I’m kind of obsessed with sleep. When I’m not doing it, I’m thinking about how to do more of it, how to do it better, or whether I’m doing it right. You can laugh, but sleep majorly impacts your health and your daily quality of life. A recent study classified 16 different sleeping styles and scientists hope that this data could help us all live (and sleep) better.
The Japanese study, which was published last month in the medical journal PNAS, analyzed the data from 103,200 individuals from the U.K. Biobank, a biomedical database that gives researchers around the world access to giant human datasets. The data was collected using wearables that recorded each participant's sleep patterns — or lack thereof. Scientists then classified the data using different criteria — like time spent laying down to sleep but not actually sleeping — to create 16 categories of human sleep styles, or phenotypes.
