Sleep quality, or how rested you feel after sleep, may be more important than sleep quantity, experts say. Here's why, and how to get higher-quality sleep.

If there is ever a weekend to feel smug about sleep, it’s this one. The clocks go back, the mornings turn lighter, and suddenly we are gifted that extra hour in bed everyone has been craving since ...

The research on time wasting at work is sparse, but Dutch colleagues from the University of Amsterdam, Wendelien van Eerde and Merlijn Venus, recently made a new contribution. They hypothesized that ...

A Department of Defense-led research project wants to modulate REM sleep to help ease stress. The study also aims to enhance REM sleep in order to consolidate traumatic memories. Controlling REM sleep ...

Dreams can be weird: sex dreams, stress dreams, dreams about your ex who you thought you were totally over. But have you ever had a dream so frustrating, upsetting, or bizarre that you wished you ...

A research group has discovered that in mammals, a protein kinase A (PKA) promotes wakefulness, while protein phosphatase 1 (PP1) and calcineurin promote sleep. This study revealed that the balance ...

Lucid dreaming is a state where sleepers are aware they’re in a dream and can potentially control what happens in them. CNN producer Maya Blackstone underwent an intensive 19-day course with lucid ...