From Bookings 'Reboot Retreaters' prediction to sleep suites in hotels, travellers are yearning for a good snooze.

I suppose it is ironic that I am writing about sleep in a city that doesn’t sleep but travelling to New York on that epic 18-hour flight from Singapore has a tendency to send anyone’s body clock into disarray.

And trust me, over the years, I have tried everything. Supplements. Exercise. Exposure to light. Including advice from Dr Matthew Walker, the sleep expert which goes like this – “get exposure to natural daylight, especially in the first half of the day.

Avoid stimulants, like caffeine, and sedatives, like alcohol, later in the day. If you can’t sleep, get out of bed and do a relaxing activity away from the bedroom, such as reading in dim light. Only return to bed when you’re sleepy.”

I wonder if “relaxing activity” includes writing at 4am.

Once, I even tried an app called Time Shifter.

My fellow editor at Travel Weekly, Arnie Weissmann, takes it even more seriously than me. Once he showed up in Singapore with glasses that emitted flashes of blue light and residents of Joo Chiat thought I was taking an alien on a tour of Katong.

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