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How do you know a good night's sleep , How to sleep better at night?

 The Pee Kay  speaks of sleep, he can not, with good conscience, restrict himself to whispering soothing little about chamomile tea and warm baths. It is his belief that we are in the middle of a "catastrophic crisis of sleep deprivation," whose consequences are much more severe than any of us might foresee. He assumes that this situation is only going to improve if the government gets involved. Why, precisely, are we so starved of sleep? What has changed in the last 75 years? In 1942, fewer than 8 per cent of the populace attempted to survive with six hours or less of a night's sleep; in 2017 , nearly one in two people tried to survive. Apparently, the explanations are clear. "We electrified the night for the first time," says Walker. "Light is the darkest degrader in our sleep. Second, there's the problem of work: not just the fragile boundary between where you start and stop, but also longer commuting hours. No one wants to give up time with their fa