The Big Sleep

The Daily Mail has published an interesting article on its website, talking about another outcome of the study conducted by Travelodge in order to understand sleeping habits. The story is entitled "We're all too hot or cold to sleep."

Most Britons complain about the temperature in their room. They don't ever seem to find the right balance between freezing cold and sweating of heat. Because of an inappropriate temperature, an average of 6.5 nights of sleep are lost per month!! That is 13 years of broken sleep in a lifetime, as the article states.

• Why do people complain about temperature?

 The difficulty lies in this dilemma: some people choose to have a cold room, and rely on the duvet to provide heat. After a while, it becomes really hot under the duvet, so parts of the body venture outside it. They keep alternating between heat and cold and cannot sleep soundly.

Other people will choose a hot room, but as soon as they are under the duvet, it becomes much too hot. Most people do not like to sleep without snuggling into a duvet, or some sheets. They hang on to something, and the feeling of heat remains.

• How to sleep at the right temperature?

First of all, the temperature of the room must be set to mild. Try to play with the heating as best as you can to achieve  a balanced room temperature. Not too warm, not too cold.

Second, the key is to keep the same mild temperature while snuggled under the duvet. It is not the duvet that creates heat. It is your body that creates heat and the duvet either retains this heat or releases some of it outside air. So you need a duvet that will release enough heat to keep your body at a mild temperature.

This is what determines the quality of a duvet: the better the duvet, the more it breathes, keeping the necessary heat under the duvet and releasing all the extra heat to the outside.

The quilt that best accomplishes this is the

Siberian White Goose Down quilt

And if you suffer from allergies, we recommend the Simply the Best synthetic quilt