How to Sleep is a short comedy film written by and starring humorist Robert Benchley.

The production was inspired by a Mellon Institute study on sleep commissioned by the Simmons Mattress Company.

It was going to be a thing on Simmons mattresses; they had this film of quick shots showing how many positions you take during an evening's sleep.

The only group not pleased was the Mellon Institute, which did not approve of the studio mocking their study.

[4] MGM kicked off an entire series of situation-comedy reels, each 10 minutes in length, showing Benchley giving mock-instructional lectures (How to Be a Detective, How to Rest, etc.)