The Sweet Reason You Can’t Sleep On Your First Night Away From Home

The Sweet Reason You Can’t Sleep On Your First Night Away From Home

Toss and turn on the first night away? Sleep experts explain the evolutionary ‘First-Night Effect’ – and the simple packing hacks that trick your brain.

Freelance Life Writer

Though my Instagram stories tell a different story, my first day of travel is always tinged with a little delirium. Airports, flying, navigating a new country and then, horror of all horrors, trying to sleep in a new bed.

As much as I love it, I’m not a particularly great traveller as it is but that first night, no matter how tired I am, I just feel extremely out of sorts and find myself missing my own very comfortable, very familiar bed.

It turns out, no........

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