We have busier social lives at this time of year, with as many as three events per week. There’s stress in planning trips. Kids are out of school, which puts all kinds of new scheduling pressure on parents. And through all of that, many of us are dealing with ongoing seasonal allergysymptoms, which make everything harder.
But above all, we’re not sleeping.
“People associate summer with recuperating and having more time on their hands, but because the days are longer, people try to do more and sleep less,” says Uli Gal Oz, CEO of SleepRate, which is a San Francisco-based app company focused on improving sleep. And the weather doesn’t help with the sleeping issue either; a full 88 percent of the 300+ people who took the survey also reported they like to sleep in cooler temperatures, making it harder to get a good night’s sleep during the hotter months.
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