If you're not up all night wired on Halloween candy, the time change and the extra hour of sleep will be a great thing this weekend, and you'll feel like a million bucks Monday. Here's why.
Daylight Saving Time has been around since 1966, and every time we lose an hour of sleep we get mad and want it to go away. It turns out, even gaining an hour of sleep is bad for us, and that's why one group is calling for an end to the clock changes.
After seven studies, a review showed those who slept less than seven hours--once they began sleeping more--found they had reduced appetite. But that's not all.
There's many myths that have been spread around for years in regard to sleep. Hearing the debunking of some of these may be quite a comforting relief to you.
All the stress of a pandemic has to go somewhere, and it's ending up in our dreams at night. There's one weird dream that everyone seems to be having, and there's a reason behind it.
If you sleep with the thermostat above 70 at night, you're doing it wrong. The perfect sleeping temperature is well below that, and it just may freeze you out.
I've found that the mornings when I rise early enough to have a bit of quiet time before the mad rush of the day begins, the entire day flows more smoothly.
We may not even realize the things we may be doing to interfere with our sleep cycle. We can create new habits and engage in behaviors that will help us.
If you're getting 7 or 8 hours of sleep per night, you're totally hitting the jackpot. Most of us are getting quite a bit less than that, and we're having more nap failures than nap successes too.