The winner according to sleep experts is side sleeping, but try to switch sides every so often (you might do this without recognizing it anyway) to avoid putting strain on your organs. The good news is that however you choose to sleep, you can get a great night’s sleep with help from split sheets.
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If you and your sleep partner fight over who is pulling the sheets, there is finally a solution! Split sheets from Double Ups For Beds are tied together at the bottom and are split at the top, giving each person their own separate sheet that they can use however they please. Shop today for top sheets, blankets, comforters, bed skirts, and more! So the next time you snuggle into your favorite fetal position with your ankles crossed, you can be confident you’ll fall asleep peacefully, and perfectly covered.
]]>While your body is rejuvenating itself after a long day of moving around, your mind is actually still running just as strong, if not stronger than during the day. Regions in the brain involved in learning, emotion, and processing information are actually more active while you sleep than while you’re up and moving about. All of the regions in the brain collaborate to help you process and sort information that you’ve received throughout the day. The researchers are focused on the type of information that is being committed to memory as you sleep and hope to better understand how brains store information.
Well, no — not anymore! Just be aware of how long you are snoozing for. When you nap for 20 minutes or less, your brain remains in level two sleep, which boosts cognition and you can still be woken up easily. A nap that is longer than 90 minutes gives your brain a chance to complete a full sleep cycle. With a nap time that is in between 20 and 90 minutes, you risk waking up and feeling groggy and just as tired as before. Shoot for a 20-minute snooze after lunch for the best results.
If you missed out on a few good night’s sleeps during the week, it’s common to think that it’s possible to “catch up” on the weekend when you have a chance to sleep in. We touched on this in a previous post, but we’ll say it again here. Unfortunately, our bodies can’t pay back a sleep debt that accumulated through the week.
To help with your learning, emotion, and information processing, it’s essential your brain gets a good night’s sleep. But when you’re sleeping with a partner who is tossing, turning, and pulling at your sheets and blankets, it can cause you to lose out on quality sleep. It’s especially hard for those who sleep on an adjustable bed, where the sheets never seem to stay in place.
The good news is that there are sheets for adjustable beds! These specially designed sheets allow both sleepers to have their own separate sheets. The key is to have the sheets connected at the bottom and then split at the top. This way your top, separate sheet is wide enough and there is plenty of material to pull the sheet to your heart’s content.
Double Ups For Beds carries top sheets for adjustable beds, bottom sheets, blankets, mattress pads, and more! Start shopping today! It will help your brain!
]]>There’s a lot of research and science about sleep, why we need it, the chemicals involved, and how it affects our bodies when we don’t get enough of it. On a recent episode of the podcast Fresh Air, the guest was Matthew Walker, a neuroscientists and professor of neuroscience and psychology at the University of California. He spoke about the importance of sleep, how alcohol affects sleep, if sleeping pills actually work and more. Learn more about this sleep expert can share and to experience a better night’s sleep with your partner, try the split sheets from Double Ups For Beds.
Unfortunately, the answer to this is no. If you decide to stay up late to watch the football game that goes into overtime one night, the next night you finish a project for work, and the next night is Friday so you stay up and go to a concert. The World Health Organization recommends getting eight hours of sleep, so if you only get six hours for these three nights, you have a sleep debt of six hours of sleep! That’s almost an entire night! Our bodies and brains, even if we sleep in an extra six hours on Saturday morning, won’t repay that sleep debt.
Many of us have taken melatonin to help us sleep, or a sleeping pill like Ambien, but how effective are these at actually helping us sleep?
Have you ever tried to sip at a glass of scotch before bedtime to help you sleep? While on the surface, this method may seem to help, but it might be causing you to wake up frequently throughout the night. Alcohol produces a certain chemical, which will help you fall asleep, but when it leaves your body, you are left waking up during the night. You may not be awake long enough to remember, but you will feel it in the morning.
At Double Ups For Beds, while we can’t help you say no to the glass of wine or the sleeping pill before bedtime, we can offer you split sheets to help you and your partner rest with fewer distractions. Our split sheet sets combine two separate sheets so that you and your partner have your own sheet, but they are attached at the bottom. You don’t have to worry about fighting over who is pulling the sheets or being left in the cold.
