Doctor shares bedroom window hack that helps you skip 3am wake ups and fall asleep fast — I tried it and here's what happened to my sleep

The composite image shows a dark haired woman sleeping peacefully in bed on the left and a dark haired woman sitting up in bed and drinking a cup of coffee in front of an open window.

Whether it’s a meditation technique to beat nighttime anxiety or a decluttering method that helps you fall asleep in minutes and to stop waking up at 3 a.m., there’s little I won’t try in my eternal quest for an uninterrupted night’s sleep.

The current hack doing the rounds on social media right now is ‘bedroom burping,’ a shock ventilation tactic that replaces stale air with fresh. The promise? Improved indoor air quality that leads to deeper, longer sleep.

As someone prone to waking up at night, I tried ‘burping’ my bedroom for a week to see if it could help me curb my nighttime awakenings, and to knock me out faster than any other sleep technique I've tried so far.

I also spoke to Dr Stephanie Kayode, a London-based allergy physician, to find out why bedroom ventilation is key to better sleep, and how bedroom burping helps. Here's what I discovered, and what happened to my sleep when I tried it...