{"id":26472,"date":"2021-09-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.saatva.com\/cat-sleep-lessons\/"},"modified":"2023-08-30T17:08:36","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T17:08:36","slug":"cat-sleep-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saatva.com\/blog\/cat-sleep-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Lessons My Cat Taught Me About Sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One restless night when sleep seemed to elude me with every stroke of the clock, I found myself staring at my cat Parker. I felt a slight pang of jealousy at how easily sleep came to him. Even in the most peculiar spots, he finds just the right conditions<\/a> to drift off into sleep. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A house cat can average over 16 hours of sleep a day<\/a>. There\u2019s a reason why we call them \u201ccat naps\u201d and not \u201cdog naps.\u201d It dawned on me that I was living with a sleep expert. To learn some important lessons about sleep, I had to look no further than my cat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are some things Parker, my personal sleep guru, has taught me over the years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sleep is priceless<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This one\u2019s a no brainer. I thought I knew this until I realized that I wasn\u2019t prioritizing my sleep enough. I was letting trivial things get in the way. My cat, on the other hand, will cuddle up into a nap whenever and wherever he sees fit, even if he blocks my view of the TV. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Making sleep a high priority means arranging your day around it. It means turning off the TV and putting the phone away at least an hour before bedtime. That next episode or after-hours email can wait. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sleeping with intention is a thing\u2014and cats are very good at it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n