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According to new research conducted by Ryerson University, between 30 and 40 percent of couples don’t sleep in the same bed at night.

The study further found that couples were being woken up by each other.

“People will say they sleep better [together], but when we actually monitor their brains we see that their brain is not getting into deeper stages of sleep because they’re continuously being woken up by movement or sound,” Coleen Carney told CBC, the director of the laboratory.

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9:00pm (the night before): “Tomorrow is going to be my day. I am going to reclaim the morning, get up early, go for a run, actually eat a healthy breakfast, and even get to work early. Tomorrow will be great.”

4:30am (the next day, as the alarm goes off): “Sshhhh. I’ll just skip breakfast.”

5:30am: “Oops, there goes the run.”

7:00am: “Ah, darn it.”

If you haven’t had an internal debate like that with yourself about getting up in the morning, then you are a super human. A super human whom the ordinary person like us can only look at and wonder, ‘how?’

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Benjamin Franklin, one of the “Founding Fathers” of the United States, is one of the few successful people who speak so glowingly of getting a good night’s rest.

“Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise,” Franklin would tell his fellow peers.

Although Franklin wasn’t backed up by a plethora of research at that time, it seems time has proven him right.

It’s now common knowledge that adults should be sleeping for at least seven or eight hours a day, which promotes optimal health.

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So you’ve taken the leap, and it’s out with the old and in with the new. A brand new mattress lays waiting for you, offering you countless nights of sweet dreams and comfortable slumber. A new mattress, however, requires lots of love and a bit of TLC.

A good spring mattress can last up to ten years, so you want to make sure you are following all the steps needed to maintain your mattress and protect your new investment.

And with so many different factors affecting individual people in different ways, we might find a better solution to the problem in combinations of approaches rather than a single one-size-fits-all formula.

If we look at our sleep from a few different perspectives, getting that elusive block of uninterrupted REM could be as easy as committing to 5 simple rules.

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If you haven’t been sleeping well lately, you might have begun to notice the ominous signs of an aging mattress. You might be waking more often through the night, rising in the morning with a sore body, or you might have noticed unsightly and uncomfortable lumps appearing.

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We all know how important getting a good night’s sleep is to our daily lives. Without it, we not only feel tired, but we might have difficulty concentrating, slower reflexes, body aches, excessive stress, and even sluggish metabolisms.

But the research suggests that despite everything we now know about sleep, more and more people seem to be having difficulty getting and maintaining a good 8 hours a night.

With new obstacles arising every day in modern society, it’s becoming a real challenge for many people to relax and get comfortable enough at night to access the benefits of sound sleep.

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Buying a new bed is a big decision. You’re going to spend a lot of time in it, so you need to make sure your choices are going to help you sleep well every night for many years. There’s also no single mattress that will suit everyone—or every body.

If that sounds like a lot of pressure, don’t worry. Considering some of these factors will help you to decide which options will suit your lifestyle and body type, and help you get top quality rest for the long life of your new mattress.