Time is money — even, as it turns out, time you spend sleeping.

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, found that getting an extra hour of shut-eye each night correlated to a 16% increase in pay. That’s quite a nice tradeoff, given that all you have to do to get it is be unconscious.

The Sleep Shepherd Blue is a high-tech headband that monitors your sleeping quality by tracking your brain waves. “It uses binaural tones to not only help you fall asleep, but with the app you can actually track your sleep in real time,” says tech expert Katie Linendoll, who started working with the company after reviewing the product.

If you have trouble drifting off to sleep, the Sleep Shepherd provides some assistance by playing binaural tones that it tweaks in real time based on your brain waves. The gadget’s alarm uses those same tones to lift you out of sleeping gently — much easier to take than the buzz of an alarm clock. And the app gives you access to all the data it records while you’re dreaming about what you’ll do with that extra 16% in your salary.

The reason many of us don’t sleep well is because our circadian rhythms — that is, when our bodies think it’s time to sleep and to wake — don’t align with our schedules. They can also be thrown out of whack by late-night illumination in the form of artificial light, including the glow from all of our device screens. (That’s why sleep experts suggest putting down the phone and turning off the TV a couple of hours before you hit the hay.) Instead of using any old lightbulbs, consider full-spectrum LED “smart bulbs,” which mimic natural sunlight and prime you for sleep by filtering out the blue-tinted light that throws off your body clock.

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