Fight Club ends with a cadre of radical anarchists blowing up the towering headquarters of credit card companies, but it all starts because the narrator couldn’t get a good night’s sleep. Maybe the whole mad affair could have been avoided if he’d taken Dr. Luis Buenaver’s advice instead of getting in drunken scraps all night long.
“It’s important to be consistent, intentional, and mindful about sleep,” Buenaver, the head of Johns Hopkins’ Behavioral Sleep Medicine Program, tells Inverse. “People get frustrated by insomnia, and then it’s easy to slip into bad habits, and then you’re exhausted and chasing sleep.”
