you often feel tired, and know that you just don’t get enough sleep, you have company. Lots of company. About 195 million Americans, to be exact. That’s right, a whopping 65 percent of Americans get less than the medically recommended 7 to 9 hours of sleep each night. Forty percent sleep less than 6 hours. This wasn’t always the case. In 1942, the average American slept 7.9 hours every night. Today, that number is down to 6.8 hours. Much, if not all, of our collective sleep loss is related to the technologies that keep us connected at all times and allow us to work at all hours.
