheila’s Wheels found that Brits finally get out of bed at 7:12am but this is not good according to another study by the University of Westminster which revealed that people who get up between 5:22am and 7:21am have higher levels of stress hormone cortisol.
With regards to going to bed, 11:41pm is reportedly the average time people nod off according to a poll of 3,000 people for the Cambridge Weight Plan.
Experts suggest that almost half of us are still awake at midnight because the troubled economy is keeping us up. This is reflected by the fact that before the recession in 2008, Brits typically went to bed at 10:47pm.
Whatever time you wake up or go to sleep, make sure you have a sound night rest by having forty winks on an Odd Mattress Company mattress.
A mattress should be supportive and luxurious, not hard or soft; and they are important to relax the muscles and support the back to ensure you wake up feeling bright as a button! A mediocre mattress will only result in poor posture and a restless night and if the studies are true and the majority of people are going to bed late, you need to make the most from your slumber and fall asleep soundly.
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Asking your staff to have the odd overtime is acceptable and asking them to come in an hour or so early is common practice but demanding that your employees have a sleepover? Nonsense!
Many businesses in and around London are urging their staff members to get some shut-eye on the premises over night during the 2012 Olympics.
The Games is expected to cause major traffic congestions and problems on the roads and public transport systems. In a bid to beat this, companies are going to the extreme and putting up beds for the workforce to sleep in.
One nursery has told how it would have to shut down if its team was late because the children cannot be left unattended, and parents will be in a rush to get to work themselves and beat the traffic flow.
The London Early Years Foundation chief executive is calling for the rules governing how many adults need to be on site at a nursery to be relaxed over the summer period because of childcare staff being delayed.
Some nurseries have been told to provide camp beds so their employees can sleep over whilst the Olympics and Paralympics are taking place to cope with the transport chaos.
Current rules state that nurseries must have one member of staff for every three children under the age of two. It is also reported some neighbouring organisations have paired up so if staff cannot get into one nursery the other will step in.
Meanwhile, one company called Interxion has installed space pods to help staff avoid commute during the Games. Engineers at the East London data services provider are being asked to stay behind and sleep on premises in capsules to escape the rush hour.
Let’s hope the mattresses and beds that the firms are providing are quality because a restless night sleep can play havoc on your health as well as your productivity levels.
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Everyone around the world who has a mortgage or is renting their own home would wish for cheaper costs; well now you can get your own home for next to nothing. Well if you have a spare $200 you can buy yourself one.
We’re talking about the new homes that are being made by Derek Diedricksen. The carpenter who lives in Boston with his wife and children makes the tiny dwellings in his back yard and while they may have everything you need, apart from running water and an electricity supply, they’re rather small. His biggest creation is the Gypsy Junker at 24 square feet and the roof stands as high as 5ft 10inches. So you’d have to be rather small to be able to comfortably stand in one.
They come complete with sleeping areas and a number of other things like a heater and with an exterior vent which was made from the base of an old frying pan. The thing about these houses is that they’re all made from old household products which makes them extremely ‘environmentally friendly’.
The one thing you shouldn’t expect to have in one of these if you buy one is a double bed as you’re lucky to even have a normal one in there. This may be a reason that a number of people will ultimately stay away from things like this; a lack of bed space.
If you are looking for a new bed, for your home and not for your garden shed then you should pay a visit to The Odd Mattress Company and see what they have on offer and you may find something you’re looking for whether it’s a divan bed base or a handmade bespoke mattress then you’re sure to find something at Odd Mattress.
To all of you children out there who sit there in class thinking about drifting off to sleep, then you may be better off doing so.
A new study has found that nodding off in class might not be such a bad thing after all. If you’re learning something for an exam then having a short nap afterwards may be the best way to remember it.
According to a leading US author, Jessica Payne who is also a psychologist at the University Of Notre Dame in Indiana, sleeping after you’ve learnt something new is like ‘telling’ the sleeping brain what it needs to retain. Although I’d imagine that trying to incorporate a sleep into a school child’s daily routine is easier said than done.
She studied 207 students with her colleagues who habitually slept for at least six hours each night. The participants of the study were then randomly assigned different things to study from declarative, semantically related or unrelated word pairs at either 9am or 9pm and they then returned for testing 30 minutes, 12 hours, or 24 hours later. This is how she managed to get her results from the study and reach her conclusion.
There are a number of different factors that need to be taken into account when you go to sleep. Obviously you need to make sure that you’re getting as good a night’s sleep as possible so you should make sure that the luxury mattress you’ve bought is the of highest quality.
If you’re in need of a new mattress for your bed then you should pay a visit to The Odd Mattress Company and see what they have to offer when it comes to a new mattress for your bedroom.
It seems quite an obvious thing to say but when you feel sleepy, it’s best just to go straight to sleep.
Well according to a new report it’s better for human’s to have a segmented sleep pattern than the supposed ‘8 hours a night’ blocks we’re all meant to have. Allegedly, or a number of centuries, sleep has been divided into two halves. The short period in between is either used for prayer, writing, conversation or yes, sex.
Apparently this makes sense to humans biologically as we’re more suited to a biphasic sleep. If you think about it, the majority of us will have an energy slump after lunch which is, in Spain and Latin America, acknowledged with the traditional siesta.
