This is not a deceiving post. It is true. NASA has offered a sum of $5000 for people to simply lay on bed for a 90 day period with limited movement. They will be required to be awake for 16 hours though and sleep the usual sleeping hours of 8.

For people who love to sleep and stay in bed, don’t be surprised if they bite the offer. $5000 is not joke and to just stay there and become an eventual guinea pig may be worth the 3-month offer.

But the downside is your body may become restless and you as a person will become bored on being observed by scientists on this experiment. With that in mind, can you even fall asleep knowing you are being observed by someone in the shadows?

(Source) NBC25

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War veterans are perhaps the most frequent patients that Walter Reed has and it has offered the Specialized Care Program. One thing you cannot discount among war veterans would be their traumatic experiences in the ongoing war in Iraq and apparently do not be surprised to hear them screaming or even continuing the fight for peace in their dreams.

Yoga has been known to help people relax and apparently much of these war veterans could use it to help fight their traumatic stress experience.

The Specialized Care Program at Walter Reed focuses on helping service members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan leave their wartime experiences behind.

Yoga, Carnes said, has become a large part of that effort.

In conjunction with a team of psychologists, a physical therapist, two nurses, a social worker and a general internist, Carnes has worked with hundreds of service members.

The program, which serves as many as 120 service members per year, 90 percent of whom suffer from PTSD, costs about $800,000 annually. That figure covers salaries for the program’s specialists as well as travel and accommodations for the participants, such as Farley, who typically come for a three-week treatment session.

(Source) Washington Post

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Mother’s day is just around the corner and mothers are obviously one of the people who often find trouble defining sleep and restful slumber. They are normally known to be on the go, attending to the needs of the family members and even the house chores adding up to a stressful activity outside that of lateral thinking.

So in case you are wondering what to get your mom, set aside the usual flowers and chocolates. Mothers deserve a break and something special. Check out this great gift idea for better sleep and slumber, EclipseSpa Bath and Body Products.

The all organic, paraben free product line includes a luxurious Sugar, Soy and Tea Bubble Bath infused with Lavender essential oils that is sure to help her unwind and de-stress at the end of a long day. Add the Escape CD, a collection of spa music and a fragrant soy candle decanter to her Mother’s Day package to complete her at-home spa experience.

(Source) PR.Com

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Here is a good kids bed from Bright Young Things Collection. Through the bed design itself, it is clear that it was made to target the young kids today who want to look forward to the beds that they will be lying on.

The Airsrung Beta Bed has been designed especially for young and growing children, with a gently supportive sleep system which helps promote good posture.

The bed comes with a large drawer storage option but does not include the headboard.

Price: £149.00

(Source) Bedswarehouse

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When most parents reach the point of ultimate exhaustion, chances are they will forget that they normally share their beds with their children in their infancy age. This practice is only common among parents considering that infants would normally have to be looked after and guided to sleep.

There are cases where kids sleep together with their parents when they are sick since medical attention is needed such as monitoring their temperature at times.

However, there are cases to which people get sleepy and tired to. This is uncontrollable and sometimes babies are the victims in the end, usually due to suffocation because of stuff lying around which people deem as harmless.

“Because parents can become “accidental” co-sleepers, every parent should safety-proof their bed, even if they don’t plan on sharing their bed with a baby, says James. J. McKenna, director of the University of Notre Dame’s Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory. “In many ways, there isn’t a single sleep location for babies,’’ notes Dr. McKenna. “Sometimes babies sleep alone, sometimes they sleep with parents. My approach is to provide as much information as possible for minimizing risks and maximizing safety whatever the sleep environment baby and parents find themselves in.’’

Read more: Someone Might Be Sleeping in Your Bed

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The use of metaphors when it comes to overall valuing of beds and stuff may give various meanings. People are sure to misinterpret some clichés if they are not familiar with them. Crawling into your biscuit for one, does not mean what people perceive on what to do with biscuits. It is really another way of telling people to go to bed.

The whole motif was something that Warm Bedding Company lives by. With proper ambiance and fantasy ridden setups, nothing beats living towards how parents and guardians put their tykes to sleep. That is precisely what owners of Warm Bedding Company wants to project, create warm, colorful and fun atmospheres in the home of people who deserve them.

