Taylor Swift reveals a few things that keep her up at night: she dreams of dancing in the rain; she has trouble falling asleep at night; she has trouble sleeping during the day. That might sound like a lot of things, but I thought it only needed three, like a typical day at work.
Swift reveals that when it comes to sleep, she’s just as exhausted as everyone else. Even before the start of her second album proper, “The Reputation Package,” Swift began sharing stories from her sleep ruminations.
This has been an ongoing journey for the singer-songwriter for almost two decades now. The former country superstar’s sleep habits have changed radically since the release of her debut album in 2006. The release of her album, Red, happened in 2009 — around the same time she began having trouble sleeping during the day.
“I’ve always been a light sleeper,” Swift reveals to Yahoo Lifestyle on Wednesday. She grew up on a farm in the northern part of California. “This is one of those things you learn pretty early, it’s not so hard if you know the person you are sleeping with.”
Swift was introduced to sleep by her father, the late Bruce H. Swift, who was a big supporter of sleep research. During a routine check-up of his daughter’s sleeping habits, Dr. Swift gave her a pill to help her sleep, and the process only took a week.
That’s when a light, happy, non-depressed teenager began to emerge from her bed. Swift has gone on to share that story with many people, including a few close friends, her husband, Ed Sheeran, and many journalists.
“I knew from when I was little, people who are sleep-deprived have a harder time sleeping so it’s kind of funny, I thought maybe it would be harder to sleep than you would think,” Swift says. “But I’ve really found out that for me it’s like, I just feel much more refreshed when I lay down. I’ve been able to get to sleep at night, which is really neat.”
Her first real experience with nighttime sleep was around age 9.
“I was like 12, and I had to sleep over at my friend’s house so