Name: How to Get Better Sleep (w/ Dr. Tara Swart)
Uploaded: 2025-01-10T16:30:11.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'How to Get Better Sleep (w/ Dr. Tara Swart)' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-01-10. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'How to Get Better Sleep (w/ Dr. Tara Swart)' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-01-10. Transcript available.

because you're always kind of trying to balance everything for the perfect
amount of comfort.
That's what I feel like I'm trying to do these days. It's like, I'm always
trying to, like,
okay, the air conditioner, am I laying the right, like when I go to sleep
specifically, it's like,
am I laying the right way? Do I, it's like, I have to have so many little
things kind of
perfectly lined up or everything's not going to be okay, you know?
But do you do that thing where you blast the air conditioning, but you sleep
under loads of
blankets and why? I don't get that. Why not just have the bedding that's
correct for the
temperature that it naturally is? Yeah, I think because people have just gone
rogue. People don't
know how to just beat, just people are just crazy like that. Really, they're
really sleeper paths,
I call them, because it's kind of crazy. Yeah, you're right. Like I'm going to
put it at 65 degrees
and I'm going to bundle up like it's like I'm in Antarctica. Exactly. Yeah. And
then the
craziest stuff is sometimes you'll see like, some people have like a rainforest,
they have an eye
mask on, it literally seems like they're being, it's kind of the same thing as
if you were being
tortured in a country, like in a, you know, it's like they've got eye masks,
there's like water
dripping in the back, it just, you're like, this is, this is what they used to
do to prisoners,
it seems like, you know? Theo, I knew I was going to laugh with you, but I can't
believe I've got the
giggles like already. Do you really? Yeah. Oh, well, dang. I like it. I like an
eye mask.
I like the eye mask, personally, because I don't, can't tolerate any light when
I'm sleeping. But when
you said I have to be in the right position, do you actually know what the
right position is,
according to a neuroscientist? Uh-uh. For sleeping? And I'm here with neuroscientist
Tara Swart,
and you're that brain babe. Yeah, you're the lady that knows about the brain. I
am. Yeah. And we're
happy to hear about it today, and we're happy to have you. Do I know the right
position? No, I don't.
Uh-uh. I sleep. Yeah, tell me how you sleep. Well, I sleep on my side, I guess,
and pillow
between my legs, holding a pillow, and just kind of hoping for the best,
usually. What do you,
what is the, what do you suggest? So sleeping on your side is actually the best
position.
So sleeping on your side is good. Yeah. Okay. So left or right, probably when,
so I like to connect
everything back to evolution. So when we slept in the cave, we co-slept, so we
huddled together for
warmth. And we probably slept on our left side to protect our heart and have
our dominant hand ready
for an attack. Okay. But now it doesn't matter which side, but a side is better
than back or front.
And the reason is that we're cleaning out our brain very actively overnight.
And if your neck is
stretched like this, then it helps the waste products to like get moved out
through the
glymphatic and lymphatic systems and, you know, excreted from your body. Oh,
nice. So yeah. So I'm
doing okay. No wonder you've got such a sharp wit. Maybe.