Sharing your bed with a partner may be emotionally fulfilling, but it may also reduce the quality of your sleep. Here's why.
, and monitored their sleep for seven nights, using both actigraphy and participants’ self-reports. They used these measurements to calculate variables that are perhaps easiest to understand by imagining you were a participant in the study.
On average, partners woke each other up six times throughout the night. If one partner woke up, there was an approximately 20% chance the other would also wake up; similarly, about 20% of one partner’s wake-ups were caused by the other partner’s awakenings. Finally, participants were able to stay asleep for about half of the time their partner was awake.
The results also showed that “night owls” in a couple—those who go to bed later and wake up later than their partner—were less likely to be woken up by their partner’s awakenings.Contrary to the researchers' expectations, partners were more likely to wake each other up when they shared the same bedtime. These awakenings were most likely in the first two hours of being in bed and the last two hours of the night.
It’s important to note an alternative explanation for why a shared bedtime leads to more shared wake-ups. The authors explain that perhaps the partners have synchronized sleep phases, they’re waking up independently at the same time.
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