COUPLES THAT SLEEP TOGETHER SLEEP BETTER

This may come as a surprise to those of us with partners that snore, but sharing your bed with a loved one can help you to sleep better, a study at the Center for Integrative Psychiatry in Germany has found. The team monitored the sleep of 12 young, healthy, heterosexual couples who spent four nights in the sleep lab. They found that sleeping with a partner increased the participants rapid eye movement (REM) sleep – a mode of sleep associated with improved emotion regulation, memory consolidation, social interactions and creative problem solving.