Our split sheets are available for both standard and adjustable beds, and they can easily be added to your bed for a full night’s sleep. So the next time you’re headed to bed, skip the alcohol and instead turn down the temperature in the room, turn off the lights well before bedtime, turn off the screens, and order a set of our split sheets.
]]>Have you ever had a night of restless sleep? We’ve all been there, tossing and turning, trying to find that position where we feel comfortable. Whether we find that position or not, we still wake up with bed sheets that are tangled and even the fitted sheet is about to fall off the bed. This situation is made worse when you’re sleeping on adjustable beds, your partner is lying flat and you have your head tilted up with a slight bend in your knees. Adjustable beds makes it nearly impossible for sheets to stay in place and to get a good night’s sleep when you’re constantly fighting with your partner over who is pulling and stealing the sheets to their side of the bed. Well, the struggle is over and you can both get the sleep you need. With Double Ups For Beds sheets for adjustable beds.
We went over this briefly in a previous blog, but here is your in depth post on bed sheets with wings, what Double Ups For Beds has to offer, how you can finally get the sleep you’ve been waiting for, and maybe even how these sheets can improve your relationship! Sound too good to be true? Well, we think with just one night, you’ll be wishing you had tried them before.
These bed sheets with wings are made specifically for adjustable beds. With all of the up and down movement of the bed, and the movement of you and your partner, standard sheets simply don’t fit adjustable beds. You wake up in the morning and the corners have been pulled away from the mattress. And who wants to make up the bed and refit a fitted sheet each morning? Our sheets for adjustable beds have an extra piece of fabric to ensure that the sheet stays in place throughout the night, no matter what is going on in the bed. This piece of fabric is called a “wing” that reaches farther below the mattress to help the entire fitted sheet remain in place.
Whatever size bed you have, whatever type of adjustable bed, and whatever thread count you desire, you can find it at Double Ups For Beds. Adjustable beds typically come in four styles:
You can find sheets for adjustable beds that fit each style in both queen or king size mattresses. We also have 200, 350, or 600 thread counts and the sheets come in a variety of colors that will match your existing bedroom’s decor and your own style. With so many options, you can feel free to give us a call and we’ll help you decide which set is right for you.
Can Sheets For Adjustable Beds Help Your Relationship?Have you ever had a tiff about who makes the bed in the morning? Have you had a bad night’s sleep and blamed it on your partner stealing the sheets all night? Imagine being able to have your dream adjustable bed and a set of sheets that gives you freedom of movement. Say goodbye to those small fights and sleepless nights and welcome a refreshed and rested relationship.
To find the sheet set for your adjustable bed, start shopping today!
]]>Has it been awhile since you’ve had a restful night’s sleep? If you can feel yourself tossing and turning, waking up frequently, or have a hard time falling asleep, the day after can feel like it’s dragging on between cups of coffee. Well, it’s time to make a change in the way you approach going to sleep and bedtime. Double Ups For Beds has some tips and information that will help you finally get that deep sleep you’ve been dreaming of.
Start by shopping for our adjustable bed sets. Double Ups For Beds created an innovative design allowing you to sleep without pulling your partner’s sheets over to your side or being left in the cold yourself. Even with adjustable beds, where just the the foot or just the head of the bed can be adjusted, we have the perfect solution.
Our bodies like a schedule and it even has it’s own internal clock. If we wake up at 7:00 a.m. one day and then 5:00 a.m. the next day, we might have a hard time making it through the day. Sticking to a schedule, even on the weekends, will help maintain our biological clock so our bodies will know when to start shutting down and when it’s time to start waking up.
Have you been putting off exercise and need another reason to start? Well, you’ll like this one. A study was done at the Northwestern University that says that those who exercise four times a week experienced an improvement in their quality of sleep, they were less tired during the day, and had less depressive symptoms. If you can make yourself work out for half an hour for four days a week, your body will thank you.
The environment we sleep in can definitely have an effect on the quality of sleep we get. Have you noticed you don’t sleep as well in the middle of summer when it’s hot and humid? Is there a big streetlight outside your window? Or a busy street? These factors could be causing you to lose precious sleep time. Try making your room between 60 and 67 degrees, install blackout curtains, and try using a white noise machine, humidifier, or fan to block the noise.
