Light sleep is the beginning of your sleep cycle and your body's way of winding down. Breathing, heart rate and muscle changes prepare your body for the deeper sleep to come. Light sleep is broken ...

REM stands for rapid eye movement — a stage in the sleep cycle when your brain is almost as active as when you’re awake. Getting enough REM sleep is crucial, as it helps you store information and ...

According to sleep doctors, the trick to improving sleep is not to bundle up and get cozy, but to cool the body down before ...

Stress. Anxiety. Noisy neighbors. Blanket-hogging partners. With the list of things that can disturb a person’s sleep being more of a scroll, it’s no wonder an estimated 50 to 70 million Americans are ...

For men over 40, sleep becomes even more critical as the body’s natural recovery processes slow with age. When sleep is ...

Imagine awakening to find yourself completely unable to move or speak, perhaps feeling intense pressure on your chest, struggling to breathe, or even seeing strange figures in your bedroom. This ...

Carry-over effects pose an intriguing oneiric paradox: the dream is not real, but it has real effects on our body and ...

A scientific study which was published in Frontiers in Neuroscience, found that human sleep patterns change with seasons ...

Dry January has become a familiar reset for many people. Social routines quiet down, sparkling water replaces cocktails, and ...