About 30% of Americans get less than six hours of sleep a night. Not a particularly worrisome fact on the surface, but what is worrisome is that this is also the same group of people more likely to have a stroke. If you’re one of these Americans who isn’t getting enough sleep, you’re also at […]
Sleeping seems pretty straightforward. After all, we’ve all done it since we were babies. Animals do it, too, without even thinking about it. The need to sleep seems to be hardwired into us and it’s something we usually do automatically. However, defining sleep is a complex task. What with all the neurotransmitters involved, the physiological […]
Although the subject of ‘sneezing during sleep’ has not been extensively studied, most sleep researchers and neuroscientists agree it is physically impossible for people to sneeze while they are sleeping. For all intents and purposes, humans should sneeze frequently during the night. Our mucus membranes swell when we lie on our back, stomach, or side; […]
If you’re an average person, you’re getting about eight hours of sleep a night. When you realize this means you still have sixteen hours in a day to do things that are not sleeping, eight hours doesn’t sound like much. But when you realize you’ll spend a third of your entire life asleep suddenly sleep […]