About a year into the pandemic, Marcela Rafea began waking up consistently at 3am, her mind racing. She would creep out of bed and tiptoe into the living room, where she would meditate, try a few yoga ...

Sleep is perhaps the most mysterious of all human activities. No one can really define its biological function — that is, why it is restful and necessary — or come up with a foolproof recipe for a ...

Many of us suffer from insomnia – an inability to get a good night’s sleep. Turning to drugs to help you sleep is one solution, but a poor one due to side effects and dependence. Clearly behavioral ...

Can knowledge of how our ancestors slept truly lead us to a life of more natural—and healthy —sleeping patterns? Authors on the Internet have been exploring that possibility, writing a spate of recent ...

Are sleep disruptions here to stay? By Melissa Kirsch “Hello from the intermission,” my friend Ali texted me at 6:37 the other morning. Ali is sleeping in shifts, first midnight until 4:30 or 5 a.m., ...

Midnight Mass can have a dreamlike quality for Catholics struggling to stay awake during the long liturgy that often follows a rush of preparations and merrymaking. Even as some parishes have moved ...

For most people alive today, a “good night’s sleep” means roughly eight uninterrupted hours in a dark room, followed by a single morning wake-up. Yet historical evidence suggests that this pattern is ...

At first I dreaded having to investigate the history of sleep. Human slumber appeared impervious to time and place, stubbornly immune to the element of change animating most works of history. My own ...