It does matter from which side of the bed the person is sleeping
Last reviewed: 16.05.2018
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It turns out that it's not enough to "get up from the right foot" in the morning. It is also important, from which side of the bed a person slept, and Feng Shui has absolutely nothing to do with it.
English scientists have determined that the right side of the bed chosen for the sleep directly affects the mood and even the success of the person. The study involved thousands of volunteers who slept on certain sides of the bed and in the later told about the day and even the state of health.
Experts conducted a survey of the people studied and made an unambiguous conclusion: the optimal side for sleep is the left one. It was those who slept on the left, had more optimistic views on the surrounding reality, with greater love for relatives and colleagues. Such people easily got friends, they were "lucky" with work and they did not complain about bad mood and well-being.
Some skeptics point out that the percentage in this study is not too large, but the trend for "left-sided" sleep can be clearly traced.
Psychologists argue that the results can negatively affect the relationship of particularly impressionable married couples who will now "fight" for the right to sleep on the left side of the bed. Here, scientists make an amendment: for those spouses who are forced to sleep on the right side of "involuntarily", this observation does not apply. It applies only to people spending the night alone. The rest for a good mood, it's enough just to get enough sleep, that you can provide a properly mattress and bedding.
In search of the "right" side of the bed, the company's employees drew attention to one more important point: it was found that a considerable part of married couples, being in perfect relations with each other, nevertheless do not sleep in the same bed, but in different beds and even rooms . The reason for this behavior is that most people call snoring a husband or restless behavior in a dream. A smaller number of interviewed volunteers prefer a matrimonial bed to a dream with children or pets.
In addition, experts determine the optimal distance between spouses during sleep. For example, couples sleeping at a distance not exceeding three centimeters can not worry about the quality of family relationships.
With what it is possible to connect the results of this study, it is not yet clear. However, the scientists found the fact proved, and recommend to each person to draw the appropriate conclusions for themselves. So far, only one question remains open: how to be people who can not sleep on one side of the bed, uncontrollably moving and turning around during sleep? Specialists reserve the right to conduct further research, and we can only hope that soon we will receive exhaustive answers to all the questions that interest us.
This research was initiated by a manufacturing company that specializes in making bedding and bedroom furniture.