The Art of Rest, Vitality, and Freedom A beginner’s guide to sleeping outdoors using natural materials, ancestral practices, and minimalist gear. How I Learned to Sleep Outdoors When I was fifteen, I began sleeping outside on the lawn of the apartment complex where I lived. It felt bold, even slightly transgressive—dragging a sleeping pad and […]
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What if deeper more restful sleep didn’t come from a softer bed—but from a firmer surface? When did we lose our ability to relax on the ground? Why do people need increasingly softer air mattresses when camping? For years I explored this question, experimenting with natural terrains—sand, forest floors, even creekside boulders. Like many who try it,
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How Nature Recalibrates the Brain and Restores True Rest Modern humans are some of the most sleep-deprived mammals on Earth, not necessarily in hours, but in depth and quality. Artificial light, synthetic materials, indoor air, and digital overstimulation pull our brain waves toward constant beta frequency — the busy, alert state of problem-solving and screen-scanning.
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Advantages of Sleeping on a Firm Surface Are you still sleeping on a mattress? You might want to consider Rewilding your Sleeping surface. There are huge advantages to a firm sleep surface. Because of this Lucky Sheep has designed a wool felt sleeping mat which can be used on the ground as well as indoors
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When I first laid my head on a buckwheat pillow I knew had found another secret lost by modern society. All my life I had followed the example around me using what in comparison to this was a huge overstuffed object. The simple small bean bag like thing provided cervical (neck) support without pushing the
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For thousands of years humans have slept on minimal surfaces without mattresses. In only a few decades of corporate propaganda and advertising people have come to think of sleep and mattresses as practically synonymous. However what we don’t know is mattresses are robbing us of the deep sleep which we would more easily find with
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When I take my friends camping they are amazed at how easy I make it look. I just whip out my gear, have the tarp up and everything organized no matter the weather, and usually fall asleep about as soon as I hit the sleeping bag. I have spent many years trying to find a
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Q. It seems so counterintuitive. How can a big soft bed be uncomfortable and a board be comfortable?  A. The soft modern bed is like a wheelchair for an ailing society. It is only comfortable is your definition of comfortable is NUMBING, where you do no work and it does the work for you. You have
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Your bed is one of the main factors effecting your sleep. The perfect bed is not going to solve all of your sleep issues overnight (pardon the pun) because sleep is effected by more than just one factor. (Other factors are the things which effect Circadian Rhythms–which will be covered in another article.) However, there are
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