#203 - What’s Next To Your Bed?: In The Dark, Try To Make It Work
From Sleep Unplugged with Dr. Chris Winter by Chris Winter, MD
May 11, 2026 · 29 min
About this episode
This episode explores how our bedside environments reflect our relationship with sleep and introduces the Sleep Sanctuary Index.
What’s on your bedside table? A lamp? A phone? A book? A bottle of melatonin gummies? A tangled charging cable? In this episode we explore what our bedside environments reveal about our relationship with sleep itself. Using real listener-submitted nightstands and bedside drawers — including my own — we introduce the Sleep Sanctuary Index (SSI™), a playful but evidence-informed scoring system designed to determine whether the things beside our bed are helping or hurting sleep. Along the way we...
People in this episode
Host: Chris Winter
Topics covered
- bedside environment
- sleep relationship
- Sleep Sanctuary Index
- listener submissions
- sleep aids
Keywords
- bedside table
- sleep
- melatonin
- nightstand
- charging cable
- Sleep Sanctuary Index
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