Everyone knows that an easy trick to calming a restless infant is to rock them back and forth. For whatever reason, the gentle side-to-side motion seems to soothe small children and lull them off to dreamland.
You wouldn’t exactly expect the same thing to work for a grown adult, but a new study suggests that rocking away while sleeping might actually have some huge benefits, including deeper sleep, waking up less, and even improved memory.
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Adults sleep better when rocked to sleep originally appeared on BGR.com on Fri, 25 Jan 2019 at 18:04:57 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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