Sleeping Well in London

I am now staying at home in London. When I get into bed, I fall into sleep within a few seconds. I feel that I have good quality sleeping here because I wake up fully refreshed and energized in the morning. I sleep so deeply that I am even not awaken by a full bladder caused by a drink right before bedtime. In my impression, that's certainly a difference between sleeping in London and Hong Kong. Hong Kong is a busy city lacking of natural plants. My London home is sited in a natural environment. Air is comfortably fresh. Next to our rear garden, there is a river named New River Path. The New River is neither new nor a river. It is an aqueduct built from 1609 to 1613 from near Ware to Islington to bring freshwater from Hertfortshire springs to the Cty of London. Today Thames Water still uses the New River as a source for London's drinking water.

It takes me 25 minutes to walk from home to a local library and shopping center. This provides me with a chance for adequate exercises. I evidence that both physical exercises and natural environment help improving sleep quality. If people suffer from insomnia, I would suggest that they take a distance walk in the area where they could see lots of trees and plants. Natural areas make people feel relaxed.

Whenever I travel from the East to the West, I sleep very well in the following nights. The late afternoon in London is equvialent to the time at midnight in Hong Kong. Therefore, I always feel very sleepy in the early evening at London upon arrival on the first few days.

Decaffeinated Tea

As far as I don't drink tea or Coca-Cola, I won't have any problems in sleeping. However, the intolerance of tea has affected my social life. I feel embarrassed to refuse tea after dinner particularly before new friends. Since I don't like soft drinks and I am not tolerated to tea, there are not any options for me to drink. For such reason, I just drink plain water all the time. Decaffeinated tea is great. I love it because it doesn't cause me any problems. I always drink it in the evening. However, it is unfortunately not provided in any restaurant. If people don't like getting decaffeinated tea from supermakets, they can make it themselves. Please refer to the video shown below.

There will be no tea for my lunch too. The Chinese tea always gives me a very long-lasting impact on my sleeping quality. English tea is much better. Perhaps, it is due to the fact that the caffeine absorption is lessen after a mixture of milk. I enjoy my big mug of English tea in the morning. If I drink a very small cup of tea with milk in the early afternoon, that is still fine with me.

Tea and coffee are the most common drinks in social activities. This implies that the majority people won't have any problems with caffeine. I seldom mention my sleeping problems to friends because they won't understand the impact of caffeine to some minority people. If I told them that I couldn't get into sleep the night before, they would suspect that I felt nervous, anxious, etc.... Anxiety is only one of the many reasons leading to insomnia. Whenever people suffer from insomnia, friends and doctors always ask questions on anxiety. This make sufferers feel bad.