As exciting as anticipating a trip that starts off with acareful review of cheaptravel options, such as cheap airplane tickets, discount hotel rooms, and cheap vacation packages,sleep is often elusive when away from home.
Many travelers do not want to reach for pills or alcoholwhen trying to encourage sleep. Sleepstudies suggest that the alternative is to control what you see and hear.
The following are various sleep aids/advice that can helpinduce sleep on a plane or hotel:
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TheOstrich Pillow cocoons a fliers head in a padded sack.
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TheUpRight Sleeper prevents a passengers head from falling forward while sleepingon a plane.
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TheSkyRest travel pillow has gained popularity in spite of resembling a giantinflatable cheese wedge.
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TheTravel HoodiePillow is an inflatable neck pillow attached to a hoodie made ofsweatshirt material in a variety of colors. Tug the drawstrings and the pillowpromises cocoonification.
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Avoid latenight meals while traveling since research shows they can disrupt sleep.
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Keepsmartphones out of sight in hotel rooms since the backlight can disrupttravelers body clocks.
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Airsleepis an app for iPhones, iPods, and iPads that is supposed to transport the userto dreamland with the sound of rain, waves, and wind along with dreamwavebrainwave technology that claims to alter brain wave patterns to help usersrelax. This app adds music, somethinglike New Age mystics on a sand dune, to the rain, waves, and wind.
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If youprefer to nod off to sounds of nature without accompanying music, check outHealing Sounds of Nature CDs.
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WhiteNoise by TMSoft is an app for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch that sootheslisteners with ocean waves, wind, and rain, as well as unconventional soundoptions such as a train, vacuum cleaner, hair dryer, and purring cat. White Noise users can set shut off timers andalarms and mix multiple sounds.
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Theauthor of the book Get Some Headspace offers a free 16 minute sleep podcaston his Headspace meditation app during much he talks the user through an underthe covers mediation technique.
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Dark,snug fitting, quality eye masks block out light and can help induce sleep. Dream Essentials offers a contoured sleepmask with earplugs and a pouch. Atechnologically enhanced mask, called Glo to Sleep by Sound Oasis, is a blackfoam mask with small photoluminescent points of glo inside which is supposedto help switch off your mind.
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