It has been scientifically proven that humans are biphasic with one single powerful drive to sleep at night and another lapse in alertness during the day. If the siesta was to be adopted in Britain, you would imagine that the economy and businesses up and down the country would grind to a halt, which let’s be honest wouldn’t be great.
If you’re living abroad though, somewhere like Barcelona or Argentina then you may need a top quality bed for you siesta when you go home. With an array of different beds and mattresses available you can rest assured that if you check out www.oddmattress.co.uk you will find some great quality mattresses available.
If you have a funny shaped bed then fear not, it says it all in the name; The Odd Mattress Company can also provide you with top quality handmade mattresses.
The ‘We Found Love’ singer has had a somewhat controversial, yet very successful career since the release of her first single ‘Pon De Replay’.
She has recently appeared on the BRIT Awards both performing her hit single ‘We Found Love’ and also picking up the award for ‘Best International Female Artist’ seeing off competition from the likes of Lady Gaga and Beyonce.
She never cancels any work commitments and true to form she’s been hitting the party scene hard and thus has been feeling rather sleepy during the day. So making the best of a bad situation, according to a source she has demanded that a bed be on set so that she can snooze in between shoots for her new video.
Now she hasn’t just asked for a normal bed, no she’s requested that a king-size bed be present. That’s going to require a rather Odd Mattress as she won’t want to be sleeping on the wrong kind of mattress. Too soft or too hard, people have got their own preferences when it comes to what kind of mattress they sleep on.
If you’re like Rihanna and have a king sized bed, or maybe you have another size; either way if you’re in need of a mattress for it then you should pay a visit to oddmattress.co.uk and see the different kinds of mattress sizes that you can get for your new bed.
More music sleeping news Guns and Roses’ lead singer, Axl Rose has insisted that his penthouse apartment be fitted with floor to ceiling blackout blinds so that he can get a better night’s sleep after staying up late and partying.
There are a number of different things you can do before, during and after you go to bed to ensure that you get the best night’s sleep possible.
Well according to the Sleep Council only one in ten of us get a good enough night’s sleep. One sleep expert gives the following tips to ensure that you get the best night’s sleep possible.
One of the major things is to avoid any food to soon before you go to bed. If you have food too close to the time you go to sleep then you may feel that you’re restless in bed because your body will be digesting the food you have just put in it, so if you’re going to eat it’s advised you only have a light snack and that you do it a good 2 or 3 hours before you go to sleep.
Also advised is that you avoid any sugary drinks or coffee. Due to the high amount of caffeine in coffee and the amount of sugar in things like Coca Cola it will again keep you awake at night. Whilst we’re on the subject of drinks, it’s advised that you avoid drinking alcohol to close to when you go to sleep.
Yes, it may help you to get to sleep quicker but it is also advised that you avoid drinking any alcohol as it will no doubt make you become dehydrated during the night and mean that you will be waking up, no matter what kind of luxury mattress you have, at stupidly early hours in the morning.
If however you are in need of a new mattress then you should pay a visit to The Odd Mattress Company and see what they have to offer you in the way of divan bed bases and many other things.
We all use our cars regularly whether it is a long journey or a short journey, they get used. Well, your seats may be about to become a lot more comfortable.
A car seat company in America has teamed up with a mattress company to produce a new kind of car seat. The new concept is to be called ComfortThin and it is a venture between the two companies, Johnson Controls and Harrison Spinks. They are looking to design a seat using pocketed coil spring mattress technology.
There are a number of different kinds of mattresses out there that you can take springs from, even a luxury mattress if you were desperate. However, if you’re planning on trying to do something like this yourself then you may be better waiting for this new technology to come out.
If the companies are successful you can expect to see this kind of technology begin rolling out in cars from 2015. Not only will this improve the car’s interior, it will also help the environment by providing environmental benefits.
However, if you’re in the market for a new mattress then you should look at paying a visit to The Odd Mattress Company and see what they have to offer you. Not only do they have mattresses in stock but they also stock a number of other things to do with your bed in case you’re in need of anything. So whether it’s a Divan bed base or a special sized mattress you’ll be sure to find what you’re looking for.
A nation of insomniacs, Britain has a lot of people, one in four to be precise who suffer from insomnia. Last year, there were ten million prescriptions handed out in England alone for sleeping pills last year.
One in four people are unhappy with the amount of sleep they get every night and one in 10 people have got some kind of sleeping disorder. According to scientists, taking drugs to try and sort your sleeping problems out isn’t the best way of trying to resolve your issues as they can at times cause more problems than they solve.
Sufferers of long term sleeplessness are five times more likely to be depressed, anxious and have double the heart rate failure and diabetes and also a higher risk of dying early.
The Log
The log is a good position to sleep in. Lying straight on your side this keeps all of your body’s functions working well and your breathing isn’t compromised. Generally a great, all round position.
The Soldier
This is when you fall asleep lying on your back, legs out straight and arms at your side. Yes it’s comfy but if you’re sharing a bed then you should try and avoid this one as it leads to snoring.
The Foetus
A great position and really comfy, this position allows air to flow freely through the body and it stops any kind of stomach reflux. This is a popular position; around 60% of Brits fall asleep like this.
These are just three of some of the best positions to sleep in. Obviously another massive factor in how well you sleep is the mattress you’re sleeping on. If you’re in need of a new mattress then you should pay a visit to The Odd Mattress Company and see what offers they have. You may save yourself a packet and find the perfect mattress for you.
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