Do sleepless nights keep you from camping more often than you’d like? Or, make your time on the trail harder to enjoy and recover from?
According to Dr. Mary Susan Esther, president of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, sleep patterns take months to establish and trying to fall asleep and stay asleep outside of your normal routine causes insomnia.
Even mild dehydration can cause sleeplessness; so does being cold before you get into a sleeping bag. It seems if you want to fall asleep you need to go to sleep at your normal time, do a few jumping-jacks to warm up your body before you slip into the sack and it helps to keep your socks on. A Dutch study proved wearing socks helps to regulate the body’s core temperature.
