Mark Berman

But it's interesting to note that other researchers have found that bringing nature indoors, even if it's fake nature, can have some of these similar benefits.

Well, right now I'm in my home office.

I actually have two plants behind me.

They're actually artificial plants.

Those aren't real plants.

They look fairly real, which I think is good, but I don't have enough natural light here to actually get...

real plants in the office.

In other portions of our house, we do actually have real plants.

So we get some nice light through one of our bay windows.

We have a few different plants there.

So we try to bring in real nature plants

where we can into our home and where we can't.

We usually utilize some fake nature.

It also so happens that my mother-in-law is a little bit of an artist.

My sister is a little bit of an artist.

We've commissioned them to make some nature paintings that we have hanging.

in our home.

So there are many different kinds of things that we can do.

Some of my kids actually like to sleep with a sound machine.

Often we use nature sounds for them to be playing in the background to help them sleep.