“I used to take calls while breastfeeding,” Bodwell, mother of three, says laughingly. With an extensive background in advertising and marketing, as well as a love for vintage fabrics, she started the company in 1998 when the children’s décor category was still in its infancy. “The only choices for children’s bedding were licensed cartoon characters and washed-out pastels,” explains Bodwell. Her original idea was to offer existing bedding patterns. But when nothing she found seemed to fit her vision, she designed and manufactured her own line. “Moms today want to create custom look at an affordable price. They want their children’s rooms to be inspiring and fun,” says Bodwell of her bedding collection which includes playful themes borrowed from 1950’s school readers, cowboys and bucking broncos (a nod to her native Texas), and fresh combinations of vintage floral prints and bold stripes.

Source: Big city mom creates E commerce company with small town feel

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In what is perhaps any home owners dream, just hearing the word Jacuzzi seems to be already synonymous towards overall rest. Jacuzzis are known to provide that restful and therapeutic means to help soothe battered bodies and recharge drained ones at that. Many enjoy the unwinding times they can achieve through it and with special mention to brand names to be heard, it is surely something the will show promise this early.

Jacuzzi Brands Corp. announced that its subsidiary, Jacuzzi Inc. has granted an exclusive license to Thurmo Medical Sleep Products, Inc. USA to manufacture and market luxury sleep systems under its famous Jacuzzi® trademark.

Thurmo Medical Sleep Products, Inc is a High Point, NC-based maker and marketer of advanced therapeutic gel visco-elastic bedding products for the consumer, hospitality and medical markets.

“The Jacuzzi brand is known around the world for the highest quality innovative products that help people rest and rejuvenate in a luxurious and stylish manner” said Jacuzzi Brands Corp. President and Chief Executive Officer Thomas D. Koos.

Source: Jacuzzi Licenses Name for Luxury Bedding Products

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Some may call it lack of observance of hygiene and cleaning the sheets when a person starts to feel uncomfortable and becomes irritated with the bed he lays on. Changing of sheets may be the immediate solution but it would be wise to check under the bed as well since these irritating bed bugs and mites may just be staying put until the cover has been clear after supposed cleaning.

Bed bug presence is obvious once people start to develop itches and marks on parts of their body. They may be hardly seen but their dirty work can be seen on the body parts of a person. Surely, they are not infections that will thrive on their prey while they are only in bed. They can be carried anywhere if people do not properly address them and have treatments in order.

“From bedbugs to toxic moths, the number of pests in UK homes is on the rise. Why is this, and what can be done to curb their populations?”

Source: Itching to get at you

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How many pillows does it take for a person to sleep safe and soundly? Well for some people. More pillows mean more comfort. Some people look towards pillows rather than the bed as a means of obtaining the needed respite that most consumers look for in a quality resting habit.

So the thing is, how many pillows would a quality sleeper need? Some would want pillows at the back of their head, back or even their feet. There are some who want to have a bed to hug as a sign of security that allows them to fully rest.

The placement of pillows in the various sleeping positions is important as well. They are just not given the proper attention but once they are identified, many would be dazed at where they are required and why so.

Further reading : Pillow Talk for the Weary

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According to a new study, the reason why new mothers get less sleep is due to their dependence on gadgets like baby monitors. While their own mothers got about  six hours of sleep every night, today’s parents average just three and a half, according to Mother & Baby magazine.

Elena Dalrymple, the editor of Mother & Baby, said: “Just as a watched kettle never boils, so a watched baby never sleeps, and rigging up complicated baby monitoring systems may just be a step too far.”The pressure modern parents find themselves under is enormous, especially mums. It is primarily mums who do the night-time baby duty, yet many are also back at work full-time by the time baby is six months old. Dads need to pull their weight.

“Parents-to-be have no idea how the lack of sleep a baby brings will devastate their lives. If you’re only getting three and a half hours’ sleep night after night, and sometimes less, you’ll most likely take your frustration and anger out on your partner.

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