"All it serves to do is get you riled up again when you should be prioritizing going to sleep, winding down, preparing for the next day," she said.
Some of the same key words used to obtain references from the primary literature were entered into the common internet search engine Google: "health effects wind farms" returned 300,000 hits; "health effects wind turbines" returned 120,000 hits; "annoyance wind turbines" returned 185,000 hits and "sleep disturbance wind turbines" returned 19,500 hits.
For others the road to sleeping rough winds down a slow, steady and depressing gradient until it arrives – quite literally – at rock bottom.
To self-described "militia members" sleeping in wind-whipped tents, drinking camp coffee and patrolling rocky hillsides with military-style weapons, protecting Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and his family from an overreaching federal government is a patriotic duty.
Patients were requested to write down which home remedy they would use to treat symptoms of a cold, diarrhoea, constipation, back pain, headache, sleeping disorder/nervousness, wound healing and cystitis.
But the heater made us drowsy, and we lay down and slept, the wind rocking our hut as if it were a cradle.
She steeped herself in them and, after seven days of little sleep, wound up drafting two articles of the proposed Japanese Constitution.
Other participants preferred sitting meditation before bedtime, as part of a pre-sleep winding down routine.
"You've rattled the ghost that was sleeping inside me/white wind," she sings.
After holding him and soothing him back to sleep, she wound up in a slightly awkward position with one hand trapped under his chest.
I had a sleeping bag, a wind-up radio from the blackout of 2003, my cat, and the books that had survived the great purge.
