How technology can help you sleep better

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Special goggles may allow you to enjoy your screens before bed.
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Humans are terrible at getting enough sleep. We generally want it, enjoy it, and recognize its value. Heck, we need it, even if we don't entirely understand it. And yet, healthy sleep habits escape us.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which calls insufficient sleep a public health problem, recommends adults get seven to eight hours of shuteye each night. But just 42 percent of U.S. adults typically hit that mark, according to a March Gallup report.

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Julie Kliegman

Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.