What accounts for feeling deeply asleep? Sleep researchers and clinicians often compare how someone subjectively reports on their sleep to objective sleep recordings in a laboratory or clinic, and it ...

For the first time, scientists have discovered that a small region of our brain shuts down to take microsecond-long naps while we're awake. What's more, these same areas 'flicker' awake while we're ...

Sometimes when I’m dozing off at night, something weird happens. I feel like I’m falling, and every now and then, I even dream that I’m stumbling backward off a curb. A second or two later, my body ...

It’s one of the oddest sensations you can experience as you’re trying to turn in for the night. Just as you think you’re falling asleep, you suddenly feel as though you’re in a freefall. Your stomach ...

After seeing just how many people rely on ASMR for calming down at night and falling asleep fast I wanted to give it a go. My interest was particularly piqued when I came across a video on Instagram ...