With adjustable beds, you are probably sleeping in a completely different position than your partner, whether that be with your head tilted up, or the bed is raised so you can sleep with bended knees. This makes it incredibly difficult to find adjustable bed sets that give you enough covers to sleep with during the night. Constantly fighting with the sheets is not a good way to start the night.
With Double Ups For Beds’ adjustable bed sets, our sheets are sewn together at the bottom and two separate panels overlap each other on top, so you have your own sheets and so does your partner. No more waking up without sheets to curl under. So if you’re tired, literally, of not getting a good night’s sleep, try our adjustable bed sets and be on your way to a happy, dream-filled sleep.
]]>Did you dream you chased a rhinoceros last night? Was your coworker haunting your dreams? Or did you wake up, try to remember what you had dreamt, but couldn’t recall a thing? Scientists have been studying sleep and dreaming for ages and they are learning more and more, but they aren’t entirely sure yet why some of us don’t remember our dreams while others remember handfuls of dreams each night. Most of us love sleeping and dreaming (if they aren’t scary) but sleep can be disrupted for any number of reasons, including not enough sheets. If you want a full night’s rest with happy dreams, try out Double Ups For Beds’ split sheets for couples with standard and adjustable beds. Our split sheets are sewn together at the bottom and have two separate panels on top so each sleeper can feel like they have their own set of sheets.
If it takes a bullhorn to wake up during the night, you might not remember dreams. A study performed at the Lyon Neuroscience Research Center and the University of Lyon suggests that those who can sleep deeply throughout the night have a lower rate of dream recall than those who are light sleepers and wake up with dreams fresh in their minds. One thing you never have to worry about with our split sheets if you are a light sleeper is your partner pulling all of the sheets and leaving you in the cold.
There are many things that can affect how well we sleep, including stress, pain, and environmental factors such as noise or light. Another thing you can add to the list are certain types of foods in your diet. Never thought your food choices would cause changes to your dreams, did you? Well, foods like dairy, meats, or fried foods can have an impact on your sleep and the type of dreams you have. If you have a late dinner, your body is still digesting when it’s time to go to bed. This can cause your body to produce heat, which can lead to a night of restless sleep and unusual dreams. When we dream outside of the REM cycle, the dream might take clues from our body, including temperature or having a fever.
When we really need to have a good night’s sleep, some of us rely on taking a melatonin supplement. This hormone occurs naturally in our bodies to regulate sleep and awake patterns. Those with a higher level of melatonin have a tendency to have dreams that are animated and easier to remember. Those with low melatonin have more restless nights which causes hazy dreams that are difficult to remember. For a natural night’s sleep, try consuming more almonds, sunflower seeds, cherries, and bananas. For a relaxing and cozy night’s sleep, try our split sheets that are perfect for restless sleepers.
If you enjoy dreaming, try creating an evening routine, watch what you eat, be careful to not have bright screens on, and experiment with the room’s temperature. At Double Ups For Beds, we love a good night’s sleep full of happy and silly dreams. Our split sheets are great for giving your body the perfect environment. Never worry about fighting over sheets or blankets with your partner again. The innovative split sheet design helps you achieve a blissful sleep.
]]>Those of us who love to sleep, love to sleep. The feeling of slipping between the covers, getting cozy among the sheets and comforters, and finding that perfect spot for our head on the pillow makes us slowly drift away for a blissful sleep. The problem comes when we’re sharing the bed. Whether you own a queen or king bed, these issues still occur: slipping into the coveted middle section of the bed and pushing our partners off, or someone is slightly more greedy when it comes to the amount of sheet they want to cover themselves with. The latter problem is what DoubleUps For Beds sought to resolve. Introducing the innovative adjustable bed sets and split sheets that allow you to pull over the sheets without leaving your partner in the cold.
With DoubleUps For Beds split sheets, you get the best of both worlds. An individual sheet just for you on the top, and at the bottom the two sheets are sewn together so you can still enjoy playing footsie under the sheets! At the head of the bed, the sheets overlap each other, so it’s as if both of you are getting an entire sheet to yourselves that each of you have full reign over. You can curl up with it to make sure your back and front are covered without worrying about leaving your partner without enough sheet to do the same. At the foot of the bed, it’s as if there is only one sheet so you can still feel like you are sleeping together.
There are many couples out there who have adjustable beds for a unique and specific bed to fit their sleeping needs. We provide you with split sheets that fit four types of adjustable beds.
