YOU’LL SLEEP BETTER WITH YOUR PARTNER’S T-SHIRT

A study by researchers from the University of British Columbia, Canada, says you’ll sleep better if you sleep with your partner’s t-shirt. The study recruited 155 participants and gave them two identical-looking t-shirts to use as pillowcases. One of the t-shirts had been worn by their romantic partner for a period of 24 hours in order to capture their body scent. The other t-shirt had either been worn by a stranger or was clean. The participants were asked to sleep with each t-shirt over their pillow for two consecutive nights without knowing which was which. Their sleep quality was measured using an actigraphy sleep watch, which detects movement throughout the night. The next morning, participants were asked to fill in a survey saying how well rested they felt. When the participants slept with their partner’s t-shirt they experienced better sleep quality, sleeping for an average of nine minutes more, even though their partner was not there.
* The study will be published in next month’s issue of “Scientific Ew, Gross”.
* Imagine how well-rested you’d feel with a whole extra nine minutes of sleep.
* What if your romantic partner wears a bra instead of a t-shirt?
* I’d lose more than 9 minutes of sleep if I had to lie there sniffing a stranger’s armpit.
* This explains why those University of British Columbia researchers keep snagging all the Nobel Prizes.