The Sleep Room – A Novel

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I find this a bit weird. Surely the babies should always nap in a sleep room? I’m not sure what our boy will be like by the time he goes at 1 year, but at the moment he needs to be in his cot with white noise and darkness. He would never be able to switch off in the main room and would probably get upset.

Furthermore, the plot was a lot of buildup with not a lot of follow through. The ending of the The Sleep Room was confusing...and almost seemed to consist of two distinct stories.

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It’s 1955, and the novel opens with James Richardson, a young psychiatrist working in London, interviewing for a job with Dr. Hugh Maitland. To Richardson, Maitland is a hero of sorts–an eminent psychiatrist regularly published and the head of “psychological medicine at Saint Thomas’s.” Richardson is particularly interested in sleep studies, so he leaps at Maitland’s offer of a job at Wyldehope, a remote hospital located in Suffolk for ‘special’ cases. This sounds like a dream job: 24 beds “two wards and a narcosis room,” supported by nine nurses, a caretaker and his wife. In addition, Maitland in vigorously opposed to Freudian methods: This book pushed all those buttons for me. Hints of Gothic and the paranormal, mysterious people in out of the way places caring for what appear to be "hopeless and helpless" psychiatric patients. And in the English countryside. What else could this reader want? Not much else actually.

A man dreams that he is a butterfly, and in the dream he has no knowledge of his life as a human being. When he wakes up, he asks himself two questions: Am I a man, who has just dreamed that he was a butterfly? Or am I really a butterfly, now dreaming that I am a man?” This book was a bit of a slow one. The pretence was interesting and I was invested in the story at the beginning of the novel, but I soon lost interest in this Shutter Island copy.Another important part of controlling your light exposure is to minimize or eliminate the use of electronic devices, including tablets and cell phones, in your bedroom. Watching TV in the bedroom before going to bed, will negatively impact your sleep quality. Screen time exposes your eyes to blue light that can disrupt your circadian rhythm, and it can also activate your mind, making it harder to wind down for sleep. If you need to keep a device in your bedroom, try to keep it out of arm’s reach and avoid using it for an hour or more before bedtime. Sound No matter how much square footage you have to work with, you want to avoid a cramped feeling in your bedroom. Start by choosing a mattress size that fits without being too snug. Utilizing vertical space or underbed storage can make the most of even a small bedroom, freeing up floor space that can be used for handy furniture, like a nightstand, or to give the room an airier feel.