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Sleep Week

Illustration by Tina Tiller

An amateur guide to lucid dreaming

Ever wanted to take control of your own dreams? Lucid dream enthusiast Don Rowe can teach you how. 
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By Don Rowe | 24th August, 2021
Contributing writer
A brief history of the humiliating places I have fallen asleep

A brief history of the humiliating places I have fallen asleep

Duncan Greive attempts to count the ways and places he has inappropriately nodded off.
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By Duncan Greive | 22nd August, 2021
Founder
The Sunday Essay: My dreams on antidepressants

The Sunday Essay: My dreams on antidepressants

Even now I think of the dream in which I was using a cigarette lighter to melt my own father.
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By Ashleigh Young | 22nd August, 2021
Guest writer
Ode to my Kobo, the midnight snack of reading

Ode to my Kobo, the midnight snack of reading

By day books editor Catherine Woulfe reads actual book-books. At night it’s a different story. 
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By Catherine Woulfe | 21st August, 2021
Contributing writer
Sleep scientists answer your most burning sleep questions

Sleep scientists answer your most burning sleep questions

The group of sleep geniuses from the Sleep/Wake Research Centre answer their most frequently-asked questions about catching Zzz’s.
By Sleep/Wake Research Centre | 20th August, 2021
Guest writer
Everything you always wanted to know about waterbeds but were afraid to ask

Everything you always wanted to know about waterbeds but were afraid to ask

Were they a health fad? A sex thing? And why did my parents get one in the 90s?
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By Calum Henderson | 20th August, 2021
Production editor
Telethon was a glorious shambles that never slept

Telethon was a glorious shambles that never slept

Celebrating the 24-hour TV party that brought New Zealand together and kept us all awake.
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By Tara Ward | 19th August, 2021
Staff writer
What Emily Writes has learned from a life without sleep

What Emily Writes has learned from a life without sleep

After nearly a decade of not sleeping, Emily Writes shares what she has learned during the wee small hours. 
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By Emily Writes | 18th August, 2021
Contributing writer
An insomniac plots their next sleep hack. Photo: Getty (additional design by Tina Tiller)

An insomniac attempts four viral sleep hacks

Inspired by her struggle with insomnia, Jihee Junn tries out the most viral sleep hacks on social media. 
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By Jihee Junn | 18th August, 2021
Contributing writer
How Covid-19 messed with our sleep

How Covid-19 messed with our sleep

Been struggling with weird dreams and erratic sleep patterns since Covid-19 arrived? You are not alone. 
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By Dr Rosie Gibson | 17th August, 2021
Guest writer
A sunrise lamp changed my life

A sunrise lamp changed my life

How a serial sleeper learned to wake up.
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By Madeleine Chapman | 17th August, 2021
Special correspondent
Illustration by Toby Morris

The strange realities of being a doctor on the night shift

First year doctor Emma Espiner shares the madness and mundanity of working nights in Middlemore Hospital’s medical ward. 
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By Emma Wehipeihana | 16th August, 2021
Guest writer
I dream of demons

I dream of demons

Haunted by nightly visits from ghouls and spiders, Josie Adams goes searching for the truth about sleep paralysis.
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By Josie Adams | 16th August, 2021
Contributing writer
Why The Spinoff is getting snoozy next week

Why The Spinoff is getting snoozy next week

Alex Casey introduces Sleep Week (August 16-22), a week-long series full of content you can only dream of – literally.  
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By Alex Casey | 13th August, 2021
Senior writer
(Design: Tina Tiller)

Emily Writes: I tried to review a book about sleep

Turns out her reading is just as broken as her sleep.
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By Emily Writes | 22nd June, 2021
Contributing writer
A man missing out on seeing a classic batting collapse (Getty Images)

Match fit: A sleep expert on surviving the overnight World Test Championship final

The World Test Championship final poses severe challenges for any NZ-based fan hoping to watch it overnight.
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By Alex Braae | 18th June, 2021
Staff Writer
Dogs don’t dream? Yeah right (Image: Tina Tiller)

Bouncer’s dream is still Australia’s greatest TV moment

He was in a traffic accident, ate poisonous mushrooms and saved Madge Bishop’s life. But Bouncer's biggest moment on Neighbours happened when he was asleep.
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By Calum Henderson | 22nd April, 2021
Production editor
A hearty lockdown meal (Photo: Getty Images)

How the lockdown changed our diets, affected our sleep, and left us lonely

New Zealanders' lifestyles changed, and so did our wellbeing.
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By James Dann | 27th October, 2020
Guest writer
You aren’t the only one having buzzy Covid dreams

You aren’t the only one having buzzy Covid dreams

Alex Casey speaks to a dream expert about why so many people are suddenly remembering their vivid and often horrible dreams.
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By Alex Casey | 4th April, 2020
Senior writer
An artist’s impression of how the author would have slept had they prepared properly

The Spinoff Reviews New Zealand #101: The overnight Sleeper bus from Wellington to Auckland

Alex Braae reviews a night spent on the Intercity overnight sleeper bus getting from Wellington to Auckland.
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By Alex Braae | 18th October, 2019
Staff Writer

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