As you can imagine, these types of adjustable beds make it hard to find high-quality sheets that allow freedom of movement for both sleepers. However, with split sheets from DoubleUps For Beds, you can find custom sheets that will help you achieve a more rested night’s sleep.
Not many people enjoy making the bed each morning. This is especially challenging with adjustable bed sheets. The fitted sheet may be fine at the top and the bottom, but the edges keep falling out! The solution was to create sheets with wings. The sheets are elastic at the top and the bottom and the middle has an extra wing of fabric to keep the sheet in place. As the bed is adjusted into a higher position, the sheet will be held firmly in place.
With these innovative split sheets, you can forget about being left in the cold when your partner pulls over all of the sheets to their side of the bed. DoubleUps For Beds has made it possible to stay warm and cuddle up with your sheets and blankets throughout the night. Shop today for high-quality split sheets and have an even more blissful night’s sleep tonight.
]]>Anyone who has ever been in a new relationship or had to share a bed with someone who tossed and turned, hogged the sheets and blankets, snored, or maneuvered their way into the middle of the bed, knows the struggles of getting a good night’s sleep. When you are a light sleeper to begin with, the issue is that much worse. One of the most frustrating problems of sharing your bed is when you or your partner (y
ou know who it is) pulls over more than their share of the sheets. This tug-of-war can result in many cold sleepers and early morning brawls. So what do you do about it? Read these solutions for common bed sharing problems and then learn more about DoupleUps For Beds split sheets that can reinvigorate your night’s sleep and ease the tension in your relationship.
A queen bed is 60 inches wide, so between two people, each sleeper gets two and a half feet of space to sleep in. And who likes to sleep right up against the bed? A king size bed is 76 inches wide, giving each sleeper just over three feet of space. The difference between king and queen is eight inches of space for each sleeper. When broken down like that, it might not sound like a big difference, but if you are constantly bumping into your partner’s knees or being pushed off the bed, you do notice. When choosing a bed to sleep in, spend some time at the store and don’t be afraid to lay down and move around to make sure that either a king or queen will be enough for both sleepers. DoubleUps For Beds has split sheets that fit bed sizes from full all the way to California king.
Like Goldilocks finding a porridge just the right temperature, finding the right mattress firmness or softness is challenging. With varying personal preferences and different body types requiring a different type of mattresses, it sounds nearly impossible to make a decision. But consider purchasing two different styles of twin beds and pushing them together. So you don’t fall into the space in between, add a mattress pad to level the gap. The good news with this solution is that two twin beds is the same size as a king-sized bed!
Sharing a bed means also sharing a room, so when one partner is reading in bed, working on their laptop, or watching TV, the light can be disrupting to the other sleeper. In this case, it’s all about compromise. The sleeper could try using an eye mask to block the light. Or the reader could purchase a small book light that will focus the light on the book instead of the room. As for the TV, maybe go to another room so the light as well as the noise isn’t a bother, and consider turning down the brightness of the screen.
Tossing and turning can be harmful to both sleepers. While this might not be intentional, or one sleeper simply can’t find a comfortable position, it is still nonetheless a problem. If one partner tends to be the culprit more often than not, try letting them fall asleep alone before the other partner goes to bed. When schedules don’t allow this, an investment in a mattress that doesn’t transfer motion, like a memory foam mattress, might be necessary.
Everyone has been in this situation at least once — waking up to find that you have just a few inches of sheet or blanket to pull over your body or that your partner has been left shivering. Never a fun situation to find yourself in and no one wants to admit that they are the one pulling the sheets over. However, there is a solution that will make both sleepers comfortable, warm, and rested in the morning. Split sheets bring you the best of both worlds. Two separate, yet overlapping sheets at the head of the bed which have been sewn together at the bottom, making one large, double sheet.
The innovative solution to the sheets tug-of-war between couples has finally been found. When we spend over 200,000 hours sleeping, many of those with a partner, that’s a lot of time spent sharing the sheets. And a lot of time trying not to hog them. With DoubleUps For Beds, you don’t have to share any longer (every toddler is jumping for joy). Each sleeper has their own sheet that they have full control over. And if you love to play footsie with your partner, by combining the sheets at the foot of the bed, you still can! Split sheets may not resolve the issue of who gets to make the bed in the morning, but you can at least argue over that after a full night’s sleep.
