Please don’t! Just sleep alone if you care for your (and the world’s)health, peace, tranquility and propserity.
“IF YOU have ever thought you were stupid to sleep with someone, consider this…Sharing your bed could actually make you stupid if you are a man – at least temporarily,” say Gerhard Kloesch and colleagues from the University of Vienna, Austria.
“Even without having sex, bed sharing disturbs sleep quality, The team recruited eight unmarried, childless couples, and used questionnaires and a wrist activity monitor, an ‘actigraph’, to assess sleep patterns after 10 nights together and 10 apart.
“Men and women fared differently. While men thought they slept better with a partner, and women believed they didn’t, actually both sexes had more disturbed sleep, even when they did not have sex.
“Lack of sleep led to increased stress hormone levels in men, and reduced their ability to perform simple cognitive tests the next day.
However, the women apparently slept more deeply when they did sleep, since they claimed to be more refreshed than their sleep time suggested. Their stress levels and mental scores did not suffer to the same extent.”
Kloesch presented his work at a meeting of the Forum of European Neurosciences in Vienna last week. “Sleeping with someone also affected dream recall, with women remembering more after sleeping alone and men recalling best after sex.”
It is really strange/funny. My grandmother had a peculiar theory. She believed that the world became topsyturvy ever since the double-bed was discovered. By sharing a bed with women, she maintained, men became effeminate and lost their mystique among women. And became weak in the head and irrational.
I strongly recommend that single beds be introduced with immediate effect in the White House, 10 Downing Street and other power residences in the world to save this world where the political leadership is increasingly becoming irrational!!!
Swaraaj Chauhan describes his two-decade-long stint as a full-time journalist as eventful, purposeful, and full of joy and excitement. In 1993 he could foresee a different work culture appearing on the horizon, and decided to devote full time to teaching journalism (also, partly, with a desire to give back to the community from where he had enriched himself so much.)
Alongside, he worked for about a year in 1993 for the US State Department’s SPAN magazine, a nearly five-decade-old art and culture monthly magazine promoting US-India relations. It gave him an excellent opportunity to learn about things American, plus the pleasure of playing tennis in the lavish American embassy compound in the heart of New Delhi.
In !995 he joined WWF-India as a full-time media and environment education consultant and worked there for five years travelling a great deal, including to Husum in Germany as a part of the international team to formulate WWF’s Eco-tourism policy.
He taught journalism to honors students in a college affiliated to the University of Delhi, as also at the prestigious Indian Institute of Mass Communication where he lectured on “Development Journalism” to mid-career journalists/Information officers from the SAARC, African, East European and Latin American countries, for eight years.
In 2004 the BBC World Service Trust (BBC WST) selected him as a Trainer/Mentor for India under a European Union project. In 2008/09 He completed another European Union-funded project for the BBC WST related to Disaster Management and media coverage in two eastern States in India — West Bengal and Orissa.
Last year, he spent a couple of months in Australia and enjoyed trekking, and also taught for a while at the University of South Australia.
Recently, he was appointed as a Member of the Board of Studies at Chitkara University in Chandigarh, a beautiful city in North India designed by the famous Swiss/French architect Le Corbusier. He also teaches undergraduate and postgraduate students there.
He loves trekking, especially in the hills, and never misses an opportunity to play a game of tennis. The Western and Indian classical music are always within his reach for instant relaxation.
And last, but not least, is his firm belief in the power of the positive thought to heal oneself and others.