Don’t worry about sleeping with cold shoulders or leaving your partner without any bedding. Start shopping now and experience what it feels like to have split sheets.
]]>DoubleUps for Beds specializes in high quality sheet sets for all styles of adjustable beds. Adjustable beds require sheets that are custom made with the flex and motion of the bed in mind. Our sheet sets for adjustable beds are of the best-fitting available on the market today, and will stay on your adjustable mattress while the bed is in motion. Finally, sheets that will fit and stay in place when your adjustable bed is in motion!
The highest quality adjustable bed sheets allow you to indulge in luxurious cotton fabric that is soft and rich to touch. Standard top sheet and pillow cases are finished with a matching satin trim. Our fitted bottom sheets are made with drops and wings (extra fabric) in the middle to keep the fitted sheet in place, accommodating the flex of all styles of adjustable beds. Available in 200, 350, and 600 thread count, rich beautiful colors and four (8",10",13", and 15") different drops. Made in the USA.
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Modern life’s sleep troubles — the chronic bleary-eyed state that many of us live in — have long been blamed on our industrial society. The city lights, long work hours, commutes, caffeine, the Internet. When talking about the miserable state of our ability to get enough rest, sleep researchers have had a tendency to harken back to a simpler time when humans were able to fully recharge by sleeping and waking to the rhythms of the sun.
It turns out that may not be quite right. In fact, it now appears that our ancestors, too, may not have been getting the doctor-recommended eight hours of sleep.
In an intriguing study published last week in Current Biology, researchers traveled to remote corners of the planet to scrutinize the sleep patterns of some of the world’s last remaining hunter-gatherers — the Hadza of Tanzania, the San of Namibia and the Tsimane of Bolivia. Cut off from electricity, media and other distractions, these pre-industrial societies are thought to experience the same sort of natural sleep that ancient humans enjoyed more than 10,000 years ago.
Located in a woodland-savannah habitat 2 degrees south of the equator, the Hazda gather their wild foods each day. The San are not migratory but interact very little with surrounding villages and live as hunter-gatherers. The Tsimane, who live close to the Maniqui River, are hunter-horticulturalist.
Using Actiwatch-2 devices (a kind of a souped-up, medical-grade Fitbit for sleep), researchers recorded the sleeping habits of 94 of these tribespeople and ended up collecting data representing 1,165 days.
What they found was a striking uniformity in their sleep patterns despite their geographic isolation. On average, all three groups sleep a little less than 6½ hours a night, do not take naps and don’t go to sleep when it gets dark. Like many of us, the Hazda, San and Tsimane spent more than that in bed — from 6.9 to 8.5 hours — than actually sleeping. That computes to a sleep efficiency of between 81 to 86 percent, which is very similar to today’s industrial populations.
Jerome Siegel, director of the University of California at Los Angeles’ Center for Sleep Research, and his colleagues explained that this suggests that sleep may not be environmental or cultural, but “central to the physiology of humans” living in the tropical latitudes where our species evolved.
“The short sleep in these populations challenges the belief that sleep has been greatly reduced in the ‘modern world,’ ” Siegel said. “This has important implications for the idea that we need to take sleeping pills because sleep has been reduced from its ‘natural level’ by the widespread use of electricity, TV, the Internet and so on.”
The findings call into question the untold millions of dollars that have been spent on research that tries to get to the bottom of why “short” sleepers only get about six hours of sleep a night and the idea that lack of sleep may be a big reason why obesity, mood disorders, and other physical and mental ailments have surged in recent decades.
Our ideas about napping may need some revision, too.
Scientists have long documented that people have a tendency to “crash” in energy in the midafternoon, and some have speculated that it’s because we’ve managed to suppress some innate need for siesta. The new study provides evidence that this is unlikely.
The data from the San of Namibia, for instance, show no afternoon naps during 210 days of recording in the winter and 10 naps in 364 days in the summer. The findings were similar for the other two tribes, suggesting that napping isn’t really a common thing among hunter-gatherers either. At the high end, the researchers estimated that naps may have occurred on up to 7 percent of winter days and 22 percent of summer days.
The researchers noted that the devices they were using weren’t great at picking up naps of short durations, so it is possible that some of the study subjects were taking short power naps of less than 15 minutes.
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